I have been watching movies since my father took my older brother and me, at the tender age of 5, to see Octopussy in the summer of 1983. I can still recall the dark cinema, the smell of the popcorn, and being absolutely spell-bound by the magic of a giant screen and James Bond revealing a little plane hidden under a fake horse’s arse in the opening sequence.
Since then, I’ve loved watching movies of all kinds. I spent many hours building up a massive collection of movies on VHS, only for DVD to come along and cause me to start again. Now Bluray is doing the same thing, but I don’t mind if it means I get the movies I love with a clearer picture than ever before. Obviously, that’s not always the case; and sometimes the bluray edition of a movie can look terrible thanks to digital processing and effects being added. I’m not really concerning myself with picture or sound quality on this blog though, as it’s intended to be all about how the movies I’m watching made me feel while I was watching them; something I’m sure the film-makers are generally more concerned about than whether “the DNR applied to the bluray has resulted in prominent ringing in areas of high contrast”.
365/movies/days started off as a generic Blogger blog and was simply a way for me to keep a record of what movies I was watching. Then one night, reading through the View Askew bulletin board, I came across a thread that was detailing a movie watching challenge – namely, one per day for a whole year. So I decided to attempt it and used the blog to track my progress.
I’m now into my third year of doing this and with more and more people reading the blog, I figured maybe it was time to make it a bit shinier.
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GF.
