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This is supposed to be a site that cares about film. That loves movies. That wants to celebrate them. Should a site like that put the boot in to movies we don't like? We're not attempting to keep up with the latest cinema, DVD and blu-ray releases after all. We're not trying to guide anyone through the weekly churn of what's hot and what's not. Do you really need someone else to tell you that Transformers 1, 2 and 3 are large mountains of robo-cack? I don't think so. We simply want to talk about the films that we are passionate about. If that's the case then we should only stick to the one's we love...
...but hang on.
You can passionately dislike a film. You can be incandescent with hate at a movie and isn't that as valid a response to a film as loving it? The world is not rose-tinted and if people produce bad films they should be prepared to take the hits. Does not reviewing the bad ones takes something away from those that make a leap for greatness? "Here are the benchmarks and you my friend (I'm eyeballing Ghost Rider and almost any Nicholas Cage movie of the last decade right now) don't make it." Maybe diamonds shine brighter when they're surrounded by turds? Perhaps...perhaps the worse thing is to have no response at all. Maybe we're getting somewhere - ambivalence is out. Yes. If we can't rouse ourselves to more than a 'meh' it doesn't get in.
Still, I feel that there's enough rubbish out there and enough reviews gleefully stamping on stuff to not want to add to it. Is a bit of positivity such a bad thing? If it's rubbish then let it be rubbish and drift, eventually, into obscurity and the bargain basket at the local charity shop. Not reviewing something is as much of a statement as sharpening the knives. Anyway, our reviews aren't really reviews - we're not professionals at this. Our posts are thoughts scribbled out about how the film made us feel. We're not part of the PR campaign and neither are we trying to bring anyone down. I dunno...is wait and see a cop-out? It feels like one. What we decide will help shape what we do and say, so, so, so we need to make a decision I think.
Movies we love - in.
Movies we're forgetting we've watched as we're still watching them - out.
Movies that were alriiiiiight - out.
Movies that make us want to vomit with anger - in.
A better way of putting it is to say that if it matters to us to say something then we'll give it both barrels.
There, wasn't so hard was it?
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