Buster Keaton Shorts
31 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in Unseen DVD's Tags: Buster Keaton, Cops, My Wife's Relations, The General, The Goat, The Play House
In Spring 2008 I took Film History and, I must confess, it was not one of my favorite classes. The course was essentially a silent film class and though I have nothing against silent films, watching them for four hours can be a bit taxing. More than one student saw the screening section of class as naptime. Since I can’t sleep during movies, I watched every film and by far the least painful screening was comedy week. The best film that day was Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s 1918 film, The Cook featuring Buster Keaton as an assistant chef. Keaton’s physical comedy amazed me, especially when he jumps from a roller coaster on a pier and into the ocean. His stunts offer the same thrill and amusement as Jackie Chan’s except unlike Chan, Keaton never relies on facial expressions for a laugh. In fact, his face never changes. He bears everything with the same nonplussed expression, a habit which garnered him the nickname “Old Stone Face,” and his physical gags are often rendered funnier by his refusal to react.
I enjoyed Keaton’s performance so much I wrote my midterm on his films and once again purchased Three Ages, Our Hospitality and The General, often considered his best film, as “research.” During the peak of Keaton’s career in the 20’s, the average reel only held around 11 minutes-worth of film so films were considered “features” when they consisted of at least six reels. The abovementioned films are features and Kino International, the makers of my DVD’s and one of the larger manufacturers of silent film DVD’s, also includes a few of Keaton’s short films, or two-reelers, to sweeten the deal. I never had time to watch the two-reelers, thus for this entry I’ll review all of them.
In 1922’s Cops, Keaton infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade. The film is essentially a giant chase and Keaton plays the typical trickster underdog character he portrays in a majority of his films. His characters are always slightly cleverer than their opponents and this superiority typically manifests itself in the characters’ physical prowess. Keaton is a master of stunts and he never hesitates to put himself in danger for a laugh. He is the king of slapstick and his stunts never fail to impress. By far the best stunt comes when Keaton uses a ladder as a seesaw on top of a fence. As Keaton waits in the middle, cops try to climb both ends of the ladder and the way he dodges them by swinging his body back and forth is both awe-inspiring and funny.
The next films is 1921’s The Play House and though it contains less stunts, it displays Keaton’s love of trick photography. In the film, he plays a stagehand/performer in a vaudeville show. Keaton, who began his career in a vaudeville act with his parents, basically commits a full show to film with him starring in every act. When the film begins, Keaton’s character imagines himself as not just the star, but every player. In a trick that even today seems hard to explain, he appears on the screen playing every instrument in an orchestra. The scene is rich with comedic moments since each Keaton incarnation fumbles with their instruments. However, there is also an unfortunate minstrel show section. Once again, Keaton plays every part, but unfortunately every character also wears blackface. It’s uncomfortable to say the least. The scene is a symptom of its times and mars an otherwise fun film.
Next is 1921’s The Goat in which Keaton plays the “scapegoat” for an escaped convict who tricks a police photographer into putting Keaton’s face on the “Wanted” posters (pictured above). The film is a great combination of stunts and trick photography. The most interesting moment comes when Keaton reverse the film’s direction to make it seem that a train stops right in front of the camera. However, like many Keaton films and many early silent comedies, the plot simply sets up the scenario for the stunts and doesn’t have much of a resolution. However, the film is so funny the story doesn’t really matter.
The final and worst film is 1922’s My Wife’s Relations. Keaton plays a man who accidentally marries a woman and then has to live with her and her physically abusive family. The family’s characterization is a surprisingly offensive portrayal of both immigrants and Catholics and while the stunts are interesting, they aren’t good enough to forgive the film’s shortcomings.
Unsurprisingly, the DVD’s lack any special features and the layout is especially infuriating because the menus for each film connect and are not easily navigated. For the most part, I enjoyed my second venture into Keaton-land. I think his features are his best work because they allow him to create an interesting story as well, but I can’t complain. I mean, the guy used a drum as a rowboat at one point, that’s pretty damn amusing.
By the way, in case anyone is interested in watching a Keaton film, IMDB offers a link that allows you to watch The General. I prefer Our Hospitality, but the film is still pretty great. Here’s a link to the video gallery.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000036/videogallery
Films: 6.5
DVD’s: 4
Origami Week 4
30 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
Well, apparently four seems to be the average number of projects for each week. Unlike last week, there didn’t seem to be a theme unless “random” counts. Besides some really great projects, I got to switch to an exciting new shade of pink.
