So, you may remember that Justin from Today I Watched A Movie were in a competition for page views and I won! I had my best month ever and made it past 5,000 views for the month so I’m totally stoked. Thanks everyone that has visited and if you’ve visited more than once I may be in love with you. For his defeat, Justin has to watch a turd of a movie of my choosing, so stay tuned to his site for that and/or follow us both on Twitter (@watchesmovies and @todayiwatched) for our hijinx.
The other piece of news I wanted to share is that I’ve officially passed the 200 movie mark, I still have two more reviews to write, but that means I’ve got only 100 movies left for my goal in 2012. I think I can safely hit the 300 mark, so we’ll see how far I can go!
Lastly, a bit of a teaser for a blogathon that Misty from Cinema Scminema and I will be hosting sometime in the next month or so. The theme for the blogathon, you may be wondering? Nostalgia.
So, yesterday, I asked “what movie defines your childhood?” and that was leading people into thinking about things that would make them nostalgic. We all have movies from growing up that we love; The Goonies, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller, Karate Kid, etc. These movies are movies that many of us grew up watching and likely still have great memories of the movies as kids as well as adults. We want to focus on that nostalgic factor to films, but also films from your childhood that may not have been super popular or that you had a weird attachment to as a kid.
More details of Nostalgiathon will be forthcoming, so stay tuned, but start brainstorming now.
Great job on the views! Nostaligathon is a great word lol. Look forward to it. And psh, 200 is nothing. You can do 350! Go for it.
Thanks! I mentioned “nostalgiathon” as a joke and Misty was like “we should totally do that!!!”
I think next year I may shoot for 350…We’ll see.
366 right here
*bows to you*
I thought about doing it that way but logistically didn’t think I would make it
I love a blogathon. Hopefully it will take away the bitter taste of defeat
Awww
Justin needs a Hug
Nah I just need to try harder!
BUT IDEA! You two did a little contest last month… how about we all do something together this month? Doesn’t need to be a contest or anything. Maybe just a recurring theme or something. We all have very similar “goals” for our blogs, so why not?
Oooh
I’d like to see at least 20 films I’ve never seen before this month. Broadening my horizons, and what not.
How about every week, we all agree on a film (that’s easy-ish to find) and watch and review it. Each film needs to be something a little “different”, where as its not something we all usually review. Call it Expanding Our Horizons Sunday or something lol.
I really really really like that idea. A lot. Let’s do it!
Great! Once we get the “rules” in place we can all take a stroll down memory lane.
Love that. Let’s do it!
Congrats on winning the contest! (Sorry, Justin!) And yay for Nostalgiathon! Very excited.
Yay! Me too
Nostalgiathon YAY!!!
What are you going to make Justin watch (hint: take my suggestion)?
Woohooooo!
I wanted him to watch Juwanna Mann but I’m not sure if he can find it…
Remind me, what was your suggestion?
The 1963 version of Cleopatra. It was posted on YouTube as an addition to the new movies feature there. It’s the poorest received and the longest film to warrant a Best Picture nomination, which should say something.
Yeahhhh that’s right. I’ll keep it in mind, for sure.
Thanks! I’d like to see him review it lol
We should just have a “let’s torture Justin” blogathon
Or move this conversation to somewhere he can’t discover it and turn his back to us? haha
Hahaha
Way to win! You definitely deserve it.
And the nostalgiathon sounds like a fantastic idea. I’d love to participate!
I’m interested in the blogathon. Who does love nostalgia?
Sorry, I mean’t who doesn’t love nostalgia?
Tell him to watch Copper Mountain, trust ol’ David, he knows what he’s talking about
Hahaha oh god, that movie…
If he can’t find Juwanna Mann I don’t think he’d be able to find that one either.
Ha……I can track one down for him. Just because I am a nice guy
Congrats on your win, the more than 5000 views this month and the 200 movies watched so far in 2012! Pretty great milestones there! Looking forward to the Nostalgia blogathon!
Thanks! I’m looking forward to it too
Well done
Congrats man!!! Look forward to the secret blogathon!
By the way, my reviews got over 45,000 views for last month. In the last 3 days I got over 5,000. I see nothing wrong with either of your reviews, so come on now!
How long have you been at this?
Reviewing movies? 5 years, I’ve had different platforms here and there. When I first started, I started just doing these video movie reviews for Veoh.com. They literally called me up from LA and asked me if they could feature me week by week. Then I worked with Nudia.tv doing pretty much the same thing, I worked with people that worked on John and Kate plus 8, or whatever that was called. That sites now…a ghost town.
I then moved on to examiner last year, started out slow, but for the last few months I’ve been doing it daily and racking in views, after studying how, and getting paid. It pays for my cable so I’m good with that. And U-Verse TV isn’t cheap.
Yeah I just found your Examiner site. Pretty rad stuff.
Any tips? Haha
I’ll tell you what I told Justin. Stumble on stumblupon, every day, every review or post. It’s a gamble and sometimes you won’t get squat. But sometimes you will get 2,000 views in a day for one review. Tag your posts, genre, actors, year…whatever.
I’ll try that-already tagging things. I sometimes wonder if WordPress has a unique way of counting views too
How’d you find my Examiner? lol
Googled your email
ah yes, the infamous Google stalker’s tool haha
Haha yeah I’m on my iPhone app so the only info I have on the post is your email and name
Blogathon sounds great. Congrats on winning. You need a bad movie to pass on let me now. I know of plenty.
Haha thanks
Just look up Uwe Boll, nuff said. By the way if you want hits Reddit works pretty well for it sometimes.
I got nearly 800 hits in one day from Reddit right after I made the site but I don’t want to spam /r/movies too much
Understand that. I’ve noticed with Reddit that it is more recent stuff that does well on there. I usually drop something on there when it is a review to a newer movie.
Yeah I should do it more often. I do post in /r/ijustwatched a lot
I look into that. Just getting the hang of that site. That one and stumble upon seem to be a little confusing to use. Maybe I’m just getting old.
I know the feeling
Congratulations on the win!
Congratulations on the win, hope you are not too harsh in the movies you pick
Nice going on the amount of movies you’ve seen. I’m currently at 212 movies (saw 6 this weekend (helps if the wife and kids are away for the weekend
)
I need a day or two to take off from everything except watching some movies. I haven’t had a day like that in too long.
Congrats on the competition and good luck with the remaining 100 movies!
Congrats Andy!
Congrats Andy! Good luck my bud!
Congratulations! and I am stoked to check out the news to come for the Nostalgiathon. That’s a great choice of name too! I am curious what Justin will have to watch.
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