#100 - Ben-Hur

It seemed like a discouraging way to start off this challenge, a daunting 3.5 hour epic loosely about Jesus Christ (oy vey), but it was actually very entertaining. While I have to admit, I wasn't completely enthralled by it (it's hard for people of my generation to get into anything that long that isn't a nap), I did enjoy a few of the action scenes more than any comparable scene in recent history.

Without the perks of CGI and special effects, the creators of Ben-Hur managed to pull off the most stressful/intense action scene I've ever witnessed. It is an EPIC chariot race between the two rival characters, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala, and 5 other drivers. Each chariot is fronted by 4 horses (that's 28 horses!) being driven by one man around a dusty track with two hairpin turns, all the while avoiding the crashed chariots and their horses. Any description i could give wouldn't do it justice, just watch it below. It apparently took over 3 months and 15000 extras to film the scene.

This is only the second half, but you will get the idea.

You can't help but respect the work and determination that went into this kind of movie. There would have been no room for error, and lives would have been constantly at risk. There are stories of one of the stunt drivers dying on the set, but they have been denied by the directors. REALLY wouldn't surprise me if they were true. It's a shame that it is nearly impossible to imagine an action movie being made today WITHOUT a green screen

The action wasn't the only good part of the movie though , the story was actually very well done. I'm lazy though, and I don't want to go into it, I just wanted to talk about how bad-ass chariot racing is.


Anyway, I don't know if I would recommend going out and renting it with your friends, but if you are ever terribly bored, and you have nearly 4 hours to waste. I suggest checking out Ben-Hur, even if it's only to watch the chariot race.

Cheers,

Patrick

AFI Top 100 Challenge

A couple internet friends recently took on the challenge of watching all of the movies on the 'AFI 100 Years, 100 Movies' list. As an attempt to get this blog up and going for the 3rd time, I am going to join them. I will start at the bottom with 'Ben-Hur' and work up the list to 'Citizen Kane'.

Along the way I plan on watching everything from the movies I've already seen and loved, to the ones I know I'll hate. I'll try and keep this updated with my progress, but if you've followed any of my other blogs you'll understand when I stop updating all of a sudden. hah
You'd think after all of my failed attempts at blogging that I would stop taking on stupid challenges like this.

CAN'T STOP ME, FREE COUNTRY

Cheers,

Pat


PS Below is AFI's list.

