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Posted on January 6, 2011 by jonners99
Maybe we are just getting that little bit older but 2010′s films did not particularly hold my attention. There were a few breakout films but the industry seems to be spending far too much time shovelling average products with spangly (and poor) 3d that the actual films themselves are being affected. As such I saw fewer films this year than for about 8 years. Below though are my wife and mines favourites from the year.
Beth:
10. Iron Man 2
9. Shrek Forever After
8. Eat Pray Love
7. The Lovely Bones
6. Knight and Day
5. Harry Potter
4. Death at a Funeral
3. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
2. Inception
1. Toy Story 3
Posted on January 5, 2011 by jonners99
2010 was a good year for video games. So good that I haven’t had a chance to play them all. Fallout New Vegas and Red Dead Redemption were both games that I was looking forward to but I have yet to get to them. Their times will come but they miss out on this best of list.
Posted on January 16, 2010 by jonners99
The votes are in. Four of the nine shortlisted films failed to garner a single vote, these were:
- Juno
- Atonement
- Wall-E
- In Brugges
The Dark Knight and The Bourne Trilogy were next receiving just 9.5% of the vote each. This leaves the top 3 films of the ‘noughties’ as voted for by you.
We have a tie for second place:
Posted on January 11, 2010 by jonners99
This last decade saw us grow up, when it started I was 12, this means my memories of the previous decade are slim, the ‘noughties’ then will be the decade that film took over my life. The last ten years saw Cathy and I doing degrees in the subject, neither of us are now working with anything to do with the industry but we both still have a love for the medium. Certainly the overblown special effects that have come in this decade have often come at the expense of plot but that is not to say that there have not been some great films. Film is an entertainment medium and the fact that 8 of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time came out in this decade shows that audiences have been entertained. Our lists are not ordered by preference but chronologically. My wife could not pick 10 and so has 11 instead and the nominees for film of the decade will be voted for by you from that shortlist.
Posted on January 6, 2010 by jonners99
So to the list of sporting achievements of the decade. Again by Trefor Little and again in no particular order here are the athletes who shone in their chosen fields.
- Tiger Woods (USA – 12 Majors, 56 Other PGA Event wins)
- Roger Federer (Switzerland – 15 Grand Slams)
- Ricky Ponting (Australia – 9,458 Test Runs (including 32 centuries) at an average of 58.4)
- Michael Schumacher (5 world titles in the noughties)
- Joe Calzaghe (19 Defences of the World Super Middleweight Title – All won)
Posted on January 3, 2010 by jonners99
2009 has not been the best of years for video games in my opinion. Modern Warfare 2 seems largely to blame for this in that it gave developers an excuse to postpone and tighten their news games. Therefore the first three months of 2010 are going to be pretty manic. That being said though, there have been plenty of very good games this year and now that I have an Xbox 360 I have experienced my first taste of HD gaming… and it is good.
Posted on January 2, 2010 by jonners99
I asked my resident king of sports knowledge (I say king meaning he knows more than me) Trefor Little (aka my dad) to write down the top 5 sporting achievements of 2009. In no particular order then:
- England winning the ashes
- Andy Murray reaching Number 2 in the world rankings
- Jenson Button winning the world championship
- Usain Bolt breaking the 100m and 200m world records again
- Manny Pacquiao becoming the first man to win seven different titles at seven different weights
Come back on the 4th for his list of the top 5 achievements of the decade. What do you think?
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by jonners99
5. Kept my job – While lots of other people were made redundant by the credit crunch I have thus far kept my job… I also started earning a little on the side with my web design and hosting becoming partially self employed
4. Built a computer – Before December I had never built a computer, now I have and the sense of accomplishment is strong (nerd)
3. Center Parcs – Having not been since I was a lot younger I was worried it would be a little rubbish. It was not and I had a great time.
Posted on December 31, 2009 by jonners99
This has been a decade when gaming technology has come on leaps and bounds. While the 1990′s were the decade of the third dimension the 2000′s have been about innovative control and high definition. That being said, a lot of the best games I have played came out towards the beginning of the decade. This list is largely comprising the games into which I have sunk and will continue to sink a large amount of my time due to their excellence in either single or multiplayer.
Posted on January 17, 2009 by jonners99
Right the talote.co.uk site is down at present because six years ago I didn’t have a debit card to buy a domain name with and now the person who did it for me has cancelled it… all is good though it just means that this list is going to be published in full here as well. 2008 was a very good year for films, there were a number of high points with Mama Mia becoming the highest grossing film in the UK of all time and The Dark Knight becoming the 3rd highest grossing film of all time. We saw and liked many films but in the end we could only pick ten.
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