First Entry

Hi

I started a blog. I don't know if i can keep up writing on a regular basis, but at least i started it on a subject i can talk lot's about. I'm Jero and live in the Netherlands, so if you see bad grammar just think how english isn't my native language.

I love movies. I don't spend much time going to cinema's watching them , but i have a nice and evergrowing collection of dvd's at home. From time to time i'll download a movie, if i can't wait for it to be released on dvd and there is a good dvd-rip out there somewhere. I need the movie to have a basic quality to enjoy it, so i won't download any ts or cam screeners. Downloading isn't illegal here, i don't feel guilty about downloading. In my opinion the movie business has grown thanks to the internet rather than suffered from it, but i'll discuss that some other time. This is just an introduction, and if i like the movie i downloaded it'll probably end up in my dvd collection soon anyway.

I love making lists and you'll be seeing a lot of them here. Perhaps they won't be ranked from 1 to 10. It's too hard to rank one movie over another if i feel they are both awesome. I'll start making a list of movies i realy liked, but you might not have seen yet. Nobody needs to tell you Pulp Fiction was good, the boxoffice did that for you. I'll list a few movies that didn't get the attention they deserverd, well... at least not in the Netherlands.

- Garden State. A movie made and starred by Zach Braff, with Natalie Portman. It's about a quiet actor comming home for his mother's funeral, where he meets a girl who seems to be the total opposite of himself.
Have you ever seen a movie when it ended you thought was just 'meh.' but you couldn't stop thinking about it? This is such a movie. It isn´t a complex movie but the subtle buildup and overall feel of the movie made me remember scenes and putting them with other scenes for 2 days after I watched it.

- Dark City. With Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connoly and Kiefer Sutherland.
I didn't take note of this film until 2004 or something. It was completely overshadowed by the promotions of The Matrix and Star Wars Episode 1. Normaly a movie will be released 6 month after it's released in the US, but for big budget films there's a worldwide premier, that's why i didn't see this beauty until 5 years later. I won't compare this to the Matrix, it's been done to often. I like both movies.

- Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang. With Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. Downey a failed criminal stumbles into an acting job for which he is flown to hollywood, where he meets a detective named Gay Perry (kilmer). I just heard the movie was good, not wat it was about. I can't compare any other movie to this one. The language, the humor, overall a great movie.

- Office Space. Without a doubt the best B movie i've ever seen. A computer programmer, Peter, is tired of his job. He visits a hypnotherapist who dies right after Peter is hypnotized. Peter starts to care less and less about his job and more about life, but the more he starts slacking off, the more he is appreciated for it at work.

I'll add some more movies when i think of them. For now, i got to get back to work.