#	MOVIE	YEAR
1	CITIZEN KANE	1941
2	THE GODFATHER	1972
3	CASABLANCA	1942
4	RAGING BULL	1980
5	SINGIN' IN THE RAIN	1952
6	GONE WITH THE WIND	1939
7	LAWRENCE OF ARABIA	1962
8	SCHINDLER'S LIST	1993
9	VERTIGO	1958
10	THE WIZARD OF OZ	1939
11	CITY LIGHTS	1931
12	THE SEARCHERS	1956
13	STAR WARS	1977
14	PSYCHO	1960
15	2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY	1968
16	SUNSET BLVD.	1950
17	THE GRADUATE	1967
18	THE GENERAL	1927
19	ON THE WATERFRONT	1954
20	IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE	1946
21	CHINATOWN	1974
22	SOME LIKE IT HOT	1959
23	THE GRAPES OF WRATH	1940
24	E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL	1982
25	TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	1962
26	MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON	1939
27	HIGH NOON	1952
28	ALL ABOUT EVE	1950
29	DOUBLE INDEMNITY	1944
30	APOCALYPSE NOW	1979
31	THE MALTESE FALCON	1941
32	THE GODFATHER PART II	1974
33	ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST	1975
34	SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS	1937
35	ANNIE HALL	1977
36	THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI	1957
37	THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES	1946
38	THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE	1948
39	DR. STRANGELOVE	1964
40	THE SOUND OF MUSIC	1965
41	KING KONG	1933
42	BONNIE AND CLYDE	1967
43	MIDNIGHT COWBOY	1969
44	THE PHILADELPHIA STORY	1940
45	SHANE	1953
46	IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT	1934
47	A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE	1951
48	REAR WINDOW	1954
49	INTOLERANCE	1916
50	THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING	2001
51	WEST SIDE STORY	1961
52	TAXI DRIVER	1976
53	THE DEER HUNTER	1978
54	M*A*S*H	1970
55	NORTH BY NORTHWEST	1959
56	JAWS	1975
57	ROCKY	1976
58	THE GOLD RUSH	1925
59	NASHVILLE	1975
60	DUCK SOUP	1933
61	SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS	1941
62	AMERICAN GRAFFITI	1973
63	CABARET	1972
64	NETWORK	1976
65	THE AFRICAN QUEEN	1951
66	RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK	1981
67	WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?	1966
68	UNFORGIVEN	1992
69	TOOTSIE	1982
70	A CLOCKWORK ORANGE	1971
71	SAVING PRIVATE RYAN	1998
72	THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION	1994
73	BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID	1969
74	THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS	1991
75	IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT	1967
76	FORREST GUMP	1994
77	ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN	1976
78	MODERN TIMES	1936
79	THE WILD BUNCH	1969
80	THE APARTMENT	1960
81	SPARTACUS	1960
82	SUNRISE	1927
83	TITANIC	1997
84	EASY RIDER	1969
85	A NIGHT AT THE OPERA	1935
86	PLATOON	1986
87	12 ANGRY MEN	1957
88	BRINGING UP BABY	1938
89	THE SIXTH SENSE	1999
90	SWING TIME	1936
91	SOPHIE'S CHOICE	1982
92	GOODFELLAS	1990
93	THE FRENCH CONNECTION	1971
94	PULP FICTION	1994
95	THE LAST PICTURE SHOW	1971
96	DO THE RIGHT THING	1989
97	BLADE RUNNER	1982
98	YANKEE DOODLE DANDY	1942
99	TOY STORY	1995
100	BEN-HUR	1959

Movie: How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.

It's mid-April, and school is finally over for another semester. This means a number of things, (Frosty Treat, warmer weather, etc) but most importantly it means that I finally have time to be lazy and watch movies, without feeling guilty about it.

To celebrate I decided to watch Sergio Leone's 1968 western epic, Once Upon a Time in the West. I attempted to watch it on the bus back from Quebec City last month, but sadly my laptop died and there were no plugs on the bus. wtf?

The film is written and directed by Sergio Leone (the man behind The Good the Bad and the Ugly) and stars Henry Fonda (Frank) and Charles Bronson (Harmonica) in opposing roles.

I could tell from my previous brief attempt at watching this movie that it would be great. The opening scene, which clocks in at nearly 14 minutes, contains almost no dialogue (except for a sweet burn by Bronson) and is incredibly irritating (let's just say there's a fly buzzing, water dripping, and a windmill in serious need of oil). As annoying as it is, the intro is extremely enticing and it makes you interested in what is going to happen next. It finally culminates with Charles Bronson being bad-ass as hell.

I found an edited down version of the opening. Imagine this, but with 6 more minutes of water dripping and flies buzzing.

Immediately after that ^^^^^ scene you are introduced to a family of gingers living in the desert. Mr. McBain and his family are preparing for the arrival of his new wife, who he met in New Orleans. Before her arrival though, the family (including the children) is gunned down by a pack of outlaws, so instead of arriving to meet her new family, Jill McBain arrives at their funeral.

The rest of the movie (which is quite long at nearly 3 hours) revolves around the fight for the McBain's land (which is prized for its water) and Harmonica's mysterious quest for retribution.

Going into the movie I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to handle three hours of spaghetti western , but the movie is fantastic, and I didn't have a problem paying attention. Not to mention Jill is a babe, and there are some hilarious/bad-ass quotes. For example:

Harmonica: I saw three of these dusters a short time ago, they were waiting for a train. Inside the dusters, there were three men.
Cheyenne: So?
Harmonica: Inside the men, there were three bullets.

Cheyenne: You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month - he must have been a happy man.

It has apparently become known as Sergio Leone's ~masterpiece~. Having only seen this and The Good, the Bad, etc, I couldn't tell you if this is true or not. But what I can tell you is, it is an excellent movie and if you ever feel like watching a western it may as well be this one.

