Deja Reviews is written by impatient people who love movies. We always get to the theater in time for the "pre-feature content," because we can't wait to see what the movies of the future will be. It's like having a time machine made of Mike & Ike residue and upholstery that smells like your car seats after the drive from Atlanta to New York. After each new trailer, we turn to whomever we're next to and, whether they like or not, lower our voice and go, "Ooh, that looks good!" or "Pshaw! Pshaw, I say!"
Then we write it down, for fun or profit. Sometimes we don't even wait for trailers. Sometimes we're so excited just to hear that a movie has gone into production, we just have to make up some stuff about how good or bad it's going to be, often based on completely irrelevant criteria. We call these made-up reviews "Takes." Because that's how movie people talk.
Then, weeks, months, or lunar cycles later, when the future has finally caught up with us, we tromp back to the cineplex to see if what we end up shelling out cash for was even close to the thing we came up with in our head for free. Actual reviews are called "Doubletakes," because we often leave a theater being so stunned by what we've just witnessed that we have to whip our heads around, blink our eyes repeatedly, and possible emit some sort of "Ah-OOGA!" sound.
We are frequently stared at in movie theater parking lots.
And sometimes egged.
But we do it because we love movies, we love writing, and for some reason we think our opinions matter to people who aren't us.
Shhh....let us believe it. Just for a little while.
