tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post650492147607905619..comments2024-01-13T03:20:34.558-05:00Comments on Film Flammers: A very belated "About Me" post in lieu of an end of month Status Reportsiochembiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11487373396181856763noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post-15895790480421287442012-12-04T11:50:49.614-05:002012-12-04T11:50:49.614-05:00I don't particularly enjoy grading, but becaus...I don't particularly enjoy grading, but because I do it so often, it's easy for me to equate the system I use for rating films to the system I use in grading. <br /><br />Yeah, I'm not interested in racing through the remaining films. It took awhile, but I eventually figured out that I need to give films a little bit of time to "digest" in order to really appreciate them.<br /><br />And like I said, I had really been meaning to give my "backstory" for a little while now. siochembiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11487373396181856763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post-71026552123198681892012-12-02T15:01:56.674-05:002012-12-02T15:01:56.674-05:00Thanks for letting us get this behind the scenes v...Thanks for letting us get this behind the scenes view of what is behind the posts. I know the films are and should be in focus, but I love seeing the real person behind. Like Chip I also found myself nodding to a lot of your story. There is something about knowing there is an exciting world out there that makes you want to explore it, right? <br />I notable difference is the grading. I hate to have to grade. Next to my work I have a teaching job at the university and it is all very nice, but I really do not like the exams. There is also a lot of teaching in my primary job, but when I go around the world with my travelling road show the object is to teach the attendant and they actually get to grade me. Of course they are top motivated and paid a lot of money to learn how to build a wind farm, but it also puts me on the spot. The only learn something it I am good. Commenting on movies is for me an entirely different fun and subjective exercise. Just because I hate the movie others might love it and that us perfectly fine with me. <br />I can certainly relate to taking the movies slowly. I love to really dig in an give the film time to develop. No rush there. Thanks again.TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post-68371580126820289902012-12-02T12:54:57.749-05:002012-12-02T12:54:57.749-05:00I had used my own year-ending IMDB Top 250 lists t...I had used my own year-ending IMDB Top 250 lists to check off movies, as well as the first couple of AFI lists, so the idea of going through a list and seeing all of them was not new to me. I think what made me hesitate on the 1,001 Movies list is that it was compiled by "real" critics - ones who would select movies that no one but another critic would like. I have a cynical opinion of professional critics as a whole. At the time I decided to actively pursue it I had seen just under half of the list, so the remainder also wasn't as daunting. When I first got the book I had seen about a third of them.<br /><br />In regards to me remembering films well: Actually, there are something like 3-4 films among the hard to find that all deal with Taiwan after the government fled there in 1949. When I read the title of one of them in your request list I was struggling to recall which of these films' plots was the one that went with that title. I had seen all of them recently in confirming that they played correctly before sending them to you and Steve.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post-43862088964035659962012-12-02T10:59:09.056-05:002012-12-02T10:59:09.056-05:00I always like Roger Ebert's reviews best when ...I always like Roger Ebert's reviews best when he includes some personal anecdote about a film, and when I realized that, I started making my own film writing a lot more personal. <br /><br />Oh, you've probably got me beat in terms of films watched, and if you haven't right now, you will soon. I've been emotionally spent this fall semester, and when I get that way, I don't have much initiative to watch films. (I also wouldn't want to force myself to watch a new movie. This isn't work, this is a fun hobby after all.) I haven't seen many new movies at all lately. And that's okay.<br /><br />But with Three Kings coming up at the blog club, that's a new one for me. I just have to mail Alphaville back to Netflix, then I'll get it in the mail.siochembiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11487373396181856763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post-80489633987295724352012-12-02T10:55:38.325-05:002012-12-02T10:55:38.325-05:00I really think that those who own 1001 Movies book...I really think that those who own 1001 Movies book will, at some point, become obsessed with the idea of seeing as many as possible. For me, it was only a matter of months after purchasing it for that idea to take hold; for you, it was longer, but it did happen!<br /><br />Re: blitzing. You've spoken about how you remember films really well after just one viewing. That's what I lack, and why the blitzing DOESN'T work for me, but probably does for you. If I can't remember a film, then it almost doesn't count that I've seen it. That's why I kinda regret going so full tilt for a couple years there without recording my thoughts or feelings about a film along the way. <br /><br />I like Trouble in Paradise too. Pepe le Moko took a few views for me to really fall in love with, but now I really do love it.siochembiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11487373396181856763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post-24799460110978902092012-12-02T00:55:44.286-05:002012-12-02T00:55:44.286-05:00I appreciate the mention, although I take issue wi...I appreciate the mention, although I take issue with the lack of a monthly Status Report. (I keed, I keed.)<br /><br />I've found more often than not that I like what we amateurs have to say about film much more than what the professional critics have to offer. For most of us, it's about our personal journey and our personal connection to a film rather than about where a film falls in the grander scheme. That's far more interesting to me.<br /><br />Chip sent me the file of where you are in terms of films watched on the list. How's this for a shock? The list I have for you puts you at 874 films viewed, and that's from a couple of weeks ago. I'm sitting at 877 right now (841 reviewed), meaning that you've probably inched past me in the last couple of weeks.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751168318018401735.post-58656722209608940412012-12-01T19:16:07.539-05:002012-12-01T19:16:07.539-05:00Yes, but what do you think about the Kardashians a...Yes, but what do you think about the Kardashians and other equally important things like supersymmetry possibly falling by the wayside? :-)<br /><br />Thanks for taking the time to write this. I actually found myself nodding in several places (in agreement, not sleepiness). I could have written many of those likes and dislikes myself. <br /><br />The place where we diverge the most is that I've had the 1001 Movies book since the year it first came out (2003), but I only checked movies off a few times a year in it as films I saw happened to be in the book. I never actively used it to select films to watch until earlier this year (inspired by the bloggers who were already doing it.) <br /><br />And since then my pace has been accelerating and I am becoming one of those blitzers you mentioned. I partially rationalize this last bit by the fact I've been watching a lot of the hard to find movies and they seem to be hard to find for a reason - they're not very good.<br /><br />fyi - I've seen Le Million (3 stars) and Trouble in Paradise (4 stars). I'm off to see Pepe le Moko next. Thanks again.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.com