{"id":4280,"date":"2021-06-22T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2021-06-22T19:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:26:20","slug":"movie-review-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2021\/06\/movie-review-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been writing movie reviews for 23 years now and have had a web page with reviews for 20 years. Often I will watch an old movie and write up a review, but at first I didn’t bother writing reviews of old movies. I started getting DVD’s from Netflix<\/a> in 2006, and since I could only have 2 movies out at a time, I tried to watch a movie the day I got it and return it the next day. I was able to watch a movie almost every other day that way. I couldn’t keep that up all the time, so I would only join for a few months at a time. I watched a lot of movies that way. By the third time<\/a> I joined they had started letting you watch movies online, but I still had dialup! Around that same time, I moved my movie reviews from static html web pages to a database<\/a> that would generate web pages that I would then upload to my web server. A little later I started including the date I wrote the review which let me put the 10 most recent reviews on the home page, which I still do. But I didn’t try to add dates to the older reviews and after a movie fell off of the most recent ten, the date didn’t really matter much except to me and never appeared in the review. Lately I thought I probably should include the date in the review, just to give some sense of when I wrote it. I had dates going back to 2007, but the oldest reviews had been saved to text files from writing them on the Macintosh User Group. I started saving the reviews in 1998. I still have those text files and they often (but not always) include the date of the posting, so I was able to enter some of those.
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I also wrote a lot of reviews while watching DVD’s from Netflix, and I kept up a list of movies I watched from Netflix so I could see how many per month I was getting. I was able to use the dates in that list to put dates in the reviews from 2006 and 2007 until I started including the dates when I wrote them. When the database generates the web page it is easy to have it ignore the date if there isn’t one attached to the review, but add a line at the bottom with the date if there is a review. I already started something similar that tracks whether I own the movie and in what format, plus some reviews have spoilers<\/a> that are blanked out.<\/p>\n

It is a pretty small upgrade to the movie review site, but it got me to go back and look at some old reviews and my Netflix history. Earlier this year I watched The Maltese Falcon<\/em> and said that it seemed kind of familiar so maybe I had seen parts of it before. But going over my history, I can see that I watched it on August 5, 2007 and my blog entry says that it was one of the movies from that batch that I liked. So I had definitely seen it before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been writing movie reviews for 23 years now and have had a web page with reviews for 20 years. Often I will watch an old movie and write up a review, but at first I didn’t bother writing reviews of old movies. I started getting DVD’s from Netflix in 2006, and since I … Continue reading “Movie Review Date”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","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=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}