It's been two years since my last post on here. I remember quitting this because I was too busy working two jobs and watching crap movies and having no one reading my posts and being ludicrously angry about the kinds of movie reviewers on rottentomatoes with their awful contrite opinions. What I'm really scratching at is that the people who go to rottentomatoes aren't people who care about how well written a movie is, but if it's good. Enough about that.
The reason I decided to come back was that I was looking for a project to do. I've been thinking of things and my mind has been wandering and no definitive choice of what to take on. I really need to be in the habit of writing and not writing emails. Those don't require opinion and if they do, very minimal.
My annual formal at work is coming up, and I'm on the crew for arranging it. I've done about 20% contribution. The theme of the event is the 1920's (and the 1930's and 1940's). We had decided that we should have old movie clips playing on some banners. The banner idea didn't work, but we're using projector screens. So for the last few working days I've been working on this video. Mostly yesterday and today. The person who was supposed to download movies for me didn't download what I gave her and what she did download was movies from the 50's and onwards. Which lead to zero movie clips and not enough time to get any. I had to make do. I also decided to incorporate photos of classic movies and actors. I searched top movies of the 1920's and so on. Today I just didn't have enough volume of photos, so I tried a more comprehensive search. I stumbled up a site that had the top 100 movies of the 1930's. Voila! Inspiration happened. I am going to do the 1930's first and make my way towards the 2000's. That's 8 decades of top 100 movies to watch. Which rounds out to 800 movies. I know I watch at least 200 new movies a year, so this isn't terribly ambitious, other than I know I won't complete this in one year which is completely fine. I had read on someone else's blog that they did AFI's top 100 movie list. Anything that doesn't make the decade lists that wasn't on AFI's list, I will watch too.
How do I get my hands on these movies? Movie stores have gone the way of the Do-Do bird and are going extinct. Now I had time to grieve this. Back in November when I went to do my usual Tuesday night date with myself, ordered a pizza, went to the movie store, grabbed the new releases I was hankering to see and I made a comment at the front counter that there was nothing in the store. Then I was told that they were closing. It lead to a discussion about the awesome 90's and 2000's pre-Netflix destroying my life. We talked about my old corner movie store Captain Video, then it was Family Video, then it was Movie Gallery (which was an awful business) and then the store closed. By the time Family Video switched to Gallery, which I hated, I started going to Rogers. At this point I had a car, so the obvious choice was Rogers. I also used to go to Blockbuster, because they were open late, but after some awful customer service I never went again and I lost all love for Blockbuster. Rogers was my go to store for 8 years. It's a long time to being going to one store regularly. You know the staff. You talk to people. I left, picked up my pizza and cried all the way home. And then I called my mother crying. And I texted my BFF and cried more. I cried probably two hours. It was a sad realization of where the world is going. When I have children, I'm going to be telling stories about renting movies from a store and they're going to have no idea what I'm talking about. This event has already given me age at my whole 25 soon to be 26 year old life. I am starting to become a dinosaur and it's kind of scary.
They left one store open, but it's really horrible. I have no intention of ever renting another movie after what location they left. It's in a poorly laid out parking lot mall, next to Tim Horton's and a strange 3-way. It's a car accident waiting to happen and there are zero mall entrances. Once you pass it, it's impossible to turn around and go back. Super headache. By the time you park, you're already enraged and impatient and you go into the barely stocked store only to find no movie rentals. Thanks for wasting my time. Especially since the store is out of my way. I have no reason to ever go over there. I know I moved to the other side of the city, but it was close to work and right by my Mom's house. It was still relatively convenient. I have to come up with new ways to rent movies. Shaw on Demand has a poor movie selection. I would rather spontaneously combust before ever using Netflix, which isn't anywhere near as good as the American version of it. So I'm left with illegally downloading, streaming, renting off of one of the movie cinema stores or Apple. I want to watch it on my TV and I certainly don't want to keep anything on a computer and run it through my TV, so I am going to be relenting to Apple TV and purchasing it next month, where I can still rent movies, still get my indie and foreign films, and some obscure gallery movie and play it on my TV.
When it comes to my new project I fear the worst and will have to stream or see if the local library has any of these movies. Otherwise I think maybe TCM has something. I could be wrong. I haven't looked yet. I will be starting this project quite soon. I just need to figure out if I start at 100 and work my way to 1 or start at 1 and work my way down.
I Christen the new year and my 2 year hiatus with a movie reviw after a very long post.
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| Abduction 2011 |
I watched Abduction this evening. Not terribly awesome, but not terrible either. Sorry Taylor, but you're not a good actor. There was this scene where he's having a short monologue to his new girlfriend and I laughed. The acting was bad. What director didn't correct this? Or was this the best take they had and were getting exhausted by his lack of genuineness? The lines weren't bad, but not good, and the delivery was the only thing saving it from not being cheesy, hands on hips, pouting about lifes new turn in situation. The mild parkour by Taylor Lautner was unexpected, not necessary and entertaining. This movie could have been better. I blame that on plot and writing. They made it camp where it could have been serious and plausible. Super excited that Michael Nyqvist was in this. Wish he would stop playing a bad guy and be like a leading man in a chick flick, because damn he's sexy. I'd say it would have to be an indie chick flick. I just don't think he has the charisma to lead a blockbuster movie that has Katherine Heigl or Kate Hudson in it. This movie was entertaining and I may have nodded off for about 5 minutes, but I still rewound it, because I cared about what I was missing. I give this a 6/10. But if I were giving it an imdb rating, it would be more like 4.54 out of 10. Now lets see what imdb actually rated this movie. Imdb gave a rating of 4.4. I'm kind of good at this. I may have to start seeing how close I am at giving it an imdb rating, because this was fun.
I'm not sure what movies I'll be watching this week that are new to me, but I do know this Saturday I'm going to see Haywire. I just saw that Coriolanus is also coming out this week, I want to see two movies, but only to see the Gerry Butler. Who's curly hair looked ridiculous at the Golden Globes, but was still cute. Despite the story my sister told me about him, I am not turned off to him as an actor. I probably won't be. I just will make sure that if I ever meet him, not to have sex with him. Alright said it.
I'm back and I'm excited and invigorated to review movies again, even if only for myself.
Ps. You really need to check out the trailer for Friends With Kids. It has a phenomenally funny cast. After seeing Adam Scott in numerous movies, he really made a way into my heart after seeing Our Idiot Brother. Enjoy!
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