a blog without a life: Re-launch (or a Cleansing Fire)

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Re-launch (or a Cleansing Fire)

I tried blogging before, but constantly felt myself nitpicking to a degree that my cumulative work amounted to an intro, two ramblings on Richard Linklater films and a completely unfinished best of the year list. I suppose I could've left that stuff on but explain that I was basically starting anew, but SCREW IT, CLEANSING FIRE!! So what should anyone who reads this expect? Movie thoughts mostly: reviews, lists and such. Also probably thoughts on general geekery, things too long for Twitter and any stories of mine I don't hate.

A note on reviews: When I review a film (or anything else) I like to keep things simple. Zero to four stars with no half stars. This means zero stars = strongly dislike, one = dislike, two = ambivalent or mixed, three = like, four = love.

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A Few Notes On Reviews

• My reviews are meant to
   communicate how I feel
   about a movie, not how
   you should feel about
   it. My thinking is
   reviews shouldn't be
   about what I deem to
   be and not be good,
   but instead be, "This
   is what I think about
   it and why, so maybe
   you'll feel the same."
   (And in my opinion all
   critics should be doing
   this.)
• Reviews will feature a
   rating system of stars
   from zero to four with
   no half stars; Four stars
   highly recommended,
   three recommended,
   two not recommended,
   one discouraged, and
   zero extremely
   discouraged. I'm not
   going to say that
   because I've given a
   movie four stars, I
   think it's a good movie.
• Personally, I feel that
   if a movie is bad but
   still entertains me,
   then how can I say I
   wouldn't recommend
   it? Even if it's not for
   the intended reason.
• Reviews will not
   necessarily feature a
   summation of the plot;
   I figure, shit, you're
   already reading it on
   the internet so if you
   don't know what it's
   about, you can just
   look it up. You call it
   laziness, I call it concision.
• Also, I won't necessarily
   be just reviewing new
   releases. I plan on
   reviewing all movies I
   watch, no matter how
   many times I might have
   seen it already.