Blog Intro

Blog Intro

It’s been a few years, but I’ve finally decided to get back into writing about, well, anything now. Not just dodgy movies but also good movies (hah!) books, games and any other topic that takes my fancy really. When I stopped updating the D Grade Bin I wanted to move into doing actual video reviews. That I think is unlikely to happen. As much as I like doing movie reviews, this is only ever going to be a hobby for me, and I just can’t spend that much time trying to film and edit a review. Not when I can return to the semi stream of consciousness ranting that I actually enjoy doing and can do quickly!

So how is this going to work? Well, as mentioned above now I’m really writing about anything that takes my fancy. In general though, content will probably appear as below:

1)      More bad movie rants. Exactly as they appeared over in the D Grade Bin. These were way too much fun to give up forever, and I don’t intend to take these seriously yet.

2)      Reviews of movies I consider good. Still doing the stream of consciousness stuff but likely to be less of a rant.

3)      Book reviews. Branching out now! Depending on my opinion, as above.

4)      Video Games. Mostly PC based. Same as above.

5)      Other. This could range from current affairs to history, to politics, or even writing on a topic by request. These are the ones that are going to get weird. Mostly because whilst they will be much less common than other posts, I’m going to try and put a lot more effort into them. So at least a book or two and some internet research, or more if the topic is something that’s really grabbed my interest.

These posts almost certainly aren’t going to be as amusing as my reviews, and are likely to cover reasonably serious topics. I’ll put up plenty of warning for those ones, mainly to cover off any content that might be upsetting to people. And to give you all plenty of warning to get your thinking caps on and seriously tear these posts apart (respectfully of course) – if you think my analysis is wrong, or worse, a point of information I used in order to reach a particular conclusion is wrong, I’d like to hear why. I like to hear this normally anyway, but for posts like these I consider such feedback to be vastly more important.

Enough of the serious stuff for now. In the next couple of days I’m going to put up a review of a move I consider to be of a higher quality than it had any right to be. The movie in question is Merantau, an Indonesian martial arts movie that started the career of Iko Uwais. A talented young man some of you may recognize primarily from The Raid and The Raid 2. It’s quite good and I’ll go over why in a few days.