{"id":1154,"date":"2008-06-05T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T01:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/outstanding-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T01:32:30","slug":"outstanding-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/outstanding-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/entertainment-center.jpg' alt='entertainment-center.jpg' class='right' \/>Verna has a rather extensive DVD collection. So, to try and keep track of each title, genre, rating and any remarks, I developed a web-based database interface. One of my technical skills deals with doing that sort of thing, so it was fairly easy for me to do.<\/p>\n<p>One feature allows us to assign a rating to the DVDs we see. When I enter a DVD into the database initially, it is rated as &#8216;UNRATED&#8217; and gets updated afterwards. We have the following ten rating categories (least to most): Sucks, Bad, Weird, So-So, Good, Very Good, Excellent, Outstanding and Sensational. <\/p>\n<p>Less than stellar DVDs get RETIRED and are donated to charities like Goodwill or The Salvation Army. You can check out the listing on the public DVD page, <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/vernas-stuff\/vernas-dvd-collection\/\">Verna&#8217;s DVD Collection<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Not everyone will agree with our ratings, but we think very highly of the following Outstanding and above titles:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Our listing of ONLY titles rated Outstanding follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t300 &#8211; Blood, Thunder And Awe<\/li>\n<li>\tANNAPOLIS &#8211; Midshipmen And Boxing<\/li>\n<li>\tAPOCALYPTO &#8211; Mel Gibson&#8217;s Mayan Movie<\/li>\n<li>\tCARS &#8211; Owen Wilson, Paul Newman<\/li>\n<li>\tCONGO &#8211; A Michael Crichton Story<\/li>\n<li>\tDA VINCI CODE, THE &#8211; Tom Hanks<\/li>\n<li>\tDRAGONFLY &#8211; Kevin Costner<\/li>\n<li>\tFIFTH ELEMENT, THE &#8211; Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich<\/li>\n<li>\tFIND ME GUILTY- Vin Diesel<\/li>\n<li>\tFLIGHT 93 &#8211; 9\/11 Docudrama<\/li>\n<li>\tGREEN MILE, THE &#8211; Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan<\/li>\n<li>\tHIDALGO &#8211; Horse Race Across an Ocean of Fire<\/li>\n<li>\tHISTORY OF VIOLENCE, A &#8211; Viggo Mortensen<\/li>\n<li>\tHOTEL RWANDA &#8211; Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo<\/li>\n<li>\tLADDER 49 &#8211; John Travolta, Joaquin Phoenix<\/li>\n<li>\tLAKE HOUSE, THE &#8211; Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock<\/li>\n<li>\tLOTR 1 &#8211; FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING &#8211; Hobbits &#038; Middle Earth<\/li>\n<li>\tLOTR 2 &#8211; TWO TOWERS &#8211; More Hobbits &#038; Stuff<\/li>\n<li>\tLOTR 3 &#8211; RETURN OF THE KING &#8211; Last Of The Hobbits<\/li>\n<li>\tMEERCAT MANOR &#8211; Animal Planet, Season One<\/li>\n<li>\tMONSTER &#8211; Charlize Theron<\/li>\n<li>\tMONSTERS, INC. &#8211; John Goodman, Billy Crystal<\/li>\n<li>\tNARNIA, THE CHRONICLES OF &#8211; Kids Go Through a Portal<\/li>\n<li>\tNATIONAL TREASURE &#8211; Nicolas Cage<\/li>\n<li>\tNATIONAL TREASURE 2 &#8211; BOOK OF SECRETS &#8211; Nicolas Cage<\/li>\n<li>\tOPEN RANGE &#8211; Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner<\/li>\n<li>\tPHENOMENON &#8211; John Travolta<\/li>\n<li>\tPURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, THE &#8211; Will Smith<\/li>\n<li>\tRAY &#8211; Jamie Foxx<\/li>\n<li>\tSAHARA &#8211; Matthew McConnaughey, Penelope Cruz<\/li>\n<li>\tSECONDHAND LIONS &#8211; Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osmond<\/li>\n<li>\tSNOW BUDDIES &#8211; Golden Retriever Pups In Alaska<\/li>\n<li>\tTIME TO KILL, A &#8211; Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConnaughey<\/li>\n<li>\tWORLD&#8217;S FASTEST INDIAN, THE &#8211; Anthony Hopkins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our listing of ONLY titles rated Sensational follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\tEIGHT BELOW &#8211; Paul Walker<\/li>\n<li>\tMARCH OF THE PENGUINS &#8211; Narrator Morgan Freeman<\/li>\n<li>\tPASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE &#8211; Jim Caviezel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna has a rather extensive DVD collection. 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