{"id":1441,"date":"2004-10-26T23:32:24","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T23:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1441.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"100-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/10\/26\/100-films\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About half-way through this year I admitted to myself that I wasn&#8217;t going to make my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2004\/01\/02\/2003_in_review_books\/\">target of reading 50 books in 2004.<\/a>  My commute time has traditionally been when I&#8217;ve read the most, and now that I&#8217;m driving to work, I&#8217;m barely getting through a book a month.<\/p>\n<p>So I set myself a different goal:  I would watch (and write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/reviews\/quick\/\">quick reviews<\/a> of 100 new films, instead.  (New to me&#8211;not necessarily brand new releases.)<\/p>\n<p>I slacked off a bit on the viewing in July and August, but I&#8217;ve been picking up the pace lately.  I hit 60 films in mid-September, and I&#8217;m up to 78 now, although I haven&#8217;t posted reviews of all of them yet.  (I&#8217;ve got a backlog of 8 to work through.)  That leaves me with another 22 films to see, and only 10 weeks left to go in 2004.  (If you&#8217;re terribly interested in my score, you can keep track <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/reviews\/quick\/filmcounter_martin.html\">over here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Two-and-a-bit films week <em>should<\/em> be achievable, but I&#8217;m getting a bit worried by the number of games being released in the run-up to Christmas.  We&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006IR20\/legenofthesun-21\/\">Halo 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00009ATWC\/legenofthesun-21\/\">Half-Life 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0001W8WU2\/legenofthesun-21\/\">Ratchet and Clank 3<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0001W8WTS\/legenofthesun-21\/\">Jak 3<\/a> all being released in the next month, and I just noticed yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0002ILS1U\/legenofthesun-21\/\">Metroid Prime 2: Echoes<\/a> is going to be out in November, too.<\/p>\n<p>This has the potential to seriously mess with my plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half-way through this year I admitted to myself that I wasn&#8217;t going to make my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2004\/01\/02\/2003_in_review_books\/\">target of reading 50 books in 2004.<\/a>  My commute time has traditionally been when I&#8217;ve read the most, and now that I&#8217;m driving to work, I&#8217;m barely getting through a book a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}