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"If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the 'National Enquirer.' Such vulgarity is healthy and safe." (Werner Herzog)
A Brief Introduction
Greetings. I had this really elaborate "Who Am I?" page up here before on the film.sm.to site that was coded by John and changed every time you reloaded it, which I thought was really funny and usurped the whole self-disclosure thing but no one else thought it was funny or 'got' it (I received a lot of perplexed e-mails, like 'I didn't know you were from Canada and majored in poetry' and I'd be like Huh?). I'll probably use it again, someplace else, in the future.
This time I'm just going to make it plan and simple. My name is Matt and these are my capsule reviews. I do not get paid to write them, so I'm an amateur - and yes, being an amateur (unpaid) is radically different from being a professional (paid). I write music reviews and concert reviews and get paid for them, so that's a different story. No, those reviews aren't on this site.
Here's how all this works: I watch a lot of the newer movies in the theater, but the time between me seeing them and writing about them and finally posting the capsules is easily three months. Why? I have a movie queue, and movies get added at the very bottom of the queue as soon as I see them. As they are posted, they are taken out of the top of the queue, and the rest are moved up. This gives me plenty of time to re-write the reviews, adjust the ratings, etc. I do consider it unfortunate that the capsules for these movies are so small - the films deserve more - but the prospect of writing a two-page review every day for every new film is daunting. The paragraph-a-film is just enough to get my (few) thoughts down and move on with the rest of my "life." I am often disappointed by the number of grammatical errors and spelling errors I find among the reviews, so please consider these little pieces to be works in progress (typically, I have a team of people two or even three other people scanning my work for errors and such, but for the movie reviews it's just me ... and I'm usually in a big hurry).
Regarding public opinion: Some people like my opinions and others think I'm a fucking asshole who should be flung from the Earth with a giant catapult. Some people wanted me to get rid of this site post haste and I was almost inclined to agree with them, but then I realized I like doing this and, with much technical help, changed the domain and forwarded all past links. "Why bother?" you ask. "Why not?" I respond. It goes on....
© Copyright 2008 Matthew Lotti.
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