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!