Cheers,

Pat


PS Check out this guy. http://lights-camera-jackson.com/ He is an extremely abrasive 11 year old film critic. Listening to him is like listening to someone announce a horse race. As annoying as he is to listen to, he does have some brutal things to say about some shitty movies, and I can always back that. Not to mention he ONLY 11 YEARS OLD.

Other: Not dead, just sleeping.

SO I know I haven't update this in a while, but it's not dead! Believe me!

I literally haven't had time to watch a movie in months! I am finished of school now, so the amount of movies I watch is going to skyrocket again.

As a means of procrastination I had been thinking about what movie I would watch when I finished the semester. I think I've decided on 'Once Upon a Time in the West'.

This make sense considering it was the last movie I tried to watch. I made it about a quarter of the way in before I either fell asleep from exhaustion or moved on to something more important :(

I'm really excited for a summer of movie watching.

Stay tuned!

-Pat

Movie: Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

I just finished watching Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 psychological thriller Vertigo. The movie was fantastic on so many levels, but what I really enjoyed was Hitchcock's awesome use of the camera to tell the story.

The movie is about an ex-detective, Scottie (played by the ever-amazing James Stewart), who becomes terribly afraid of heights after witnessing his partner fall to his death. After retiring from the force he gets hired as a private-eye by an old college friend. His friend needs him to follow his wife (Kim Novak) who he believes to have been possessed by her dead grandmother; she goes out for hours at a time and doesn't have any recollection of the events that take place. As Scottie follows her around San Fransisco a much larger mystery unravels and he is continually plagued by his crippling acrophobia and guilt from losing his partner.

A lot of the movie takes place inside the head of Scottie, and Hitchcock uses some neat camera tricks and an animated dream sequence to show this without the need for narration. In order to give the viewer an idea of what Vertigo feels like he uses a technique that is apparently called a dolly-zoom (thanks wikipedia). It is hard to explain if you have never played around with a zoom lens before, or if you haven't seen it used in a movie, but it works so well in this situation. So well in fact, that it has apparently been nicknamed a Hitchcock or Vertigo Zoom. I'll try and find an example on youtube or something... Awesome, this has both of the good dolly-zooms from vertigo.

The other scene that really struck me as brilliant is later in the movie after Scottie has finished making Judy look like Madeline and they begin kissing in her hotel room. The camera does a bunch of 360 degree pans around the couple, but as it goes around them, the background changes from the hotel room the stable where Scottie had his last kiss with Madeline before she died. This scene says so much, without saying a word. The change in background, plus the dizzying affect of the shot really allow you inside Scottie's mind. Fast forward to 3:33ish to see the scene I'm talking about.

Probably wasn't the best movie to watch while I'm sick in bed, but I'm glad I saw it.

Cheers,

Patio

Other: Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.

A great injustice has fallen over the UPEI campus! The beautiful snowman that Tristan and I brought to life (seen above) has been murdered in cold blood (see below).

No parent should have to see their child murdered. This isn't the way he was supposed to go; old age, heatstroke, or a bad cold maybe, but not murder. He was so young, so cool.

It may take some Veronica Mars quality sleuthing, but I will have my revenge. I will not rest until the killer is dealt with.

RIP Snowman
16/02/2010 - 18/02/2010

Other: Olympics!

I've been meaning to update recently, but to tell you the truth, I have been too busy to watch any movies. All of my time is being taken up by studying, and what free time I do have is spent watching the Olympics. So instead of movies, I'll talk about that.

I'm a fairly patriotic guy. I mean I don't paint my face red and white for Canada day or anything, but I do love this country and I am very proud of everything it has done. During the Olympics though, my patriotism is at an all time high. I almost feel compelled to paint my face or at least wear more red. Since the opening ceremonies on Friday, despite CTV's lackluster coverage, I have been glued to my TV screen. Curling, skiing, snowboarding, I will watch almost everything, drawing the line at figure-skating. It's not that I can't see the athleticism in it, its that I cringe every time a couple spins next to each other, blades nearly colliding with faces.

I have been craving a good movie lately, and today is a snowday, so maybe if I get a lot of work done I'll have time to watch a movie later tonight.

