Marcus:
I, Marcus, have always enjoyed movies, but more recently I have discovered the joy of writing and flaunting my opinions as well. I like both playing and watching basketball (sophomore year of highschool, my team went undefeated for the season, go Bulldogs!). This proves that I'm not a complete shut in, although I also don't mind video games as long as they're played in the dark (it's more immersive, ok?). But my greatest interests include reading (all the time), writing (some of the time), watching movies (all the other times), and stating my opinion about said movies (Los Angeles Times, I mean... uh... sorry). I thank my friends, Sam, Alex, and Travis (also huge movie buffs) for taking time out of their joyous, fulfilling days to help contribute to this blog, even though Alex and Travis are cool and suave enough to be off sneaking into playboy parties, and Sam is such a repulsive shell of a man that I can no longer speak to him in person without getting the urge to make him the back end of a human centipede. I fear with Sam, this blog is a necessity as it's the only way I can still communicate with him without getting homicidal urges. That all being said they're all extremely knowledgeable when it comes to film, so I hope you enjoy the witty, if not presumptuous and violently unintelligible evaluations and banter that are to follow.
Sam:
Bonjour, good day, salutations. I am Samuel and my taste in movies is inconsistent to say the least. For instance, I love the classics like Citizen Kane but I also love the not-so-classics like Indiana Jones 4. Either way, you know I'll be harsh and very Jewish with my film criticism. No movie will get off scotch free (get it?), not even Casablanca. And hey, if you don't like what I'm sayin', read a book. And if you do like what I'm sayin', I hang out in the lobby of the Renaissance Hilton in West Hollywood on Thursdays from 7pm till drunk and disorderly.
Alex:
My name is Alex McCue, and I do not, nor do I ever, intend on going to film school. I don’t have a knack for anything creative, like my esteemed partners Sam and Marcus do. I could never in a hundred years craft a movie that would be valued as “good”, or “not porn”. The Academy will never ever let me vote for best picture, otherwise The Sandlot would win every single year. In short, I do not know why Marcus asked me to do this.
I do however have a judgmental and quickly formed opinion, refined by watching movies all my life. While I am not creative, I do have a penchant for determining what is shit and what is not. And even though the movie studios have made a small fortune off of me, there is always something I miss when I watch a movie. That’s why the multiple reviews of movies is such a good idea, and what separates our efforts from reviews you see elsewhere. For most films we will be offering different perspectives.
Like Marcus said in his post, my opinion should not be taken as the word of God. What we are trying to do here at Any Old Film is to hold a forum for movies, classic or new, good or shit. The movie reviews that one finds in the newspaper are often short, and all anyone does on Rotten Tomato is check the percentage before they buy their tickets. What we will be doing through our posts is to have an actual conversation about movies. It's what the four of us have been doing ever since we met one another, and now we are moving these discussions to the Internet. We are doing this to enhance one another’s appreciation for film as an art and an industry, to try and provide one another fresh perspectives on old classics, and to record how often Sam is wrong.
I do however have a judgmental and quickly formed opinion, refined by watching movies all my life. While I am not creative, I do have a penchant for determining what is shit and what is not. And even though the movie studios have made a small fortune off of me, there is always something I miss when I watch a movie. That’s why the multiple reviews of movies is such a good idea, and what separates our efforts from reviews you see elsewhere. For most films we will be offering different perspectives.
Like Marcus said in his post, my opinion should not be taken as the word of God. What we are trying to do here at Any Old Film is to hold a forum for movies, classic or new, good or shit. The movie reviews that one finds in the newspaper are often short, and all anyone does on Rotten Tomato is check the percentage before they buy their tickets. What we will be doing through our posts is to have an actual conversation about movies. It's what the four of us have been doing ever since we met one another, and now we are moving these discussions to the Internet. We are doing this to enhance one another’s appreciation for film as an art and an industry, to try and provide one another fresh perspectives on old classics, and to record how often Sam is wrong.
Travis:
I had a tantrum when I was six. I wanted to enter the next room through the wall instead of walking three feet to the doorway. It is tough to know what my father must have thought seeing his second-born fling their face and body against the living room wall, but I like to imagine that he saw it as his son’s physical search for metaphysical understanding. It is my hope that a reader also views my writing in the same light, even though often it may look like a moron repeatedly slapping into a drywall.
Emily:
To better aquaint the reader with myself I'd like to give you an exerp from my memoire.
"Once when I was wee tot, I made the obvious mistake of trying to eat ice cream and ride a bicycle at the same time. I had to get three stitches on my chin! And I've liked movies ever since."
It's a work in progress. My point is that I've always loved movies!They're a great way for friends and family to come together. My humble wish is to bring my thoughts and opinions to the conversation. Even if you don't agree with them! Cheers!
"Once when I was wee tot, I made the obvious mistake of trying to eat ice cream and ride a bicycle at the same time. I had to get three stitches on my chin! And I've liked movies ever since."
It's a work in progress. My point is that I've always loved movies!They're a great way for friends and family to come together. My humble wish is to bring my thoughts and opinions to the conversation. Even if you don't agree with them! Cheers!
Diane:
Coming more into adulthood, more and more people have assumed that I work at whatever store I’m currently shopping at. Why, even today in a 24-hour Asian market, a woman asked me where “we” keep the shopping baskets. Mind you I was wearing a huge Northface jacket and although ¼ Japanese, look extremely Mexican. Once prom dress shopping with my friend, in the dressing room people started asking me for different sizes and colors of dresses for an entire hour. What I mean to say out of all of this, is that after standing around with this group of people for so long…people just assume I’m a contributor for this blog. I don’t even know how to use the internets. And I’m pretty sure the black one knows I don’t work here, but doesn’t care.
