Film Critics see a lot of movies and, as a general rule, film critics love moves-that’s why they became film critics. So the problem will all film critics Top Ten films of the year lists is that they tend to love whatever movie they saw last. So that every January we are given lists of the best film of the year and nine time out of ten, they are either films that were released in December or films that have not yet been released-which, to me, makes them this year’s best film, not last year’s best film. These are, more…
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Top Ten Most Annoying Phrases
“We grow tired of anything that is repeated too often – an anecdote, a joke, a mannerism,” author Jeremy Butterfield says. “The same seems to happen with some language.” University of Oxford researchers seem to have had a bit of free time on their hands, so they consulted the Oxford University Corpus and made a list of the phrases they found the most annoying. As a blogger I tend to write without doing a lot of editing. So I tend to use some phrases more often than I should, repeat myself, and well, sometimes annoy my readers. At the end…
Ten Films I Wish I’d Walked Out On
Since I’m not a real film reviewer, I don’t have to sit through every horrid film that comes down the line-I can pick and choose the movie I want to watch. I can avoid the really bad movies like Pluto Nash, Deuce Bigalow, and the Transformers movie. But once in a while I am fooled by Good Directors, Good Actors, and what look like Good Movies. Expecting a good movie and being shocked numb by a bad one is the Movie Studios stealing my money and time. They lied to me and made me think these were going to be…
The Power of Lists for Bloggers
Top Lists grace the covers of most magazines and have to be a close second to Memes when it comes to blog topics. A good list can get you a lot of traffic, bookmarked in all those cool bookmarking sites-Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, and most of the other social networks love lists. Hit one their front pages with your top list and get thousands of hits in one day. A good top ten list will make people want to come back and see what else you might be writing a list about. Or start a nice discussion about why the things…