Each and every week a lot of movies are released in cinemas. As someone who blogs about movies I would like to watch them all (as far as I’m interested in them), but there are tons of things preventing me to do so. I’m happy if I am able to go two or three times a month, but there are times that does not happen. As a movie blogger you would like to see them as soon as possible so you can join the conversation about it on other blogs. I guess it’s a bit like peer pressure. Now personally I am not someone who needs to have reviews of movies up as soon as possible (so for example if a movie comes out in Europe before the US I do not feel the need to have the review up the same night in order to get more readers). It made me wonder how you feel about it:
Do you feel pressure to watch movies as soon as they are released in order to blog about them?
If it’s a film I want to see on its opening weekend, I’ll see it yet there is the pressure to watch it immediately as it sort of sucks out of the fun of watching a film. I know that How to Train Your Dragon 2 and 22 Jump Street just opened this weekend and I want to see them but I wanted a break and I decided to see it this coming weekend so that the crowds wouldn’t be as crazy and there wouldn’t be as much pressure. Plus, the World Cup is happening right now as I needed a break from watching films and do all-nighters on reviews which was starting to happen as of late.
Yeah, it is about that excitement if it is a movie you were really looking forward to. But do you also review it as quickly as you can?
All nigthers doesn’t sound good if you don’t enjoy doing that…at the end of the day you blog for fun right?
I get to see some movies during press screening a few days before its release date so yeah in a way I’ll always see movies on opening weekend. But I don’t consider that being pressured into seeing them, if there’s a movie I don’t want to see, I’ll just skip the screening. I’ll only go see movies I most look forward to on opening weekends whether there’s a press screening for them or not.
That is a good option, so do you make sure you have the reviews up as quickly as possible then?
Yeah I would write up a review after I saw the movie.
Hi Nostra! Well since I’m on the Press List, I do have to blog about the new releases the week of its release or at least close to it. They’re not so demanding about it though, so I could wait a while if I need to.
Yeah, I have that with movies that arrive at home. They don’t say I’ll have to review the same week, but often there is a letter with them asking me to send the link, so that does put a bit of pressure on to make sure it doesn’t lay around for weeks or months.
No. I used to love watching films opening weekend in general. But with the new addiiton to the family my film watching at the theatre has dropped, and is almost non-existent for opening weekends.
I occassionaly get tickets to advance screenings. Those I make a great effort to watch and write about in advance.
I can imagine, I hardly get around to seeing movies during opening week as well. How is the little one doing?
Doing very well.
Thanks for asking.
There is a small bit of pressure. I would like to get my views out as fast as possible, but at the same time I am not on the press list, so everything watched in theaters (aside from the random time when my theater has screenings to people on its member list) comes out of my budget.
If it is a movie I have been anticipating for a while, I’ll go Thursday night or sometime that weekend. If it is a movie with mild anticipation/intrigue, I may wait a week or so and go during $5 Tuesday.
Great topic by the way!
Thanks! I don’t have the issue of having to pay a lot…we have a fixed price per month over here, so I can go to as many as I want…usually don’t have the time though unfortunately.
I guess that’s a good way to approach it. Understand that you feel a bit of pressure…but it is like that with other things as well.
Very interesting conversation. Ideally I would like to see the new releases that interest me ASAP so I can share my thoughts on them quickly. But honestly it isn’t something that I feel obligated to do. It also isn’t always realistic considering I am a 100+ mile round trip from a good theater.
Wow, that is dedication if you have to travel that far. I have 4 cinemas within a half hour drive (but then again everything here is pretty close by)