As early as entering Year Seven all the way back in 2015, I knew I needed to go into the film industry. It’s weird because I can’t remember for the life of me what movies I was actually watching at the time, but I just had this itching feeling in my brain that I couldn’t get rid of. Flash forward over a decade (somehow) and I’m movie obsessed. I work as a video producer, watch a movie a day and revolve my life around what’s in the cinema that week. Funnily enough though, all my friends happen to be in roughly the same boat.
The big realisation that my movie takes were a little… let’s say controversial… happened immediately after I posted my SCATHING Letterboxd review of Mad Max: Fury Road in January 2023. The second that I tapped that ‘publish’ button, I was attacked by my film friends like a pack of ravenous vultures. Since then, the list of “masterpiece” films I despise has only grown, filling the ranks with the likes of Midsommar, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, Get Out and Mean Girls 2. Wait no – that last one just objectively sucks.
Anyway, all this to say, I feel as though I, and my band of merry little opinionated film friends, have outgrown the confines of Letterboxd. On a platform so public and with a nonchalant reputation to uphold, every time one of us posts a review longer than a couple of sentences, the others bully them for trying too hard. One time I even made the sorrowful mistake of doing some creative writing about Ex Machina and was flamed for a week.
What even is a mooooovie, anyway?
This brings us to mooooovie. At the time of writing this, it hasn’t even been three weeks since I originally came up with the concept for this website one random morning. Less than 24 hours later, I hired a web developer (shout out to Dale, who did a fantastic job bringing my sketchy Figma designs to life), and now here it is! The only intention for this site is for it to be a creative outlet for my friends and I to write film reviews and articles without that crushing societal Letterboxd pressure. If I get to share my apparently bizzare takes with the rest of the world, that’s just a bonus.
Also, the URL has that many ‘o’s in it because that was all that was available. Just remember to hit your keyboard key FIVE TIMES. It’s not that hard.
From me and my other film obsessed friends writing on this new site, we wish you the warmest welcome. I hope you enjoy reading these articles as much as we enjoy writing them. Or maybe they’ll just piss you off, who knows.
