So you’re finished with another hot summer day. You’re cool and refreshed, you have your snacks at hand, and you’ve turned on Turner Classic Movies to watch that favorite film of yours that you haven’t had the chance to see in decades. And then, as the minutes roll on…
Your nostalgia melts like a Sno-Cone in the summer sun, as the memories of that movie you treasured for ages suddenly devolve into, “What did I ever see in this thing?”
It’s happened to all of us. Some movies only get better with age, while others remain frozen in time, their once-vibrant charms faded like a reel of nitrate film left in an outhouse in the 1930’s.
Only by writing about this wrenching event can you regain power over your movie-watching experience. Hence…THE “MOVIES THAT HAVEN’T AGED WELL” BLOGATHON!!
We don’t want you to postpone this personal growth experience — there’s no time like the present! Right this wrong by writing about the movie that’s done you wrong. Then follow these steps:
* Post the writing at your blog.
* Go to the “Comments” section below, and post the name and URL of both your blog and the movie you’ve written about.
* Grab the banner shown at the top and bottom of this blog entry, and link it back to this URL. (Be sure to link it back to the URL that references this blogathon, not just our blog’s general URL!)
* As soon as we see your listing in the “Comments” section, we’ll link back to your blog for all the world to read your movie memoir!
Again, this blogathon is running right now, through Aug. 31, 2015. You don’t have to wait for some far-off date in the future — share your cathartic movie experience with our blog’s readers ASAP. If global warming is going to keep us trapped in our homes for the entire summer, let us at least make it count for our fellow film buffs!
Here are the blogathon entries thus far:
Movie Movie Blog Blog – His Girl Friday (1940)
BNoirDetour – A Clockwork Orange (1971 – WARNING: Review includes NSFW images)
Old Hollywood Films – Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Serendipitous Anachronisms – Rent (2005)
Almost Ginger – The Carry On film series (1958-1978)
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I’m so in. I may do Keeper of the Flame, but more possibly the gender roles in Crime of Passion. The Wild One is also a temptation, but not suited for my noir blog.
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Just let me know — I’ll be glad to have you aboard! And thanks for plugging the ‘thon at your blog!
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Strangely, I ended up writing on A Clockwork Orange!
Here’s my link: https://bnoirdetour.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/movies-that-havent-aged-well-blogathon-a-clockwork-orange-nsfw/
Note, a couple of images are NSFW.
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Reblogged this on bnoirdetour and commented:
Ooh, a new and tempting Blogathon from moviemovieblogblog!
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Hi Steve- Is it okay if I go with Rent from 2005?
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Works for me! Go for it!
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“No day but today” Rent is officially on board!
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Got it, thanks!
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My entry on Doctor Zhivago is ready to go: http://www.oldhollywoodfilms.com/2015/07/movies-that-havent-aged-well-dr-zhivago.html
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Got it! Thanks!
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Can I do Romanoff & Juliet?
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Sure, have at it!
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Hi Steve,
Can I do a post titled “The Absent presence of Ethel Barrymore in “The Paradine Case”. “Why Ethel’s diminished quantity in her screen time killed the movie?
Let me know if that will work??
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That’s fine! This blogathon is already open from now until the end of August, so just submit your entry within the next couple of weeks, and post the URL so that I can link to it. And thanks for participating!
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Ok. No problems. I will have the post ready by the end of next week or early the week after.
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Hello! I’d really like to do a post on a British comedy series called The Carry On films, they span from 1958-1978, is that okay? Thanks!
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Absolutely! Again, the blogathon is running right now through the end of August, so just write your entry and post its URL here so that I can link it! Thanks for your participation!
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Great idea. I’ll try to put something together in the few days I have left.
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Looking forward to your post! Please be sure to link the URL here!
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Here’s a link to my entry 🙂
http://almostginger.com/2015/08/27/the-movies-that-havent-aged-well-blogathon-the-carry-on-films/
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