SUMMER OF 51 FILMS! 2012! July 1-July 15

Last Summer, as part of a reply to a challenge, I watched 101 films I had never seen before in around two months. I want to write movie scripts but have missed out on a lot of classics and blockbusters over the years. It was in that moment that I decided to challenge myself to expand my pallet and discover what the big screen could do for me through DVDS, Bluray and Netflix!

Every time I watched a movie I posted a status update and once a week I posted a weekly roundup including all of the movies I had watched that week and a short blurb about each one.

This year, I decided to repeat the feat on a smaller scale by watching 51 films in the same amount of time. Unlike last year, I will be able to post my review blurbs on my blog (which didn't exist at the time) and share them with you.

Here are the first ten...

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1. Best Worst Movie (2009). 3/5. This was a clever concept for a documentary; the star of the cult-classic Troll 2, one of the worst films ever made, decided to make a documentary about the experience of himself and his co-stars becoming some-what famous in cult-movie circles for something they had been slightly embarrassed by for decades. Some of the actors get the joke and love the film's new place in cinema history, others seemed to be confused or didn't care, and then some like the director had mixed feelings; pride that the film has touched so many but angry at the jokes. In the end, its a bittersweet affair and I would've liked to see some more introspection of why this film has become a cult-classic film and what is the appeal of such a film.

WORD OF THE DAY! 7/15/12.

mash-up [mahs-uhp]

noun

1. Music Slang . A recording that combines vocal and instrumental tracks from two or more recordings.

2. Slang . A creative combination or mixing of content from different sources.

EX. A 3-D Pokemon game that mixes the personalities of hundreds of Pokemon characters that we've grown to love shrunk down into chibi bodies and the joy of collecting/customizing to be had in the delightfully laid-back world of Animal Crossing? Sounds like the easiest mash-up Nintendo would ever pull off and far more obvious than some of their more recent Pokemon mash-ups.

BONUS:  And how about a mash-up of a popular Summer hit and Star Wars dialogue?

STAR WARS CALL ME MAYBE!

MIXED BAG. KYLE'S B-DAY CARDS

I found this awesome trading card game generator that allows you to make your own cards, like the magic card above, for fun. I made 9 special cards for my friend's birthday partu and, if you've been checking out Planeswalkers of Midgard, you'd see the set I've been working on this summer.

If you're interested in making your own cards, check out the link below.

MAGIC SET EDITOR

You can check out the rest of the cards after the jump. If you're curious, the cards are based on various parts of my experiences with Kyle through Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, and other gaming over the year I've known him.

WORD OF THE DAY! 7/14/12.

blood-brothers/blood brothers [bluhd-bruhth-er]

noun

1. A person's brother by birth.

2. A male person bound to another by ties of great friendship.

3. Something usually associated with or thought to exist inseparably from another thing, quality, circumstance, etc.: Humility is often the blood brother of patience.

4. A male established in a close relationship with another male through the performance of a specific ritual, as the commingling of blood.

EX. Pets are rarely brothers by blood but I they tend to become blood-brothers, despite rivalry and shared contempt, in order to survive their confinement.