What?

Let's face it: I'm not an expert on film-making. I haven't taken any film-analysis classes. Mostly, I read reviews and film blogs (Roger Ebert & Eric D. Snider). And I watch a lot of movies.

Since I am not an official "critic" and in no way connected to film journalism, I'm not going to watch movies at the critic's screening. I'll be watching them later, at the cinema or on my computer/TV (Hulu, Netflix, local dvd rental, whatever). And I always read reviews before watching a movies. Reviews, IMDB, sometimes Wikipedia research and/or the Rotten Tomatoes rating. I rarely go "completely fresh" to watch a movie. So me attempting to write an unbiased, non-plagiarizing critical review of a movie is doomed to be a failure.

So here is what my attempt is going to be. I'll watch a movie the way I normally do - I watch the trailer before, read up articles on Film.com or Cinematical.com, read the reviews that get posted after the movie is released and then go to watch the movie. And after I watch it, I write how I felt the movie was, what I felt when/after I watched it, what I liked or hated and so on.

I'm only going to write about how the movie worked for ME. All opinions will be biased i.e Karan Johar will be made fun of, Adam Sandler movies & chic-flicks will be avoided, the good in RGV films will be highlighted, Tarantino's idol will be made out of clay and worshiped for 10 days every year. Let's see how it goes.