Welcome!

So nice you could join me!

In case you were wondering "what's the big idea?" well, I'm sorry to disappoint: I don't have one. Rather, like Kevin Smith, I'm fond of movies, and have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. And speaking of whom, it's from a very funny movie called An Evening with Kevin Smith that I draw my title and my URL. I chose them because that's what the (smaller) idea of this blog is:

what I'd do differently if it was given to me, instead of the people who made it.

"What movies, then?" you may ask? Well, any I feel like writing about, I suppose. The idea for this blog was also taken in part from the wonderfully perceptive writing of Jack Monahan's Design Reboot. In addition to that, I also wanted to do something of this nature because of the nagging feeling from my (weak, weak) forays into movie criticism that it feels incomplete if watching a bad movie. Seeing the art in a good movie requires talent, but it always seems like seeing the weakness of a bad movie required only funny prose. My thought came be that I might ask myself "if I'm so good, what could I do to make this better?" (because, though it's given lots of flack, there are often some brilliant things in most movie failures).

However, I'm not writing about movie failures. Just about movies. Any movie I can think of.

I hope you enjoy your stay.

Oh, and my word, I almost forgot to introduce myself: My name is Matthias. Feel free to call me Matthias.