Movie Marathon #1

So I just finished my first ever Movie Marathon yesturday. Well, I went to a 24 Hr Sci-Fi Movie Marathon about 4 or 5 years ago but this is the first one I've done on my own. And this is a long post so buckle in!


Harry Potter and the Big Crazy Idea
So, the idea for the Movie Marathon came to me about a month ago. Usually when a sequel for a movie comes out that we (my friends and I) like and are looking forward to, we'll watch the previous installment on DVD within a week or so of the sequel hitting the theaters. Well, for Harry Potter 6 last month, I had the crazy idea to watch all five Harry Potter movies in one day. So, after convincing a few friends to join me, we embarked on the Harry Potter Marathon on July 19 (the Sunday before HP 6 was released).


But the Harry Potter Marathon got me thinking. In total, all five movies took around 12 hours (they all run around 2:20 - 2:40). And my train of thought had left the station... I wondered how many movies I could watch in a day? The Harry Potter movies run a little long, so if I watched average length movies (1:30 - 2:00), then I could watch more... Maybe if I get up early one day and go until late into the night... Or what if I set the duration even longer?.... Then the train reached its destination.


Movie Marathon 2009
From my initial thoughts following the HP Marathon in how far I could push this (being the crazy big idea I am) I pushed it as far as I could: 24 Hours. 1 Entire Day. So I set out to plan as much as I could so I'd be ready for the big day. Here's how it all went down. Thursday after work, I ate a light dinner, read a little of the book I'm reading (currently Harry Potter 7), and went to bed early (really early) around 7:00 pm although I didn't get to sleep until around 9:00. Then I woke up at 11:50 and began my first movie at 12:00 AM Friday.


Here's the rundown of Movies I watched (in order):

1. Gross Point Blank

2. Push

3. The Boondock Saints

4. Fired Up

5. Without Limits

6. The Big Lebowski

7. PCU

8. Cashback

9. Bound

10. Hard Candy

11. Detroit Rock City

12. Akira

13. Spy Game

Reactions and Thoughts

It went pretty well. I've stayed up all night for a few things before but this was differant. It was weird to be awake for an entire day and to spend that entire day watching movies. There were probably some areas I could cut to squeeze another movie in but I'm not sure I'd really want to. Like I went out to get some lunch and took calls from my Mom & Dad (at differant times) in the afternoon.

Some things I thought I was going to do but didn't to stay awake were taking a walk (about 1 mile) and reading the internet. Beforehand, I thought I would want or need these breaks, but during the event, I didn't really want to break for them since I was already breaking to get drinks/food and take bio breaks.

Will I do it again? Right now, I'm not sure. I was pretty cool and I do have a new (personal) record of most movies watched in a single day (previously 5 for the Harry Potter Marathon) and for the week (previosly 13 for the week that followed the Harry Potter Marathon). As for another... not in the immediate future but you never know what can happen...

NYC: Update #9

Wow! This was a long time coming... too long actually. Mostly because I procrastinated it to nearly being forsaken! Anyway, I have finally read through the entire NYC story and corrected as many grammatical and/or general wording errors I could find.

(I'm sure you were all losing sleep over them, so here you go!)

NYC: Summary

As I had mentioned earlier, I have already written a summary version of the entire saga. And now that you have finished with the first draft of the full version of NYC, I thought it might be interesting to see the summary version. Since this was an earlier version of the story, I don't consider any of it spoiler information. I just thought it might be interesting to see the progression of the story.


What's Different
Basically, the beginning is a little different, several characters were added, a few chapters were renamed, and an entire chapter was dropped and redone. And obviously, some of the times are different as well. In the original, Wolf was more of a one man army, doing everything by himself with 0utR1ght assisting with the more involved tech stuff that Wolf didn't have time for. But when I got to chapter 7 or 8 in the full version, I realized Wolf was going to need some help in the final assault so Elle was created and introduced. And I'd like to incorporate some of the history between Elle and Wolf more so in Aftermath (and maybe Seven Days if it fits). I added a link in the right column. It's only a couple pages long and a short, interesting read. Hope you like it!


Thursday
Coming this Thursday, I have some updates to post so look for that!