Introduction.

Welcome to the TRUE silver screen junkie!
First timer doing this so I hope everyone can bear with me for the time being!

First off, I just want to say, I'm NO expert, no specialist, just a fan like the rest of you: up for healthy debate, up for healthy criticism, and open minded to EACH and EVERY single movie I have seen, or haven't seen but want to/or have a vested interest in.

Movies are my life, and I plan to be a part of them someday, somehow, but for now, all I can do is watch, and observe, just like the rest of you. I plan to give my utmost honest opinion on what I find to be true works of art, great adventures, great rides and hell, plain ol' simple cinematic achievements by everyone who's had the great oppurtunity to do so: good or bad!

Anytime I come across a film that's been viewed by the majority as "bad, terrible, unwatchable", well, I still think the production was lucky enough to even have a camera to capture moments, to even have an idea written on paper to be expressed visually, and to even have a director's chair at all! Just sitting on one at all would make me feel like hot shit anyway! And same goes for the GOOD movies we will mostly cover.

I must warn you though, I am quite sympathetic to all forms of art, particularly when it comes to motion pictures. Anything with creative value should be held with high praise, good or bad, it's the only way we can move forward as people creatively : someone sets the standard, and it's up to everyone else to match, or top it, this can lead to NO wrong. That's how I view movies. Every single director, no matter what movie you've seen throughout your entire lifetime. Every director sets out to make the greatest movie of all time; nobody settles for 2nd place, nobody settles for "well... at least people will see it somehow". Everyone in the industry sets out to make the best possible product they can: if it works out, great, and if it doesn't, at least they've tried. But it's the passion that drives us all : director, writer, actor, editor....even the guy who holds up the microphone! More importantly, the fan, the watcher, the person who PAYS to see scripted entertainment.

A reason I love to watch sports so much, it's that it is unscripted entertainment. The stage is set but whatever happens is determined by uncontrollable forces. When it comes to cinema, it IS controllable: by the writer, director, what have you, it's up to them to CREATE what they think is the extraordinary. They have the power to do so and it's up to us, the people, to determine whether they did a good job or not. It is an amazingly powerful feeling to determine if something is at the top of its industry or if it has failed miserably to accomplish what it was set out to do.

I will try my best to dish out my views on what I think should be mulled over as genius or eccentric; success or failure; and flat out enjoyable or missed the mark. I hope my views coincide with the majority of you and we can elaborate on them, and if they don't, let's discuss it! That's the beauty of it all!

Cheers!

The Silver Screen Junkie