Recovery Time

I really needed a break after that Alphabet Film Festival. I managed to spend the entirety of this past week trying to catch up on season finales of my favorite shows. However, now that I have distanced myself from the marathon of movies that I experienced, I can finally share a few highlights:

• I think the movies that will most stay with me are Days of Heaven and sex, lies, and videotape.
• If I were ever to sacrifice my soul to become a film director, my only purpose would be to make good movies that begin with the letters "q" and "x".
• No, really, The Quiet Man sucked.
• Movies on the cusp of greatness: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Full Metal Jacket, His Girl Friday, Malcolm X and y tu mama tambien.
• The drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket is one of the funniest characters in cinema history.
• Holocaust movies can very easily lose their relevance.
• I really shouldn't have made someone or something eat it for every movie I watched. I quickly ran out of ideas.
• I reluctantly learned to enjoy and appreciate horror movies although I'm still not a horror junkie. Horror movies are still only good when suspense is built from an unknown opponent.
• Crime movies also don't age well. White Heat was good but not great yet it was still more timely than Little Caesar and Key Largo.
• Edward G. Robinson is still the shit though.
• I can't seem to hate movies very easily. That's a good sign, right?

I think by the final stretch, I was really exhausted. In the midst of my Woody Allen marathon now, I'm liking the idea of just enjoying a movie instead of having to watch it. Until the next ridiculous idea of mine!