When I was in high school, I went to the movies all the time. Every couple of weeks I’d be in the movie theatre. Any money I could spare would go towards more tickets. In college, I went to even more movies. A college schedule that had mornings free and certain days off entirely, I…
January is the worst time of the year for movies. The ones that come out just aren’t that good. It is almost like a universal truth. Many times studios just slot movies in January because they are ready to cut their losses. For them if a movie is a hit and sells well in January,…
More and more people are espousing how they are saving money by not going to the movies. yes, they are right, they are saving money, but with a lot of movies you are losing the experience. It comes in many different ways. Sometimes its the theatre equipment, sometimes its the crowd experience, but any way…
My boyfriend doesn’t like watching anything if he already knows the end of it. If he does, he tends to fall asleep. He says something about losing interest because he already know what is going to happen. I can kind of understand. There is something amazing about watching something and not having any idea of…
I was reading a post yesterday by Nathan Bransford about how Storytelling is getting formulaic and it got me thinking about blockbusters. I’m not talking about blockbusters in the olden sense like Gone With the Wind. Those older films would release and would be massively consumed over a long period of time, then re-released and…
Have I mentioned how much I enjoy blogging so far? It has only been a few weeks, but already I am digging it. Anyway, I want to talk about B-movies this week. You know those awful movies that never make it into the theatres. On the rare occasion, one manages to get enough backing and…
So, I pondered... 