Adam: We aren’t
dead! I just don’t have internet and Riley lives an hour away now. The film
blog still lives. And to prove it, I’m starting a new project for the month of
January!
For the past couple of years, I have accumulated a multitude
of DVDs. I cannot resist a good deal on film, and when I had expendable cash, I
would often buy many at once without much time to watch them. Well, thanks to
talking with a coworker the other night at work, I realized that I should watch
one DVD per day in January, and post clusters of “mini-reviews” for each film
throughout the month. For instance, once a week or so, I’ll be posting a
cluster of 5-7 films that I watched that week, for the entire month of January.
My reason for doing this is partially because I need to
watch these dang movies, but part of it is because I don’t have as much time to
stay up to speed on current film lately. I work at a second-run theater now,
which means we get the movies a few months after they are released (we still
have the freaking Butler…), and it’s hard for me to get to a first-run theater
multiple times a week to stay up to speed, let alone find time to write reviews
of said films. Thus, this project was born!
Before I begin though, I need to point out something about
these 31 films. Of the 31 movies I plan to watch, I have already seen 25 of
them. However, I have not watched the DVDs of these films since I purchased
them, meaning a lot of these are movies I watched a few years ago and loved enough
to buy, but haven’t had time to rewatch. For instance, I’ve seen The Fantastic Mr. Fox like four or five
times, but the DVD I own is still in the cellophane. Therefore, I will rewatch
it (since it’s been a few years anyway) and write a mini-review (maybe a
paragraph or two) about my thoughts on it, such as if it holds up as well as it
does in my memory or what new things have I discovered about it. These films
vary in length and genre, as well. I’m talking vampires to superheroes to teen
pregnancy to mobsters to the apocalypse. This should be fun.
So without further ado, let Adam’s January Clusterfilm Project begin!
