Stuicide

I love movie trailers. It’s my secret addiction. I don’t do it too often, but I’ll go on a spree of finding movie trailers for hours on end. I love the snack portion of entertainment that they give you. 2-3 minutes and they are trying to hook you. You can get a feel for the different characters and the way the director is. A well cut trailer will sell me on a movie I may not normally see.

I love movies more than any other type of entertainment, I have close to 300 dvd’s. Not a ton compared to some other people I know, but a good selection of movies that have captured my attention. I also dig the hour long tv shows like BattleStar Galactica, Heroes, and Lost. They make for mini-movies and you can flesh out a lot over the course of 20 episodes or so of 1 hour shows.

Stories are about a journey. Whether physical or mental, it’s about a transformation. Changing perspectives, coming full-circle. Ending up right where you began, but everything is different. The great movies are ones about self-realization, or Sport movies where they hook you with the underdog story. I don’t care how many times I see the same Sports movie stuff, I love it.

If anyone starts talking about the ending of a movie that ruined it, I just think about… how was the journey? Was that interesting? Did the characters evolve and change their perspective in any ways? Of course in some movies, it’s all about the conclusion. Figuring out the problem that you spent 2 hours trying to see who murdered who or what not.

One Sport Movie that has a great journey and a not so great Destination is Friday Night Lights. They fall one yard short of the touchdown, of the state championship, of greatness. But it’s ok. They played their hardest against a bigger team. They lost their star player at the beginning of the season. I liked that movie a lot.

Ok so I know my rambling was semi-incoherent but it’s a blog so deal with it. I’m trying to get back in the swing of things, because I love blogging, I just wish I had more free time.