Ok, I’ve now officially transposed all my old movie reviews to this new blog. My goal is to do a short review on every movie I’ve seen in my life. Why? I’m not really sure. I suppose this idea started when I was reading those 2 sentence “summaries” that used to appear in the TV Guide. I figured, I could do better than some of those… and without any rules to follow, I just kind of stumbled forth. Maybe this blog will give some future social researcher some insight into my personality when I’m long gone. Who knows.
I’m not any kind of cinema expert. I have a rudimentary knowledge of cinema history, I don’t keep up on the latest independent releases or industry news or trends, and I really haven’t seen a lot of movies compared to many people. But, I know exactly how many I’ve seen – 998 as of this writing. Or at least, that’s how many I’ve remembered & written about. I’m sure there are a number that I’ve seen at some point, but just missed. I’ll add those when I notice them. (In fact, I just noticed one – Footloose!… so now I’m at 999!)
So, I’m probably over 1000 already… but for fun, I’ll make a big deal about the ceremonial 1000th movie. What will it be???? Possibly something over this holiday season.
I’ve added tags of the main stars or famous directors/writers/genres for many of these movies, just to make it more fun to navigate. It’s also interesting to see just how many movies starring Johnny Depp I’ve seen (13) or movies by Terry Gilliam (11), but even these aren’t terribly accurate counts. It’s all just for fun…
If I happen to come up with any general commentary (like this post), I’ll file it under “Comment”. I’m sure you needed to know that. Also, a lot of these movie reviews show a posting date of sometime in 2009. I just did that so they wouldn’t show up as “new”. I don’t know when I wrote those. My old list didn’t have any system for recording dates.
So, have fun roaming around the list… or ignoring it… or getting inspired to create your own list. What you make of this is up to you!