One thing any MSTie should have in their heart is a love of movies. Not just good cinema, but if one doesn't have an appreciation for the misfires, one only appreciates half of what Mystery Science Theater 3000 has to offer. There are many out there who only want to see the finest cinema has to offer and bask in it. They can do what they want. Speaking for myself, personally, I want to see everything. I want to see what people can make. I want to see what people can do. And even if it's a spectacular failure, I want to look into a movie's heart and see what it's trying to accomplish, even if you'll forgive me for being snarky about it. I am a MSTie, after all.
Most people see cinema as an art gallery. I see cinema as a playground. I want to play on everything, ride each slide, experience each part of it, go from one part to something entirely different. I want difference in genre, style, and yes, even quality. To just concentrate on one thing is boring.
And thus, here is a new part of my blog, called My Cinema Playground. Here I offer small blurbs of the new films I get to see every week, while also offering up a new project called Oscar Bait & Switch, where I go through every Academy Award winner and contrast with the popular films of each year.
Cinema Playground Journal
2024: Week 1 (Night Swim, Some Other Woman, Weak Layers)
2024: Week 2 (American Fiction, Destroy All Neighbors, Role Play)
2024: Week 3 (The Beekeeper, The Book of Clarence, Cult Killer, Founder's Day, Freud's Last Sesson, I.S.S., Mean Girls, All of Us Strangers)
2024: Week 4 (Godzilla Minus One (Minus Color), Miller's Girl, Suitable Flesh)
2024: Week 5 (Argylle, Fitting In, Scrambled, The Zone of Interest, The Eternal Memory, Rustin, Society of the Snow)
2024: Week 6 (Lisa Frankenstein, Out of Darkness, The Teachers' Lounge, The Monk and the Gun, Skeletons in the Closet, May December)
2024: Week 7 (Bob Marley: One Love, Land of Bad, Madame Web, The Taste of Things, 20 Days in Mariupol, Oscar Nominated Shorts)
2024: Week 8 (Drive-Away Dolls, Ordinary Angels, Seagrass, The Stolen Valley, Stopmotion)
2024: Week 9 (Dune: Part Two, The Promised Land)
2024: Week 10 (Accidental Texan, Cabrini, Imaginary, Kung Fu Panda 4, The Peasants, Perfect Days)
2024: Week 11 (The American Society of Magical Negroes, Arthur the King, Knox Goes Away, Love Lies Bleeding, The Prank, Snack Shack, Thorns, Uproar, Driving Madeleine, One Life)
Oscar Bait & Switch
Vol. 1: 1927-1928 - "A Tale of Two Best Pictures"
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