Changes already

Hi,

See told you it would change. My wife is out Thursday, plus I missed off Final Destination as well. So tomorrow night is now on, but I need late films and it's orange Wednesday (Don't get me started on that!) so it's going to be Sorority Row or Final Destination. I'll re-schedule the rest tomorrow.

What to see this week.

Hi,

Tuesday is the day Cineworld release their current weeks schedule. Well it would seem a busy week.

Tonight I have District 9 - I have been looking forward to seeing this for some time now. And will be my first review-blog. Which I'm looking forward to posting hopefully tomorrow.

Funny People on Thursday. I really liked The 40 year old virgin. The waxing scene had me laughing so hard it hurt! Knocked up I haven't seen yet. So I have high hopes for Funny People.

Sunday I hope to see Dorian Grey. I really liked the look of this, but really bad reviews have slightly dented my expectations. However the extended scene we saw at Frightfest did look very good.

The Sorority Row on Tuesday, not sure but the trailer makes it look like any other prank gone wrong film.

Whiteout on Thursday, this looks really good, kept away from the reviews for this.

Adventureland is also released but I think that can wait till the week after.

So that's the plan, no doubt it will change, it sometimes does but overall we don't miss that many films really.

Let them entertain me!

Hi.

What makes a movie good? What makes one outstanding (a 10/10 in my book)? What makes one dreadful (1/10)?

Subjective to every body's taste I can assume. Each to their own and something I will look into through this post - that is people's taste or maybe lack off! Usually lack off!

A good film to me on a basic level is if it entertained me. In my younger days that was all I wanted from a film. As I've matured (Ok got older!), and spent a good few hours in the cinema I've come to appreciate movies a lot more. It still has to entertain but now I want more, I want so much more, the cinematography to astound me, the music to sweep me away. I want the director to sell me his vision, the actors to breath life into the script. I want to feel tension, excitement, fear and joy. I Want it All! And if I get most of that I'm happy, not many films do deliver the works, but I would say most I see are 7 and above.

Then we have the ones which are not so good, some are even dreadful, the script is terrible, the acting poor, the direction off, the music doesn't fit, but that's my opinion and again is rare that a film has all them elements of failure. One does spring to mind though - "Doomsday". Some people think it's great and I don't have an issue with them liking this film, its their opinion. They may not like Crank 1 and 2 but I think they are great fun!

Everyone's a critic

So as I pass through the pages of IMDB, Aintitcool and comingsoon.net to name but a few to see what's good or not, the comments, reviews and talk about movies differs from the intellectual to the down right silly. Some comments make me want to buy or see the film, others make me think have I just wasted my money or should I see something else tonight?

Wait! Should I listen to these people, take on board what they say. Maybe, at least these are the comments of the common man or woman, not some over-paid critic who never seem's to give an impartial view of a film, and so now I mostly ignore what they say.
Most comments I read, I pay some attention to, especially if it's got some intelligence in what it says. And then we have the ones who rant on how bad a film is "I've just wasted 2 hours of my life watching this rubbish", or the one comment I really don't like "Don't bother watching this film it's rubbish!". Hold on, I don't mind a review explaining why he/she didn't like it, but to expect me to not see a film on this person's say so, nope not having that. Makes me want to see the film all the more. And they may be right and quite a few times they are, it is utter rubbish but at least I've made up my own mind.

So hopefully in my review-blogs I can be subjective and convay some reasons as to why I think this movie is great, average or awful. And if it's awful I won't be the one telling you not to waste your time or money in seeing this film, thats for you to decide!

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!