Welcome to our little Blog!

WELCOME, WELCOME! COME ONE, COME ALL, TO THE OFFICIAL MCWATTERS MOVIE BLOG!

This has been a long time coming and we are very excited to finally get this going. This didn’t just come out of the blue either. We have been asked by many of our friends, “why don’t you two blog about the crazy/awful/laughably bad movies you watch on a daily basis?” Now when we get asked this, we can excitedly reply “we do, we do!!”

Just in case you aren’t familiar with us, let me give you a little background about us. Tom and I are a happy little family of 2 who just moved into our first house. Over the past 7 years that we have been together, we have not had cable; (Neither of us had cable before we lived together either, but let’s just focus on the time after we met, because nothing really matters before that anyway.) and since regular TV has gone digital, we haven’t even had our local channels. I know this seems crazy. The thought of not having any TV channels makes many of my friends and family members want to go running for the hills, but Tom and I have gotten by just fine with our movie/TV show on DVD collection. Since we moved into our new home (we have been there for about 3 weeks now) we did add cable to our internet bill, but honestly we have only watched it twice since we’ve gotten it. Our cable box even broke a week after we got it. Tom had it switched out for a new one, but we still aren’t watching it. We should really just cancel the cable. It is just not meant to be for us.

Due to our non-TV watching lifestyle, we have accumulated an impressive (or I think it is impressive anyway) collection of movies and TV shows on both DVD and VHS. Yes, you read that right, we still watch VHS tapes. We need something to pass the time. This collection is so large that we have often thought of making rental cards for our friends who are always borrowing our movies. We are constantly hearing “we knew you would have that movie.”

We love that we have such a vast collection of media, but the quantity does cause 1 big problem. How do you organize a collection this size and still be able to find the exact movie you want to watch? We have tried different options over the years and have finally found a system that seems to be working so far. We tried to categorize by genre but found that the traditional genre categories really didn’t fit how we would categorize the movie. For example, one of our favorite movies of all time is the Stallone classic “Cobra” and traditionally it would be kept in the Action/Adventure section of your video rental store of old (isn’t it sad that they are obsolete?). Now “Cobra” is in fact an action movie complete with shoot outs and 1 really bad ass cop who doesn’t play by the rules, but we laugh our asses off every time we watch it and even quote it for comic relief in our daily lives. I think this makes it a comedy. The other possible genre that we could put this classic into would be a “Stallone” genre. Tom and I both agree that the movies of Sylvester Stallone deserve a genre all of their own.

Now do you see our dilemma? There is no way that we could possibly categorize our collection by genre. We also tried to organize alphabetically, which worked really well at first, and the movies that we hardly watched stayed in an easy to find order, but the most watched were always all over the place, and we are constantly adding more to our collection. It was just too much to keep up with because we don’t have an employee who waits around for us to finish a movie or buy some new ones and files them away, re-alphabetizes them, etc. So when we moved into the house 3 weeks ago, Tom got a brilliant idea and reorganized our entire collection according watching frequency. He put 3 free standing DVD stands near the TV, 1 for TV shows and the other 2 for movies. These stands currently hold our most frequently watched/favorites that we can’t go on without. He then filled 2 cubby like shelving units with the rest of our DVD collection. He has big plans to have book shelves in one of the spare bedrooms full of our VHS tapes, but that is a project that we have yet to tackle.

So know that you know a little about us, let’s get down to business. The purpose of this blog is a way of us to chronicle our movie watching. We want to give us our reviews, thoughts, comments, favorite moments and quotes. We watch a lot of movies from both our collection and from NetFilx that range all over genre wise, so there will be a big variety. We want to come up with some sort of ranking system that is more in depth, but until then we will use a basic 1-10 system. I really hope that you enjoy our commentary and find these movies as entertaining as we do.

P.S. Last night’s movies were Gamera with MST3K and Best in Show both on NetFlix watch instantly. Both were laugh out loud funny and my favorite line from Gamera was “fueled by hatred and water, the first slushy is born.”