Movie Reviews: Thoughts after Re-Watching

Index
* Bambi

* Berkeley in the Sixties,

* Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

* Elf

* Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,

* Home Alone

* Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

* House of Dracula

* House of Frankenstein

* Lady and the Tramp

* Lawrence of Arabia

* Rosa Luxemburg

* Sleeping Beauty (1959)

* The Devil's Whore (TV Miniseries)
* The Godfather

* The Jungle Book (1967)

* The Rutles

* West Side Story (1961),

* Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal (TV Movie)

So, ever since 2007, I've been diligently reviewing every movie I've watched on this blog.  Every one.  If I've watched it since 2007, there's a review of it up on this blog.

But so far, I've only applied this rule to movies I was seeing for the first time.  If I was re-watching a movie I'd already seen before, I didn't review it.

The primary reason for this was just to give myself a break.  I was already having trouble keeping up with my reviews of the new movies I was seeing, I couldn't possibly start adding reviews of movies I was re-watching.  (Exception--HERE).

Although many is the time that I've been tempted...

Often when I re-watch a movie on TV one night, I'm filled with thoughts and opinions.  Often nostalgic reminiscences of what this movie meant to me as a child or adolescent.  Or thoughts on how much the movie has aged since I first saw it.  Or thoughts on all the things I notice now that I never noticed before.  Et cetera, etc., etc.

Many times I thought to myself that I would like to start reviewing movies I've re-watched.  In fact it often seemed to me I'd have more intelligent commentary to say about movies I was re-watching than movies I was watching for the first time.  But therein also lies the danger.  (The more things I have to say, the more time I waste writing these blog posts.)

But since I've started video reviewing, it occurs to me I could actually do a video review quickly and painlessly.  (That 20 minutes I spend talking to the camera? Nothing compared to the hours it used to take me to write out a full review.  Especially back in the days when I was still doing long reviews.)

So, going forward, the new system is like this: if I see a movie for the first time, I'll give it my regular written review with a supplementary video review addendum.  If I happen to re-watch a movie I've already seen, I'll do a video review only.

Last year I started a "My Favorite Movies of All Time" video review project, and I've decided that that project will now be a subset of my more general "Thoughts on Re-Watching" project.

I'll keep the "thoughts on re-watching" movies indexed at the top of this post, and will also integrate them into my normal movie review index.  

The playlist for this project is HERE.