Yippee ki-yay, motherf**kers, and welcome back to The 300, my ultra-violent, hypermasculine attempt to watch 300 movies in theaters in the year 2018. I’ll be catching new releases, classics, festival films, and overlooked gems to explore the wide world of cinema in all its forms. By casting a wide net, there’s bound to be something that you can also enjoy and share.
As always, there are three rules for The 300:
- The movie must be at least 40 minutes long, meeting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ definition of a feature film.
- I must watch the movie at a movie theater, screening room, or outdoor screening venue.
- While I can watch movies I’ve seen before 2018, I cannot count repeated viewings of the same film in 2018 multiple times.
I tried to enjoy my summer a bit more by hanging out with human beings and not going to the movies for two days. Don’t get me wrong, I love movies, but as I’m nearing the 200 mark, all I want to do is take a week off from going to the movies and binge on some books. I found a free copy of Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing on someone’s stoop a few weeks ago, and all I want to do is get to that, re-read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and finally finish Zadie Smith’s On Beauty. (I love Smith’s writing, but this one has been a slog; it just isn’t doing it for me.)
But, we’re back in the theaters and marching to the goal as much as possible since MoviePass looks like it could go under any day now. That will make the last 100 interesting. At least I get to see a few movies at the Japan Cuts Film Festival, which starts this week. This includes another film by anime director Masaaki Yuasa, the filmmaker behind Mind Game (The 300 Week 10) and Lu Over the Wall (The 300 Week 8).
And so, onward.
Source: Destructoid The 300 Week 28: Skyscraper is Die Hard 2 in a Building and Eighth Grade is Totally Lit