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Hey everyone. My name is Justin Bailey, and this is post 1 of my new blog, "Anatomy of a Movie". I am a student at Michigan State University, who is obsessed with movies. I have seen countless films to date, and hope to see countless more. I quote movie lines as much as possible in real life, much to the bewilderment of my friends. I have no real "credentials", I'm just a movie lover who has studied the fine art of film closely. I will let my reviews make their own credibility (or lack thereof). I love movies from all genres, years, and countries. When people ask me what kind of movies I like, all I can say is "good ones".

This blog will contain my movie reviews. I hope to become a professional film critic, and I thought I should get started now just for fun and see what people think. Most critics will review new films as they come out only. In here, I will try to review each movie I see, in the theaters and outside of them. So I will include new movies, and older movies I have just seen. I will also include movies I consider to be "Masterpieces", which will be like Ebert's "Great Movies" section (sorry for borrowing your idea Roger, I give you credit). These will basically be essays about why I consider the films to be truly among the greatest ever.

I have never been a fan of the star system, I feel the whole 0-4 star scale is really limiting. So my scale will be out of 10. Just in case I need it, I will include 0s. Hopefully that won't be necessary!

So enough talking, I'll begin posting reviews soon. So please comment, let me know what you think of the movies, whether you agree or disagree with my stance, etc. Feel free to be brutal! Let me know if you have suggestions of how to improve this blog. Hope you enjoy!