Sorry in advance for anyone I have catfished with my recent Best Movies of the 21st Century list. I saw a huge increase in subscribers after posting that, and I fear most of my new subscribers aren’t aware of what they are getting themselves into.
If you’ve been here since the early days, or if you've read my “sticky” Coming Soon post, then you know that I’m watching chronologically through a list of 4,000 or so movies, and I started this podcast as a private diary of the films I watch. I’d heard that a great way to remember what you read is to write about it after you read it, read it aloud a few times, record yourself reading it out loud, and then listen to the recording. Since I often forget all the details of movies I watch, I decided to try this method for movies rather than books.
After three years of using this method of remembering, I can say with some level of certainty that it doesn’t really work. I mean, maybe it sort of does, but honestly, I can’t remember the details of the films I’ve watched for this project any better than the details of those I’ve watched outside of it. Some things stick with me, and others vanish like the snows of yesteryear, gone from this earth.
Meanwhile, I’ve felt that my progress through the list of movies I want to watch has been slowed significantly by having to take the time to write and edit an article about each one, rehearse it, and then read it into a microphone. I also feel that reading it turns what could be a more conversational podcast into something a bit stilted. I do better talking off the cuff than I do with a prewritten speech.
So what’s the point? Well, from now on, when I watch a movie I’m going to record and share a podcast without an accompanying article, which in all honesty is how most podcasts are shared anyway. I realized after starting this, as I checked out other podcasts, that I was the only one writing an article and then narrating it.
tl;dr version: from now on All the Movies will be a podcast without a written article.
I’ll still write the occasional article, like the ones I’ve shared during the break between seasons here, but for all of my “here’s what I watched” podcasts, you’re only getting a podcast. I have a couple already written, so if you’re a fan of the written word you still have a couple left, but after that, it’s all talk, all the time!
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