How does film figure into your life?

Thursday, November 8, 2012

A word on Rolling Stone magazine and its site: sure, the bigger musical side of it is well worth ignoring totally (anyone who can make a list of 100 best musicians of all time and include Eminem while leaving out Beethoven clearly has their definition of "all time" taken from a 12-year-old girl), I would like to take some time to talk about the site's movie reviewer Peter Travers, who is quickly becoming one of my favorite people ever. Even when we disagree (hate towards Deathly Hallows Part 1? Blasphemy!) I still love reading and watching his movie reviews: the man is funny, honest, and fully willing to disregard pre-judgement in favor of career turnarounds. He's the Yoda to Korey Coleman's Obi-Wan. Don't die anytime soon, Mr. Travers.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

You probably have a job. If not, you have to study, or you have, dare I say it, a life. These things take away time from watching movies. Even not having a life can do that. Many people would rather spend ninety minutes on Omegle than in a movie theater. That's okay. But I have to do this for school.
Movies are so expensive. Movie theaters are getting to be like play theatres: for the rich, snobby, and probably white. Yet Michael Bay still has a career. This world.

Monday, November 5, 2012

"The Hobbit," planned for release in December, is getting a limited release in 48 fps. The nearest theater supporting this presentation is multiple hours away, according to wgtc.com, which froze my computer. Thanks. I'm still going. I don't care if I need to rent a motel room.
rottentomatoes.com says that Kevin Costner is still in "Django Unchained." He was replaced by Kurt Russell almost a year ago! Get it together, guys, you have ads paying for your business! I guess it's good that I don't go to that site for actor info. It also says that Emma Watson was in a movie called "Florence Nightingale" in 1985. She was born in 1990.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

It might be hard to distribute movies online because they're so easy to pirate. Remember Scott Pilgrim vs. the World? That movie severely underperformed financially because its target audience consisted of computer shut-ins who all downloaded it illegally.
I feel that American cinema (Hollywood, you know) is so much bigger than any other nation's film industry... but not necessary better. We just spend a lot of money on luxuries, and so that gives studios the ability to spend millions of dollars on bad raunchy comedies that could be made for a grand, and on board game movies. Board game movies? There should be NO BOOK LEFT UNADAPTED the day that board games are put on film. But Swedish movies are great. Of, like, the two I've seen.