Now you're not going to believe this but my cat, Tigga, was walking across the keyboard and somehow, by pure chance, pressed "www.fwfr.com" and then pressed the return key.
I was on a site that had odd news stories of the week. They had a special colum for odd web sites of the day. FWFR. Reviewing movies in only 4 words or Less. I just had to check it out. I was amazed by the great writing. I thought I could also do this. So then I became hooked, THis when the site was a poor little unnoticed site. Not like it has become today. TO this day I dont think I even measure up to the great writers of FWFR. But Im still workin at it.
I honestly cannot remember where I first heard of this site. But I do know that last summer, me and my friends went to see the absolutely unwatchable "The Covenant," which my friend Mike pithily described as "Dragon Ball 90210." And I thought, hey, that'd be a good thing to submit to the Four Word Film Review. I only had a vague idea of what the FWFR was, I'd never explored it, I have no idea what deep recesses of memory I pulled it out of.
I submitted "Dragon Ball 90210" in my friend's name. It never got accepted. I started submitting some things in my own name too.
An article in The Toronto Star highlighted the site in late October, 2003. I joined in early November and in the next three weeks these reviews were approved.
I don't remember how I got to it the first time, I know I submitted some reviews anonymously and left. I completely forgot about it. Then about six or so months later (I'm guessing here) I was searching the web for info about Teen Wolf and this site popped up. I registered and started writing. About a week into it, I realized I'd been here before and submitted but couldn't remember what. LOL
I was running a google search for some movie or another as I wanted to read more about it than the IMDB had. I chanced upon FWFR from google and spent a couple days laughing and the rest since then, writing.
I've been on a couple of review sites and some forums cropped up from them by a few of their members. On one of those forums someone asked if there was a satire review site and one woman mentioned this place. I checked it out and now I can't quit.