I’ve spent the last three years and change updating this little website, which I enjoy thoroughly, that I’ve come to recognize after a lot of hard work will never be a money making venture. I’m more hopeful in one day getting a job writing for a bigger/more popular website that will be able to pay me for my words if I ever want to become the true definition of a professional. Until that day I will continue to spew my venom all over the internets through the vessel that is gmanreviews.
One aspect of film blogging that I’ve come to loath, and I guess this doesn’t have to be specified to film it’s just that since the majority of my RSS reader usage is for film blogs it just stands out to me, is the rumor mill. I get that people all do this because we love film. I do. However, does that mean that every whisper you hear over the internet, as long as you can pass off blame to a link on another website, and just clog up the internet with more and more chatter about some ridiculous news item that you’ll have to post about it not being true the next morning?
I like to be as well informed as the next guy, but honestly why do I need to read about Chris Pine rumoured to play RoboCop Lead? I get it. You get hits everytime you write an article with a certain actor’s name or film property in the title. If I were to just write Twilight: Breaking Dawn into the title of every post I make I might have a more popular website. However, I don’t. Why don’t I? Because it’s not worth the amount of facepalms that everyone makes everytime they read the title of the post. I’ve even gone so far as to just not believe a lot of the information posted on websites until I see a trailer saying “Directed by”, “Starring” and “Written by” so that I know all that’s been talked about actually ended up happening.
I mean, we’re all still waiting reading about ridiculous Ghostbuster 3 rumors and reboot chatter. I’m not trying to tell other websites how to run their publications, but at times you should use your brains and not waste people’s bandwidth with certain stories. Not everything is a need to know kind of story.
What’re your thoughts on this kind of practice in film blogging?
I don't like movie news very much either because it changes all the time. I can't keep up with some of the time. I would rather know that a movie is going to be made and just wait for it when it's set to be released.
I don't do movie news. I'm a critic and I write essays along with a few news of my own about my own blogs. That's all I want to do and that's it. I don't want to make things complicated by talking about things that is going around in the industry.
That's kind of how I try to operate… I feel trailers are a more concrete element of film production. From time to time I may be inspired to write my thoughts on a particular news item, but generally I try to avoid posting it here.