Script Rewrite, New name

FilmRelics is undergoing a script rewrite.  It will still be about movies–the older, the rarer, the indie, the promo budget challenged. But good movies no one knows about or have been forgotten or shelved dont just come out of the bargain bin at a discount store.

In the last year, the Redbox has really taken off around the States. Yes, grocery stores had movie vending boxes for the last decade but they were 3 or more very small companies. You couldn’t check a central site to see where a new release could be picked up if your closest box didn’t have what you wanted,  and though they collected your email address they didnt let you know about what was coming on “new release Tuesday”, you couldn’t reserve movies at a box for pickup, and you didnt get texts for free movies via your phone. Redbox has changed all of this, added concierge type intelligence to the “rent something recent for $1 a night” video movie industry.

And then there’s Netflix streaming and Netflix. I find it interesting that so many movies are made that few people ever hear about, and when its time for the video to be produced, apparently some go to the bargain bin, some go to redbox, some go to Netflix. I dont think I’ve ever seen a movie in all three at the same time or within a few months of each other.  The big name predictable, forgettable drivel, like fast food, is readily available.

In using both these alternative movie services, I noticed they too featured unadvertised, unpromoted movies, and even had some older films readily available for no particular reason. If I search for movies that should be on DVD from my grammar school years though, there is no guarantee of their availability; passage of time seems to mean nothing. I find it a shame that someone’s creative work is often sitting in licensing purgatory where no one will ever see it, it had its chance apparently when it was released, game over.

It was part of my motivation for this blog to share movies I recall that have obviously faded into obscurity that have common threads with new ones that come out just so the licensing demons can’t claim full victory in their mission to kill creative work’s very existence as they have in the past. As means to rent have broadened, I realized I needed to change the scope and the whole approach for this blog.  I realized that my posts should be much shorter so you the reader, can go watch said movies instead of reading my diatribe and spoilers on them, it takes away from the whole point of even doing this blog.

So, anyway, a script rewrite and complete reimagining is underway. The name of the blog is also changing to “Stories We Tell Ourselves”, and Filmrelics will be a secondary title…

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