A New Beginning

Okay, so it's been a while since I've had a blog that wasn't the occasional rant on MySpace, so this is a little weird for me. Put let me get to the point - this is a new blog by me, Andrew Keck a.k.a. Cocky Keck, as a sort of movie review blog. It's definitely similar to one that I had my freshman year of college but this time I'll include movies that are old, new in theatres or just came out on DVD. The purpose of these reviews are so that you, my friends, can easily access my thoughts on particular movies that I have seen.

I know that most of my friends hold me in high regards as far as my thoughts on movies. I'll admit, I do a significant amount of research in looking up multiple reviews on movies I would like to see or have heard very good things about, so that I already have a good idea as to whether or not a movie should be good. As I have stated previously, the point of THIS blog is for you to check out what I think, and do with it what you will.

I'm not going to claim that I'm original with this blog. I'm not going to claim that I came up with the particular layout that I'm going to use to review the movies. In fact, I'll attribute the layout right now to ArrowInThe Head.com, my favorite horror movie review website. And with that said, here is how the layout of my reviews will be:

PLOT
This will be a short blurb that basically sums up the idea of the movie.

REVIEW
This will be the main review of the movie as a whole - the plot, the look, the feel, the characters, how I felt, etc. This will be the longest part of the review.

ACTING
This section will be my take on how the actors/actresses did in the movie, like how I may have thought Mark Walhberg did in "The Departed" or how Gerard Butler did in "300".

DIRECTING
This section will obviously be for how I felt the director did with the movie - how it looked from a cinematography sort of stand and how he/she did in getting the most from their actors/actresses.

RATING REASON
This section will be reserved for discussing why a particular movie was rated a particular reason by the MPAA. More or less, I'll tell you how much sex, nudity, violence and language there was in the movie in this section. Hell in all honesty this may be the key indicator in whether or not you see the movie at all!

THE FINAL WORD
Like the section's name says, this will be my final thoughts on the movie. This will include my rating of the movie based on a four star rating system. 'Nuff said.

TRIVIA
The last section will contain a couple of little tidbits on the movie that I've found either through magazines or on the internet that I find interesting.

So there it is! That's how the reviews will go down, and I'll probably start my new reviews this weekend when I plan on seeing "TMNT" and "The Hills Have Eyes 2". Or I'll start by randomly putting some up on movies I recently saw like "300" and "Dead Silence". I hope you enjoy. And if I haven't posted anything in a while and you're getting annoyed, let me know at www.myspace.com/cockykeck or here. Also, so you know, I own a Mac Powerbook which means that my web browser is a little different and I can't italicize or underline words, which is why all movie titles will be in quotation marks. Peace.