My first blog

I wanted to start a blog but each time I try to do something like this I have no idea what to write about.  I was sitting in my basement looking at my DVD and Blue ray collection and I thought to myself that I would like to share my thoughts on the movies in my collection.  I have very catholic tastes when it comes to movies. Basically I like what I like. A movie will mean something to me, it will excite me, it will amaze me, it will bore the pants off me, I will hate it, I will love it, I will rave about it or I will warn people not to watch it.  I guess that is exactly what the movies makers want. A reaction. Any kind of reaction. They want to make money so they try to create something that will entertain and cause us to react. If I love a movie my first reaction will be to want to own it as soon as it comes out on DVD and more recently on Blue ray. I will want to watch it again.

So every DVD in my collection is something that I would watch more than once? Um, not quite!! I have been given some crap movies as gifts. Sorry, but Me, Myself & Irene was a gift from my then 16 year old niece and it is shit with a capital SH!! I appreciated the sentiment so I can't bring myself to get rid of it.  Then there are the movies that the critics loved and I bought without having seen them. Never do that!! It's not worth it.  Having sat through the first hour of Lost in Translation, I can honestly say that the critics have no idea what they are talking about. I mean what the fuck was that all about. Bill Murray is a comic genius but this was bad, see above re SH!!

I will mention sequels only briefly at this point. There are some amazing sequels. Godfather II to name but one. Should I even mention the third Matrix movie? I don't own that one, I wouldn't have it on my shelf, it would tarnish the others next to it.

I am not a writer, I'm a media junkie. My grammar sucks and I quote and usually misquote movies whenever I can. I don't want life to imitate art, I want it to be art. Name the movie!! No, can't get it, well it's Postcards from the Edge and will be the first movie that I review. It's not a classic, it's not my favourite movie, but I like it, it makes me smile.