jal90
04-19-13, 08:54 AM
What's up, people?
My username is jal90, which is basically formed by my initials + birth year. I am currently 22 and my birthday comes in three months.
I come from Spain (Europe). Which means that you will need to tolerate some very blatant expression and spelling flaws, because it's not my mother language and that will be specially noticeable in my use of phrasal verbs and synonyms. I hope it's not a big deal though, because I have an experience in other English language forums.
On the other hand, being Spanish means having a set of differences in terms of the cinema I am more exposed to. As much as I respected late Roger Ebert, his influence on film taste in Spain is relatively low, which means that many of his choices are way more well-known in the US than here (I'll take easy examples with Do the right thing, Kind hearts and coronets or Stand by me). I've also noticed certain patterns, for example the acknowledgement of Guy Maddin's work (who is almost unknown here), or the praise for Aguirre, the wrath of God (it's praised here too, but to a much lower level, I myself don't like it)... On the other hand, there are some Spanish directors who'll probably be quite unheard of (Berlanga, for example, who is my favorite).
These little cultural differences aside, it happens that my tastes are a strange mix of canon and oddities. Maybe due to my heavy exposition to classics in a very short amount of time, there's a quite varying range in my opinion of critically acclaimed films; I tend to agree though.
I tend to like everything or at least try to find its merit. I wouldn't be able to name a favorite genre, but what I can say is that I am very heavily into animation. Ghibli and Pixar are always there in my top lists, and I've watched a lot of stuff, movies, series (anime mostly, but I've always been a hardcore fan of The Simpsons and Futurama), short films... On the contrary, my live action experience is quite poor, but I'm trying to balance it.
So what am I doing here? Well, I don't have a solid reason. I found out about this site yesterday, during a random search. It looked interesting and here I am. Of course, I joined to talk about movies, but if there's any other thread that looks interesting, I'll be there.
That's all I think. I am still exploring the forums and the user features, but it seems like a very nice and friendly place :)
My username is jal90, which is basically formed by my initials + birth year. I am currently 22 and my birthday comes in three months.
I come from Spain (Europe). Which means that you will need to tolerate some very blatant expression and spelling flaws, because it's not my mother language and that will be specially noticeable in my use of phrasal verbs and synonyms. I hope it's not a big deal though, because I have an experience in other English language forums.
On the other hand, being Spanish means having a set of differences in terms of the cinema I am more exposed to. As much as I respected late Roger Ebert, his influence on film taste in Spain is relatively low, which means that many of his choices are way more well-known in the US than here (I'll take easy examples with Do the right thing, Kind hearts and coronets or Stand by me). I've also noticed certain patterns, for example the acknowledgement of Guy Maddin's work (who is almost unknown here), or the praise for Aguirre, the wrath of God (it's praised here too, but to a much lower level, I myself don't like it)... On the other hand, there are some Spanish directors who'll probably be quite unheard of (Berlanga, for example, who is my favorite).
These little cultural differences aside, it happens that my tastes are a strange mix of canon and oddities. Maybe due to my heavy exposition to classics in a very short amount of time, there's a quite varying range in my opinion of critically acclaimed films; I tend to agree though.
I tend to like everything or at least try to find its merit. I wouldn't be able to name a favorite genre, but what I can say is that I am very heavily into animation. Ghibli and Pixar are always there in my top lists, and I've watched a lot of stuff, movies, series (anime mostly, but I've always been a hardcore fan of The Simpsons and Futurama), short films... On the contrary, my live action experience is quite poor, but I'm trying to balance it.
So what am I doing here? Well, I don't have a solid reason. I found out about this site yesterday, during a random search. It looked interesting and here I am. Of course, I joined to talk about movies, but if there's any other thread that looks interesting, I'll be there.
That's all I think. I am still exploring the forums and the user features, but it seems like a very nice and friendly place :)