Introduction

Friends,
First, let me say I dig this font.

Second, let me dedicate this entire website to my favorite actor and humanitarian, Rick Ducommon. If you don't know him, stop reading and go watch The 'Burbs. Then watch Groundhog Day.

Ok, now you're back.

Hey.

How's it going?

How about that Bruce Dern?!?! Isn't he hilarious? And did you think that the Clopecks were going to be good or bad in the end? I was surprised. That's in my top 10 best movies ever by the way. If you don't dig The 'Burbs just get out of here. If you don't know who the Clopecks are, then you didn't watch the movie, and you're an asshole and I don't want you reading this. I should password protect it with some even more obscure reference to the movie.

Anyway, if you're still reading, then you must like The 'Burbs. That's awesome.

I like you.

A lot.

Well, let's get down to it. I'm Sean. As of this keystoke I'm 24 years old. I grew up in New York, moved to Boston for college, and then back to NY for good after. I like movies, I'm doing all I can to make a career out of those feelings. I find myself far too often feeling disinterested in conversations with people who don't like movies. Well actually it's not that. I don't care what you think of movies, as long as we're just talking about movies, and nothing else.

I don't want to talk about finance.

Or wars. Or who makes the best burger in Manhattan (J.G. Melon's). Or facebook and twitter.

Back to finance. I think it's really boring. I admit to having some friends who work in finance, but news guys--I probably like you less than my other friends.

I will want to talk to you more if we talk about movies, but I judge your opinions as stupid beyond the point of different tastes, then I will think less of you. I don't like when people speak of judging as a bad thing because judging is inherent to thinking and if one does not judge that just means they do not form opinions. One should only be criticized for judging when they formulate said judgment without the necessary information needed to form said opinion.

As the mighty Harlan Ellison says, "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion."

Two things about that are very important to this introduction. Everything here is my opinion. Nothing here is fact. Nothing is objective. It is all based on who I am and what I know. According to the above maxim, the degree of my entitlement is subject to the information I have. Therefore the amount of information I have is vital to the opinion I form. I will do my best to present both my full opinions, along with how and why I have come to those opinions. I'll most likely repeat this often, however, I'm saying it for the first time now--everything here is my opinion. Unless otherwise noted, please do not take it as anything more or anything less.

I'm going to talk mainly about movies, films, cinema, kino, pictures, whatever you want to call them. I'll talk about this, but I think that some are movies and some are films. There's a difference. I'm not going to straight up review them though. I want to consider it more of a discussion. I won't be the only one writing here, however, I hope that an actual discussion evolves within the comments section. I write to express myself, and I enjoy hearing how others respond to that and talking further. I'm going to write about new movies and old ones, but never just to tell you if it's good or not.

I had a teacher once (David Meyer, read his stuff on www.brooklynrail.org) who, after we watched a film, would have us go around the room answering what struck you? That's what I'm going to discuss. Whatever struck me about a film.

I hope you enjoy and read as consistently as I write. I encourage you to write back openly to me either in the comments section or on my email.

Keep it thorough,
Sean Glass
sglass@sdotstudios.com

P.S. Tell me if you know anything about formatting these pictures, they're giving me lots of trouble.