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Sincere Sensei
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I like the additional nominees because in the two years since they started this, two animated films, three sci-fi movies, and one horror movie (if you count Black Swan as horror) has been nominated. I think a wider variety of stuff gets considered. It's not just stuffy costume dramas filling out the ranks. Of course,

Being Nerdy
For the record, James Garner just got nominated for the Oscar. He didn't win it.

Beverly Hills Gun Club
The movie that Jay Mohr produces over the course of ACTION. It sounds so amazingly ludicrous, how could someone not want to see this? The toboggan of lesbians scene alone would be worth the price of admission.

All in the family and Roesanne
I think Roseanne would be much better if it had ended just as they won the lottery.

Prince's Hot Chicken.

I live in Nashville!

Holt shit I want to see this, but yeah not enough to buy it sight unseen.

Pirates of the Caribbean
I fully expected to see Jack Sparrow on this list.

The Game is a lot of fun. I dig it.

Eye of the Tiger was mine, too. At least it was the first song I remember knowing all the words to.

Some of My Favorites
The China Syndrome - One of my absolute favorite movies ever.

I already own this on DVD
But should I replace it with the Criterion edition? How much does the extra material add?

I love The China Syndrome too. Also Missing - which I really need to get on Criterion.

The Apartment
I absolutely love that movie. One of my very favorites. So many movies that take place on Christmas Eve involve miracles and hugs and snow and family. Going out to a bar because you're lonely and emotionally distraught and the place is closing down early for the holiday - that I can relate to.

Rampage and Arsenic & Old Lace
Depsite being directed by an Oscar winning director (William Friedkin), Rampage wasn't released for five years - until after Silence of the Lambs became a hit.

I'm a fan of OC and Stiggs, even though it is pretty homophobic and offensive, but it's still a lot of fun. I know Altman hated it, though. It might be my favorite thing he did in the eighties. It depends on what day you ask me.

Sleeping Beauty has a dude killing a dragon with just a sword. That's way cooler than anything in Alive in Wonderland. Plus Sleeping Beauty is really fucking pretty to look at.

The scene I love in this movie . . .
When Hunter tells Brooks that she's in love with Hurt's character, and Brooks' first reaction is to throw her out of his house. But instead they talk it out and when he FINALLY tells her he loves her, Hunter winces. Like physically winces. That is the exact reaction I fear getting

I live in Nashville, too! Somebody should take me to the Honky-Tonks.