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So much for those resolutions about being more active...

It's that time of year again, when I set aside the long-running AFI Top 100 project and instead go on a crazed rampage, trying to watch as many Oscar nominees as possible. If I were really smart, I would spread this out a bit more through the year, watching movies that are likely to be nominated before the official nominations are announced. I never have much interest in watching dramas unless I think it's going to help me in Oscar pools, though, so I'm generally not motivated to watch them until it's official. So instead, it's a late-January/early-to-mid-February movie-going extravaganza.

I think I've probably seen only a handful (if that many) of movies in the theatre in the last year, and now I'm going to see two different movies back-to-back in the theatre this weekend. I suppose I can look at it as stimulating the economy, since I usually just wait for things to come out on DVD and check them out of the library for free.

At least this year I'm beating my record from last year, where at the time the nominations were announced, I had seen three of the nominees. This year, it's five:

• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man
• Kung Fu Panda
• Tropic Thunder
• WALL-E

I'm off to see Slumdog Millionaire and Milk this weekend, so after that, there will only be 29 (not including short films/documentaries) to go. Needless to say, I have never managed the feat of seeing every single nominated film, and I don't expect to this year. For one thing, all them furren films ain't so easy to find in Southwestern Ohio, and for another thing, The Wrestler? Seriously?

srah - Thursday, 22 January 2009 - 12:29 PM
Tags: academy awards, academy awards 2009, movies