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The Monday Question: Shame!

It’s Monday again, so I hope you had a great weekend. Mine has been pretty good as I managed to watch a couple of movies out of the IMDB top 250, which means I’m almost at my goal for this year of having seen 200 of them. This week’s Monday Question is about the movies you are not readily to admit that you actually like them, even though most critics will say that it was absolutely horrible, the so called guilty pleasures. Of course you shouldn’t be ashamed of loving a movie everyone else doesn’t seem to like and now is the time to speak up:

What are your guilty pleasure movies? Continue reading →

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The Monday Question: First!

If you are visiting my blog regularly I’m almost sure you love movies as much (or even more) as I do. Of course the love for movies is something you weren’t born with, it must have grown and have started somewhere. So this week the Monday Question is: What was the first movie you saw in the cinema and what impression did it leave on you? Continue reading →

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The Monday Question: Buy!

Hello everyone, the weekend is done again and today I had a question based on my experience this weekend.

Over the years the way I get my movies changed a lot. I would rent lot of them ever since the VHS tapes. I always loved taking my time and just look at all the spines to see if there were titles that looked interesting. I could easily spend more than an hour picking out movies. Not having any internet you didn’t have any idea if a movie was good, but through the years I perfected my choices. I usually could tell by the way the cover looked if a movie was worth watching. I didn’t buy too many movies yet, but once the DVD came out I started collecting. I was buying lots of them in specialist stores, which since have disappeared unfortunately.

The internet has made everything a lot easier and I buy most of my DVDs (haven’t made the leap to Blu Ray yet) online now. Since I still had some gift certificates I decided to go to the shop for a change and just take my time going through lots of DVDs to get some interesting ones. It really was a feeling which I missed and thoroughly enjoyed (I’ve added the movies I bought after the break). If Netflix ever is introduced here I think my habits would change even further.

This week’s question: Do you still buy movies and do you miss the days when you could spend ages selecting what to get? Continue reading →

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The Monday Question: Exit!

The Monday Question: Exit!

Each year hundreds of movies are released. Unfortunately not all of them are good movies. As a moviegoer you usually try to only see the good ones, but sometimes you think you are going to see a movie and will be utterly disappointed. A movie could be so bad that you can’t bear seeing the ending of it. This week’s Monday question: Which movies have you walked out of or were close to walking out of? Continue reading →

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The Monday Question: Reality!

Another Monday and you might have noticed the big banner on top. It is Documentary Week on My Filmviews. What does that mean? Well, all the reviews this week will be reviews of documentaries just to put a spotlight on this part of movie making as it seems they aren’t watched as much as other movies.

Personally I’m a big fan of them as I like mixing them up with my “normal movie” viewing. The feeling of watching a documentary is very different. I usually watch movies to escape reality. Documentaries though allow me to understand certain real world issues (like Inside Job making the global financial meltdown understandable) or give a fascinating look into something you never knew about. They can be very powerful and have impact on politics or corporations. Examples of this are the effect of Al Gore’s “An Incovenient Truth” on how people think about the environment, the fact that Morgan Spulock’s “Supersize Me” made McDonald’s remove its Supersize option from the menu and add a lot of healthier things or Michael Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine” resulting in Kmart stopping the sale of handgun ammunition at its stores.

This week’s question is: What are your favorite or must see documentaries? Continue reading →