Introduction to my world.

Hi, and welcome to my world of movies. It's not an obsessive world well I hope it’s not. But it’s something which I think I'd like to share, though I must admit I have been pushed into this a little, so let me tell you about it.

Years ago when I was a lot, lot younger and at college, I rented quite a few films a week to fill in the afternoon's when I didn't have lectures or anything to do. I wouldn’t say I paid much attention to what I was watching but if the film entertained me then it must have been ok. Soon I had run out of things to watch, and being young I didn’t really turn to older films. So my film watching slowed down to the odd visit to the cinema and a few videos every now and then.

Some years later 7 or 8 I think, I met my friend’s sister, who later became my wife. After the engagement we spent quite a few night’s staying in, you know how it is saving for a house etc, and so we rented a fare few videos in that year. The odd trip to the cinema as well and I was getting my interest back in film. Then the house came and the video’s died off again along with the cinema.

Roll on a few more years and DVD comes around, now not one for collecting movies, I think I had 4 in total, Lost Boys, Die Hard 1 and 2 and Purple Rain. I got a DVD drive for my computer and so my collection began. But this is for another post soon.

A few years later I was starting to get back to the cinema, and watch some DVD’s! But it was the cinema I liked the most the whole experience was great, but good God was it expensive. We limited it to the “I really want to see that at the cinema” movies. I think we saw 1 or 2 a month.

However our local cinema is a Cineworld and they do an Unlimited card for £12 a month (or it was then), with which you can see as many films as you like. Now this sounded like a good deal, in fact this was perfect. My friend and I signed up and the first film we saw was the Dawn of the Dead remake on the 02/04/2004. By the end of this month we had seen 7 films. Brilliant! Last night I saw my 508^th film at the cinema.

Seeing all these films we decided to note then down and give them a score, everybody rates a film so we do as well, with our own rating list from 1 to 10, we kept track of what we saw and we would discuss the film in a brief email usually the day after. Now it’s these emails, or some my wife read which prompted her into saying I should write a blog, create a web page anything to show my interest in movies. For a few weeks I dismissed the idea, but recently and especially after this years Frightfest (oh another blog for this I think) I came to think maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea.

Well I have a plan, well to start off with anyway, so over the next few blogs I want to explain what make’s a movie entertain me. Then I must write about Frightfest a horror film festival in London held over the August bank holiday, which I’ve been to for the last 3 years and it’s fantastic. Then if I get into the swing of it and like the ways it’s going I want to talk about the films I’ve seen at the cinema or on DVD as I see them. Plus talk about future release’s which I’m looking forward to seeing, like Avatar or Ironman 2.

In general I just want to blog about movies!