Welcome to the Campaign

I decided to take a journey today. The more I thought about it, I decided that it wasn't a journey, but a campaign. A campaign to bring people back to the roots of what made film an incredible industry in the first place. Not only to show that film was an incredible art form, but to show that that lost technique still exists today.

There is an overwhelming epidemic of poor judgement among theater goers and Netflix users in our world. We went from Casablanca and Gone With the Wind; to modern-day blockbusters like Twilight or Alex Cross. I'm not saying that all high budget blockbuster releases are bad movies. Far from it. Take a movie like The Dark Knight. Absolutely brilliant. But those gems are becoming fewer and fewer in our world. Being over come by cheap action and shitty rom-coms designed with no other purpose than to make a buck. That's not what film was designed for. This industry was created to be an artform. To create a living and lasting masterpiece that can control one's emotions for years to come. Actors stopped being actors and became speaking models. Writers were banished to the abyss while cheap scripts replaced them. Storytelling has become and ancient artform and acting a lost tool.

Films were made to be more. And I'm here, on this campaign, to prove that all hope is not lost. Yes, the classics will live forever and we should always cherish them. Performances like Brando's in On the Waterfront, and DeNiro's in Taxi Driver should never be forgotten or ignored. But, my mission is to find those gems that are still being produced today. I want to sift through all the makeup and the Hollywood and the bullshit, and discover film at it's truest form. I want to bring these works of art to light for everyone to enjoy. So we can all see that this culture, this true art form, is far from gone.

Now; to my mission. I'm going to watch a movie at least every other day, if not everyday. And, most of the time, it won't be something you've heard of. And, to add to the fun, I'm going to try to stick with movies on Netflix or in Redbox so that they are available and affordable for almost everyone to get ahold of. These wont be blockbusters, and they won't be classics. I'm going to start searching through the movies made in the last five years that people seem to overlook. Movies that are based around strong actors and compelling stories that no one has heard of because they didn't spend millions on advertising. Some of these movies may be awful, and I accept that I will run into that; it's the nature of the industry. But I'm going to find the recent films that stay true to the art. That attempt to bring the industry back to it's roots. Every film I watch, I'll write a review for you. My hope and prayer is that, when I find a movie worth your time, it will spread. That I will share it with you, and you will share it with your friends and family and so on. Hopefully, people will take what I have to say to heart, and see through the movies, to the films that are hidden underneath. We deserve better than what Hollywood is feeding us. And I'm making it my goal to see that our thematic needs are met. Art is still out there. Somewhere. Waiting to be found. So let's go find it. Take my hand,  and join me in the FilmRoots Campaign.