Year # 2: 1953

In 1953 the Best Picture was "From Here to Eternity." Adam gave it a 4 out of 5, I gave it a 3.5 giving it a total score of 7.5 out of 10. To be perfectly honest, I don't remember that much from it. It was one of the first movies we watched during the first challenge, which was like... 2 years ago. According to our reviews it was pretty good, and one thing I do remember is that Frank Sinatra was in it, and he was pretty good in it. I seem to remember the famous scene from that movie (the beach scene where they are rolling around in the waves kissing) being WAY overrated. Anyway, this should be an interesting year in terms of comparing movies. So, with that in mind...

Adam's pick: War of the Worlds (the original, no Tom Cruise)
Kim's pick: Stalag 17

I picked Stalag 17 because it's a movie that I watched in my German class in high school and I haven't seen it since but I remember LOVING it. (yes, we are allowed to pick movies we've seen before) It's about POW's during WWII trying to break out of their camp. It's a drama-ish movie but has lots of good comedy, so I'm pretty stoked. Right now I'm feeling like it's already a better movie than From Here to Eternity, but we must be fair and we'll wait and see.

Adam picked War of the Worlds because it is a classic movie that he thinks everyone should have to see, and it was successful as a re-make (which he actually never saw, but I did, and I hate Tom Cruise, but I will try not to hold that against this version.) I must say I'm curious about this one, because I'm not a sci-fi person, but here's the one redeeming quality: it's only 85 minutes. Sweeeeeet.

The last 2 movies are in the mail and these 2 are already on the netflix queue so we should get them early next week. So as always, stay tuned.