Project 1 was yet another sled, but I think this incarnation actually looks like a sled. The best part about it was the ease of making it. Four simple steps and there it was. I love simplicity.
However, I also love complexity and Project 2 catered to that. As you can see in the picture, the word “cool” is written in origami paper. I’ve looked forward to this project for a while and I must confess I actually tried it out a few days before the calendar officially told me to make it. It’s a great trick. After just a few simple folds, you make one straight cut and then assemble the pieces. Great concept, and totally worth the effort.
Project 3 was a return to both simplicity and the calendar’s obsession with birds. Supposedly it’s a swan, but it could be any sitting bird really. I’m going to go with seagull.
Project 4, a diving duck, was by far the most difficult of the week and I’m not sure how I feel about it. It looks nice and the strange series of over reverse folds used to make the tail offered a really cool technique, but I’m not actually convinced that it looks like a diving duck. I think my problem is with the wings. They’re made with an accordion fold and though I suppose they are supposed to give the impression of flapping, I think they just look like sort of weird. It just looks less duck-like that way.
Great week although I must say I was rather surprised by one development. Sandwiched between this week’s projects was a form for me to submit my own original origami designs for next year’s calendar. I don’t know what the publishers were thinking, but this doesn’t really seem the best time for this form to appear. I mean, in theory, the average owner of the calendar would be fairly inexperienced and wouldn’t know enough by this point to start doing original designs. Why not wait to suggest it until July or something? January is just the beginning, give ‘em some time to gain confidence. I definitely don’t feel ready for that, but I guess I’ll just slip that form to the back and see how I feel when I encounter it again.
Summer Stock
24 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in Unseen DVD's Tags: "Get Happy", Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Summer Stock
In Fall 2008 I took what was probably my favorite film class at NYU, Classical Hollywood Cinema. There’s a reason the films of that time period, starting with the release of the first sound film The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending roughly around 1960, are considered some of the best. They rarely fail to entertain and Technicolor makes everything lovelier. By far my favorite films from the period are the musicals. For the final paper of that course, I wrote solely about musicals and as “research” I watched 20 films. I was thrilled by the colorful spectacle and incredible dancing in films like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and An American in Paris, and ever since then, I’ve loved both MGM and Gene Kelly. I loved MGM for its opulent spectacles and catchy songs and I loved Kelly for his exciting dancing and handsome face.
I like Kelly best when he is paired with Cyd Charisse. They are both incredible dancers and she is one of his few partners who can match him in skill. Their extended dance sequence in Singin’ in the Rain offers some of the most beautiful images ever committed to film. That expressionist pas de deux where they dance around a fluttering curtain is simply magic. However, during my research for the above-mentioned paper, numerous critics mentioned Judy Garland as being a wonderful partner for Kelly. As I browsed the $5.99 DVD Funhouse the other day, unsuccessfully looking for a copy of Mildred Pierce, I stumbled upon the 1950 Kelly-Garland starring Summer Stock. So of course I had to purchase it.
In the film, Garland plays Jane Falbury, a talented young woman trying to save her family’s farm from financial ruin, but her plans change when her fame-seeking sister Abigail brings a troupe of actors to practice their upcoming Broadway show in the barn. Kelly plays Joe D. Ross. the show’s writer and director and Abigail’s lover. Jane is also in a relationship with her nebbish fiancé Orville, played perfectly by Eddie Bracken. Despite being otherwise engaged when they first meet, Jane and Joe eventually couple and in the process she will become the show’s star. However, like every MGM musical of the 1950’s, the story is irrelevant. Rather, it’s the numbers that matter and they are absolutely delightful.
Though I still think Charisse is Kelly’s best partner, Garland certainly holds her own and the pairing never feels mismatched. Both leads have an infectious exuberance that overwrites the film’s other faults. In one of the most famous dances of his career, Kelly does his “newspaper dance.” The dance is an excellent example of bricolage in which the dancer integrates props into the performance in an attempt to cultivate a sense of spontaneity. Kelly uses the newspaper as a device to not only create a shuffling sound that adds to the music’s rhythm, but also as an expression of his character’s natural talent and love of performance. Though the scene is obviously choreographed, Kelly’s playfulness lends the scene an impulsive quality.
