tek's films index page

Item Three: Links.
On the line below the title, I'll try to provide links to both official and unofficial sites, for reference. These may include The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), MovieTome, Rotten Tomatoes, and Wikipedia, whenever possible. (MovieTome has gone through a couple of changes over the years, so many old reviews contain links that need to be updated.) I may also occasionally include a link to a favored fansite. Official websites (by companies involved with a film's production, distribution, release, etc.) will sometimes be harder to find, particularly for older films. But I'll do what I can. Sometimes these will just be listed as "official website," other times I might call links "DVD site" or "theatrical site." (In some cases instead of "official" or "DVD," I may name the studio or company that distributes the film.)

Item Four: MPAA Ratings
I have changed my mind a few times about whether to include MPAA (or CARA) ratings in my reviews, but currently I'm thinking yes. So it'll take awhile to add this data to old reviews. Bear in mind that different countries have different ways of rating movies, but as I'm in America, I'm going with the American ratings. Of course, alot of movies are unrated. And alot of them have been released in different rated (or unrated) versions. So... I dunno; I guess some things I may not bother mentioning a rating for, if there are different versions (on the other hand I might possibly list it as whichever rating I happened to watch).

Item Five: Apologies & explanations
Believe me, there are a great many things about this whole project for which I feel the need to apologize. For example:

Item 5a.: I suck
Yeah, I'm no good at writing reviews. The most useful thing you're likely to find here is what rating I give a movie, and I'm rarely even sure about that, so even that's probably not very useful. So why do I bother with this whole project at all? Two words: obsessive-compulsion. Though... some of my reviews are actually much better than others.

Item 5b.: Opinions
Of course, anything I have to say about these movies (including my ratings), is merely my opinion. You all are completely entitled to your own opinions. You may completely disagree with some or all of what I have to say here. I don't mind, and I hope you won't mind, either.

Item 5c.: Memory
Since I don't trust my memory at all, I will generally try to refrain from making entries for many movies here unless I've seen them recently. Which is just as well, because I haven't the time for doing much work on this section of my homepage, anyway. So I'm afraid there are a great many movies I've seen in the past that I won't be able to write reviews of until such time as I rewatch them, which may be years off.

Item 5d.: Content
These pages will include movies which debuted in theaters or on video, to the best of my knowledge. Anyway... for TV movies, please see my TV reference pages. I may sometimes be mistaken about where to put a film, but I'll do the best I can.

Item Six: The royal "we"
I should say that I sometimes attempt to convey that I find some of the actresses or characters (including animated ones) in these movies attractive by saying that "we like them" or words to that general effect. Note the use of the royal "we" instead of "I," for no apparent reason, other perhaps than that I sometimes might like it to be clear that I am (or IMHO should be) far from alone in liking them. Or perhaps it's more that I feel guilty about even mentioning it, because it's so unimportant and not really part of what actually makes me like a movie. (In fact, it should also be noted that I may in some cases actually dislike a character, or even hate them; so saying "we like" them should never be taken too literally or personally.) ...Anyway, saying "we" instead of "I" is perhaps my little attempt to distance myself, to impersonalize my own attraction to somehow convey that, as I said, it doesn't matter. In fact if a movie is more about eye candy than anything else, that will tend to turn me off and make me like it less rather than more (although attractive characters can help me appreciate a movie a bit more, on a trivial level, provided generally- but not necessarily always- that their attractiveness is not terribly overt, and that it's essentially subordinate to other aspects of their character, and particularly to the story in general). And anyway, I'd hate to give the impression that I objectify women in any way. Because I don't. At all. Still, it's human nature to find people attractive, and some part of my psyche forces me, almost against my will, to make note of that fact, even if I try to distance myself from it in this odd manner. I should also note that usually if I say "I" like someone, it isn't about any kind of attraction, just... y'know, liking. Or whatever. Now leave me alone.

Item 6a: Disturbing myself
Like I said, I think saying "we" just sort of comforts me, in dealing with what I happen to find to be an uncomfortable situation (um... being human). I'm not comfortable with attraction in general. But while that may be bad enough, what's worse is that sometimes I find myself vaguely attracted to a character that I don't think I should be. Perhaps they're too young, or perhaps it's an animated character that's somewhat crudely or unrealistically drawn (and possibly too young, as well). Whatever... it can disturb me even more than attraction to characters (live or animated) that I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with being attracted to. Of course, mere attraction never means I have any interest in actually doing anything with anyone.... Sorry to ramble on, and to disturb you... But then, sometimes I just won't even bother mentioning that "we" like someone in my entries, in which case this entire paragraph is super superfluous. Sorry.

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