Hey! Welcome to MovieLegacy.com! So you like movies? Well, you've come to the right place. My name is Dan Geer, and I'm the author of this website. I currently maintain all the film reviews and other content that appears on this site, and hopefully others will contribute later on.

     I started this site for a project for school, but really it's to help build my film review portfolio. While I'm currently trying to finish an Associates Degree in Computer Graphics/Web Design, I'm also majoring in English with an option in Film Studies. I'm currently taking classes at Lansing Community College in Michigan (because it's much cheaper), and I plan on transfering to Michigan State University once I finish all the classes I can take at LCC.

     My love for film has been around as long as I can remember. My family is made up of many film buffs, and so I just sort of followed the trend. Not to be trendy, but because I really do like movies. I like talking film with buddies of mine, and I like critiquing movies in general. I get all giddy when I see my DVD collection getting bigger and bigger. My family gets together often to watch old movies. Two years in a row I organized a party to watch all three of The Lord of the Rings films back to back, and last year I went to the Star Wars Celebration III convention to celebrate the completion of the Star Wars saga, where I was even interviewed by Lucasfilm for the two-part online documentary "The Journey." I appear in the second part (found at StarWars.com's Hyperspace section). Film has been very much a part of my life, and I plan on keeping it that way.

     Now, more than ever, is the most exciting time for film. We can achieve pretty much whatever we want in making a movie as long as we have the money. For example, films like the new Star Wars prequels or The Chronicles of Narnia films could never be accomplished 15-20 years ago. Modern computer technology has allowed us to realize our imaginations onto the silver screen like never before. Steven Speilberg, George Lucas and Peter Jackson are my big heroes in films utilizing special FX and imagination.

     My goal with this site is to not only provide great info on films, telling people which movies to see and not to see, but also giving people an ability to not go overboard with cynicism when grading films. Many modern film-goers are way to nit-picky in their film reviews, causing them to reject something that really shouldn't be rejected. For example, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was a film that, under normal circumstances, would've been well-received. But because of expectations so ridiculously high, and the modern cynical society we live in today, it could never live up to the hype that surrounded it. If that movie were released 30 years ago (given that the technology existed back then to make it), I believe the movie wouldn't have been so disliked. People weren't so anal back then with entertainment.

     It is not my goal, however, to be jaded. Even films like The Phantom Menace have flaws, and they must be addressed. Most films aren't perfect. I tend to make sure to critique objectively, but at the same time doing it without my head shoved up my buttcrack (a.k.a. being too cynical).

     When going to the movies, we're meant to have fun. So if we pay to see a movie, we should at least try our hardest to find what we did like about the film before we go and trash it. After all, we did just spend $6-10 on it, and that money shouldn't be declared wasteful right away. Most film-makers do put a lot of work into many of the aspects of the films they make. It's just that some parts are weaker than others.

     For example, a movie like The Chronicles of Riddick has some ridiculous scenarios, and Vin Diesel can't act his way out of a paper bag. But man does it have good action and a cool story! So, while parts of it aren't that good, overall I was entertained. Or, for instance, Torn Curtain is one of Alfred Hitchcock's more boring films (in my opinion). But hey, it has some good cinematography, and I at least was interested enough in the story to see how it ends. We must search long and hard for things we like before we say we disliked the film. Often times, we end up finding more things we liked than disliked if we have this type of attitude, and end up much more satisfied with our movie-going experience.

     Films on this site are graded on a four star rating system. One star means the film was poor, and four means it was great. Four stars doesn't necessarily mean it's perfect, because no film really is. It only means that it represents a film that impacted my emotions significantly and achieved what the film-makers set out to do. I don't immediately started marking down a film's star rating the moment I see flaws in the acting, dialogue, special FX, etc. The moment I start slashing off stars is when those flaws start detracting from my enjoyment of a film. So you may see some four star films here that may have flaws, but those flaws did not affect my enjoyment of the film nor did they take away from what the film makers tried to achieve.

     So please, don't send hate mail just because I give a four star rating to a movie you didn't like as much. Everyone's different, and is entitled to their own opinion. And: IT'S JUST A MOVIE!!!!

     Anyhow, I hope you find this site informative, likeable and something you'll want to visit often. I am, however, a student, and I have a job and a girlfriend - so I don't always have time to write film reviews or other articles. (But hey, if you'd like to contribute to this site in anyway, with a film review or whatever, drop me a line at dgeer80@yahoo.com. You can send me samples of you're writing, and I'll let you know if I want you to write for this site. I need people to help keep the content up to date, so you may be just the person for that!) Have fun!