Ryan Reynolds is buried in a box for 90 minutes in this surprisingly entertaining thriller. Full review after the jump…
Ryan Reynolds is buried in a box for 90 minutes in this surprisingly entertaining thriller. Full review after the jump…
Here we go! This is Rear Window Viewing, a blog about movies (or film, if you’re fancy). I love movies, I love watching them, talking about them, writing about them, and watching them again. I’ve recently began studying film (we’re fancy in college) and for the past few months I’ve been really wanting to have legitimate, interesting conversations about movies. My only hope for this blog is that I can start some sort of conversation. What makes something a good movie (tough to answer) or what makes a bad movie (sometimes even tougher to answer)?
I am going to try and stick with some sort of set format, otherwise I’ll go all over the place and/or never blog. I see this going in two directions, for now:
1) I’ll definitely be writing about some of the more interesting film theory I come across in my different classes, and I’ll surely be drawing plenty of inspiration from the films I study and the assignments I do for those classes. I want to talk about the medium of film itself. It is amazing in it’s simplicity, film is simply flashes of light projected on a screen, but also incredible in its complexity ans it forms a unified whole. I find film theory fascinating and I feel like most people hear very little about it. So we’re going to talk it.
2) Reviews! What would a blog about movies be without reviews? I want to be looking at all kinds of movies though, not just recent stuff. I’ll certainly be writing about the movies I see in theaters (great timing to start this blog with the awards season kicking off this week) but I am, of course, going to be revisiting my favorite (and not so favorite) movies of the past. And from here I think we can get to some really interesting stuff. These reviews of older movies I’d love to see act as conversation starters. Right now I’m really interested in who makes a great film a great film:
I think that’s the direction I’m headed. I’m excited, and I hope I actually keep this up. And before the first post is done I’ve got to give credit to Chris Ashley for inspiring me to start this as he started his own, very interesting, blog on music. Check that out here. So that’s it for the first post! I hope y’all enjoy!
Coming Attractions: I’ll be reviewing two movies in the next few days, one’s a new one I just saw in theaters that is sure to get James Franco his first Oscar nomination, and a very cold classic from the ’90s.