Back at the farm in South Dakota on the night after Christmas, Lauren and I were joined by my mom, sister, and brother-in-law for a viewing of the 2007 Best Picture No Country for Old Men, a movie I had seen in the theater when it was new. I still don’t fully understand the title [...]
2006 • The Departed
Ugh… I do so poorly attempting to follow movies with lots of characters and confusing plot lines. I got up for ten minutes and made a burger during the first half hour of the movie and came back totally lost and never recovered. And I’ve seen this movie before! I remember being just about as [...]
2005 • Crash
2005 was one of the few years (if only year) where I have actually seen all of the Best Picture nominees. I more or less slept through Munich and can’t properly judge it. I saw Good Night and Good Luck in the theater with Jason and Nick in Eden Prairie shortly after I moved to [...]
2004 • Million Dollar Baby
Fresh off the LOTR trilogy, I was more than ready to get back into some non-fantasy movies. Sunday night we got right back into our project with 2004′s Clint Eastwood boxing drama, Million Dollar Baby. Neither of us had ever seen it before, but I was well aware of the much-spoofed scene involving Hilary Swank [...]
2003 • The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
If you read my personal blog, you would know that in order to watch our next Best Picture winner, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, we first needed to watch the first two LOTR movies. We started out with Fellowship of the Ring which I enjoyed, then moved on to Two [...]