In her own career-defining performance, Garland sings “Get Happy,” an ironic choice considering she barely completed the film due to her deep depression and drug abuse. Shortly before filming Stock, she was dropped from Annie Get Your Gun because of her constant lateness and mental instability. Garland attended rehab directly before filming and her slightly plumper figure speaks to the fact that she was on the mend. MGM dropped Garland shortly after Stock because of her unreliability and it was one of her last musicals before her barbiturate overdose in 1969 at the age of 47. However, none of that is evident in “Get Happy” and Garland projects a confidence reminiscent of her earlier films. Her costume is perfect with a tuxedo jacket that covers just enough to avoid scandal, black nylon stockings all topped off with a tilted fedora. Garland’s then-husband director Vincente Minnelli originally conceived the costume for an earlier film, but it was appropriated for Stock. Garland also appears thinner in the number because she took a break for a few months between principle filming and filming the scene due to exhaustion. It is certainly one of the best performances of Garland’s career and even if the rest of the film weren’t delightful, this number alone would make it worth watching.
Finally, the special features on the disc are excellent and include a fascinating documentary on the film’s making as well as an MGM cartoon that rips off Sylvester and Tweety and a short comedy mockumentary from back in the day. Combining the cartoon, the short and the film into a program recalls the movie theaters of old and offers a perfect viewing experience.
Film: 8
DVD: 8
Here’s Garland performing “Get Happy.” The number is the first part of the video though it does go on to show the film’s finale as well.
Pride and Prejudice
24 Jan 2010 1 Comment
in Unseen DVD's Tags: Colin Firth, Jane Austen, Jennifer Ehle, Pride and Prejudice
The cover of the box set.
I’ve seen the Knightley version countless times and the more familiar I became with that version, the more apprehensive I was to watch this one. Though the BBC version and Firth’s performance as Darcy are highly acclaimed, I feared my familiarity with the 2005 version would hinder my enjoyment. Indeed, as I moved through each hour, I constantly compared them. The Knightley version has a sort of breathless passion. The story is modified to focus on the emotions and make them stronger. There is a modern feel to the film that rejects some of the repression so present in Austen’s novel. The most remarkable moment in that film comes during the first proposal scene when, after Elizabeth declares she would never marry Darcy, their sexual tension nearly erupts and they briefly move in for a kiss before regaining their composure. Such a moment would be preposterous in the BBC version.
Likely because of its longer running time, the Firth version is a far more faithful and therefore sexually repressed adaptation. The film moves at the same pace as the novel, slowly meandering towards the final resolution. Where the Knightley version shows Elizabeth and Darcy’s love as an ever-present and electric passion, the Firth version shows the gradual development of a deep love. Both films are undeniably romantic, but they portray different conceptions of romance. Where the more recent version portrays the couple as being in denial of their attraction, the earlier version paints it as something that gradually develops as they become acquainted. The love that grows between the characters changes them for the better.
Unlike the equivalent moment in the later version, the conversation during which the couple finally admits their love is basically unchanged from the novel. They simply walk along the road divulging everything they feel for each other in a wonderful release of emotion. They acknowledge their prejudices explain how their feelings have changed. There is no physical contact, but their excitement and love are no less obvious. In fact, they may be even more keenly felt because it has taken so long to say the words.
As to the DVD extras, they are very disappointing which is hardly surprising considering the film was released in 1995 before DVD’s became so popular. The only extra is a 26-minute documentary on the film’s production that doesn’t offer nearly enough insight into the making. So viewers will have to rely on Firth and Ehle’s considerable chemistry to keep them interested. And that’s actually not a problem.
Film: 7.5
DVD: 3
Origami Week 3
23 Jan 2010 2 Comments
Cat, Dog, Frog and Hummingbird
Project 1 is a cat puppet, which is cute sure, but I’m not a big cat fan in the first place. I’m allergic and I sort of see them as the Animal Kingdom’s most obnoxious subject. They shed everywhere, there’s the constant threat of scratching, they’re not big on being lovey-dovey and in a fire there’s absolutely no hope that they can save me. Moreover, the puppet itself wasn’t that great. If I didn’t have to draw the face, it wouldn’t even look like a cat. As I mentioned before, I have no problem cutting origami, thought that’s strictly against the original meaning, but drawing on them feels like cheating. I’m making an origami not a doodle damn it.
