So if I ever decided to do it. How would I become a professional movie critic and make a living off of it? How would I become the next Roger Ebert? Well, for starters, I would need to get a degree in journalism and I need to study English and Grammar. I would like to go back to school and do that sometime, but I can’t right at this moment. I could however, try to write movie reviews for a local paper, that would be a pretty good start? Maybe for the Times Union or something?
Anyway, if nothing happens, at all, I’ll just continue to do what I do here on my site, talk about movies and review them. I still seem to be doing a good job talking about movies online, even though when I don’t get paid for it. I get a lot of positive feedback, people telling me that they love my movie discussions and reviews. People don’t just give me positive feedback on my movie reviews online. I get a lot of people telling me in person, and they say they follow all of my movie stuff. I’ve gotten a lot of people to watch movies they never heard and got people into watching TV shows ’cause of what I do on here and facebook. I even gotten a shout out by the Metroland years back ’cause of this stuff and they still support me to this day.
Hey, that’s another idea, I can send contributions to the Metroland, and maybe they would be up for it. I can submit my movie reviews to them and maybe they would get published on their Thursday papers. I’ll take that into consideration and give it a try. They’re big fans of my writing, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t want me to write articles to them. Maybe I can write a weekly movie column to the Metroland, that would be pretty cool.
How do I know so much about the movie industry?
Well, I’ve been a movie buff for years. Pretty much my whole life. I try to watch all the classics as much as I can and I try to watch all the new stuff as much as I can. I know who the directors are, even producers, and I know who all the actors are. I even know what goes on behind the scenes of films and how they make movies. I even do a lot of reading about the movie industry through books & magazines, the internet.
I’m just huge a lover of films, and Hollywood. I even wanted to get into screenwriting and film making myself a little, it’s true. I love talking about movies. I don’t feel ashamed of talking about nothing but movies to other people, and I’ll never get bored of it. I don’t feel bad at all collecting a lot of DVD’s and BluRays. Well, I haven’t been buying much DVD’s anymore since the BluRay market is so huge. I’ve been getting into BluRay more.
Movies has always been a huge part of my life. That’s why I was glad to visit Hollywood, California at one time, ’cause that was amazing to see all that. I got to see Hollywood Blvd, the Chinese Grauman Theater, the Walk of Fame, and the Hollywood Sign. All of it. That’s when I got big into Marilyn Monroe. While I love to watch all kinds of films pretty much everything. My most watched genres are action, horror, and drama films.
I need to be inspired. So I feel the need to learn about Hollywood and films as much as I could, every detail. The story, characters, the behind the scene stuff, etc. If you want to be a movie buff, you need to learn it all.
It’s part of the reason why I’m on twitter. There’s so many actors and directors with their own official twitter pages, they show off a lot of cool stuff and give you exclusive news.
Speaking of movies, I’m about to watch, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” tonight, a Netflix DVD rental. I watched, “The Bourne Legacy”, a few nights ago and it was actually pretty good.
Kev
Don’t forget finding a Literary agent. I had one recommended to me by another blogger, but no way am I ready for that kind of pressure. I have experienced the same thing on my Facebook, where I used to share a lot of my musical artist finds. Nobody ever liked them, but when I would talk to friends, they would always tell me they loved what I was sharing. I wanted to punch them in the nose, but it did justify what I was sharing, at least in my mind.