Adam and I originally were going to do a double-feature today and watch both movies in one shot. They're both pretty short (together they are shorter than gone with the wind, which by the way won the best picture oscar in 1939) so we figured it would be fun to watch both in one day. So here's what happened instead:
Adam worked until 1:00, which we knew about already. Adam also had a fantasy football draft today, which we knew about already. It was supposed to start at noon, and they usually don't take very long, 2 hours maybe. WELL, it started late and took for-ev-er and it wasn't done until like 6:00! Crazy.
On top of that, we didn't get any mail today. I guess it wouldn't be so weird if we hadn't gotten zero mail yesterday either, and we always get mail. We were supposed to get "Marathon Man" in the mail yesterday, and we didn't. Netflix is usually very prompt. Very rarely the movies are a day late, but never more than that. Sooo... we're not really sure whats going on. It's not a holiday is it? Anyway so even if we had time (which we didn't because Adam was also going to a quasi-bachelor party tonight) we couldn't have watched both movies today because we only have one.
Quite the mystery, eh? So anyway we're gonna see if anything comes Monday and if nothing does we're gonna call the post office or, I don't know, something. Tomorrow is out for taxi driver because Adam works until 1 and I work at 3 (I'll probably leave the house around 1:30. Point Pleasant. In the summer. On the weekend. Yeah.)
So we'll be waiting for a little bit longer to get this challenge started. grr....
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
While we wait...
I figured while Adam and I are waiting for Taxi Driver and Marathon Man to arrive via netflix, I would explain how this new challenge is going to work.
The years are going to be drawn randomly again. We found that this was perfect in the first challenge because then you don't get stuck watching all the older movies at once or movies that are very similar one right after the other. We are going to take turns drawing years, and the person who picks the year is the person whose movie gets watched first (for example, I picked 1976 so we are going to watch Taxi Driver first then we will watch Marathon Man.)
We are not going to rate these movies 1-5 or anything. We have the blog and we figure we'll just discuss our feelings on the movies here. The main thing we are going to do is see if the other movies live up to the Best Picture of that year. You would think that in a challenge where you are watching all movies that won "Best Picture" that they would all be relatively good movies, but you'd be wrong. Believe me. There were some bad movies. More of that as the years come.
Now, the fun part: This challenge has some added bonuses! First of all, Adam and I are allowed 5 "vetoes" which means if Adam picks a movie that I absolutely have no desire to watch, I can veto it, and we don't have to watch it! Woo hoo! In that case, we will only watch one movie from that year. UNLESS... I choose to "pass." Adam and I also have 10 "passes" we are allowed to use. That means that if we have looked through the movies of a year and not found one that we like, we are allowed to "pass." I know that it seems like a lot, 10 passes and 5 vetoes, but there are 77 years worth of movies to watch and 2 movies for each year, so we thought it would help us move this challenge along a little bit quicker. Adam and I have already prepared our movie lists and at this point I have not factored in any "passes" (I have a movie picked for every year, in other words) so I will probably just play the passes with my mood. We aren't required to use 10 passes or the 5 vetoes, they are just there for our convenience.
Adam has informed me that Taxi Driver should arrive today! So as always, stay tuned!
The years are going to be drawn randomly again. We found that this was perfect in the first challenge because then you don't get stuck watching all the older movies at once or movies that are very similar one right after the other. We are going to take turns drawing years, and the person who picks the year is the person whose movie gets watched first (for example, I picked 1976 so we are going to watch Taxi Driver first then we will watch Marathon Man.)
We are not going to rate these movies 1-5 or anything. We have the blog and we figure we'll just discuss our feelings on the movies here. The main thing we are going to do is see if the other movies live up to the Best Picture of that year. You would think that in a challenge where you are watching all movies that won "Best Picture" that they would all be relatively good movies, but you'd be wrong. Believe me. There were some bad movies. More of that as the years come.
