Oscar Night 2010

I used to go to the movie theater weekly. With kids, that's impossible. The only of those films I saw in the theater were Up, Avatar, Inglorious Basterds and District 9. Avatar is the only movie I've seen in the theaters since the Summer.

The others I downloaded or saw on DVD. I have friends who send me copies of screeners. I still have not seen A Serious Man.

 

My wife and I have very different taste in movies. Over the last 6 months we have seen Avatar together and that's it.

I don't watch Mad Men so did not trealize it was a Don Draper thing but I cut out of the office once a month to catch movies. When I went to Inglorioius Basterds I was running late and walked in without paying as the understaffed theatre had a big line and I did not want to miss the beginning.

Hurt Locker is at an "artsy" type theatre that I will probably visit next week.

 

Hurt Locker is on DVD.

 

As a guy who works in the periphery of the movie business, I lift my glass in your honor, sir. Bravo!

 

Cutting out of the office to go home an watch a movie is not quite as much fun.

In the theatre I don't have my blackberry on, phone won't ring, won't get distracted.

The whole willing suspension of disbelief is easier.

 

Once mom passes, just take him out for some fishing.

 

Three best stories about trying to keep the streak going: 1986 I was covering a fight in Vegas and hadn't seen Kiss Of the Spider Woman in first run. It was playing at some theater off the strip so I took a cab down and watched the movie. But I couldn't get a cab to come pick me up. It didn't look that far from where I was to the strip, but it's one of those desert things -- things are much farther than they seem. I must have walked 3 miles before I finally found a cab to take me back to my hotel.
In 1999 I hadn't seen Elizabeth and was covering the NCAA East Regional at the Meadowlands. The movie was playing on the Upper West Side. I took a bus to the Port Authority, a cab up to the East 80s and saw the movie, then walked back 40 blocks to Times Square because it was a nice day.
In 2002, my wife and I rented Moulin Rouge, watched the first 12 minutes and turned it off. Hated it. But then it got nominated, so I had to see it. But I was bogged down covering the NCAAs so I carried a DVD of it around with me for about a week. I finally watched it on my computer about 3 a.m. on Friday before Indiana beat Kent State in the regional finals. That was the first one in the streak that I hadn't seen on a theater screen.

 

Wow - just watched Hurt Locker. A 2 hour adrenaline rush. Best picture was well deserved.

 

Start at the 2 minute mark.

 

(shudders)