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It's
about time I caught up on films. In my younger days I was a major
film buff- before I discovered alcohol, women, literature, house
music, martial arts, gym and, well, other vices.
Previously,
if I heard a conversation about films happening nearby, I'd try and
involve myself in it because I'd probably know what they were talking
about. Between 15 and 18, films were MY LIFE. My trivia was shit-hot,
I was highly critical of mediocre movies, and I sought out all the
old classics from every decade for my burgeoning collection.
Then
I got to university. I started to realise I needed to get out more.
I'd studied media for that long before I even got there that watching
any form of media was now “work”- I was in analysis-mode the
moment the film began, the moment I turned the TV on, the moment I
heard the radio.
I
started to go off it all. But I ploughed on with the course
regardless. I still love bars and clubs today and still want to get
out as much as possible, but now when people discuss films, there's a
good chance I won't have seen it if it's a recent movie. So, for the
next month I'm going to sit and watch a load of films. Yes, how
outgoing and exciting of me.
I've
got a list of films to check out. What's your recommendation?
5 comments:
Taken 2
I'll have to watch the first one first. I hope it's not just an Irish version of Commando. Or Ransom.
Taken 2 is a shit version of Taken. Dont watch the first one first, watch the first one ONLY!
Then again you werent keen on Django Unchained so a shit film might be right up your straße ;)
A regular reader are we?! Interesting... I'd really like to know your opinons on Django after watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9LWZ1C0jw
Occasional. But fond.
Re the video, other than the opening point about the back story (which itself is really just an inconsequential omission) I'd say its nothing but a list of the same kind of trivial editing and continuity problems that you could attribute to any movie.
About the person who made the video, I'd say some people have too much time on their hands.
To the person who made the video I'd say, lets see you do better motherfucker.
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