Oscars
Didn't watch the Oscars last night. Haven't in quite a few years now. I used to look forward to it but I'm so far behind on movie watching and, as I get older, find myself less and less interested in movies.
TV is, of course, another story. What can I say, I prefer story arcs that last 13 to 22 episodes, getting to get to know the characters better, etc. With a movie, I feel I'm in and out of someone else's life in 90 minutes. I prefer the long-term committment of a good television series compared to the one-night stand feel I get from movies. Even if some of those one night stands have such lavish budgets. Is there a lot of crap TV? Sure is. Also a lot of crap movies out there. Some great gems on the TV side that were decades ahead of their time and have been ignored over the years (thinking of one I'm re-watching on DVD at the moment: the first stellar season of Murder One).
With that caveat/ramble, I present a meme ganked from boobooirl featuring the 100 most recent best picture nominees. Looks like I've got more than a few to watch. I can remember when I fell off the whole "movie in theaters bandwagon." Right around the time of Peter Jackson's King Kong. When was that? 2005? Can't believe it was six years ago now...
2011 (2 of 10)
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
+Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
+The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
2010 (5/10)
+The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
An Education
+Avatar
+District 9
+Inglourious Basterds
Precious
The Blind Side
+Up
Up in the Air
2009 (2/5)
+Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
+Milk
The Reader
2008 (1/5)
No Country for Old Men
Atonement
+Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
2007 (3/5)
+The Departed
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
+Little Miss Sunshine
+The Queen
2006 (3/5)
+Crash
+Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck.
+Munich
2005 (1/5)
Million Dollar Baby
+The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Ray
Sideways
2004 (3/5)
+The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
+Lost in Translation
+Master and Commander
Mystic River
Seabiscuit
2003 (1/5)
Chicago
Gangs of New York
The Hours
+The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist
2002 (2/5)
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
+The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
+Moulin Rouge!
2001 (3/5)
+Gladiator
Chocolat
+Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
+Erin Brockovich
Traffic
2000 (2/5)
+American Beauty
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider
+The Sixth Sense
1999 (3/5)
+Shakespeare in Love
+Elizabeth
Life is Beautiful
+Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
1998 (5/5)
+Titanic
+As Good as It Gets
+The Full Monty
+Good Will Hunting
+L.A. Confidential
1997 (2/5)
The English Patient
+Fargo
+Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
Shine
1996 (3/5)
+Braveheart
+Apollo 13
+Babe
Il Postino
Sense and Sensibility
1995 (4/5)
+Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
+Pulp Fiction
+Quiz Show
+The Shawshank Redemption
1994 (2/5)
+Schindler's List
+The Fugitive
In the Name of the Father
The Piano
The Remains of the Day...