Shock Treatment
As everyone has probably noticed by now, there's a new review up! This time out, I reviewed an all time fave of mine, the Wes Craven classic, Shocker
I gotta say, I was a little surprised at how long that went. I ended up typing a nearly 4500 word essay on a horror movie. I've made some issue with how long people like Spoony and Nostalgia Critic and the rest make their videos, and I almost feel like I owe them an apology, as I'm learning how hard it can be to sum up. I hope that even though the reviews are lengthy, that the images help break things up a bit, and I keep things light enough that it's not a chore. That's one thing I want to work on, unless people like the length. Since the movie was longer than Popcorn, it's no surprise this time out was longer. Especially since the plot is actually pretty complex and packed. Like I said in the review, the first third is nearly an entire movie's worth of plot itself.
While I wish it was shorter, I do like what I wrote, and think it turned out quite well. A few more images than I had planned, and there's still more I could've slipped in, trust me. However, I think 10 to 15 images is just about the right amount. Any less and the paragraphs clump together too much, and any more and it gets to be too many images versus text.
With the site now having more than one review, I've added a feature I wanted to do much earlier, but it seemed silly. There's a new page linked above called Movie Cover Gallery, and there you can browse through the various reviews via the DVD covers I scan in for each review. It's a nice visual alternative to find a review, while still keeping the reviews page itself intact.
Now, for a little bit of a warning. This review came out pretty quickly after the first one, and two weeks seems like a good buffer between reviews, both to not wait too long between reviews, and to give me a break after everything I do for a review.
However, November is going to be light. Every November for the past seven or eight years, I have participated in the National Novel Writing Month, where the challenge is put forth to try and write a 50,000 word story before the month ends. That's going to be drawing all my focus, so trying to find the word to watch a movie, take notes, make images, and write up a review will be tough. Especially with the length I seem to be falling into!
Never fear though, I have looked around, and found a movie that's a real turkey, and would be perfect to try and squeeze in for Thanksgiving time. So there won't be much reviewing for the next month, but I do have something lined up for the end of November.
And besides that, I'll still be posting the occasional journal entry, so the site won't be completely dead.
I hope you enjoy the review, and I'll see you in a month!
J
