Well as a first time blogger I'm laying everything on the table by telling you about myself. I'm a self-professed historian without a single clue about what I want to, just that I don't want to be absolutely poor doing it. I like learning new information especially on the subjects of history, movies, video games, and books, but as the days go by, it becomes difficult to satiate my hunger for knowledge. I work at Walgreens near my home but hate my job (especially the idea that I might be working their full-time once I leave school)
Ever since I can remember, I've always been fasacinated by film. The epicness of watching something that has had so much time and effort put into it. Doesn't matter what it was, as long as I was interested in it. As a grew, the amount of movies I've watched increased dramatically. I moved from watching horror films to more award winners and suddenly I was hooked and had to watch movies all the time. It has become somewhat of an obsession with me. I want to see movies and see if the critics are always right. Some guys may be obsessed with the NFL or the MLB, but for me its the Oscars and, to a certain degree, the Golden Globes (especially delighted with the prospects of Heath Ledger and Mickey Rourke winning the Oscars this year, they were fantastic in both "The Dark Knight" and "The Wrestler")
That is why I took this course because I felt that it could "broaden my horizons" and get me to watch films I might never have watched before, for instances "Borat" and "Mongol", both films I've heard about but never had time to watch before. Films that I might have passed over are now at my fingertips and there for my viewing pleasure. I hope for good things this semester and hope this course lives up to expectations (which I'm sure it will).
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Usually courses don't collapse under the weight of expectation until mid-February, so enjoy! No..... I hope the course keeps giving you what you're looking for. I think there's going to be a lot of good stuff for us to watch, read, and talk about. I look forward to reading more in your blog!
ReplyDeleteHaha. Dude, I am so with you. I think critics have a big crooked pole up their you know what. It's like people can't just enjoy a film anymore without feelign weird cause theyd don't agree with the critics. Come on! If you love Cheerios are you really going to become uneasy because you're best friend who's tried every cereal invented hates them? NO! Personal taste is just that, personal. I'll bet ya $20 Mongol kicks soem serious cinematic ass.
ReplyDeleteThe broadening horizons part of this class is actually the exact same reason that I decided to take it. I kind of think that we all have our heads so deep in books that we don't see whats around the peripherals. That is sort of why I believe that this class will be really good for us because we will get to watch the cinema element on top of reading. But seriously though, is "epicness" even a word? Actually I can see now that it isn't because of the little squiggly red line under it on my screen as I typed it. Let It Be Known.
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