Three Movie Buffs: One Year Anniversary

The Three Movie Buffs

Scott:
One year ago, my brothers and I set out to create a movie review web site as a way to share our opinions on the movies we've seen and will see. Since that time, the site has grown from a handful of reviews to over 100. It's format has changed from crude to a slightly sleeker design. We've added quizzes, a Coming Attractions section, and a message board.

The entire site has proceeded smoothly, with only one major hiccup when the site changed servers from Compuserve to Spaceports. Despite this bump, we have managed to gradually build up readers, and now over 10,000 people have visited our site. I would like to say thank you to all of those people, and a special thank you to those who took the time to drop us a line or post a message on the board. I want to also thank my brothers for sharing their love of movies with me and for allowing this site to act as a forum to reunite us after we had drifted apart into our own separate and disparate lives. So here's to 3 Movie Buffs, may they and this site go on for many, many years to come.

Eric:
When my brothers notified me that we had maintained this web site for an entire year I thought they were full of it. It seemed as if it was just a few months ago that Scott asked Patrick and I what we thought about doing a movie review web site. I remember how we readily agreed and threw all kinds of ideas at each other. It was a great bonding moment for us all. However, I never thought it would last more than a month. That one or all of us would loose interest and the site would get ignored. Just the opposite has happened. We keep expanding the site with more and more ideas, information and reviews. Over the past year, 2 of us have switched jobs and homes and the third is in the process of doing so. Still we have been able to maintain the site and continue its growth.

I use to be an avid Entertainment Weekly reader. I remember reading some absolutely lousy reviews in this big publication. Aliens 3, A League of Their Own, and Highlander 2 are three I recall reading and thinking what the hell was this person thinking. One review of a movie means nothing. This person may not like a certain actor or type of movie. Can that person give a fair review? Here at 3 Movie Buffs we give fairer reviews than you will find else where because its not just one reviewer who had a good day and decided in his euphoria to give a lousy movie a great review. In fact my favorite reviews on the site are the ones where we disagree with each other, and those particular reviews are probably the best reviews on the site.

When the three of us wrote our first reviews we had no sense of our styles of reviewing, A year later we each know exactly how the other would approach a review. Scott likes to tell a story with his. How he was feeling at the time of the movie. Patrick likes to give lots of information, or how it reflects the culture. Me, I just like giving my opinion. I look forward to our site growing and how our opinions on movies will change.

Patrick:
I want to join with my brother’s in expressing my gratitude to everyone who has visited 3 Movie Buffs during the past year. It has been a year filled with excitement and a sense of adventure; and though we still have a long way to go to become a truly great forum for the discussion and appreciation of what we call The Movies, still there is no denying that we have made major strides in this short period of time.

Looking back on my life as a movie lover it is easy to pick out a handful of events or occasions that, for various reasons, were pivotal in influencing who I am. The first occurred in March of 1974 when, at the tender age of 6, I stayed up past my bedtime to watch the AFI salute James Cagney. He not only instantly became my idol, but was also the key launch pad from which I became a movie lover. Another such moment was the day in 1979 after seeing Superman: The Movie, I got the idea of making a list of every movie I saw on the big screen. I still keep this list and am fast approaching my 500th movie. My fondest movie going memory with my brother’s was the time when we were all still in high school and we skipped class to catch the very first local showing of Yentl. We snuck a store bought bag of the candy Whoppers into the theatre and I remember cracking up at how noisy the bag was to open. And now nearly twenty years later we have this web-site. May it live as long as the Internet.