(Not) 100 Movies

So I was watching Die Hard a few weeks ago -- about two days after I announced the whole 100 Movies thing, and I realized, "This movie easily makes my top 100." And then I thought about how many movies I don't have on my list yet, and the fact that it would probably take me over a year to post all 100 entries. By then, my list will have changed. Movies I post about one week may not even be on the list six weeks later, and by the end, I'll probably have added a lot of additional movies to the list.

Not to mention I have other projects going that are more important. So I'm going to put "100 Movies" on hold for now.

What have I been doing on this month-long hiatus? Editing. If you've been following Disposing Dwight, you'll be glad to hear that in the past week I've edited over three minutes, and it's turning out a lot better than I originally hoped. I still need to shoot the additional scenes I missed in June, and I'm also compiling a list of extra shots I need for the scenes I already have. Right now the list is about a page long, ranging from "Timmy smiles, eyes twinkling" to "the head explodes on the pavement, blood and brain splattering everywhere (in slow-motion)".

I'm also writing a few more things -- I finally got around to putting ACMD on paper. It's a script my friend and I have been developing for about four months. We finally finished a pretty solid outline and now we're moving on to writing the actual story. I'm just barely into it so far, but once I get rolling I should be able to knock out the first draft in a couple weeks. It's something I hope to film someday, but we'll see... it all comes down to the budget.

Anyway, I'm trying to get Disposing Dwight wrapped so I can move on to another project. I hope to shoot another film this June, the same month we shot Dwight. I'm not sure what it'll be yet, but it'll be much more ambitious, which means I'll need all previous films totally finished so I can give more attention to my new film.

That's all for now... Couple reviews coming soon, maybe, among other things. I'll post a rough scene from Disposing Dwight soon so you guys can see my progress so far.

100 Movies...

So over the past two weeks I compiled a Top 100 list of my favorite movies... ever. Not the greatest movies, just the ones I get the most personal enjoyment out of. The list ranges from to Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon to Batman: The Movie starring Adam West.

My point is, it’s a pretty random assortment of I like, so I figured I’d share the list and hopefully introduce new viewers to some of my all time favorites.

But I didn’t just want to post a list of a hundred movie titles. I wanted to explain why you need to see them -- what I saw in them that made them good enough for my Top 100.

So for the next 50-100 weeks, I’ll have 1 or 2 posts a week featuring an item from my list (in no particular order).

That’s also important -- no particular order. Meaning, this isn’t a “best to worst” or “worst to best”. It’s totally random. So if you see Lawrence of Arabia right next to Pirates of the Caribbean, don’t burn me alive.

That said, I think I will save the last 5 posts for my top 5 movies. What will they be? You’ll have to wait 84 weeks to find out....

Some of these may seem like obvious choices, but then there may be a few surprises. Not to mention, there may be some notable omissions that just didn’t make the cut. I'll post Part 1 Monday.

This made the cut.