Now, the fun part: This challenge has some added bonuses! First of all, Adam and I are allowed 5 "vetoes" which means if Adam picks a movie that I absolutely have no desire to watch, I can veto it, and we don't have to watch it! Woo hoo! In that case, we will only watch one movie from that year. UNLESS... I choose to "pass." Adam and I also have 10 "passes" we are allowed to use. That means that if we have looked through the movies of a year and not found one that we like, we are allowed to "pass." I know that it seems like a lot, 10 passes and 5 vetoes, but there are 77 years worth of movies to watch and 2 movies for each year, so we thought it would help us move this challenge along a little bit quicker. Adam and I have already prepared our movie lists and at this point I have not factored in any "passes" (I have a movie picked for every year, in other words) so I will probably just play the passes with my mood. We aren't required to use 10 passes or the 5 vetoes, they are just there for our convenience.
Adam has informed me that Taxi Driver should arrive today! So as always, stay tuned!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Year #1: 1976
The Best Picture oscar for 1976 went to Rocky. This was an excellent film, one that neither of us had ever seen in its entirety and we were very impressed. We gave this movie a PERFECT 10. So, needless to say, the other movies from this year have a lot to live up to. Let's see what's on the agenda...
Adam's Pick: Marathon Man
Kim's Pick: Taxi Driver
Adam doesn't remember why he picked Marathon Man other than "it looked interesting" but I remember that the only reason I chose Taxi Driver was because it was the movie that inspired John Hinkley to attempt an assassination on Ronald Reagan based on Jodi Foster's performance. So it has to be pretty good, right? I guess we'll find out sooner or later... stay tuned!
Adam's Pick: Marathon Man
Kim's Pick: Taxi Driver
Adam doesn't remember why he picked Marathon Man other than "it looked interesting" but I remember that the only reason I chose Taxi Driver was because it was the movie that inspired John Hinkley to attempt an assassination on Ronald Reagan based on Jodi Foster's performance. So it has to be pretty good, right? I guess we'll find out sooner or later... stay tuned!
First, let me explain...
Ok, so Adam and I decided after watching the Best Picture reel that was played at the Oscars a few years ago that we wanted to go back and watch every single movie that has won the Oscar for Best Picture since it started, in 1928. So we did. How we did it was we typed out each movie title and the year it won the Best Picture award and we drew them randomly. Then we either rented it via netflix, borrowed it or watched our own copy, or in the case of some of the older ones, we actually had to buy VHS copies. As part of the challenge we also had to re-watch movies we had both already seen, to maintain consistency. Our first movie of the challenge was "Dances with Wolves" from 1990 and the final movie we watched was "Silence of the Lambs" from 1991 (which was mere coincidence in terms of their release dates.) We also rated the movies on a scale of 1-5 each then combined the scores to give them a total score out of 10. We would also go through all of the academy awards of that particular year and talk about who won each award as well as who was beaten in each category.
Ok, so that challenge is done. Now we move on to our next challenge...
We found that as we were going through each year, there were many times when we would come across other movies from the same year that we would rather watch than the one which won the Best Picture oscar. So we have decided that our next challenge is to go through years 1930-2007 (we skipped on 1928 & 1929 even though those were both pretty good movies, and we stopped at 2007 because thats where our original challenge stopped. It took us a long time to complete...) and this time we get to choose a movie. Any movie we want to watch from that year, as long as it did not win the Best Picture oscar and we feel it is somehow culturally significant.
OK!! So now we are ready to get started on our new challenge and we would like for you to join us on our journey! What we will do here is tell you what year we will be watching our next movies from, which movies we have chosen as well as what won the oscar that year and how we rated it. Sound good? Alright!
Ok, so that challenge is done. Now we move on to our next challenge...
We found that as we were going through each year, there were many times when we would come across other movies from the same year that we would rather watch than the one which won the Best Picture oscar. So we have decided that our next challenge is to go through years 1930-2007 (we skipped on 1928 & 1929 even though those were both pretty good movies, and we stopped at 2007 because thats where our original challenge stopped. It took us a long time to complete...) and this time we get to choose a movie. Any movie we want to watch from that year, as long as it did not win the Best Picture oscar and we feel it is somehow culturally significant.
OK!! So now we are ready to get started on our new challenge and we would like for you to join us on our journey! What we will do here is tell you what year we will be watching our next movies from, which movies we have chosen as well as what won the oscar that year and how we rated it. Sound good? Alright!
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