Blog Assignment Finale

Here are the links to my top 10 blog posts along with a brief description on why I chose each post.

• City of God Review - This is my favorite movie of all time.
  
• American Beauty Review - I loved everything about this movie. This is Kevin Spacey's at his finest.
  
• Goodfellas Review - Martin Scorsese is one of my favorite directors and this was his best movie.
  
• How the Web Changed My Life - I liked thinking about what my life would be like without the internet.
  
• Gran Torino Review - This was a really powerful movie and one that most people haven't gotten a chance to see yet.
  
• Once Upon a Time in the West Review - This movie was a masterpiece and It was difficult picking out all of the little details that made me like it so much.
  
• 50 Best Movies - It was fun to look back through the movies I've watched and rank them.
  
• Amadeus Review - I love classical music and this movie was great.
  
• The Changing Web - It was fun thinking of all the things I used to do on the internet.
  
• Schindler's List Review - This was the first movie post where I took the time to add multiple links to outside sites.
  

Before this class, I had a web design blog that I updated occasionally. However, my posts would be few and far apart. After posting 2+ times a week for this class, I got into a habit of writing posts and it became easier.

When writing blog posts, I tried to keep paragraphs to a max of 3 sentences. Any block of text much larger than that got hard to read. I also tried to make all of my movie poster images have the same size and alignment to keep the site consistent. I definitely like the freedom and control of writing to my own blog much more than posting on a discussion board. I also like being able to go back and revise posts if I think of something different the next day or two.

Because I was writing on a schedule, I would keep a list of all the things I hadn't blogged about yet. This worked well with Blogger since I could create drafts of all of these posts and only publish them when I was finished. This way, whenever I had some free time, I could add a little to one of my drafts.

50 Best Movies

My IMDB Top 100 Challenge is done tomorrow and I was reminiscing about all of the great films I've seen in the past few months. Here is a list of the best 50 movies I've seen in the past year.

50. Into the Wild (2007)
    


49. Reservoir Dogs (1992)


48. The Maltese Falcon (1941)


47. Unforgiven (1992)
    


46. Oldboy (2003)
    


45. Pulp Fiction (1994)


44. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)


43. The Downfall (2004)


42. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
    


41. Requiem for a Dream (2000)


40. Apocalypse Now (1979)


39. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)


38. The Dark Knight (2008)


37. Amadeus (1984)


36. No Country for Old Men (2007)


35. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)


34. The Wrestler (2008)


33. Raging Bull (1980)


32. Saving Private Ryan (1998)


31. The Departed (2006)


30. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)


29. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)


28. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)


27. 12 Angry Men (1957)


26. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)


25. Sin City (2005)


24. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)


23. Seven Samurai (1954)


22. L.A. Confidential (1997)


21. Léon (1994)


20. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)


19. Taxi Driver (1976)


18. The Lives of Others (2006)


17. The Godfather (1972)


16. Schindler's List (1993)


15. The Pianist (2002)


14. Gran Torino (2008)


13. Life is Beautiful (1997)


12. The Prestige (2006)


11. Chinatown (1974)


10. American History X (1998)


9. Goodfellas (1990)


8. The Sting (1973)


7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)


6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)


5. American Beauty (1999)


4. The Godfather: Part II (1974)


3. Memento (2000)


2. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)


1. City of God (2002)