Mantra

Right now I have no idea or order set in mind for reviewing movies. Probably I’ll just review the ones I get from my Netflix account. Old movies. Older movies. Classics – either because they’re deemed Classics by historians, or because every time I’m asked “You wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?” I still giggle – and even the occasional New Movie. Whenever I can afford to go see one.

My hope is to take a different look at how we review movies. More guttural reactions to what you see on screen, and less focus on what’s right or wrong technically with a movie. Or, more to the point, since there’s obviously room for the technicality to be explored, how those (my) reactions coincide with the technical aspects regarding the movie. Let’s get back to when movies could also be fun and guilty pleasures without having to mean something else on top of it. I hope to acknowledge that there’s a time and place for both.

I’m going to try and maintain a movie fan’s perspective when writing about different movies (or films, if they deserved to be classified as such) all in the hopes of drawing a straight line across genres and boundaries. Trying to remember that, good or bad, they are all movies and should be given at least that much credit. (Mostly. There are some that don’t even deserve that much credit – I’m looking at you Tyler Perry…)

That being said, I have my own biases and wont deviate from them too often in terms of what movies I will or won’t watch. But hopefully that means that what I have to say will be more honest and worth listening to in the end. Like when I tell you that the Scary Movie franchise is among the worst in the history of moving pictures. Sure, it’s not a stretch by any means. I’m not going way out on a limb for that one, but shouldn’t that account for some taste on my end in the end?