Hello everyone!

It feels weird logging onto Letterboxd and not writing a film review, but I feel like I need to use this opportunity to address something to my audience that's been reading my reviews.

First, I'm sure if anyone has been seeing my activity as of late, I've been watching at least one movie every single day of the month. It's something that I've tried to do plenty of times in the past (and have succeeded) but my attempts lately have mostly failed. Unfortunately, my attempt to do that this month isn't going to pan out either.

There's some reasons as to why, but the main one is just that I feel like I'm at a point where I'm not that kind of person that's capable of watching a movie every single day anymore. It's something that I think I can do at the beginning of the month, but it eventually falls through and it's usually because of either how many personal things get in the way of it or how I feel on certain days that just make me feel unmotivated to do it.

No secret, but watching a movie and having to write a review after every single one does take a lot of effort and even though my reviews aren't super in-depth, they still take a lot of time and I always try to make them feel like a legitmate review worth reading. Keeping that up every single day of the month while also having to deal with a bunch of other problems that life throws at you isn't easy, which is why I haven't been able to do it in a while.

Not only that, but there's a good amount of pressure that comes with putting a task like that onto yourself. I can't tell you how many times I've scrolled through all of the different streaming services (Netflix, Max, Disney+/Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc.) for minutes on end just to meet the "watch a movie every day of the month" challenge, which is also why you probably have seen me review a lot of movies (unless I'm seeing them in the theater) with fairly short running times. To me, that's when it really starts to feel like a chore than something I'm actually motivated to do, which is why I feel like I should stop doing them.

However, if there's anything that causes me to feel more pressure than trying to watch a movie and write a review for it every day, it's promising something to my followers and not being able to fulfill it. I know it's happened a few times this year (I still haven't gotten around to watching the rest of those Alien movies) and though it maybe won't mean that much in the grand scheme of things to you guys, it definitely does to me. I can't even really explain why it causes me to feel so much pressure. It just does and I think it's something that anyone (especially people who write a lot of movie reviews) can relate to. That pressure of not disappointing the people who have spent so much time reading your reviews and taking your opinion seriously.

I don't know, maybe I'm making this a more serious deal than it needs to be, but that's how I feel whenever something like this happens.

Overall, I just wanted to write this to let you guys know that unless I'm sure that I can pull it off, I'm probably no longer gonna try to watch one movie every day of the month. I have too much personal stuff to deal with and I shouldn't be making something that I love to do feel like a chore or a tiring process. None of this means I won't be watching a lot of movies every month, but it won't be every day as I need to have as much time as I need to focus on my family, my personal work, and just relaxing.

As much as I wish I could go back to the days when I could watch 50-70 movies every month (probably the only positive thing to come out of the pandemic), I think it's for the best to only watch movies when I want to and be in the right mood, time, and place to write an engaging and good review on them. The quantity may be less, but that makes the quality all the more easy to shine.

Nevertheless, I still love watching movies, reviewing them, and don't plan to stop or take a huge break from doing so anytime soon. It's why I have some pretty exciting reviews of films coming throughout the weekend. Just consider this a choice that I have to make for not just myself, but for the quality of my reviews and for them to be as strong as they can be.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you guys very soon!