Project 2 is more tolerable with a dog that actually sort of looks like a dog even without the face drawn on it.
Project 3 is a frog puppet that I really didn’t like and probably won’t make again. I had to cut the eyes from another piece of paper and glue them on. Not okay. As I said above, I don’t like adding extra stuff because it’s like cheating. Plus if I didn’t know it was supposed to be a frog, I wouldn’t know what the hell it was.
Project 4 is not a finger puppet, but a hummingbird and is perhaps my favorite project so far. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while since it looked pretty challenging because of the accordion fold, which is basically just folding the paper back and forth in opposite directions to give it that jagged look. I was supposed to use a ruler to make each folded section a certain length, but I don’t care that much so I just went for it. I must say, I’m rather pleased with the results and it’s actually rather beautiful.
However, I sort of lied earlier when I said there were only four projects this week. Every few weekends, one project is singled out as a component for a larger weekend project. I technically should have made a bunch of hummingbirds, stuck some rhinestones on them and made plant ornaments. I have a number of problems with the idea. First of all, the hummingbirds’ delicate beauty is both ruined and cheapened by rhinestones. I refuse to do it. Second, I don’t want to fill my room with origami projects. I’m not some old lady doing arts and crafts. So every once in a while I will do one of the weekend projects, but only those that don’t make me feel pathetic.
Addendum: As per the request of a reader, I’m going to post the directions for the hummingbird so everyone can give it a try. Hope you enjoy.
Origami Week 2
17 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
Canoe, Bench, Envelope, Penguin in Boat
However, Wednesday’s completed project blew my mind. It’s the figure at the top right of the photo. It’s a bench. I’m all for little structures that stand up and a bench is just so damn impressive. Forget the crane, I want a piece of furniture. Though the design stands better with slightly thicker paper the concept is still great.
Thursday was just as interesting with an envelope. What a great Birthday card that would make. All you need to do is buy some nice paper and voila, buying a gift card looks so much less lazy because you MADE the envelope. The one issue with the design is the fact that a regular piece of 8.5 x 11 paper produces an envelope that wouldn’t accommodate anything much larger than a gift card. Something like a CD or a photograph for instance, would require a much larger piece of paper. That certainly won’t stop me from trying though.
Saturday and Sunday made up for that crappy canoe earlier in the week with a penguin in a boat. Now I’m not sure why a penguin would need a boat, but my guess is that the calendar just can’t go a full week without including some kind of bird. I mean I made like four birds last week.
Overall, great week. I actually learned to make something semi-useful. Certainly can’t complain about that.
Die Another Day
16 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in Unseen DVD's Tags: Die Another Day, Halle Berry, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan
As I mentioned in my last post on Fist of Fury, I have about 14 Bond films on the agenda. Except Quantum of Solace, which I almost refuse to buy, I own every film in the series. A few years ago, I read all 14 of Ian Fleming’s original novels on Agent 007. I went into the project expecting the books to be just as campy as the films, but Fleming’s novels, though often outlandish, never entirely leave the realm of believability. Bond is also a far more complex character in the books than the ass-kicking, lothario persona he has in most films. The books create empathy for the character rather than the strict admiration bred by the films.
I received the Bond films as a Christmas present in the fancy Collector’s Edition boxes. Knowing that people would only buy certain boxes if the boxes were chronological, the manufacturers combined universally panned film like On Her Majesty’s Secret Service with classic Connery vehicles like Thunderball. Since the boxes aren’t in chronological order, I don’t feel obliged to watch them in that order. Instead, I’ll pick and choose as I please. This week I chose to watch the only Pierce Brosnan as Bond film I’ve never seen, Die Another Day.
One of the original posters for the film.
