Welcome/About Us

So this is the stereotypical Welcome/About Us nonsense. This is a blog about movies. These days Roger Ebert gives out good reviews like Halloween candy. When people believe utter crap like Paul Blart: Mall Cop is the best movie in theaters, something is seriously wrong in the world. We're here to try and fix some of these problems. While we can't do anything to halt the production of the Paul Blarts of the movie world (unless we engage in guerilla warfare against certain movie studios), we can try to enlighten the world that other, better movies are out there. This said, it's now time for the DISCLAIMER. 

DISCLAIMER: The Frayed Velvet Chair and it's members by no means intend to be movie snobs. In fact, we believe that some movies are so amazingly awful they are cinematic gold. Katie loves Kindergarten Cop and Lauren has a rather strong obsession for all three Resident Evil movies, although she would like it to be said that the third one was really not that bad. Lauren has also seen/been forced to watch The Pirate Movie on two separate occasions (if you haven't seen it, you might want to spare yourself). Badmovies.org comprises most of our current Netflix list. We appreciate and oddly love certain bad movies. However, we draw the line at saying that White Chicks was the best movie of 2004. Lauren knew that Babylon A.D. was going to suck so bad it would score a 7% on rottentomatoes.com, making this one of the rare occasions in which Lauren has full heartedly agreed with the website.

We also make bad choices about movies we perceive to have the potential to be good. Case study: Deception. Movie staring Ewan McGregor and Hugh "Sexy" Jackman embroiled in some sort of thriller/mind game? What could possibly go wrong? Oh the horror. Yet somehow it managed to sore a 5.8/10 on imdb.com, thus illustrating our point that sometimes, idiotic people lead innocent people to making bad movie choices. 

GOAl: Our goal is to enlighten you, the reader, with real movie reviews by real people. If you don't agree with us, great. If you benefit from this site, even better. We'll also keep you as up to date as we can with movie news and, occasionally, proof that Robert Downey Jr. is a god amongst men/actors. You may also get comments on movie scores, hate mail towards certain individuals who should never be allowed to make movies *coughUweBollcoughcough* and certain individuals, mainly Eva Mendes, who should be paying us to watch him/her act. We'll try to contain our emotions, try being the key word.

Enjoy

~Katie & Lauren