i watch movies
I haven't made an actual real post in a long time. My short attention span is perfect for something like Twitter. A lot of people dislike it but honestly, it's been an amazing service for me. Not only have I been able to connect with a whole new realm of cool film people in Austin and all over the US but I love the immediacy it provides.
The drawback is that now I'm too lazy to make actual posts. I still read LJ regularly but I don't know how many other people do. Still, I have no desire to get rid of my LJ as there's far too much history in it and I know I use it to go back and look at stuff. Maybe I should try and export it all out into a new website, possibly a Moveable Type one? Something to think about...
Anyways, yes, if you follow my Twitter or bother to read the mess of them fed into LJ you'd know I spend all my free time watching movies now. In fact I even have it on a schedule for the most part. My week is such:
- Mondays - TV at home with Jenni and a movie before I crash out since she hits the sack early
- Tuesdays - Dinner and then head out to Alamo Ritz for Terror Tuesday, which is amazing
- Wednesdays - Head to my friend Brian's for his weekly Horror Movie Night. He's been doing it for something like 8 years and has the entire year mapped out! It's a blast
- Thursdays - Jen and I eat dinner together, catch up on shows and when she crashes out I MAY watch a movie
- Fridays - after work Jen is at PTK so I pick up dinner come home and watch 2-3 movies
Then on Sat-Sun we catch up on shows and I fit in movies when I can while she does schoolwork.
So far this year I've seen 121 movies from start to finish. About a dozen or so of those are re-sees but the rest are all new to me. 56 of those are horror movies, so I absolutely have a preference on what I'm watching. I love my new website which helps me keep track of stuff so I can go back and see what I thought about the movies. The last 5 or 6 still need review bits but all the others have blurbs already.
One highlight of my film viewing recently was Birdemic. It's a movie that's making the rounds with people as a must see, but it's one of those Troll 2 sort of films where it's so bad it's good. The guy who made it, James Ngyuen, swears it's supposed to be serious and if so, that's all the better. This movie is so fucking terrible it's an amazing watch. It EPICALLY fails on every level. There's not one good thing about the movie. The acting is horrible, the sound is god awful, the special effects look like Duck Hunt, the story is unbearably bad, the editing is horrendous and the direction is worst of all. That being said, when I saw it with my friends at Alamo with the director in attendance we couldn't stop laughing the entire time and my jaw was dropped open the whole movie. It was so goddamn entertaining I can't even begin to tell you. You really have to see if it you get a chance or if this is something you think you could get into.
Also just recently I decided that I'm going to undertake a project most people would consider plain torture. I decided I'm going to watch every National Lampoon's movie. I'm not one of those people who outright hate their direct to DVD releases. I've even seen some I somewhat enjoyed, like Dorm Daze and Barely Legal. Of course their old offerings are amazing: Animal House, Vacation (and it's offshoots), and Van Wilder. Since I started this I already watched 4 I hadn't seen and 1 is good, one isn't too bad and 2 were mediocre and somewhat boring, in this order: Electric Apricot (with Les Claypool doing a mockumentary about a jam band), Endless Bummer (a surfer tries to get his board back from the Valley) and Bag Boy and Cattle Call. I put up a spreadsheet to keep track of stuff and I have 39 more movies to watch. Most of them I can get on Netflix Watch Instant or rental but I'm going to have to find a way to get a few of the direct to VHS or TV only ones.
So yeah, if you want to know what I'm up to, that's about it!
The drawback is that now I'm too lazy to make actual posts. I still read LJ regularly but I don't know how many other people do. Still, I have no desire to get rid of my LJ as there's far too much history in it and I know I use it to go back and look at stuff. Maybe I should try and export it all out into a new website, possibly a Moveable Type one? Something to think about...
Anyways, yes, if you follow my Twitter or bother to read the mess of them fed into LJ you'd know I spend all my free time watching movies now. In fact I even have it on a schedule for the most part. My week is such:
- Mondays - TV at home with Jenni and a movie before I crash out since she hits the sack early
- Tuesdays - Dinner and then head out to Alamo Ritz for Terror Tuesday, which is amazing
- Wednesdays - Head to my friend Brian's for his weekly Horror Movie Night. He's been doing it for something like 8 years and has the entire year mapped out! It's a blast
- Thursdays - Jen and I eat dinner together, catch up on shows and when she crashes out I MAY watch a movie
- Fridays - after work Jen is at PTK so I pick up dinner come home and watch 2-3 movies
Then on Sat-Sun we catch up on shows and I fit in movies when I can while she does schoolwork.
So far this year I've seen 121 movies from start to finish. About a dozen or so of those are re-sees but the rest are all new to me. 56 of those are horror movies, so I absolutely have a preference on what I'm watching. I love my new website which helps me keep track of stuff so I can go back and see what I thought about the movies. The last 5 or 6 still need review bits but all the others have blurbs already.
One highlight of my film viewing recently was Birdemic. It's a movie that's making the rounds with people as a must see, but it's one of those Troll 2 sort of films where it's so bad it's good. The guy who made it, James Ngyuen, swears it's supposed to be serious and if so, that's all the better. This movie is so fucking terrible it's an amazing watch. It EPICALLY fails on every level. There's not one good thing about the movie. The acting is horrible, the sound is god awful, the special effects look like Duck Hunt, the story is unbearably bad, the editing is horrendous and the direction is worst of all. That being said, when I saw it with my friends at Alamo with the director in attendance we couldn't stop laughing the entire time and my jaw was dropped open the whole movie. It was so goddamn entertaining I can't even begin to tell you. You really have to see if it you get a chance or if this is something you think you could get into.
Click to viewAlso just recently I decided that I'm going to undertake a project most people would consider plain torture. I decided I'm going to watch every National Lampoon's movie. I'm not one of those people who outright hate their direct to DVD releases. I've even seen some I somewhat enjoyed, like Dorm Daze and Barely Legal. Of course their old offerings are amazing: Animal House, Vacation (and it's offshoots), and Van Wilder. Since I started this I already watched 4 I hadn't seen and 1 is good, one isn't too bad and 2 were mediocre and somewhat boring, in this order: Electric Apricot (with Les Claypool doing a mockumentary about a jam band), Endless Bummer (a surfer tries to get his board back from the Valley) and Bag Boy and Cattle Call. I put up a spreadsheet to keep track of stuff and I have 39 more movies to watch. Most of them I can get on Netflix Watch Instant or rental but I'm going to have to find a way to get a few of the direct to VHS or TV only ones.
So yeah, if you want to know what I'm up to, that's about it!