Thursday, September 1, 2016
Top 20 Movies of the last year
Ben's top 20 movies of the past year:
20. BlackMass
19. Nice Guys
18. Money Monster
17. Krampus
16. Everest
15. Spotlight
14. The Shallows
13. Lights Out
12. 10 Cloverfeild Lane
11. The Conjuring 2
10. X-Men Apocalypse
9. The Martian
8. Zootopia
7. Captain America: Civil War
6. The Hateful 8
5. The Revenant
4. Star Treck Beyond
3. Spectre
2. Sicario
1. Deadpool
A lot of the movies on this list are not original screen plays. They're some that are original but most of them are not. Most of the movies on this list are adapted from some book, comic, or even just some story. They're not many movies that are original ideas anymore. About 15 of my top 20 movies in the past year are based off of books, comics, or previous movies.
For example, obviously, X-Men, Deadpool, and Captain America are based off of comic books. Movies get their material from comic books a lot more than people think. They're millions of comic books out there and every super hero movie is loosely based off of a comic book. Everest is based off of a very popular book that I have actually read. The book is called "Left For Dead: My Journey Home From Everest" By: Beck Weathers. This is a prime example of how many movies are made after books.
A lot of times books will write books after movies. I never really understood this, I guess because i'm not much of a reader, but these books usually do pretty well. You have seen those books that have the same cover as the movie poster. I feel like those books are the exact same as the movie and I don't really understand why anybody would read them but hey, its working pretty well for the authors.
Personally I believe that movies most of the time over shadow books, especially movies that are made after books. Yes I know people always say that the books are always better than the movies, and I believe that. It's just I would rather see the movie and understand the premise of the book in 2 hours than read the whole book that's going to take me weeks to finish.
20. BlackMass
19. Nice Guys
18. Money Monster
17. Krampus
16. Everest
15. Spotlight
14. The Shallows
13. Lights Out
12. 10 Cloverfeild Lane
11. The Conjuring 2
10. X-Men Apocalypse
9. The Martian
8. Zootopia
7. Captain America: Civil War
6. The Hateful 8
5. The Revenant
4. Star Treck Beyond
3. Spectre
2. Sicario
1. Deadpool
A lot of the movies on this list are not original screen plays. They're some that are original but most of them are not. Most of the movies on this list are adapted from some book, comic, or even just some story. They're not many movies that are original ideas anymore. About 15 of my top 20 movies in the past year are based off of books, comics, or previous movies.
For example, obviously, X-Men, Deadpool, and Captain America are based off of comic books. Movies get their material from comic books a lot more than people think. They're millions of comic books out there and every super hero movie is loosely based off of a comic book. Everest is based off of a very popular book that I have actually read. The book is called "Left For Dead: My Journey Home From Everest" By: Beck Weathers. This is a prime example of how many movies are made after books.
A lot of times books will write books after movies. I never really understood this, I guess because i'm not much of a reader, but these books usually do pretty well. You have seen those books that have the same cover as the movie poster. I feel like those books are the exact same as the movie and I don't really understand why anybody would read them but hey, its working pretty well for the authors.
Personally I believe that movies most of the time over shadow books, especially movies that are made after books. Yes I know people always say that the books are always better than the movies, and I believe that. It's just I would rather see the movie and understand the premise of the book in 2 hours than read the whole book that's going to take me weeks to finish.
Friday, August 26, 2016
Longest 12 hours of my life
No phone, internet, laptop, T.V., video game, etc. for 12 hours! At the very least this was not an easy task. No phone and T.V. were by far the most difficult. I simply just didn't know what to do with myself. The first couple of hours I tried to stay busy. I went to the gym, which was difficult without my phone to play any music. I convinced my friend to throw a football with me for a little bit. This kept me busy for about 2 hours and that is when i started to realize that this was going to be a lot harder then it seemed. Then I did something I thought I would never do to keep myself busy, I read! Don't get my wrong I didn't enjoy it but it kept me busy for the most part. I would pretty much take my time with everything which was kinda nice. Overall this experience wasn't great, although it did make me appreciate all the technology I have in my life. It made me think what people did back before we had all this technology and what the did to keep themselves busy. I have to say, I'm really glad I grew up in this generation.
12 longest hours of my life
No phone, internet, laptop, T.V., video game, etc. for 12 hours! At the very least this was not an easy task. No phone and T.V. were by far the most difficult. I simply just didn't know what to do with myself. The first couple of hours I tried to stay busy. I went to the gym, which was difficult without my phone to play any music. I convinced my friend to throw a football with me for a little bit. This kept me busy for about 2 hours and that is when i started to realize that this was going to be a lot harder then it seemed. Then I did something I thought I would never do to keep myself busy, I read! Don't get my wrong I didn't enjoy it but it kept me busy for the most part. I would pretty much take my time with everything which was kinda nice. Overall this experience wasn't great, although it did make me appreciate all the technology I have in my life. It made me think what people did back before we had all this technology and what the did to keep themselves busy. I have to say, I'm really glad I grew up in this generatiuon.
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