Films, Films and More Films

January is ending pretty soon, and I just realized I've watched no less than 10 films in less than 30 days. Mind, this is likely a feeble number compared to some friends of mine who don't go a day without a movie (I do the same with music), but for me who used to have little patience sitting through a movie - as much as I love them - this is pretty big.

There are a couple o' reasons as to why January has been so full of film. First off, one of my subjects for this semester is Film Studies, which - to cut a long story short - practically obliges me to see 2 movies (short clips not included) once a week. And oh. There's also my new awesome routine of going out for an awesome movie after class every Wednesday for a movie with my awesome fwends. So yeah.

The movies shown by my lecturer have thus far either been hits or misses, which is inevitable since I've seen some of them before, and he doesn't stick to just one genre of course. Among some of the best I've seen in those otherwise butt-killing 3 hour classes are the Hitchcock classic 'Notorious', the Coppola classic 'The Godfather' and (I think) a Stone classic 'Natural Born Killers'.

Yeah, most of the stuff we've seen are iconic. Just 2 days ago the class was treated to the Psycho shower scene, and in The Godfather we all learned to fear the sentence 'I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." Brrrr.

All of this is made even cooler when you juxtapose it with the fact that the other source of my frequent movie-viewing comes from the cinema, which is filled with the latest releases. So you could say that if my diet was movie-based, it would be pretty healthy.

So what about the stuff that I've caught in theatres? Well, I was a little late to see it when it came out last year, but at the beginning of Jan I went ahead and finally watched the epicness that was Avatar. To this day, it continues to sell fast and sell out. And that Sam Worthington dude is looking to be one very blessed dude. His breakthrough role was in Terminator Salvation, and then came this. Next up, he's got the remake of The Clash of the Titans, and now rumour has it he's up for the role of Dracula. Now if he can keep his personality the down-t0-earth, nonsense-immune way it is, he will be Hollywood's next Big Leading Man.

Na'vi was then followed by Sherlock, which proved to be another piece of brilliance. I am happy to report that ever since that, the female quotient of my friends and I have officially become RDJ-mad (Iron Man and Natural Born Killers were the foundation-setters). And that Golden Globe! O' how deserving!

Both dramas were then followed by very light-hearted fare, namely - Old Dogs and The Tooth Fairy. Both have a couple things in common, aside from the genre: a) I went into both with little-to-no expectations and b) I went out laughing hyena-style from both.

Honestly, my taste in comedies have always ranged from, well, tasteful to just plain off-the-mark. But never mind that, because if it makes you laugh, it can't be that bad can it? So long as you don't expect a mind-blowing plot out of it.

That's all for January, and the coming months are just going to get better, thanks to the onset of Valentine's Day, Nine, Alice In Wonderland, Iron Man 2, Eclipse, Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief, The Wolfman...in short, 2010 is gonna be real goooooood.