Your "CHUD" New Years Resolutions

I'd like to participate in more threads about movies that came out before 1968.

I'm going to watch some original series Trek episodes (there are so many I haven't seen).

My New Year's resolution, which is the same as my CHUD resolution, is to see at least 100 movies a year. I failed this year, with only 90, but hopefully 2009 will be better.

Watch more shitty movies

Avoid any and all discussion of THE DARK KNIGHT.

Be more Crunk.

I'm finally using the Ignore system so that I don't get so hilariously mad at Litmus, McCartney et al.

Given how crunk* you already are, how could you possibly manage that?




* - I'm troubled by the fact that the spellchecker in Google Chrome doesn't recognize the word "crunk."

I nearly did a perfect spit-take from this one.

My resolution: Fuck more shit up older school. And watch more movies or something.

Perhaps post less random things. I dunno.

Post less and contribute more with what I do post.

Maybe keep up with Star Trekkin too.

I don't think you can hit 100% crunk. Cause, as they'll tell you, you could be 105% crunk just the same.

But to get there, I'm watching Berlin Alexanderplatz right now.

I think to most chewers, to most people, such as it is, I'm the guy who's seen a lot of movies. It took me a long time to realize that instead of there being a percentage of people like me, it's mostly just a few guys who really do want to explore the entirety of cinema as I do, that could be just as excited to watch The Crippled Masters as The Band Wagon, or as The Fanny Trilogy. Most people - if they love it - settle into a genre or whatever.

Then again, a lot of this has to do with free time and money, and the ability to dedicate hours upon hours to in some cases wasting your time and money, but still.

in 2008 I met Quentin Tarantino. Though I am pretty sure (though not positive) I have seen more Jean Renoir films than him, he's the Alpha and Omega when it comes to that thing to constantly be on the search for the new in the current and the old. It's easy for me to rest on the laurels of having seen more movies than the average bear, but if I'm not still on the lookout to watch Easy Living or Bigger than Life, or Party Girl, or Time Crimes, then I am not being Crunk enough. And I can always be more crunk.

Keep up the good work, Dre, and maybe someday you will earn the title "Captain Crunk."

I'm going to try to contribute more to some real film discussion.

I'm going to be meaner to most of you.

I'm going to do my part to disable the Fleed mythos. Also, I will summon Omega2 back into being. Unfortunately, this means sacrificing Ripoll to Pele.

Sorry, Pat.

I'd like to learn to read gooder.

My buttocks clench in anticipation.

I'll write more and be more constant with my posts. I'll also try to become more sophisticated with my sarcasm.

But we all know how new year's resolutions go.

I promise to keep the "Salma Hayek tit thread" well stocked.

I want to make a point of seeing more Asian cinema, along with revisiting some noir films.

I plan on participating in watch alongs and Chud movie group discussions as my schedule allows.

On my list to revisit again early this year: The Planet of the Apes (in anticipation of Devin's upcoming feature) saga, Leave her to Heaven, Dog Day Afternoon, and Double Indemnity.

Also, need to see the other 70% of movies I didn't see on Devin's top 15 list this year.

I resolve to get hooked up with a video rental source that actually has a reasonable number of the older and foreign movies I've been wanting see since reading about them on the boards here - that list is way too long right now. I guess that's a subset of the general "watch more movies" resolution, so just put a check next to my name in that column I guess.

I am going to watch fucking Star Trek TOS, beginning with "The Cage".

I wanna be a smarter and better poster. I wanna have enough knowledge where I feel comfortable jumping into the heady debates w/o feeling like I'm gonna come across like a simplistic tard.


And I want to develop one of my CHUD Draft stories into a film outline/script. If Rath wants to help, he is more than welcome.

I pledge to be 100% more annoying to all of the Texan Chewers about keeping the Alamo Drafthouse thread alive. I've let it slide for too long, now.

No more, kiddies.

I'm going to watch two movies a day. I am pretty sure I won't accomplish this, but when you consider my resolution for 2008 was to watch one movie a day, and I still watched more movies than I had in a long time, I think that this is a good step up.

My goal is to watch more movies. I think 08 was the year I watched the fewest in my life.

Make my wife see SEVEN SAMURAI. Shit's gonna happen this year.

Damn. Compared to Dre we're all fakin' the Crunk!!!

I hope to be more prolific (not to mention consistent) with my blogs.

That.

And maybe start to seriously get into Herzog. I've neglected him for too long.

Oh... And finally start buying DVDs again.

That's it.

Stop being Princess Kate.

Make fewer and better posts.

Make more and better DVD reviews.

If I found out that she was actually you Jake... I'd kill your skull with my deathin' hand.

1. Watch all the original Treks along with Devin's list.

2. Watch more french, urban, and pre-1965 films.

3. Desperately try to ignore Princess Kate.

This year I want to make it through 3 filmmaker's filmographies in total:

Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Ingmar Bergman

And then continue catching up on all of the movies of 2006-2007 that I missed while in France. I fully expect my Netflix queue to be good to me this year.

This.

Also, goddammit, this is the year I start watching The Wire and The Shield.

Write more DVD reviews for the site, and devote more time to knocking down that Netflix queue, which has been stocked up on hopeful goodness courtesy of you fine people.

I'm going to proofread my posts for spelling and grammatical errors, and I'm going to be more open-minded, more playful, and less judgmental.

EDIT: Also, I've resolved to write at least 200 words about every movie I see this year.

I've been having a hard time keeping up with the boards, but there is one thing I'd really like to do:

Get into a serious, researched, fact-based argument over in Politics. The kind of argument that makes a guy read the paper more carefully, give more consideration to his positions. Now that I'm finished with grad school (for the time being) and have settled into a job that, while exciting, isn't particularly intellectually taxing, I hope to find a sparring partner who'll help me stay sharp.

*shoves DaveB in FrankCobretti's direction*

I'm still a kid when it comes to this stuff, otherwise I'd be like "LOL ADD ME".

This was unreasonable. Setting a goal of a set number of movies, like 540 (because it's divisible by 9!), is a much better goal. That shakes out to 10 or so movies a week, and I can manage that.

I'm gonna do my best to watch more movies so that I can participate in more of the actual film discussion that goes on around here. I'm in the video games forum on here a lot so I want to try to even it all out a bit. I like to think that I try not to participate when I don't actually have anything to legitimately add, so so far so good on that. This is still my favorite place to be on the web.

I won't get so annoyed when a thread about a topless star is more popular than most of today's news items.

Convince my wife to watch the "Wire." All of it.

You're still flying commercial planes, yes? Please stay focused. I might be on one of them sumbitches.

I'm gonna attempt to visit the boards more often. I've been around long enough and haven't been all that active this year until just recently.

Read more books (some of which will be about films so it counts). I read more than most people I know anyway, but most people I know are illiterate cunts anyway, so there's always room for more.

Start writing DVD reviews, preferably for a website that'll send me freebies.

Watch all of the Herzog/Kinski boxset I got for Christmas.

Start and finish watching The Wire.

Watch every film covered by Chudsploitation.

Get a life. (This won't be helped by the other resolutions)

Encourage Dre to see the shit out of Easy Living.

I'd like to hit up the theaters more often, so I can actually participate in discussions for the films of 2009. Granted, I don't think anyone is expecting an amazing year because of the writer strike, but I'm sure we'll still get some good flicks.