The Rules and The Road Ahead

On the advice / request of a friend and coworker, I've decided to begin a blog about movies, which will surely be swallowed up and ignored considering the plethora of existing blogs, sites, indexes, databases, appendices, forums, tabloids, apps, comments and plain ol' guys named Phil who have something to say about movies.

(That was a fun run-on sentence; lets try for another.)

In order to attempt to set this blog apart from the others, I will now set some ground rules / goals / milestones:

I will review one movie per day

Just because I review one movie per day does not mean I am watching one per day. When I see a movie I have not seen before (new or otherwise), I will review that movie within the following two days. Otherwise, I will review movies from my personal collection. I will acknowledge which is true.

I will review films from my personal collection in the order in which they occur in my collection.  If I have not watched the film recently enough to be familiar, I will watch it again within a week of posting the review.

These may be widely known or not, popular or not, classic or not. They (most likely) will not be new movies.  The will be at least 800 words in length and no more than 1200.

Reviews will not be rated arbitrarily

The goal of the review will be to make recommendations for or against the movie being reviewed and for those related / alternative to the movie being reviewed.

Any ratings will be of specific aspects of a film (story, direction, performance, style) and only in comparison to other films with similar aspects.

I will post one (personal) "Top 5" list per week

Each list will be of a specific and narrow topic.  These topics may also be negative ("bottom 5"). I will post the topic of this list to both this blog and to other movie threads / forums one week prior to poll for the same list from other people.

I will attempt to include "YouTube" clips, images and "IMDB" links when possible.

This one is pretty much self explanatory.

Here we go.  See you tomorrow.