In a feeble attempt to give the character a darker edge, Bond begins the film as a prisoner in a North Korean prison suffering torture for 14 months. After being released in a prisoner trade, he is suspected of betraying secrets and loses his Double-0 status. Basically forced to go rogue, Bond goes in search of the man he was traded for, Zao, or as I’ll be calling him, Diamond Face, to discover who betrayed him in North Korea. This first leads him to Cuba where he encounters Jinx, played by Halle Berry, whom he quickly beds. There he discovers not only that Jinx is also an agent, but that Diamond Face is working for a wealthy entrepreneur by the name of Gustav Graves, played by Toby Stephens. Following Graves eventually leads Bond to Iceland where he, big surprise, sees Jinx again and also flirts with fellow MI6 agent Miranda Frost, Rosamund Pike in her film début. From there he takes down Graves and gets the girl, blah, blah, blah. You can guess the rest.
Besides having a pretty insipid story, Die Another Day actually wasn’t as unbearable as I expected it to be. The action sequences really are quite impressive. The initial hovercraft chase in North Korea is very exciting and really very innovative. Director Lee Tamahori cuts the scene quite well and really has a gift for using the landscape as part of the scene. Tamahori shows a similar skill in using landscape in the spectacular car chase on ice later in the film. The sequence, mostly filmed on a frozen lake in Iceland, is very exciting. The drivers come dangerously close to hitting the large glaciers and the whole scene is remarkable. In fact, all of the action sequences in the film are very exciting and they nearly save it.
However, the story is so boring and unsurprising that the film ultimately fails. The plot’s twists and turns seem to exist not out of an attempt to make an interesting story, but because the previous 19 films have made them necessary. We know one of the women will betray Bond even before it happens because it has in half of the other films. We know Bond will bed both women no matter how much resistance they show because that’s what he does. We know Graves will turn out to have a history with Bond because it’s more shocking that way. The list goes on and on. However, none of what is supposed to be surprising actually is because it’s all been done before.
The film constantly refers to Bond’s past greatness, but never achieves that same level. In perhaps the most desperate attempt to link the film to the good ol’ days is Berry’s first appearance in a bikini with a knife tied to her side. The image is a clear reference to Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder, the very first Bond girl. Berry and the rest of the cast do what they can with their underdeveloped characters, but none of them can save the dismal story. By the end of the film, it’s clear why it took four years to release another Bond film and why the character had to be completely rewritten.
Film: 5
DVD: 6
Fist of Fury
13 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in Unseen DVD's Tags: Bruce Lee, Fist of Fury, Jackie Chan
Well, I’ve done a count and I have nearly 60 films to watch for this project. With so many things to choose from, including fourteen Bond films, I started with something I’ve been meaning to watch since I took a class on Hong Kong Cinema last semester. For those of you who’ve never seen an HK film, I suggest you go out immediately and watch one. They’re a bit hard to find on DVD, but they’re absolutely worth it. The most easily accessible are probably the ’80s Jackie Chan films like Rumble in the Bronx and any of the Police Story movies. However, there are also the films of Bruce Lee-though Enter the Dragon may not quite be considered one since it was co-produced by Warner Brothers. Of the films I’ve seen, The Way of the Dragon is by far the best and even features a cameo by Chuck Norris. Norris’s cameo is great because it not only destroys all the “Chuck Norris Jokes” about how he’s unbeatable, but he is so damn hairy it looks like he’s wearing a sweater. It’s hilarious.
Bruce Lee showing Jackie Chan who's boss.
After Lee’s death, in attempts to make money off his name for just a little longer, Golden Harvest, the production company who produced Lee’s films, often combined previously unused or recycled clips from his older films with lookalike actors with similar names. The most egregious example of this being Lee’s final film The Game of Death. Lee died after only filming the final climactic fight, which many critics think was his best, so the producers hired a lookalike and basically photoshopped the rest. Now considering this film was made in the late ’70s, I use photoshop as a euphemism for the way they literally pasted Lee’s face onto the film. It’s funny in a sort of horrifying way.
But I digress. Fury isn’t a bad film by any means. Lee expertly develops the theme of China’s struggle for power in the face of foreign influence, a motif throughout his films. The fights are incredible as always and Lee’s hard-hitting style is a wonder to behold. In one scene, he fights off at least 20 men by rolling around on the floor and hitting them in the ankles with nunchuks. Quentin Tarantino copies the moment almost exactly in Kill Bill Volume 1 when The Bride slices off men’s legs from the floor. The real problem I found was with the dubbing. I don’t understand the practice. It’s distracting and ruins the actors’ performances. I could have dealt with the dubbing if it weren’t for the egregious decision to also dub Lee’s signature battle cries. What’s the point? It’s just like putting Lee’s face on some other dude’s body. It’s fake and it’s sort of infuriatingly disrespectful. I absolutely encourage anybody who’s interested to search out the film. Just make sure there are subtitles.