We'll seeeee.

Pat

Movie: I met Death today. We are playing chess.

A couple weeks ago I came home from school completely exhausted; having just ran 10k I was about as sore as I could possibly be in good health. In order to rest my legs I decided to have a bath for the first time in years. Unsure of what to do while I sat in the bathtub, I decided I would bring in my laptop and watch something, Margot Tenenbaum Style. Unlike her I didn't have crappy rabbit ears TV, so I chose to watch Manhattan, the 70s Woody Allen movie about a group of friends living in the New York borough of the same name. I liked the movie a lot, and I recommend everyone watch it, especially if you've seen Annie Hall and enjoyed it . . . but that isn't why I brought it up.

I've seen a few of his movies in the last year and so far I've loved them all. I really get a kick out of all the references to pop-culture he throws into them, although I'd be lying if I said I understood them all. In Manhattan there was one reference that really caught my ear. In the scene where Isaac (Woody Allen) and Mary (Diane Keaton) meet for the first time, Isaac becomes enraged by Mary's pretentious personality as she trashes a bunch of different artists for being "over rated". The entire time Isaac is in shock and mumbling in disbelief. What caught my ear was when he spoke up to defend an artist by the name of Ingmar Bergman. He says "Bergman? Bergman is the only genius in cinema today". Seeing as how my goal is to watch as many classic movies as I can, I went in search of one of his movies, eventually deciding upon one called The Seventh Seal.

It's been a couple of weeks, but I finally got around to watching the 1957 Swedish drama. The story follows Antonius Block, a medieval knight as he travels the plague-ridden countryside in search of God and as he challenges Death to a game of chess in order to save save his life. It IS a pretty dark movie, but my description makes it sound a lot more morbid than it really is. I actually found it quite entertaining, even laughing at a few scenes, even amidst witches being burned and people dying of the plague. While it wasn't my favourite movie, I did enjoy it quite a bit. I especially liked how he faded between scenes. Instead of the standard fade to black he chose to fade from image to image, sometimes fading one characters face to another. He even chose to fade to white at one point, conveniently after the protagonist was introduced, ~omg~.

While I was watching the movie, I couldn't help but think of the Bergman reference from Manhattan and the idea of referencing in pop-culture in general. That lead me to remember two movies with Seventh Seal like scenes:

The first movie being Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey; this one was painfully obvious. Death looks very similar to Bergman's Death, and the plot revolves around Bill and Ted challenging it to a game of Twister, Clue, and Battleship, hah. Couldn't be anymore straight forward.

The second one was more subtle. About half way through The Seventh Seal one of the more comedic characters narrowly escapes death, and just as the scene is about to end he looks straight at the camera and recites a line directly to the audience; breaking the fourth wall, or whatever they call it in theatre. At first it struck me as odd for such a serious film to do something like that, but then something clicked and I remembered the scene in Annie Hall where Alvy breaks the fourth wall and complains to the audience about the douche-bag in front of him in line. I know the idea of an aside is nothing new, it has probably been done for centuries in theatre, but I like to think that Woody Allen was at least conscious of the fact that Bergman did it before him. Especially considering how much of a fan he was (outside of his character in Manhattan).

I love the idea of artists having influences and influence over others. I was watching a documentary the other day about Stanley Kubrick and they had everyone from Scorsese to Spielberg talking about how much of an influence he's had on their style of film making. And there is no doubt in my mind that there are countless filmmakers out there today that are not only inspired by Kubrick, but also by Scorsese and Spielberg themselves. I think this idea makes for a much more interesting kind of movie, music, or art in general. It is next to impossible to just create a work of art without having first been inspired by somebody else's. I can't speak for everyone, I'm sure there are people out there that have made beautiful paintings without seeing a Rembrant, a Van Gogh, etc, but I know if it weren't for a handful of famous photographers - Yousuf Karsh, Annie Leibovitz, Linda McCartney - my photography wouldn't be where it is today. I like to think that they have each influenced me in some way or another. That isn't to say that I try and rip them off, but I have definitely been inspired by how Karsh captures emotion, or by how Annie Leibovitz puts so much effort into lighting.

