Introduction

Let me start by saying "Hello". My name is Anthony and I am a recent college graduate from a University in Boston. I won't go into the details, but it's not any of the 2 or 3 you're thinking of. I graduated in May of 2009 and moved back home to Connecticut. Since then I have become a job searcher by day and a movie watcher by night.

I have always been an avid movie fan. I took a few cinema courses in college which only fed my hunger for watching movies. Being a math major, it was refreshing to have a break between Calculus and Numerical Analysis where I got to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off. However, now that I have an indefinite number of "days off", I have decided to start my very own blog...

I will be watching each and every movie on IMDB.com's list of the top 250 movies of all time. I will then write a review of each movie and post it here. In a perfect world, I would write about 5 reviews a week (yea, i have a lot of time on my hands here) which would mean this whole extravaganza would take about a year... but that's being optomistic. I mean, there's a chance I could get a (gulp) job, and that number could see a slight dip. We'll see how it goes...

So here are the details: I will watch every movie on the top 250 movies of all time list from "The Internet Movie Database" aka "IMDB". Now, as movies are being released everyday there is always some fluxuation on the list. New releases tend to be rated higher than they should because of all of their hype and end up making it to the list when they probably shouldn't. (For example, "(500) days of summer" is currently on the list which I doubt will last for very long). To attribute for the ebb and flow of public opinion, I will be going off of the top 250 list as of about 10:00PM on August 30th, 2009. I will review all 250 of these, and any movie that infiltrates the list from now until I have finished. As of this writing I have already seen exactly 75 of these movies which accounts for 30% of the entire list. I will watch all of these movies again so they are fresh in my mind as I write my reviews.

Now, anyone who says "You got this general idea from that movie Julie & Julia", is only like 37% correct. A few nights ago I was watching NBC's 30 Rock (which is a great show by the way). I came across an episode where Liz Lemon says something along the lines of "We decided to watch every movie on AFI's top 100 list but we only have "Star Wars" and "The Graduate" so we've been watching those 2 over and over." And as they say, "The rest is History"...

So set your phasers to "stun", activate the flux capacitor, and rev up my netflix account, because here... we... go...