His Girl Friday: Movie Review

(Movie Reviews) 

This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.

His Girl Friday: Movie Review

Links to stuff mentioned:

Watch this movie on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/Y00EAt8DtNY?si=TAy2RPZp9OfTglOL

Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Girl_Friday

My previous couple of videos (in which I mentioned I was back from Tet): 

Weekly Reading Vlog 145: Back from Tet Vacation, Finished Volumes 3 and 4 of Three Kingdoms: https://youtu.be/0Shdq4Z5ahs

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong translated by Moss Roberts: Book Review: https://youtu.be/Vs3rx7QW2mw

[4K] His Girl Friday (1940) full movie with subtitles

Started: Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells (On my shelves since October 30, 2022)

Starting: Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells

Links to stuff mentioned:

* Getting this book on my shelves: https://youtu.be/93byektK71o?si=HfMnWu5uzaqn58zU

* My review of Three Kingdoms: https://youtu.be/Vs3rx7QW2mw

* My review of the Invisible Man: https://youtu.be/8LSyEHM3Bc4

Finished: Revolutions Season 8: The Paris Commune by Mike Duncan...sort of.  Actually, once again, I'm going to give this one a final 4th listening before reviewing it.

My normal system is to listen 3 times, and then review, but my listening got disrupted by a 2 week break-for Tet holidays.  So the podcast isn't fresh in my mind anymore, and I want to listen one more time before I attempt a review.

My listening progress so far is listed below.  Going forward, I'll continue to keep track of my listening progress over HERE.

Listening Progress

January 20, 2024--8.1- The Second French Empire

January 21--8.3- The Government of National Defence

January 22--8.5- The Cannons

January 23--8.6- The Commune

Finished 1st Listening.  Started 2nd Listening

January 25--8.1- The Second French Empire

January 27--8.3- The Government of National Defence

January 28--8.4- The Siege of Paris

January 29--8.5- The Cannons

January 30--8.6- The Commune

January 31--8.7- Year 79

Finished 2nd Listening.  Started 3rd Listening

February 1--8.1- The Second French Empire

February 3--8.2- The Franco-Prussian War

February 4--8.3- The Government of National Defence

February 5--8.5- The Cannons

February 17--8.8- The Bloody Week

Started: Superman: Reign of the Supermen  (This book has been on my shelves since February 04, 2024.  It's largely a reread.  In my youth, I had a copy of The Return of Superman (A), which had some of the same issues as this collection.)

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong translated by Moss Roberts: Book Review

(Book Review--Classics, Historical Fiction)

Started: October 27, 2023 

--Finished Volume 1: December 13, 2023

--Finished Volume 2: January 26, 2024

--Finished Volume 3: February 11, 2024

--Finished Volume 4: February 17, 2024

(This is my first time reading this book, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.) 

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong translated by Moss Roberts: Book Review

See also my reviews of the individual volumes:

* Review of Volume 1

* Review of Volume 2

(I finished volumes 3 and 4 while away on Tet holiday, so I decided not to film individual reviews for those volumes.)

See also: Discourse of the Three Kingdoms Podcast: Mini-Review

The summary of the Three Kingdoms video that I mentioned: https://youtu.be/SFKMJmnYUTc?si=KWVfkEIxq9Col6OO

Weekly Reading Vlogs: 

October 29, 2023 Three Kingdoms Introduction p.1-20, p.1-35

November 5, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.35-108

November 12, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.108-224

November 19, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.224-302

November 26, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.302-386

December 3, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.386-456

December 10, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.456-502

December 17, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.502-542,597-612

December 24, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.612-678

December 31, 2023 Three Kingdoms p.678-780

January 07, 2024 Three Kingdoms p.780-820

January 14, 2024 Three Kingdoms p.820-910

January 21, 2024 Three Kingdoms p.910-1002

January 28, 2024 Three Kingdoms p.1002-1104, 1153-1158

February 04, 2024 Three Kingdoms p.1158-1238

February 10, 2024 Three Kingdoms p.1238-1646

February 18, 2024 Three Kingdoms p.1646-1684, p.1723-2340

Playlist HERE: 

Weekly Reading Vlog 145: Back from Tet Vacation, Finished Volumes 3 and 4 of Three Kingdoms

(Weekly Reading Vlog)

 

Books (655 pages this week--the goal is 200 pages)