Film: 7.5
DVD quality: 4
Origami Week 1
12 Jan 2010 1 Comment
Before I describe the delightful things I made this week, I just want to note something about the calendar I’m using. I don’t know how all this copyright madness works, but I want to give credit where it’s due. Supposedly the main artist is J. Cole, but there are apparently other contributors, many of whom are regular schmos who were inspired by previous calendars to make their own designs. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get up to that point, but who knows. Anyway, the name of the calendar is Easy Origami Fold-a-Day Calendar. I encourage anyone who’s interested to purchase a copy and fold along.
Look at all that space. So much promise.
Week 1 Creations
Day Three was a bit more intense with a dove that involved cutting out curved sections to represent feathers. Any cutting is a risky move and, as a friend of mine once pointed out, it’s actually cheating. Traditionally, the rules of origami dictate that only one sheet of paper can be used and the sheet must remain uncut. I’m the “rules are made to be broken” kind, so I have no problem cutting my dove’s feathers.
Day Four offered what I’m sure will be the first of many frustrating moments. Anyone who’s tried to fold origami from illustrated directions knows the frustration of having no idea how to get from step to step. One second you’ve got a triangle and the next you have a palm tree. It’s a hazard of the craft. Confusion with directions typically comes at the hazardous moment when you have to move that paper from the second to the third dimension. Luckily, my calendar has both illustrated and written directions.
Day Five is likely my favorite so far. I mean, it’s friggin’ raincoat. That’s just amazing. I laughed like a child when I saw that thing. It’s even got a fold for the little button flap. Just great.
Day Six was also pretty complex with a rather charming little parakeet. Still, when is a parakeet ever going to beat a raincoat? Never, that’s when.
Day Seven was a huge disappointment with a penguin that seemed far too simple after that damn sled. Look at that thing. I want to fall asleep just looking at it.
So Week One has been pretty fun. I’ll definitely practice a few of those so I can keep them in my mental origami repertoire. I’m looking forward to next week, but hopefully there won’t be so many birds. I’m going to start feeling like Tippi Hedren if I have to fold many more.
Two New Quests
11 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in The Year in Origami, Unseen DVD's
So now that the big bartending school piece is done and posted, you may be wondering what I’m going to do next. Or at least I hope someone cares that much. Anyway, in the next few days I’ll be starting two new quests. These aren’t as dense and hard-hitting as the last Quest I went on, but they are two quests nonetheless.
The first quest was sparked by a Christmas present from my Mom. I’ve always been a fan of origami so she bought me an origami-a-day calendar. Rather than post a picture each day, I’ll post one entry per week with all of that week’s projects. Now, I won’t be showing you every single thing they have me fold since sometimes it’s just a square folded in half. You’ll just get to see the finished product. Along the way, I’ll talk about the experience of folding them and maybe a little bit about the history of the art of Japanese paper-folding.
The second quest is something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. In case you couldn’t tell by my other blog (tunareview.blogspot.com) or my contributions to Movie-Thoughts.com, I’m a bit of a movie buff. I typically see at least one movie per week and when I don’t, I’m usually out buying DVD’s. My habit only worsened when I encountered the $10 sale at Virgin Megastore. That place was dangerous for me and I thought I’d have to kick the habit when it closed down, but then I discovered the $5.99 DVD Warehouse on Broadway between 11th and 12th. That place is like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. With DVD’s so cheap, I stopped buying only films that I’d already seen and moved on to films I’d missed in the theaters. Sure renting those movies would probably be a cheaper and safer bet, but why risk having to pay more money to buy it later when I could just watch it and then decide if it was worth the money. I haven’t counted yet, but I’m going to guess that I haven’t seen at least a good third of the films in my collection. So I’m going to watch every movie in my collection and write a tiny review/history of why I bought the film. At the moment, I plan to do one per week, but depending on how many films I have to get through, I might do more.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the bartending saga and I’m looking forward to starting these new quests.
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