Hello all! It’s been a while hasn’t it? This past year plus has been pretty crazy eh? Pretty shite too if I’m being honest. Hence why I have neglected this blog till now. There’s been a lot happening in my personal life in the last year, both bad and good, plus work has been crazy busy so I havent had much time to update this at all. On top of that, this whole coronavirus shite has put a lot of plans I had up a certain creek without a certain paddle, so that old friend of mine, Mr Depression, has been trying to make an appearance again. He hasn’t been making many appearances to be fair, its more like he’s peeking in the window to see if I’m home but I won’t let the sonuvabitch in. But I didn’t set up this blog to talk about sad stuff like that did I? No, I set up this blog to talk about fun stuff like movies damnit and thats what I’m gonna do. I’m going to try and update this at least once a week if I can, depending on work, mood etc.. Even if it means just a wee ramble like this one.
So what movies have I been watching over the last year or so? Well, roughly a metric shit tonne of them to be perfectly frank. My weekends are usually spent either watching films or working on models. One thing that has kept old Mr Depression at bay over the last while is something I like to call Cross Country Movie Night. I have a very good friend, Karen, who lives across the country from me. Every week (schedules permitting) , we take turns to find a bad film to watch, usually on Youtube, Netflix or Sky (usually on Youtube to be fair, it is amazing just how many full movies are on there if you know where to look.), we set a time to watch it , start it at the same time and message each other over Whatsapp slagging the film off as we watch it. We’re basically doing Mystery Science Theater but noone else is watching us and it’s purely for our own amusement. Its immensely fun to do, especially in this current quarantiney climate. We’ve been doing it for close to 2 years now and its become one of our favourite traditions. As you’ll see from this list of some of the films we’ve watched since September last year, we have watched some absolute doozies.
See what I mean? Apologies for my atrocious handwriting by the way, its always been a weakness of mine. I’m going to throw my hands up in the air here and admit that a good few of my choices have been influenced by RedLetterMedia and their Best of The Worst videos, Brandons Cult Movie Reviews and Mystery Science Theater. If you’re not already familiar with any of these then get your ass onto YouTube and check them out, they are 100% worth the watch and they will introduce you to sooooooo many awesomely bad films. Obviously not all the films we watch are garbage, we try to squeeze some good ones in every once in a while. But even the best films ever made have something in it you can make fun of if you try hard enough. I remeber going to see X-Men Apocalypse with another friend of mine, Marina, at our local cinema. We’d had a couple of beers before the film so had a nice wee head on and we spent almost the whole film just leaning over to each other and making jokes about the film (whispering obviously, we’re not savages). To this day, its one of the best expericences I’ve had watching a film in the cinema, purely for the hilarity of it. I’ve also discovered over the past while that as much as I love a really good, well made, engrossing movie, a lot of the time I would prefer to watch something cheesy or something that keeps me entertained.Don’t get me wrong, I can watch a film like say, The Deer Hunter or The Godfather and I can enjoy the amazing acting, engrossing story and great characters. But I have to be in the mood for something of that caliber. But give me the choice between The Godfather or Friday the 13th Part 6? Cheesy horror shlock will win 90% of the time. I’ve just realized that I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with all this , so I think I’m going to call time on this post. I have a Cross Country Movie Night planned for tomorrow night, so I may do a post about that. It’s my choice this time so gonna have to make sure I pick something good (by that I mean bad of course) so until next time, stay safe out there everyone!
Mostly film stuff, mostly. 