I recently relocated to a new city for a summer internship. Since I won't be doing much in the evenings after I finish work and I like alone time after a tiring day more than anything, I was planning on watching a bunch of movies and tv shows. And write about them. But that hasn't been happening all that much (mainly because I get side-tracked like usual), and to make things worse, the internet in my sublease apartment stopped working. I guess I could set up my own wifi, but that seemed like too much hassle for just seven weeks I'll be here. So no internet in the house, other than my phone, which probably means I won't be blogging much over the summer, unless I start writing down reviews in a text file somewhere, like I am doing currently with this post.
But I do want to keep writing in this blog, I like talking about movies. The last few reviews I've written were a lot of fun to write.
The most exciting thing to happen, film-wise: during my first week here, I had the chance to see a special screening of Snowpiercer with the director Bong Joon Ho in attendance. Bong Joon Ho is my favourite film director ever, so it was a terribly exciting experience for me. And god, he is so intelligent and well-spoken, it was awesome. I even got his signature after the event. I usually don't get too starstruck (although that may be a lie, I might just pretend like I am not, while taking sneaky pics like everyone else), but man, Bong Joon Ho. He is my idol.
I even took some recordings of what he talked about at the Q&A after the Snowpiercer screening, so I might write up a post about that if I ever get around to it.
My intern place is actually only a block away from a neat little independent cinema, so I'm hoping to go there as much as I can every time there's an interesting movie playing.
And I guess a few things I've had on my mind - I wasn't sure how spoiler-y I should be with my reviews for this blog, and for the last few reviews, I've put spoiler warnings before the cut if there were any and tried to write spoiler-free movie reviews. But I don't think I'll be doing that anymore. From now on, this blog is going to be completely not spoiler free. It's incredibly difficult to write reviews on movies without going into specifics and plot points, and I assume people who are interested in reading movie reviews are people who have already seen the movie anyway. If you haven't seen a movie I review on this blog, just check out the star-rating I'll have before the cut and my one-line remark, which should be enough to let you know what I thought about the movie. If you are somehow here to see whether a movie is worth watching or not based on my opinion of it (although god knows why that'd be the case), that should really be enough. If you are here to read what I thought about a movie you've already seen, then me going through the movie with spoilers is probably more interesting, and maybe you can agree or disagree with me on things. Maybe we can work out confusing movies together. That'd be nice, no?
Anyway, I've seen a few movies since my last movie review, and perhaps I'll get to reviewing them, perhaps not.
I've also finished season 2 of Orange is the New Black, and finally got started on the latest season of Game of Thrones (two episodes in so far). Watched the first three episodes of the second season of Dancing9. I've also been meaning to watch more Korean dramas, Korean variety shows, and more tv shows on Netflix, but since my internet's down for next two months I guess that won't be happening.
Oh yeah, I finally caved in and subscribed to Netflix. Which really sucks because of this whole wifi-less situation. But I'll binge on that service in a bubble tea cafe every weekend day I'm not doing anything, and any weekday evening when I have enough energy to drag along my giant laptop to a cafe.
But I'm going to try to watch as many movies as I can, perhaps finally watch all the movies that have been sitting on my hard drive for the last 3+ years...
That's it for now!
