The Trailers

I feel like I should tell you why I’ve started a Film Review blog.. Most of my friends would tell you that this is extremely out of character for me. I never made an effort to go to the movie theatre unless a new Harry Potter film was coming out at midnight. I’d go to films if a friend asked me to see something with them, but I would never initiate an outing to the movies. Even if a film was out that I really wanted to see, if a friend didn’t say, “Hey, let’s go see X!” then I wouldn’t go see it. That was that.

That’s all changed since I moved to New Zealand, for a few reasons.

1. I work a regular work schedule. Back home I was working in retail, working retail hours. Either I wasn’t available or there was nothing showing when I was.
2. I have someone who is always willing to go to movies in my life now. My boyfriend is obsessed with films. He loves to see new ones, introduce me to old ones, buy DVDs/BluRays, and talk about them.
3. I haven’t seen that many movies. That isn’t something that changed since moving to New Zealand, but it remained true. I had a lot of catching up to do, and my boyfriend was very keen to help.

On my facebook account, I’ve been uploading a photo and a quote from each new (to me) film I see this year. I’ve been ordering them from favourite to least favourite, but I’ve been finding it to be quite difficult. A rank isn’t enough to adequately describe how I felt about a film. Out of the 70 films I’ve seen this year, I have enjoyed (in some way) all but four of them. There are some great films pretty low down on my list. This is why I want to write some proper film reviews.

I’m honestly not sure how often I’ll update this. I probably will not be able to review every film I see, especially since I know that I would want to review films shortly after seeing them, and I’m seeing a lot of films lately. We’ll see. Either way, I hope you enjoy whatever this blog becomes.

Until the next credits!