Busy Weekends

You know that time when you set some goals, let’s say like dieting, and then your weekends just suddenly become so full of parties where you eat and eat and eat?

Well, I just had me a weekend away from home to visit some friends waaaay way south of Manila (I’m in the Philippines, by the way) and by the time I got back Sunday late afternoon, I was thoroughly spent and all my mind could take in for the rest of the night were reruns of Friends. So, any hope to watch some movies was gone. But I’m not worried about it, I got until Friday to watch some. And oh, I already have my next movie after Get Carter. It’s another French short film, A Day in the Country or Partie de campagne (1936).

And like I said, I only got until Friday. Another busy weekend is coming up and this time, it’s a beach trip plus a Father’s Day celebration.

Here we go!

Number generators will decide my fate.

Okay. Now that my first movie is out of the way, it’s time to put some spin into this challenge.

As I’ve said, I will not be following the list’s order nor their chronological sequence. Instead, I’ll be using online number generators as a sort of lottery to decide which movie I shall watch next.

I’ll be using this list that assigned numbers to all the movies in the 2012 edition of the book (I love the internet) and watch the movie whose number is up.

So…time to spin the wheel!

My next movie is… (generating a number)

No. 563!

And that is… (looking through the list)

Ah ha!

The Ten Commandments directed by Cecil B. DeMille (1956)

Interesting.

Well, time to grab another microwave cheese popcorn. Yum!

Hmm…at this rate, my next blog will probably be about losing all the weight I’ll probably gain during this challenge, huh?

*putting down the popcorn*

Hello, celery sticks!

LOL!

Who am I kidding? Bring on the popcorn!

The Challenge.

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2012 Edition)

Movies have always been both a source of comfort and stress for me. Comfort because when I watch the right kind of movie that suits my taste or current need, it helps me feel elated, inspired and just plain happy. Stress because I’m easily affected and films about murder or horror simply drive me to the wall. Also, I’m a “judge-the-movie-by-its-poster” kind of audience. If I don’t see anyone I recognize or I don’t like the general look of the poster, I don’t watch it.

This is a habit I’m willing to break.

You see, I love movies. I think the movie is one of the greatest achievements of man, aside from books. A movie can create a world on its own and take you through stories and lives in a way that no other media can.

Sadly, I find that nowadays, great movies are hard to come by, movies worth watching, movies that let you take away something worth taking away, worth remembering, worth keeping in your heart. Exactly how do you find them in the midst of movies that make you lose hope in art and creativity?

Enter the book: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

I know. Some of the movies in here might not live up to the standard I’m setting. But I wouldn’t know that until I watch them one by one.

So here is the challenge: Watch all the movies in the list.

Just to warn you now, I have commitment issues with things like this so this is also an attempt to break that disheartening sickness. If I do stop part way, you’re very much welcome to curse my ass off because I’ll be doing the same. 🙂

Also, I’m putting this out there now, this is not a movie review site. I have exactly no idea what this is yet, but wherever it takes me, I only hope it’s somewhere good.

On to the first movie!

(loading up on my microwave cheese popcorn)