Generic greeting welcoming friends, family and strangers.
Brief biography of myself focusing on relationship with film and desire to write about it.
Statement about my intentions to publish my thoughts on the world of film (and maybe television) for everybody to see if they feel like finding them.
Notice of potential schedule for content posting with statement of intent to follow it.
Notice of individual feature setting blog apart from every other blog on the internet.
Heart felt but generic appreciation for reading with hope for continued readership into the future.
Quirky sign off.
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So hello.
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| Peter O'Toole in How to Steal a Million |
My name is Kyle Schurmann and after years of hearing from seemingly everybody I know that I should write about movies more than my brief Facebook posts and massive Schurmy post (if you don't know it, get excited for it, for it is a large something). I'm not a film student. I don't work in the film industry. I just watch a lot of movies and enjoy thinking about and analyzing them.
I'm hoping that this will provide a place for my to write about film in a sort of
free form jazz exploration focusing mainly on reviews and larger pieces. I currently have no intention to do any sort of commenting on movie industry news, box office takes, celebrity gossip or anything like that.
I am planning a lighter schedule to start and we'll see how it goes from there. I'll be beginning my blogging career with a review of every new Netflix Original Movie. Netflix's current schedule puts one or two new originals out every Friday so expect one or two reviews on the weekends. I'll also try and post a review of an older film in the middle of the week (let's aim for Wednesdays). I do have a plan for a semi-regular series examining the Academy Award for Best Picture of a year similar to AA Dowd's Palme Thurdays feature on the AV Club but am currently not sure on the scope or timeline of that one yet. Current mindset is to enlarge the scope to tackle more than the Best Picture nominees of a given year to really delve into the great cinema of that year instead of limiting myself to the Academy's choices.
A note before I start reviewing movies about my rating system. I only use 70% of a standard 10-point system.
10 - Absolute Masterpiece (eg Casablanca)
9 - Amazing Film (eg Moonlight) - Sometimes the difference between a 9 and a 10 is a certain "it" factor
8 - Great Film (eg The Bridge on the River Kwai)
7 - Good Film (eg Heat) - And somebody just found my comment system to yell at me
6 - Solid Film (eg Pretty Much Every Marvel Movie)
5 - Mediocre Film (eg Kong: Skull Island)
1 - Bad Film (eg Suicide Squad)
You may notice that I don't use 2, 3 or 4 and that is because I think life is too short to spend time dwelling on how bad a movie is. Does it really matter if something is really a 3/10 but I give it a 1/10. It's getting a negative review anyways.
I'm hoping to do this for the foreseeable future and I'm hoping that more than 2 of you will read this. But if only 2 of you end up regular readers (hi mom!) that's ok. I'm doing this more for myself as I would be watching and thinking about these movies anyways.
And I don't actually have a quirky sign off because I'm not creative enough for one so here's a picture of Warren Oates aiming a gun at the camera in
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
