Let's Do This

As a typical 21 year old, internet savvy young person I do not lack for places to have myself heard on the internet. Between my Facebook and Twitter profiles I have ample opportunity to keep in touch with friends, share funny internet videos and generally waste time by posting random thoughts that come to my head. However, recently I have been thinking that I needed a place to display some of my more thoughtful writing endeavors. You see, I am something of a film fan. Actually, that could be considered an enormous understatement. I adore film in all its forms. I love its ability to show the audience things it has never seen before, its capacity to show us our own world in a way never before considered. Film has the potential to inspire, uplift, confront, challenge and provoke. I want this to be a place where films are considered and appreciated within the context of when they were made and what their content says both about the film itself and the world at large.

Director Joe Dante once said that there are two kinds of people: "Those who love movies and those who love the movies they love". At this place I will endeavor to be the first kind of person. The last thing that the internet needs is one more blog talking exclusively about how awesome Star Wars/Star Trek is, how badass the fight scenes in 300 were or how eagerly they are awaiting the latest comic book series' transition to the big screen. I want to avoid that kind of narrow minded, fanboy-ish adoration, which lends nothing to the discussion and ultimately does a disservice to the films they claim to adore. But I should say upfront that I will also not apologize for the things that I like. My tastes, as I suspect most to be, are fairly wide-ranging. This taste stretches from enjoyment of such high-brow fare as the works of Michael Haneke, to the appreciation of low-brow works from Michael Bay (and I realize that featuring a sentence containing those two names within could send the internet itself into convulsions).

I will also be, from time to time, lending my thoughts on a wider variety of topics, ranging from music to literature to politics to anything else I see fit to write about. No matter what topic it is I promise to be thoughtful in my consideration of it. Again, the last thing I want is for this to turn into a simple "this rocked/this sucked" style of blogging so widespread in the clutter of blogs the internet has to offer. So without further ado, here it is, in all its (potential) glory. A new film blog that might actually have something to contribute to the conversation. Meditate on that.