Short and wily reviews and opinions on movies where I probably fell asleep at some point.
Welcome to Sleeper Hits by me, Amanda K. Storey.
A Sleeper hit is a term used in the entertainment industry for a film that plays successfully for a long period and becomes a big success, despite having relatively little promotion or lacking a successful opening. In my case, a sleeper hit is a movie where I fell asleep but can still manage to form an opinion on it. Embrace the fluidity of language evolution or be with the peons who still wheedle about how the word “literally” has lost all meaning.
(It hasn’t. We’re fine. It’s all fine.)
In all seriousness, though, I fall asleep during movie screenings constantly. I should probably get checked out, but instead prefer to address it like I do with all my other issues, which is to acknowledge it a few times and promptly do nothing about it since it hasn’t killed me yet so obviously everything is fine.
As far as issues go, falling asleep in a warm, dark room with seats ranging in comfort from “rickety boards about to collapse from under me” (which actually happened during a lively screening of The Conjuring) to “are we sure this isn’t a Sleep Number bed in disguise?” ranks pretty lowly. 9 times out of 10, I can pick up where we (okay, I) left off without outside intervention. And if I do need clarification, I generally don’t bother.
But why a newsletter? A few reasons.
The first one, admittedly, is out of pure narcissism. I like seeing my words out there and at least two people have asked me fairly recently if I still review movies. I honestly haven’t written much of anything in the past few years, so I’m hoping this will jump-start that again.
The second is because while I do want to pick up writing again, I don’t have the attention span for long, professional-ish posts with my limited knowledge of SEO sprinkled in anymore. Chances are, most of us don’t anymore (thanks, smartphones!) and would love to have some short, easily digestible content in their inbox once a week or biweekly. Or they won’t. This is, after all, an experiment.
Shouldn’t I at least try for long-form post writing again? Perhaps. But today is not that day.
Do I need a third reason? I guess because I truly love movies — whether it’s praising some gorgeous cinematography or mercilessly making fun of bad dialogue, I’m just pleased as punch to live in a world where they exist and people try to make something worthwhile…even if it doesn’t always turn out that way, at least to me.
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you’ll subscribe — it’s totally free! And if it turns out that this newsletter isn’t for you and you unsubscribe, no hard feelings. Just know that it will keep me up at night for at least several weeks and I’ll have to continue catching zzzz’s at the movies to make up for it.