MOVIES CAN BE LIFE CHANGING

MOVIES CAN BE LIFE CHANGING

Real movie fans live and breathe movies. Most fans lean toward a specific genre. Usually a genre that holds annual conventions, mainly sci-fi and horror. If I need to be profiled, then I guess I would be a horror guy. However, I’m more passionate about nostalgia. Movies I grew up on, movies that changed the face of cinema. Seems like yesterday’s movies are forgotten. Even fans that are older than me have completely ostricized the movies they grew up on. Fans these days simply keep up with current events, no matter how shitty it is.

I head in the other direction. I am real cynical about movies today, and am very picky about what I’m willing to watch. Being a collector, it’s rare I add a recent movie into my collection. The last time I was in a theater, was a year ago catching the anniversary of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” I do believe that movies are a generation thing. That movies represent the world when the movie was released (if that makes sense). Since I have nothing positive to say about American society these days, I have little connection with today’s movies.

Not sure if it exists, but few movie sites focus on being a fan. They focus on the negative, and even the personal lives of the cast and crew. I’m not interested in shit talking, and I’m not interested in gossip. I don’t care how bad a movie is. Most of the time, if a critic hates a movie, I’ll most likely love it. I don’t care who the cast and crew is fucking, and I don’t care if they got a DUI. I’m interested in the movie.

This blog is dedicated to the love of yesterdays movies. The VHS generation. The movies that made our childhood more tolerable. When practical effects ruled horror, and make up effects artists were more popular than the stars of the film. When movies knew when to laugh at themselves, that even a bad b-movie was still pretty good. Before movies looked like video games. I’m here simply to share my movie memories. I had a brutal childhood. I would go as far as to say I didn’t have a childhood. But the movies I saw growing up, gives me fond memories to relive.

When I turned 18, I worked for Tower Records/Video and earned a Tarantino style education, introducing me to movies that should never be forgotten. This blog will have a lot of things going on. Mainly reliving fond memories of the first time I saw movies I still love today. I will also discuss fun topics on certain actors and movies. There will be the occasional review. But only positive. I don’t see the point in wasting my time talking about a bad movie.

This blog is for real movie fans. Fans that fight to hold on to the movies that brightened they’re lives. That refuse to let a shitty remake erase a classic original. That still believe in building a library, rather than just streaming. That still gets excited when a rare movie gets a blu-ray release fully loaded with extras.

Real movie fans…This is for you.

– G.R.E.E.N.B.A.N.K.