Thus, Once More, It Begins

There is no hiding it. In fact if you are reading this you already know it full and well to be true. I have started a film blog. Again. If you were reading this without knowing it to be true, now you certainly do. If you are still confused now may be the time to jump ship. It is only downhill from here on in.

As introductions go it is hard to know which questions to be answering in the sense that I don't know which questions you are asking in the first place. If any.

You tell me. Why ARE you reading this?

Is it because you like films? Is it because you like me? Is it because you love the witty play on words that make up the title? Thanks, I am quite proud of it. You see it rhymes with my name but it also say its my view like my opinion but also like my view like its what I viewed. Multi-layered. Like an onion. A cultural onion. That still makes you cry.

Well regardless to the reason why you are reading this, it doesn't matter because I am not writing this for you. I am writing it for me. If I was to write this for anyone else I would have to write it to their standards. And their whims. This is about me digesting my visual consumption and laying my response out for all to see.

I refuse to be a slave to a whim. In fact that is going to be the first rule of the Hugh's Views Manifesto. Because I just decided there is going to be a Hugh's Views Manifesto. I can do that. It is as follows.

• Never be a slave to a whim.

• Create things at a moments notice if you feel like it. Like, for instance, a manifesto.
• Never put much research in to what these things are before you create them. Like, for instance, a manifesto. Is this a manifesto? I think so.
• Write what you feel like writing, when you feel like writing it.
• Never promise reviews of certain things at certain times.
• Feel free to only go and watch things that you want see unless someone has a good reason to compel you to do otherwise.
• Feel free to offer views on anything other than films, just because you feel like it. See above.
• Just because someone doesn't agree with what you say, doesn't make you wrong. They just don't get it.
• Just because someone doesn't believe what you say doesn't make it false, belief has no bearing on objective truth.
• Feel free to veer in to largely unconsidered pseudo philosophical nonsense on a moments notice.
• Try not to do it too much though, it will just come across as pretentious.
• When you can't think of anything to say, feel free to write a bullet point list of the first things that come to your head. Like when your at school and doing an exam and you're all like you run out of time to finish the exam when really you just didn't revise enough and then you're like 'I’m just gonna answer in bullet points because its better to get something down' when really its not and you fail anyway.
• You are not failing if you weren't trying in the first place.
• If you were trying but ending up failing anyway, its perfectly o.k to act you were never really trying in the first place. And everyone that tries sucks. Cos trying is for suckers. And jive ass turkeys.
• Feel free to use you own notions of grammar, vocabulary and especially sentence structure.
• Ramble to your hearts content.
• Always follow the manifesto.
• Always feel free to contradict yourself.

So this is the basic outlay that I may or may not be sticking to on a regular or irregular basis. I genuinely will be just rambling off thoughts in a semi-constrained stream of consciousness at least for the initial period. Thankfully though I am putting up a review at the same time as this which, given the nature of blogs, you are likely to have already read before you get to this so no doubt you will have your mind already made up.

Just remember, you have nothing to lose if you choose Hugh's Views.

That is obviously not true but I like it as a sentiment. It means I am not completely wasting my time...