A quote from Samuel Goldwyn, that renowned movie mogul of years gone by, and very apropos of many of the pictures I’ve uploaded to Flickr recently. Yes, I finally cleaned off the Compaq hard drive of all those screen caps I’ve been collecting and probably had the better part of five hundred. It’s a little excessive, perhaps a little obsessive as well. What more is there to say?

There’ll be more to come…someday. I love movies (I love television, too, but that’s another story). Getting these screen caps seems a natural collection to have, and even more so now that I’ve become so intrigued with the opening sequences of these films that I’ve created a separate Flickr set for them.

It seems to me these opening sequences, as well as the credits can be as telling as the movie itself as to the time period when the movie was made; I’m thinking specifically about movies from the 1930s, when these credits would use a very art deco font and designs - now that I’ve gone off on this very unexpected tangent, I regret not having any to include with this post. I’m not even sure opening sequence is the correct term for what I’m talking about; it’s not so much the credits, where the performers and such are listed (although they, too have their own level of interest), but what the above picture illustrates.

Now that the screen caps are off the Compaq, I gave some thought to starting it all over again, but between you and me, it’s nice to simply sit back and watch a movie, not worrying about anything but the story. Of course, I used the screen cap exercise as a way of remembering what I’d watched so I could update my movie page. It was also a good way for me to keep track of what movies I owned, but it would only be as helpful as my memory allows: I can only remember so much and unfortunately, I can’t remember every Honor Blackman movie in my collection, nor can I recall the filming order of The Thin Man series; to this end, I’ve gone over to dvdspot.com (thanks to Wes for giving me the heads up on this some time ago!) in order to keep track of these myriad DVDs (I plan to totally buck the system there and include my VHS tapes, too - HA!)

The movie page will disappear eventually, I think…but I do reserve the right to change my mind.

I’m already changing my mind about the screen caps - there are a couple I’d to grab tonight, if they show up again in the second episode of Bishôjo Senshi Sailor Moon, the live action version of the anime. Ooh, what a hoot this show is, but I’m hooked already and can’t wait to get back to it tonight.These are from the commercials, but oh my God, I nearly fell off the couch last night when they came on. I’m not sure if the subtitles are correct, but if they are, it’s pretty damn sick, but so sick as to be almost painfully funny in a way.

God help me…how do I end up in the twilight of my thirties (also known as the dark side of my thirties) and suddenly find Sailor fucking Moon so intriguing? Seriously. There’s something wrong with that. It would be understandable if I’d had a previous infatuation with it, but for crying out loud, not this. Of course, this way, I can introduce Star and Bar to it when they’re of an age.

Yes, that must be it.