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The Internet is for Movie Fans
It's obvious, the Internet was made for movie fans.
After all, you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't a movie fan. See? I rest my case.
We can download trailers of forthcoming releases (maybe the Internet was in fact made for Star Wars® fans <g>); sound clips so we can warn all-comers that "I'll be back"; not to mention 101 photographs of our favourite dalmatians, erm I mean stars. We can even 'meet' those very stars in conference and, if it's our lucky day, actually have them answer one of our questions (woof!).
We can visit the now de rigueur official movie sites for all the background info on the big new releases. Or find out the info that the studio doesn't want us to know by reading the 'top secret' gossip and spoilers that always seem to leak out.
We can make up our monitors with movie related wallpaper, screensavers and desktop themes. We can virtually attend the Oscars®, then go and download the award-winning scripts and buy the video or DVD.
If that has given us aspirations we can attend on-line film-making or script-writing classes. If all we achieve in return are dodgy home videos of our family and a pile of "Thanks but no thanks" slips (or even more likely no acknowledgement at all) we can cheer ourselves up by entering some movie related competitions - someone has to win and it might as well be us.
Even more mundane info, like finding out what our local flea pit is showing, is just a click or two away.
However, for me, one thing about the whole web experience tops of all of those I've already mentioned. The chance to talk to others who love the whole movie experience as much as I do!
No longer do we have to bore our friends and family silly. Instead, through the wonders of the 'net, we can find other fans who actually know what we're talking about (and we can bore them silly instead <g>).
A whole new world of possibilities has opened up for us. No more mystifying the brain-dead guy behind the video counter with our descriptive talents when we can't remember a movie title. Now we can can ask our fellow fans if they recognise it, or search the Internet Movie Database
We get the chance to hear about films that may have slipped us by. I can't tell you how many films I have now seen, and come to love, purely because someone else on-line recommended them to me. Talking about a wide variety of movies you soon find others who share similar tastes to you. Whether you've a thing about dashing masked swordsmen or brain eating zombies, I can guarantee you'll find someone who thinks the same. If you don't, well maybe you shouldn't spend so much time with those zombies and should actually post a message or two on our messageboards. Remember people are not yet mind-readers, though sometimes I wonder...
We soon find out who shares similar tastes to us, so we learn to trust their recommendations. The views of 'real' movie goers and not some high paid TV or newspaper critic are what count. The Internet is just one big 'word of mouth' exchange, our small group of real-life friends expanded into a whole world's worth. When you think about it we are all 'critics', we all have our opinions and those are as important - if not more so - as those of the paid critics in their gilded cinema seats. The Web has given us a chance to shine. We can post our reviews on messageboards (such as the MovieForum.com one), chat about them in the myriad chatrooms available, or even go as far as creating our own webpages to display them on. They're there for anyone to read and you never know, you could go from being 'just' an on-line reviewer to something more - the sky's the limit !
There's just one problem about all this...
When do we actually find the time to watch movies instead of talking about them ??!!
Answers on a cyber postcard to the usual address...
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