{"id":284,"date":"2007-05-27T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2007\/05\/fixing_the_movies\/"},"modified":"2013-02-03T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T01:15:29","slug":"fixing_the_movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2007\/05\/fixing_the_movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent a chunk of the last two weekends going through all of my movie reviews<\/A> and fixing them up. A lot of times when I write a review, I might reference another movie I’ve reviewed and I’m too lazy at the time to put in a hyperlink reference. Also, because I usually write these on AMUG and then just copy them into a separate file for my web page, I don’t italicize movie titles like I’m supposed to. So I went through all of my reviews (I’m up to 238 movies reviewed over the last 10 years) and fixed them up. It took a lot of time, but at least this weekend I was doing it while I was encoding new episodes from Seinfeld<\/I> Seasons 3 and 7 DVD’s (which I got a good deal on at Fry’s yesterday; now I have everything through Season 7 and will wait to buy the just-released Season 8 when the price comes down).<\/p>\n


\nIn cross-referencing movies, some kept showing up over and over again. The Matrix<\/I> and American Beauty<\/I> showed up quite a bit, both from 1999. In fact, 1999 was referenced more often than any other year. Toy Story 2<\/I>, Notting Hill<\/I>, Fight Club<\/I>, Three Kings<\/I>, and Sixth Sense<\/I> are all referenced. I didn’t like all of those movies, but they did set a certain type of standard or were good examples to reference later. It’s hard to know when you’re in a year whether it is really a good or bad year for movies, but after some time, it does start becoming clearer.<\/p>\n

While adding the italics, I had to make a decision about whether to include any punctuation like a comma or period at the end of the movie title. I decided the hyperlink should not include the punctuation, but to prevent an abrupt style change, the punctuation should also be in italics. This meant I needed to include the italics tag first and the hyperlink tag second. Then I started getting in to things where there was a question mark or a parentheses following the movie. Pretty soon I was doubting myself. I looked it up and apparently the punctuation isn’t supposed to be italicized unless it is part of the movie (like Monsters, Inc.<\/I>). So then I went back and fixed that.<\/p>\n

I don’t get many visitors to the movie reviews web site because the market is overcrowded with reviewers and there are a lot better reviewers than I am, but I do enjoy going back and reading what I first thought about something. My review of Pleasantville<\/I> mentioned the very strong cast including the two teenagers: “the guy who was a college student in The Ice Storm<\/I> and a girl who I didn’t recognize.” Those two were Tobey Maguire (who would become Spiderman among many other roles) and Reese Witherspoon (who I’ve seen in at least five movies since then).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent a chunk of the last two weekends going through all of my movie reviews and fixing them up. A lot of times when I write a review, I might reference another movie I’ve reviewed and I’m too lazy at the time to put in a hyperlink reference. Also, because I usually write these … Continue reading “Fixing the Movies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}