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Hello there! My name is Edoardo, and this is my website my cinema!

While it may be centered on movies, this website is an archive for all my passions and interests, like photography and gaming.

Why did I end up here on Neocities? Well, a few years ago I used to write for my school's blog. It was the best school project I've ever partecipated in. It was fun, engaging and I had the chance to write about many "nerdy" topics like science, aviation music and...movies!

Unfortunately, the project was cancelled, and it was like a loss for me! I had lost a place where I could show other people my interests and passions and also overcome my shyness. Slowly, the idea of creating my own blog started to pop in my head. One day, not so long ago, I stumbled into an old website made with Geocities on the WayBack Machine. Then I discovered Neocities and boom! There we are!

If you want to reach me, check out my Neocities profile!

And don't forget to sign my Guestbook!

Credits/Resources used:

- Layout by Petrapixel

- Emotes by Nukochannel

- Favicons by TransBro/Anakin

A little bit about me (and some thoughts)...

Everything started because I've always liked computers. I was three or four years old when I first used one. It ran Windows XP and had an AMD Athlon-something CPU with 1GB of RAM! My father even gave that computer a name: 'Nestore' (Nestor, a mythical greek king who appears in both Homer's Iliad and Odyssey). Why that name? I don't know. It was cool though!

It feels a bit strange getting attached to a machine, but it was like a window to the whole world, and I was really curious. I'd spend days reading Wikipedia articles, playing Flash games, or checking random places on Google Earth. The years went by and I started moving from one computer to another, from one OS to another: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 and Linux.

Nowadays, I feel like the Internet I used to know when I was a kid is gone. Social media are built not to connect people but to divide them and make money off them, everything is commercialized/full of ads and AI is flooding the web with slop and disinformation. They don't even hide their greed anymore. Everything is in plain sight and it's depressing. Fortunately, the good Internet is still there, if you search deep enough.

I just want my little corner of the web away from all that mess. I started coding a few years ago, and now I am learning HTML and CSS too in order to create this website.

About movies!

Many many years ago I bought a DVD boxset of the Jurassic Park trilogy.

I didn't know it at the time, but that was the beginning of my passion about physical media.

Over the last five years, I've become skeptical and cynical with streaming services, which are imposing increasingly higher prices (even with ads!), while offering mediocre catalogues. There's no respect for consumers or artists, only greed.

Many movies are not even screened in cinemas anymore, they just end up on streaming services!

And let's not forget that TV shows and movies are purposely being scripted for people who are doomscrolling on their phones in the meantine.

There's a term for that: second screening.

But all in all, it's just a...physiological process, right? People are distracted by their phones, so big streaming companies have found a way to keep them glued to the "primary" screen.

Seems like the target audience are "second screen people" now.

Is this what streaming companies want? Low attention span slop to keep us from thinking?

Is this what people really want to do with their free time?

Like theatre, cinema is also a cathartic experience: whether it's comedy, horror or musicals, it allows us to vent our emotions and find new ways of looking at the reality around us.

Movies are not meant to be passively and compulsively consumed; they are meant to be experienced, to be savoured...and to rant about them with friends!

There's nothing like going to the cinema or popping in a DVD and having a movie night with your buddies!

Going to the cinema is a collective experience, a ritual and no one can take that away from you, just as no one can take physical media away from you.

DVDs and Blu-Rays do not require a subscription, they are not filled with ads, they are yours forever and they are cool to look at! Special editions, collectors, steelbooks make movies feel special.

Of course, there's no "ethical consumerism", so physical media has its flaws, but it's better than the alternative. DVDs can be exchanged, rented, purchased second-hand...it's a whole other experience.

Over the years, I've built up a nice video library, and I don't regret it!

The theater of my mind

This website is a sort of 'ranting archive', you'll see reviews, opinions and curiosities about my movie taste. Maybe you'll find something new to explore, and maybe I will too! Of course, "My Own Private Cinema" is a weird nickname for my head, which is full of a lot of stuff other than movies: videogames, books, photography and so on! This is the movie theatre of my mind, and there's no ticket required!

Have fun!