"Where we're going we don't need roads........."
Welcome to a brand new website dedicated to film News, Reviews, and Gossip.
On a cold rainy Wednesday afternoon with nothing better to do, DVD collection exhausted and the local multiplex an Incredible Journey away (and to be honest I didnt really want to go and see Madagascar with a dog and a siamese cat* thats a reference to the childhood favourite "The incredible Journey"), this site was created. But unfortuantely unlike all those great movie ideas, I didnt fall off a toilet and get an epiphany. "1.21 jiggawatts of power, or find a mosquito fossiled in amber and recreate it using the most advanced technolgy thus gestating into Michael Crichtons (albeit repetetive) head. Thinking about it though, that wasnt such a great idea, just a great film, and a great thought trail. Everytime I read that back it makes very little sense!!!
That film (Jurassic Park) is one of THE defining films for me. I'd always enjoyed watching movies BUT (and I hope for some of you aswell) there are those key moments sat in a darkened room (not them sort of moments) when you know that you are going to have some of your greatest experiences in front of that big white screen. I have broken them down into three key moments, a trilogy of sorts.
Terminator 2 : Judgement Day 1991
I was 12 when this movie changed my life (how dramatic, yet pathetic at the same time). The film was a 15, Arnold had been like a father to me, and I was going to the cinema with older friends. This required me to wear my brothers best shoes, smart clothes (it was the KRISS KROSS era so I was usually dressed back to front), actually do my hair, and speak in a deep grunting manner to indicate that they had actually dropped! What I saw, I wasnt expecting. It literally blew me away and during the course of it, I had felt as if the big man had uttered to me "Come with me, if you want to live"
Jurassic Park 1993
This was an era when media saturation hadnt shown you half of the film before it had actually opened. I was only aware of the T-rex leg photo and the iconic symbol and Im eternally grateful for that. I am also in debt to my parents who sent my brother and me to live with my Gran who resided opposite the multiplex, for two weeks. We saw it eight times that summer and each time it had the same effect, the raw, visceral feeling during the T-Rex attack that will never be bettered, the raptors in the kitchen sequence and John Williams' sweeping score. It was my Star Wars.
Back to the Future 2005
2005 you say? The scene was Greenwich Park along with a fellow geek (Birch), on the big screen, imagine a couple of thousand people singing the BTTF theme after a couple of Stellas? Enough said.
Enjoy the site. Feel free to contribute. This is Matt, founder member of the site........signing off...........
