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There's just so much to see. So many people posting blogs, writing really interesting stuff. It's awesome. You just have to be careful where you step sometimes. Shit can get weird, and it often does depending on where you are in the internet.
But I'm mostly glad to be here because I get to share my thoughts on certain movies with you, and tell you why I think they deserve a lot more credit than they get. Or why they don't deserve the credit they got. Mostly I'm here to write about a lot of films because I think they're great, and the most fun a true cinephile can have is discovering a film over again through writing about it, or by sharing the experience of the film with others. You can put a film together better by talking about it afterwards. You can see it in a different light when you watch it with someone else.
Movies are like sculptures in the fourth dimension, revealing their truths while weaving through time. Re-living that time over and over again can change your perception of it. Better film making means more detail, more reasons for returning to the movie.
But besides that, sometimes it's just fun to see really gnarly shit happen to people on the screen. Remember The Human Centipede? Or those Friday the 13th movies? All pretty violent, yet profitable movies. Why do we watch them? Is it for the thrill of being scared? Or is it out of cheap, morbid curiosity that we go to see awful things done to human flesh on film?
I'm guessing the latter. People are hungry for emotion and sometimes they don't care what kind of stimulation brings it out. I think it's good that people go out and see all types of different movies, because we need all types of stimulation in our lives. We ought to see horror movies, comedies, action films, art films, silent films, foreign films and independent movies. We ought to see everything, because no one film can truly be everything. In this sense, all film is exploitative. After all, nothing we see is real. It is all predestined, plotted out and labored over for months and years. Entire months and years for just a couple of hours of entertainment.
Cinema is a grand illusion, a master's modern art commanding many people, many talents, and the environment itself into a singular work. Even in terrible films, there is so much more on screen than the director intended.
This introduction will end on an open note. I figured an open beginning would be the best way to start this thing. You know, provide the basics and just leave the rest open. More films should be like that.
