December 4, 2012, - 2:16 am
Movie Coma Day: Where I Was & What I Saw Today
As many readers know, I’m a a longtime film critic for the SiriusXM Patriot Channel’s terrific morning show, “The Mike Church Show,” and you can hear my movie reviews on the show, every Friday morning between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. Eastern (in addition to reading them here on Fridays). Today, I spent hours and hours and hours in a movie theater watching special movie screenings put on by the Hollywood studios for members of the Detroit Film Critics Society (yes, membership has its privileges, including wasting valuable hours of life in a movie theater that you’ll never get back). It’s our annual all day screening day, which I call “Movie Coma Day.” I see so many movies, I’m in a movie coma by the end of the day. I was literally seeing movies from 10:00 a.m Eastern this morning until nearly Midnight. Five movies today, and at least two of them were were three hour sagas badly in need of bathroom break intermissions. One of them was the much buzzed about Bin Laden kill movie, “Zero Dark Thirty.”
I know it sounds like fun, but trust me, seeing every movie that comes out is work, NOT fun. While this is my choice and I’m not whining, I sit through a whole lot of dreck and miss a lot of hours of beautiful daylight just to see the few cinematic gems and warn you off of the rest. We have this annual movie day in order to vote on our annual choices as a major city movie critics group for the year’s best movies, actors, etc. Every major city has one of these movie critics groups, featuring mainstream media movie critics. (We also get many more movie screener DVDs in the mail that we are expected to watch and then cut up and throw out. You wouldn’t believe the number of DVDs I cut up and throw out–a ton of ’em.)
Below are the movies we saw today. Can you guess from the trailers which ones I liked and which I didn’t like? I’m not allowed to say until I review the movies on the date of their debuts. But you, my readers, are very, very good at guessing the answers to that question, which means I’m either very consistent or too predictable (I like to think a little bit of both is a good thing–you know what to expect from me, and I’m not coming out of left field, pun intended). Stay tuned for my reviews when the movies debut.
Again, can you guess which of these movies I liked, if any?:
* “Not Fade Away“:
* “Django Unchained“:
* “Les Miserables“:
* “Rust and Bone [De Rouille et D’os]“:
* “Zero Dark Thirty“:
Tags: Detroit Film Critics, Detroit Film Critics Society, DFCS, movie coma, movie coma day, Movie Reviews, movie screenings, trailers
I guess that you liked “Zero Dark” and “Les Miz”, hated the others.
DS_ROCKS! on December 4, 2012 at 2:48 am