Friday, 9 September 2022

Popular Movies I Haven't Seen

__Are there any movies that it seems you're the only person who hasn't seen? In my case, there are tons and tons. I've seen over 2,300 movies to date, but that doesn't mean I've seen all the ones you're likely to have heard of. I use my IMDb watchlist as a checklist of movies I want to see; there are currently over 1,200 titles on it, and many of them are very famous ones that you might be surprised I haven't got around to yet.
__So, inspired by a conversation with someone on Twitter a couple of days ago, I decided to compile a set of top ten lists of films on my watchlist from each decade, in terms of popularity and overall score. In other words, there'll be two lists for each decade, one being the ten films that have the highest number of votes, and the other the ten that have the highest IMDb rating – again, among the movies on my "want to see" list. Films that have the same score (like 8.2 out of ten or whatever) are then additionally sorted by number of votes; the more people contribute to that score, the higher it places.
__Naturally, there'll be quite a few instances of the same title appearing on both lists, and some pairs have more overlap than others.
__We'll start in the 1920s, because I only have two films on my watchlist from before that decade: A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Great Train Robbery (1903).
__So let's take a look at the most prominent movies spanning a hundred years on my "haven't seen yet" list, both the ones that IMDb indicates the most people have seen and the ones that its users have voted the best.🙂

Saturday, 3 September 2022

First Impressions Review Diary 3-Sep-2022

__Hello. Well, the summer's over, students are returning to school to begin a new year, and it's time for me to give another report on what I've been watching (or playing, as the case may be) over the past month.
__It's worth mentioning that my writing method underwent a change this month. These brief reviews are always copied and pasted from my Twitter page, but now I've added an extra step, at least in terms of movie-related ones. I've recently started rating movies on Metacritic, and some movies require you to include a written review along with the rating. I've decided to make my reviews exactly fifty words – not too long, but with a little more effort than simply saying, "It's good," or whatever – and that's now the model I follow with all my remarks on movies: I'll start with the fifty-word review for use on Metacritic, then shorten it for Twitter so it fits into a single tweet. I'm torn on whether I should include the full versions on this blog, but for now, I'll keep things regular and use the Twitter versions, so at least the movies and video games will get the same treatment.
__With that said…

__Let's start with a few cinema releases, all of which I saw on the same day thanks to my Cineworld Unlimited card.