I absolutely LOVE movies! The cinema is my art. I don't need Picasso, Da Vinci, or Van Gogh. I need Scorcese, Soderberg, and Tarantino.
I fell in love with movies when I was just a child. My parents raised me on great movies like Psycho, Stand By Me, and Star Wars. Since then, my brother has gone to film school where he majored in cinematography. When he was living here in Park City, he would volunteer every year at the Sundance Film Festival. I started to go to Sundance every year because of the celebrities, but then I really got involved with the films themselves. I am very much into Independent films. I think they come from brilliant minds, and it's a shame that these ideas rarely get to the big screen.
In my final year of college I took a film history class. I enjoyed viewing different genres of films and never would have imagined myself choosing to watch them on my own. I found half of the movies horribly dull, but the other half were very inspiring! The only part of that class that I didn't enjoy, were the discussions afterwards. I would usually skip out on these, but when I went, I didn't find them at all appealing. When I watch movies, I like to watch them for what they are. I don't like analyzing them or talking about where the story could have gone. Those are all opinions; opinions that change other's perspective on the overall theme of the film. That was the part of the class that ruined most of the movies for me.
Recently, my movie watching has decreased due to the fact that I am now full-time employed. I wish I could still get to the movie theater every week to see that #1 film in the country, but I just don't have the time, and when I do, I'm usually boozin'! That's just how I roll. My weeks in the office, staring at a computer all day, rely on much needed alcohol by Friday evening!
