LAMMY 2011 Self-Promotion Post 1

Okay, I think I knew why it was didn't win one single LAMMY Award last year. Apparently, I did not self-promote enough.

That's it. Yeahhhh....

Well, since I don't want to make the same mistake THIS year, I shall now initiate a series of posts as to why YOU, the member of the Large Association of Movie Bloggers, should vote for me, TheGreatWhiteDope, in the various categories I am nominated in.

This is the first of the series and in it, I shall explain why I should be considered for the first category:

BEST BLOG

Before there was even an Internet, as far back as I can remember, I have enjoyed the act of watching movies. Even late at night on Saturdays, when our ABC station would show "Chiller Theater" and various monsters with deep, echoing voices would introduce me to a world of black and white monster movies, killers in castles movies and occasional color movies that would offer a glimpse of blood every so often.

I saw it all back then: Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Mummy and Godzilla after Godzilla, not to mention more than one Vincent Price incarnation. A lot of them I had only seen once: these would be ones such as Blood And Black Lace, Planets Against Us, Attack Of The Mushroom People, Unearthly Stranger and the like, but I remember them. And if you, too, recognize these titles from late at night on TV in the very early Seventies, then you know for a fact that, yes, I also watched the legendary Sinister Seymour - a man whom NO ONE I've ever mentioned his name to seems to remember, let alone acknowledge even existed at some point in time.

Anyway, watching such movies in my formative years, I grew up understanding that, while these were not exactly the best movies ever made, they were movies that were made for a reason: ENTERTAINMENT. Not just babysitters and insomniacs and people who get stood up for dates, but people who also wanted to watch a movie and enjoy what they saw. It didn't matter if it was a good movie or not, it didn't even matter if it skipped a few frames, the sound was out or sync or even starred no one you ever heard of. It was there and you enjoyed it - that's all that mattered.

Once I grew older, I found that very few of these shows existed anymore and it was very difficult to find any of the really obscure movies I grew up watching and loved dearly. THEN....

I found the Internet.

Groups of people who loved talking about, sharing memories about and even sharing clips and pictures from the old gems of yesteryear...even some newer gems that held the same charm and entertainment charge their elders did. I'd been on a lot of discussion groups that loved discussing back and forth on such halcyon days. These groups - The Bad Movie Message Board, The Agony Booth and Badmovies.org - I shall forever be indebted to for bringing me back into the light of such glorious days.

Something else I also noticed about a lot of the denizens of such boards...they had their own websites. Never, I thought in my naivete, would I be able to come up with something so well-thought, so urbane, so witty and informative as the sites brought up by such wits as these.

Then the thought came to me: why shouldn't I try?

So...with no alternative reasoning why I shouldn't...I did.

I jumped around for a while, trying my luck at a domain here and there - Tripod, Freewebs, and the like, where things came to be as TheGreatWhiteDope's Review Cave (yeah, I know, really original) until the day I came across Blogger.com, where you could make your own blog and post anything that tickles your fancy.

And so TheGreatWhiteDope's Mecha-Blog-Zilla came to be. And from such humble pie beginnings, I have posted movie reviews, TV reviews, celebrity nonsense, lists upon lists, many special segments about bad movie posters and the futility of releasing a movie in 1985 and even a webcomic!

Wow.

First and foremost, this is a blog I care about deeply and brought to life for the sheer virtue of discussing movies that have made a difference in my life -for good or bad - and have shaped me as I am today. Even if it's a bad movie, I'll describe it in such a way that maybe you'll even want to seek it out. Maybe.

Everything I am, know and care about is in this blog and if there's something that I want to share with my loyal readers, I will try to do so in an entertaining way that makes you care about it as well. That's my end goal.

This is what makes the Mecha-Blog-Zilla what it is and I hope beyond the shadow of a doubt, you read it time and again to glean some of that excitement and wonder of those nights in front of the TV watching some flickering image of monsters or otherworldly horror.

And maybe even remember what it was like to be young again, and enjoy the good of the bad.

This is my blog, and I hope you will consider it as the Best Blog of the Year.

Dope out.

- TGWD