I don't know where I am going with this, so I'll just end it there haha.

Cheers,

Pat

Movie: Tomorrow the birds will sing

In recent years I have found that dialogue has been an important feature of my favourite comedies. The best movies being those that leave you with hilarious lines that you and your friends quote for months. Some of my favourite movies, from people like Judd Apatow or even Woody Allen, are based around situations and rely heavily on smart, well timed jokes and references. These are the kind of movies that have caused me to laugh out loud more than anything in recent years. So, you could imagine my surprise when I nearly peed myself laughing watching Charlie Chaplin's 1931 silent film, City Lights.

The movie, while being absolutely hilarious, actually has a very touching love story that is played out better than most romantic comedies today. The movie stars Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp, a polite and classy, bowler hat wearing homeless man who wants nothing more than to fall in love. The story starts off with the tramp waking up in the arms of a giant marble statue which is about to be unveiled to an audience of dignitaries. After the rude and hilarious awakening, The Tramp makes his way down to a dock, where a drunk rich looking man in a suit is standing with a rope and a rock. Convinced that the man is going to try to kill himself The Tramp, being the optimist that he is, goes down to try to talk him out of it. He says to the man "Tomorrow the birds will sing" and attempts to take the rope/rock from the man. This is followed by 5 minutes of hilarious slapstick that finishes with the two of them soaking wet. Thinking the Tramp is his new best friend, he brings him back to his house for a drink.

A recurring gag of the movie is that when the rich man is drunk, he thinks that The Tramp is his best friend (he takes him to clubs, buys him drinks, and even lets him drive his car), but when he is sober he treats him like a stranger. The next day The Tramp falls in love with a blind girl who is selling flowers on the street corner. In order to impress her, The Tramp decides to use the riches of his new drunken friend to impress the girl.

Hilarity ensues as he tries to keep the charade alive, going so far as to enter a boxing match to help pay the woman's overdue rent, which he promised to do with his "millions". The boxing scene is without a doubt, one of the funniest scenes in any movie I have ever scene. The entire scene is brilliantly choreographed, and the acting is hilarious. I've posted it below, if you would like to check it out.

I won't ruin the story any further, but I will say that in an act of selflessness, The Tramp gets her the money, but also gets sent to jail. Upon his release The Tramp is convinced that the girl is gone forever, until they are reunited in one of the most oddly emotional/heart melting scenes ever.

I can't wait to watch another Charlie Chaplin movie. The in-your-face slapstick is so easy to enjoy that you don't even care or notice that there is no dialogue. The occasional onscreen title board is more than enough to fill in the key plot points. That being said, he has made movies with dialogue, and I've read nothing but great things about them too. I'll have to watch one and let you know.

I'd recommend everyone watch this if they ever get the chance, not just because it's hilarious, but I think it'll give you greater respect for comedy and why we enjoy it so much.

Cheers,

Patrick

Movie: It's just another run-of-the-mill Wednesday. The calendar's full of 'em.

I got the idea for doing this a couple weeks after I had finished watching the entire series of HBO's The Wire. While it was easily the best 60 hours I had ever spent watching a TV show, it also made me realize that I had just spent 60 hours watching a TV show. Shortly after I attempted to get into the Sopranos, and as much as I did enjoy the first few episodes, I just wasn't ready to make the commitment. It was like someone asked me to get married a couple hours after getting a divorce. I really just needed some time off, ya know? What better way to do that than to watch some movies? Each one is different and they usually leave you satisfied in the end, unlike the TV shows that leave you wanting more after every episode.

That was way dirtier sounding, than it was meant to be, hah. So true though.

After watching a couple of my favourite movies again, I figured it was time to move on to something I wasn't familiar with, so I went to IMDb and checked out their highest rated movies. While I had seen few of the top movies, I realized that I hadn't seen a lot of the most classic and well respected movies ever made. Casablanca, The Godfather, and countless movies made decades before my parents had ever met. I had heard a lot about these movies and seen them referenced in pop culture thousands of times before, but I had never actually seen them myself.