Three Kingdoms Volume 3 by Luo Guanzhong p.1646-1684 (38 pages) (from Three Kingdoms) (finished)

Three Kingdoms Volume 4 by Luo Guanzhong p.1723-2340 (617 pages) (from Three Kingdoms) (finished)

Podcasts: 

Revolutions Season 8: The Paris Commune 3rd Listening From: 8.5- The Cannons To: 8.8- The Bloody Week (from Revolutions Podcast)

Duolingo: 

From: Section 2, Unit 7, Level 3, Lesson 1 To: Section 2, Unit 7, Level 5, Lesson 6 (My Duolingo profile is here.  Here is the quizlet I use to practice all of the vocabulary I've learned in Duolingo, and here is a smaller quizlet I use to consolidate the new or difficult vocabulary.)

Videos from this week:

Danang City, Vietnam: video of Son Tra Peninsula and view from the Sea Shore Hotel: https://youtu.be/dLQXSpceUok

Danang City, Vietnam: Video of the walk along the Han River next to the Dragon Bridge: https://youtu.be/Ba7jQk3VfQs

Weekly reading blog post from last week: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/heres-another-weekly-reading-vlog.html

For more information about what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE.

Visit to Danang, 2024

(Travelogues--Vietnam)

(For more information about these videos, see HERE)

So, once again, Tet has come (Lunar New Year in Vietnam).

As usual, we went back to my wife's hometown in Quang Ngai.

Usually we fly into Chu Lai airport (W) and then take the bus into Quang Ngai, but this year, because of the days we were travelling, it was cheaper to fly into Danang airport.   (Because Chu Lai is a smaller airport, it can accommodate less flights, and consequently you have to pay more for those flights during the Tet travel rush.)

And as long as we were flying into Danang anyway, the wife decided to arrange to spend a couple days enjoying the sights before taking the train to Quang Ngai.

I have, sad to say, never really spent any time in Danang city during my 9 years in Vietnam.  And I've never enjoyed Danang's beaches, which are a famous tourist destination.

I did pass through Danang city on a group tour of Central Vietnam that the wife and I did back in 2016 (see pictures from that trip HERE).  But although we slept in a hotel in Danang, we didn't really see much of the city or the beach.  Danang was simply a place we passed through on our way to see other sights.

(2016 was also the year of the Formosa pollution incident in Central Vietnam, so no one in our tour group was overly eager to go swimming at the beaches in Danang.  I suspect this is another reason the guided tour didn't linger at the Danang beaches, although it could just be a coincidence.  Maybe the tour would have skipped the beaches regardless.)

So, Danang at last.

We didn't explore much of it.  (It's exhausting travelling with kids.)  But we stayed for a couple nights at a hotel on the beach of Son Tra Peninsula in Danang--Sea Shore Hotel.  Here is a video of the view from the hotel, as well as video of walking around the beach next to the hotel.

Danang City, Vietnam: video of Son Tra Peninsula and view from the Sea Shore Hotel

On the left, you can see off in the distance a statue of Buddha on the Peninsula.  My wife later pointed out to me I had actually been to that statue on our 2016 trip--I hadn't realized that was the same statue.

The next night, we went to walk around Han River (W) in the riverside area next to Dragon Bridge (W).  I was mostly occupied with trying to stop the kids from running off, but in between kid control, I did manage to get a few seconds of video of the area:

Danang City, Vietnam: Video of the walk along the Han River next to the Dragon Bridge

Finished: Three Kingdoms Volume IV by Luo Guanzhong translated by Moss Roberts (And as this was the final volume, I've now finished the whole book.  I've now decided I'm not going to attempt to review volumes 3 and 4 separately.  I'll just review the whole book now that I'm finished.  That review coming soon, hopefully.)

Started: Three Kingdoms Volume IV by Luo Guanzhong translated by Moss Roberts (The fourth volume of Three Kingdoms.  On my shelves since January 07, 2024.)

Starting: Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong translated by Moss Roberts

Finished: Three Kingdoms Volume III by Luo Guanzhong translated by Moss Roberts (As mentioned in the previous post, I'm unable to do video reviews at the moment.  So my review of this volume will have to hold off until I get back home.  Or, depending on how much progress I make on Volume IV, I may just wait until I finish the last volume, and then just review the book as a whole.  We'll see, I'm still undecided.)