For those that don’t know me, I am The Hierophant. I’ve been a member of ComicBookMovie.com since June of 2010 and I usually submit articles on a regular basis. But, around May of this year, I really had some issues I went through. Seeing that most everything I write is posted on ComicBookMovie.com, I feel that I owe an explanation of sorts to you.
First, let me drop the character “The Hierophant” for a moment, and allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Jake. I live in Indiana and I am married to a beautiful woman named Michelle. I have two cats that I love as-if they were my own children (mock me if you must). For years, I’ve had to deal with depression that was triggered by the loss of my sister when I was 15 a little over 9 years ago. It turned out that the only thing that seemed to keep my mind from falling apart was watching movies and writing. I’d write, but I didn’t have a way to share my voice so I stopped writing. A couple years later, I found ComicBookMovie.com, and I now had a channel for my voice to be heard. I finally had everything under control… until around May. I had been laid off by my job for a year with 0 prospects. The obvious money issues and self-worth issues became too much for me to control, so I lost control and began to fall apart. I made some attempts to review movies, but they were terrible attempts that I am embarrassed by.
Well, I finally got a job in August (one that I really like to boot), and I’m happier than I’ve been in a long time. During the past couple of months, I’ve taken time to go back and read some of the articles I’ve submitted. The only ones that I actually dig are my editorials, and I’m not actually very thrilled with my film reviews. I think I’ve discovered why that is.
When it comes to my very first movie review, which was
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt.1,” I wrote it with no intention of having it published onto the Main Page (which is very obvious since ComicBookMovie.com had to add pictures to it to make it a bit more interesting), but it did. I wrote it because I was very enthusiastic about having just seen the movie and how good I felt it was. I wanted to share my opinion with everyone that cared to hear it. Since then, every time I wrote a movie review I made every attempt to get put on the Main Page. Most of my reviews lack the excitement that I had when I wrote that first review, and for one very simple reason: I didn’t care enough about the movies I wrote about. A hypothetical example: rather than writing a review for
“The Fighter,” I would write one for
“Iron Man 2.” Sure, I dig
“Iron Man 2,” I just don’t care about it like I do
“The Fighter,” and that’s the key. Why should you even bother writing (or whatever your creative form takes) anything if you can’t put your heart 100% into it?
For me, writing a review for the sole reason of being put onto the Main Page, or even just writing a review of a CBM just so I can post on here without hearing people condemn me for my choices are over. When I do a review, I will only do movies that really interest me (good or bad intrigue). If these movies happen to fit into what the ComicBookMovie.com public deem worthy, I will post it on here. It seems like a lot of the reviews put on here aren’t really only for CBM’s, so I think I’ll be able to post some decent reviews soon. I do appreciate being given the chance to share my opinions with all of you, and I hope that I can do it for a very long time.
PS.
Going along with the season of my favorite holiday (and my wedding anniversary), I want to do a review of a Horror movie. I’m fairly in-love with the genre as a whole, so any movie will fit the bill for writing reviews for films I care about. I’d like to hear some suggestions. Let me know in the usual place…