The first movie I decided to watch was Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller, Rear Window.
The movie revolves around a quick-witted photojournalist (James Stewart) named Jeff who has been confined to a wheel chair in his apartment after being injured on the job. He is taken care of by a nurse, Stella, and his incredibly hot girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly). While confined to his apartment for weeks, Jeff passes the time by creeping on his courtyard neighbors. After weeks of observing the different families, Jeff is convinced that his neighbor Thorwald has murdered his wife. Jeff then recruits his girlfriend, Stella, and police friend, Lt. Doyle, to solve the mystery.

The movie is addictive, and even though the movie is mostly dialogue and there are VERY few action scenes, Hitchcock still manages to create a feeling of mystery and suspense that I've never quite experienced from any modern movie. He also does a great job of developing the dozen or so characters that you see in the movie. Even the ones without lines that you only peer at through Jeff's lens. Though they have little to do with the murder plot of the movie, these silent characters help to develop Jeff's morality, as well as his relationship with Lisa. More specifically, the sad lady downstairs and the ballerina/maneater directly across from Jeff's place.

My favourite part about Rear Window was the way it was shot. The courtyard, and all of the adjacent apartments were built in one of Paramount Studio's GIANT sound stages, and the entire movie takes place inside the courtyard, so there is no camera trickery, and it allows you to see everything as Jeff would see it confined to his chair. In fact, almost the entire movie is filmed from his room looking out on the neighboring apartments, just like Jeff does in the movie. Some scenes were also shot to make it appear that you are looking through his binoculars, or through the telephoto lens of Jeff's camera. This allows you to really get inside his head without any sort of internal narration to point things out for you. There are even scenes where you feel helpless, because you are stuck in the chair and you can't do anything to stop what is happening outside.
There are also times where you feel voyeuristic as you peer into the lives of others. Also, on an unrelated note, the dialogue is fantastic. While some of it is kinda sexist and dated, the banter between Jeff, Lisa, Stella, and Lt. Doyle is witty, quick, and unexpected from a thriller.

Jeff: Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase and come back three times?
Lisa: He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.
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Stella: Maybe one day she'll find her happiness.
Jeff: Yeah, some man'll lose his
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Lisa: Today's a very special day.
Jeff: It's just another run-of-the-mill Wednesday. The calendar's full of 'em.

Did I mention how beautiful Grace Kelly is?

Yowzah.

Anyway, if you are ever in the mood for a good thriller and you aren't in the mood for the blood and guts that modern thrillers are known for, then I definitely recommend you see Rear Window.

Cheers,

Patrick

Blog Blog Blog

Hi,

My name is Patrick, you may know me from junnnktank, alchemy, flickr, twitter, the cadre, one of my failed attempts at blogging, or god forbid, real life. For the most part I go to school, but you can also catch me working at my part time jobs, taking a lot of photos, running, and/or hanging out with friends/the internet.

Recently though, I have taken on a new challenge. I am attempting to watch as many classic/famous/awardwinning/popular/obscure movies as I possibly can. The idea for this challenge came partly out of the need for a new form of procrastination, partly out of being bored of watching TV shows, but mainly out of genuine interest. For this I am picking my movies to watch from some semi-notable lists, like the IMDb top 250 and the countless AFI lists. That being said, if you read this, and think I should see a movie, let me know and I'll definitely look into it.

I have always loved watching movies; one of my first memories is going to the theatre for the first time to see The Rescuers Down Under when I was two years old. Since then I have watched countless movies, but I've never taken on anything quite like this.

It should be noted that I am not a movie critic by any stretch, I actually find it laughable that people can make a career out of shitting on the hard work and determination of others, but I definitely have an opinion on every movie I watch. And thus, my plan is to watch as many movies as I can and instead of just tweeting about it like I was, I will write my thoughts and opinions about them here. I can't promise a thorough academic breakdown of themes and characters or any of that crap, but I can tell you if I liked the story, who was good in it, if I liked how they filmed it, or any other interesting facts I dig up while watching them.

I'll try to keep this blog focused on movies, but I don't have another blog, so chances are I will be talking about funny things that happen in my life, posting photos, talking about music, or complaining about shitty things. If you don't like it, then you can suck it. My blog, my rules, suckaaaaa.

Cheers,

Patrick