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| Why
Movie Hell? |
Because it's catchy.
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| So
you actually enjoy seeing all those bad movies? |
Most of them.
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| What
about the annoying audiences? The mind-numbing
trailers?? Those thin multiplex walls??? |
Like I said, Movie Hell.
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| Which
theaters do you recommend? |
Consult this
chart.
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| Which
theaters, like, suck? |
It's a sliding scale. Since the
Raleigh Grande opened, most of the multiplexes in the area have
cleaned up their acts. Some of the smaller art houses,
like the Chelsea, can get a bit cramped at times.
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| You
like that word, don't you? |
Heh. You said suck.
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| When
and where is Movie Hell distributed? |
Reviews are posted to triangle.movies
and rec.arts.movies.current-films on an
as-written basis, usually two or three times a week. Copies of
older reviews can also be found floating all over the Web, on
various archive sites.
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| Can
I get on your mailing list? |
Sorry, but no. I don't have the
resources to maintain a mailing list for the general public.
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| What's
with all the different Web addresses? |
My movie site resides at http://www.moviehell.com.
My personal page, however, resides at http://www.legeros.com.
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| Who
pays you to see all these movies? |
Nobody. The closest thing I see
to currency are when the studios print their press passes on
green paper.
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| What
do you do in real life? |
Teach, design instruction, maintain
intranet Web sites, and provide internal user support at a
software company in Cary, North Carolina. In addition to
watching crappy movies, my hobbies include head-banging, rock
drumming, partner dancing, die-cast emergency vehicle
collecting, fire truck-chasing, and, occasionally, impersonating
Elvis.
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| How
long have you been writing reviews? |
Since 1986, when I started submitting
reviews to the North Carolina State University
"Technician."
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| What
was the first review you ever wrote? |
Aliens, if I'm not
mistaken. And I liked it!
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| Where
else have your reviews appeared? |
For a while, I wrote fifty-word blurbs
for the Raleigh Fire Department's cable access channel. I
was also a frequent contributor to Talk Back, a short-lived
feature in the "News and Observer." Free passes
were handed out for that one.
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| What
are your credentials? |
I took a film course in college.
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| Why
aren't your reviews shorter/longer/more formal/less formal? |
Because that's how I
choose to write them.
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| What
else do you write? |
Essays, travelogues, True Fire Stories,
Notes From the Single Life, and more. See www.legeros.com.
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| Are
you affiliated with any groups or other sites? |
My reviews are indexed by The
Movie Review Query Engine. And I'm a member
of the Online Film Critics
Society.
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| How
many times do you watch a movie? |
Usually only once. During
the summer, I try to catch some of the budget busters a second
time, to see from the ground level what I missed from the top of
the rollercoaster. And, now and then, I'll show up at the
$1.50 cinema.
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| When
do you watch a movie? |
With the exception of sneak previews,
the first flick of the week is usually viewed on Friday.
Second showing, in the afternoon. If a smaller film is
also opening on that day, I'll typically try to hit an art house
in the early evening. (Neither Friday nor Saturday night
is a pleasant time to visit the multiplex.) Saturday and
Sunday afternoon are good times, as is late Sunday or
Monday. For obvious reasons, flicks with kid appeal are
best viewed after 9:00...
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| Do
you have a favorite movie? |
Citizen Kane.
But seriously, if you checked my video shelf, you'd find copies
of Jaws, Hook, Young Frankenstein,
The Blues Brothers (both regular and
special edition), The Terminator, Trading
Places, Tootsie, Some Like it
Hot, The History of the World, Part 1, Dr.
Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb), Pulp Fiction, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, a
couple Miss Marple movies, the four Batman movies, and
Penelope Spherris' wonderful documentary The Decline of
Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years.
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| Why
don't you put "spoiler" warnings in front of your
reviews, to warn viewers of possibly revealed plot points? |
Because I don't reveal plot points that
are not Accepted General Knowledge. If they're shown in,
or easily inferred from, the ads or the trailers or TV review
shows, I'm not going to worry about warning people.
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| Do
you give away story secrets? Or twist endings?? |
No. Nor do I think that
it's fair for a reviewer to say "oh, there's a twist at the
end, but I'm not going to tell you what it is."
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| Do
you see every movie that comes out? |
No.
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| Do
you review every movie you see? |
Only the new releases.
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| Do
you review videos? |
Rarely.
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| What
do the letter grades F/A and W/O mean? |
The former is an F (or A as unintended
comedy); the latter is abbreviation for Walked Out.
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| You
actually walk out of movies? |
Don't you?
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| Finally,
are you giving anything back to the world with these reviews or
are you just using the Internet as a giant megaphone? |
I think of this technology as a virtual
sandbox. Anyone can come over and play. The more the
merrier. We'll talk movies, whine about theaters,
and light farts when nobody is looking.
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