About Me

My name is John Parker, and during basketball season I write a blog called Armchair Point Guard. Unfortunately, basketball has an offseason and there's only so much you can say about backup power forwards singing with new teams.

Fortunately for me, my other passion--movies--never take breaks.

In the spirit of my other blog, I'll write a scouting report about myself as a "movie critic," though I don't claim to be much of a "critic" of movies at all.

Strengths:
  • Wide range of tastes
  • Can get into movies, even if he thinks they're awful
  • Ability to stomach gory flicks
  • Better than average passion for movies
  • Ridiculous collection of movies that's expanding faster than his shelf space

Weaknesses:
  • Tends to buy into storylines easily, ignoring holes in plot
  • No film school background (tendency to overlook cinematography goals of the director)
  • Struggles with Musicals, (pre-Iron Man) Comic Book movies and fantasy movies geared towards teens