movie reviews

1997.01.01

On New Year's Day, 1997, I went to see a new slasher spoof with some friends and a significant hangover. I was watching a lot of movies, and usually had something to say based on my emotional and intellectual response.

When I say a lot of movies, I mean way too many movies. With no girlfriend and no prospect of such, it seems I was watching something just about every other night. I was seeing a fair amount of mediocre stuff as a result and I began to sense that some good should come of this investment. A journal, if you will, of my unconscious effort.

And so the slasher spoof became my first record. From this humble origin, a 25+ year journal was born that came to cover my day-to-day life. This page has an index to those journal entries that are movie reviews. There are now 1,010 of them.

Looking back, I think that what happened with Gen-X is that 'Star Wars' introduced a golden age in Hollywood, and we grew up thinking that attending movies in cinemas and renting movies on a 3-4 times a week basis was normal. And it wasn't just my friends, I'd meet a woman and would get to know her and she'd be nothing like my friends and me but she'd live the same way. In our defense, this was before the Internet and time when television was unbelievably bad, 'Friends' bad. So I forgive myself for watching so many!

statistics

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An ex once told me all I did was complain about the movies I see (and review). But as you can see it's not entirely true.

042 : A favorite

119 : Strongly recommended

429 : Recommended

399 : Not recommended

019 : Avoid

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the reviews

This is the long list.