Do you know I buy a lot of books? Not sure if I read a lot of books, but I do buy a lot of books. Perhaps I need to get on and read them, but there’s a lot of books. What’s good? What’s bad? Dunno. There’s too many to read.
What’s a list of the great American novels for? Only to add them to your other books.
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/best-books-american-fiction/677479/
I guess I should post a blog post sometime this year. Considering that this year’s Academy Awards were announced this morning, my first post this year will be that list of best films from the past year. Like always, it’s a list of the films I thought were the best and achieved a rating of 4 or more stars. Unlike previous years during the pandemic, I did see a few more films this year, and it seems that I’ve seen more good ones than bad.
These are all 4 of 5 stars.
I enjoyed all these films. I did enjoy going to the theater. I want to try going to more movies this year.
There is only one movie on this list. I think it was my favorite time in the theaters, but to tell you the truth I didn’t see that many movies this year. It’s a combination of not really wanting to watch what’s being exhibited, not much being released in theaters, and just not wanting to go to the movies anymore.
Funnily enough, as I reviewed the movies I did see, I noticed that I gave out a lot of low ratings many 2 stars and even a few 1 stars. Some readers had complained that I always gave a 3 star rating for good and bad movies. I think I broke that habit considering that I have no compunction to now give out low ratings.
That’s the list. That’s it. Was there anything good that had come to your theater?
Movies are never going to be good again are they?
Sight and Sound’s latest greatest films of all time. Vertigo drops to number 2. Sorry. SPOILER ALERT.
Two Studio Ghiblis. Get Out. Seven Samurai not even in the top 10?
Like a lot of lists there is many things to complain about. I just gave a few here. Go ahead and you do the same.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time
Two hundred and seven songs ranked. Did this sometime this week. I believe the top five is correct and everything else was by the whims I had as I did the sort. Except, that Zambi theme song. That song is butt.
Down to the last few days of 2019. Will I get to see a movie and add it to this list of best films I saw in the theatre? Maybe, there’s still a couple out there that I really want to watch, but I haven’t gotten around to. Also, maybe this list has a few films released the previous year, but once again, for those new to this blog, these are films I saw in the theatre in the year 2019.
Those are all 4 star films. Nothing really knocked me out this year, and there wasn’t really that many good ones I saw.
What’s your list?
Shit. I haven’t posted any movie posts. Here’s one to catch up on most everything I’ve seen up til today.
All were decent enough. Not very disappointing. Just not the greatest. I should’ve written a post for each, but my laziness has kicked in.
I’m sort of in agreement with this list of best french fries. The vast middle I don’t care about, but there are several there that deserve mentioning.
First is first place, Five Guys. Agreed. Last is In-N-Out. Agreed for the same reason that putting junk on it doesn’t absolve it from being terrible.
Also agreed with curly fries from Arby’s. And also with the diss of the dumb waffle “fries” from Chik-Fil-A. If I wanted potato chips, I would’ve bought potato chips!
https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-french-fry-rankings-20190212-story.html
First post of 2019. It goes at the theme of this blog for the longest time: films I loved when I saw them in the theatre. This one wraps up my year in movie going, and pretty much I didn’t see too much adventurous stuff, just the main stream movies.
BTW – the MCU really was good this year…
Number one with a sword is everyone’s favorite: Seven Samurai. It’s mine as well, and one I consider in the top 5 of greatest films ever made, top 3 of the best films ever, and numero uno as the GOAT. Maybe. But that’s my opinion.
Let me know what’s yours.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films
