Stuff I’ve Read, Watched, Done #16 – November 23, 2020

I’ve actually done some media-related work since the last time I wrote one of these posts. Wow!

I helped draw this face on this watermelon, for example

101 Movies That I Love the Most – Part Two [75-51]

So lately I made a Youtube video, for the first time (I’ve made films before, and put them on Youtube, but I never made a video specifically to just say stuff on Youtube) in which I share my 101 Films That I Love the Most. You can see the video and read all about it here.

In addition to making this video, I thought I’d also share it in writing—for easy reference in case you or I don’t feel like listening to me talk about this over 40 minutes of real time.

47 Movie Blogs #22 – Interesting Adaptations

It’s oft been quoted, “The books is better,” but is that really true?  Or is the issue simply that the book came first, establishing expectations that the subsequent movie simply couldn’t live up to? 

Thoughts on Les Miserables

Ever try to summarize the plot of the musical Les Miserables to anyone who hasn’t seen it?  It’s great fun.  You say something like this: