When I Passed On A Movie (and a Post)

I have been reminding myself that I have made some irrational, rash decisions to go to the movies. But tonight it's not that moment. Tonight (it's actually last week) it happened again. Tonight I passed on a movie. It's a really rare moment. So, I decided to write this down. CLICHE.
This definitely could be summed into 140 characters and end up on my twitter but who reads twitter anymore? The correct question actually would be who reads my blog?

I can only remember that it was last year when I passed on a movie. It was November 2013 and the film was Carrie starring Chloe Moretz and Judy Greer. It was a correct decision. Spot-on. The film turned out to be bad and completely forgettable when I saw it months later. But today, I passed on Interstellar. It is a big deal, because it is Interstellar. If you remember my post last year, about my now 8-year tradition, Interstellar has joined that club three weeks ago. Yeah, so this year that tradition of watching the same movie twice Godzilla and Interstellar. But what Interstellar is going to achieve is far bigger than that. It was going to enter the three-time club. The only movie I watched three times in the cinemas was Avatar but it was technically incorrect because I watched it all differently. The first time I saw Avatar was in 3D, then 2D and then about 9 months after that, the Special Edition. This is a very strange post to my blog actually. So I'm going to justify it by making a real post, a self-indulging post which had not seen the light of day since February 2014.

This post is one of them. A failed post. Let me walk through you to my other failed posts. This post is inspired by one of my favorite movie blogs: TheShiznit. If you have the time, go take a look at that blog.

Title: The Plagiarizing Spider-Man 2 
Premise: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is not the most original and inspired superhero movie. Of course. I was going to break it down almost scene by scene. Like how the first airplane crash scene was definitely a soft rip-off of The Dark Knight Rises. And yeah, I got that far.
Cause of Deletion: I guess The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was not big of a motivational push for me to finish the post. I have so many notes on this but I was too busy at the time, and by the time I was free, it was already irrelevant. Like how the movie might be so irrelevant in the next couple of years.
Consolation: Do check out the deleted scenes from that lackluster movie that runs more than 20 minutes. Some of the scenes definitely improved the movie like a lot.

Title: Mean Post
Premise: 2014 has a lot of disasters. And an unfortunately perfect movies that accompany those disasters. I had two in mind, but now I can only recall one. When the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared early this year, Non-Stop was the film that eerily has the same setting. I was hoping someone would do an inappropriate joke about how Liam Neeson should be on that plane but hey, look at Jason Biggs.
Cause of Deletion: Moral issues, duh. Look at that obviously self-aware planned title.
Consolation: I guess I discovered what a mean human being I am.

Titled: Rated: Wrong
Premise: I have seen a lot of movies and mostly got really excited by them. So excited that I was biased in my ratings. I've rated movies too high before, that list includes Edge of Tomorrow, Divergent, The Raid 2 and Furious 6. The only movie that I would rate higher is The Great Gatsby.
Cause of Deletion: I was going to do the whole revision of the blog which means at least a year's worth of review being re-rated. Lost interest.
Consolation: Regret and learning process

Title: Films That Sound Like A Joke But Are Actually Happening

Premise: The title says it all. The list includes Terminator Genisys (for obvious reasons), Jurassic World, Dawn of Justice, Ant Man, Shazam, the Star Wars spinoffs, and--let me prepare you for this--Jungle Book Origins. If future franchises are to be included, it's going to be the King Arthur shared universe and Universal Monster shared universe.
Cause of Deletion: It was never written actually. I just got to compile this list.
Consolation: Having the biggest laugh at Genisys and Jungle Book Origins, like Khaleesi in the pic there

Title: High Times at This Blog
Premise: Another selfish post about this very blog listing which post has the most hits. And that title is supposed to be a reference to Fast Times at Ridgemont High. What an epic fail.
Cause of Deletion: Lost interest
Consolation: I get to know my top 10 posts

Title: When I Passed on A Movie
Premise: You have just read the opening paragraphs of this post above. It's so bad that I couldn't continue and ended up doing this post.
Cause of Deletion: I was going to list all the movies I passed on but there isn't much.
Consolation: Writing this post whilst listening to Zimmer's stellar Interstellar score.