The Story behind Operation Movie Club

New Year's Day 2009 - we were playing the DVD game "Scene It? Movies" and a question was asked about the movie Forrest Gump. I mentioned that I had never seen the movie, and everyone simultaneously gasped. "You've NEVER seen Forrest Gump?!?" No, never. Never really cared to, but I'm getting really sick of people making a big deal because I have never seen it. This exchange was followed by a few more scenarios of disbelief in learning the certain movies had never been seen by someone - for example, Stephanie has never seen Breakfast Club. So the five of us - myself, Brooke, Chuck, Stephanie, and Dave - decided to form a movie club.

Here's how it works:

• We each make a list of our top 10 movies - that we have never seen or that we want to share with other people
• On Friday nights, we get together and watch 1 or 2 movies
• After the movie, we critique it like Siskel and Ebert - two thumbs up, two thumbs down, or one of each. And we each write a little review of the movie.
• I plan on blogging the entire experience, including the reviews from all five of us

Operation Movie Club will force us to leave our comfort zone and experience genres of movies that maybe we would not have considered before. It will give us the opportunity to learn from each other and enhance the movie-watching experience.

Stay tuned!