Friday, December 29, 2006

No actor bashing

This is for me personally, more then anyone else. I wanted to make it clear that when I review any movies or talk about the acting job of someone in the film I am going to make it very specific to that film. Granted we all have our favorite actors and actors we really don't like. However I feel that if I am to review a movie without any bias I need to keep what I'm talking about to that film only. I can also say that even though I may not like the acting of someone it still takes a lot of courage to get in front of a camera, knowing millions of people will see what you are doing. Doesn't matter if you are great or a real pile of cow pies in acting still takes guts, and I'm not going to bad mouth anyone on the net for giving it a go.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

My Rating sysytem

So I thought I would take a minute to explain my rating system since I will not only be talking about movies on here but will putting reviews on here. I use the school grading system. I will say that most of the movies I end up seeing end up being a B+ to an A-. That is because all though there is no movie I wont see of course I want to see the ones that interest me first and those some how tend to be better movies. It is a very very rare film that gets an A+ from me, and again rare that anything gets an F from me. To get an A+ the film has to have great acting, wonderful writing, and be almost flawless in all other areas (yes I'm very picky). On the other hand if someone took the time to make something and I end up watching it I will almost always give it some kind of props and find something good about it. There for you also almost never see an F from me. I have also found that most of my long reviews about films I'm passionate about. Either passionate in the like or dislike category as long as I'm really enthusiastic about talking about it, the review will be long.
If I'm not able to get to a theater this weekend I'm going to post some of my other reviews to get things started here.
Questions, comments anyone?

Saturday, December 23, 2006

No movie I wont see

This is something that I have told to a lot of my friends. There is no movie I wont see because at some point I would like to make a movie, and they all have something to teach. I know this may sound a little odd, however if you think about it you will know just what I'm talking about. I know we have all said "why doesn't she take off those heels if she is going to run in the forest" or "wow you really can't see them at all I wonder how we are suppose to know what is going on". We have all heard the bad dialog, the seen the unlikely very clean inner city street, or seen the boom mic at the top. So what happens to us when we see that? Personally I find those things distracting and they make the film not as good. When I make a film I would like to know the things to do and the things to not do, and all films have something to offer both categories, some films can go more in one category more then the other, still it's all there.