Yesterday afternoon, I had an exciting revelation.
For the first time in my life, I had seen every single Best Picture nominee on the day that the nominations were announced! I can now speak without reservations about personal taste on the category!
Random Factoid #190
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Random Factoid #189
2 02 2010The history of Marshall hearing about the Oscar nominations, part 1:
In the year 2009…
I watched from my kitchen in utter shock as “The Dark Knight” failed to net nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, and, most importantly, Picture. I drove to school completely stunned and pissed, and I read the rest of the nominations there.
In the year 2008…
Crap. I can’t remember. Mainly because I had practically no stake in the awards. I had only seen “No Country for Old Men” and “Michael Clayton,” which I was sure would miss.
In the year 2007…
I had an orthodontist appointment in the morning, and I fretted that I wouldn’t be able to hear them live. I found them on Fox News’ XM Radio station and was infuriated when “Dreamgirls” didn’t get a Best Picture nomination. (And I realize this will probably open the floodgates for plenty of “Dreamgirls” hate comments. Bring it on. I’d be happy to receive your comment.)
I remember stories for several more years, but you’re going to have to wait…until NEXT YEAR to hear them. Check back for the exciting sequel in 2011!
UPDATED 1/25/2011: Read part 2 HERE!
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Random Factoid #188
1 02 2010Hearing the Oscar nominations is a very important thing for me. I go out of my way to make sure that I can hear them live because I have to know as soon as possible if my predictions are correct.
In fact, I even remember (dating back several years) how I found out the nominations. But I’ll save some of the suspense … for tomorrow’s factoid!
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Random Factoid #187
31 01 2010
I found out today that for a part that I am playing in the musical “Kiss Me, Kate,” I need to get a gangster accent. So to get this accent, where else am I turning but the movies? My initial thought was Robert DeNiro in “GoodFellas” for a very threatening accent, but I’m now thinking that Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Departed” might be good as well.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
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Random Factoid #186
30 01 2010Whenever I was younger, I would sometimes be afraid to directly ask my parents to take me to a movie. But I still wanted to go, so I devised a sneaky way to get them to take me.
What I did was sit in front of them with the entertainment section of the newspaper, clearly looking at the movie showtimes. They could ignore it for a few minutes, but eventually they had to acknowledge it and give my modest proposal a “yay” or “nay.”
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Random Factoid #185
29 01 2010
Tonight, I sat down to watch “Rocket Science,” the movie which led Jason Reitman to write the part of Natalie Keener in “Up in the Air” specifically for Anna Kendrick, on my AT&T U-Verse DVR. After a minute, it stopped. Turns out that at 3:50 A.M. a few days ago, we ran out of space on the DVR. This is especially frustrating because “Rocket Science” is nearly impossible to find, and I managed to find the one time that it would be on Cinemax for weeks.
I’ve talked about the tight space before, but I can’t believe there is no way to check on AT&T how much time is left before something like this happens. This is ridiculous. I am very upset that I now have to wait several more weeks to watch “Rocket Science,” but what if it was something more important that my trite trifles? What if AT&T only recorded one minute of something truly important? It just gets you thinking.
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Random Factoid #184
28 01 2010It’s weird the things that I remember.
The other day, I recalled rolling my eyes at a man who tried for over a minute to buy a ticket for “Mozambique.” Finally, the ticket lady realized that he was asking for tickets to “Madagascar.”
I really had trouble coming up with today’s factoid, and whenever I was brainstorming, this memory kept coming back to me.
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Random Factoid #182
26 01 2010
My one literary purchase while in Argentina: a magazine called “El Amante Cine (The Cinema Lover).”
The magazine is basically designed for cinephiles, written by cinephiles. This made it especially difficult to read, seeing as some of the pieces dealt with schools of film criticism. I find myself struggling with these concepts in English, and trying to understand them in another language was extremely difficult.
The issue I got jumped out at me because “Avatar” graced the cover. The issue was the yearly wrap-up edition. Their nearly unanimous worst movie of 2009? “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” one of my all-time favorites and five best of 2008 according to the Academy Awards.
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Random Factoid #181
25 01 2010Now hanging on my bulletin board: a review of “Up in the Air” in Spanish! I tore it out of a copy of “La Nación” (The Nation), a newspaper in Buenos Aires, while at a Starbucks Coffee chowing on a donut and croissant.
They gave it four stars, by the way.
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Random Factoid #180
24 01 2010In school, it takes me forever to read Spanish literature.
In Argentina, I read a four page article about Matt Damon and the making of “Invictus” in less than 15 minutes.
It’s amazing how easy it is to read something you are interested in.
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Random Factoid #179
23 01 2010Incredible frustration is occurring with the Fandango app on my iPhone.
I have a very specific order for my favorite theaters. The two Edwards theaters come first, then the AMC theater, then the two art house theaters, and then the two theaters farther away from my house that some of my friends attend.
You can add or remove a theater from your favorites by gently rubbing a finger across a lovely heart-shaped button in the top right corner. This button, however, is incredibly sensitive, and it often erases theaters from my favorites without my knowledge. To correct the situation, I have to delete my favorites entirely and rebuild the list again in the correct order. This has happened almost 10 times now, but I will never erase the app. It’s the best movie ticket app out there, even though I will never use Fandango to buy them.
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Random Factoid #178
22 01 2010This is my last of the factoids that have been set to publish since January 5th! Are you excited to read the conclusion?
Since I have started to use the library to get movies, I have sometimes run into situations where I am not able to watch a movie by the time it is due. I pay $0.20 a day for however long I go ever, which may not seem like a lot, but it piles up quickly.
The biggest late fee I have ever paid was on “The Graduate,” which I kept for at least 3 weeks after the due date. Runner-up goes to “Cold Mountain,” for which I paid a $2.80 late fee.
(P.S. – I have now officially passed 1,000 tags on the blog. Proud moment? You decide.)
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Random Factoid #177
21 01 2010Almost two years ago when I went to see “Prince Caspian” with a friend of mine on the last day of school, the lady at the box office gave me some sort of paper coupon for concessions that had been roughly cut with scissors. Rather than throw it away instantly, I kept in my pocket.
Sometime during the movie, I was reminded that the coupon was still there. I fidgeted with it in my pocket, and I then did something kind of strange. I decided to slip it in a hole underneath my seat.
Weird? Yeah, I think it is. But I can’t help but wondering if it is still there…theater 7 at Edwards Greenway Grand Palace 24.
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Random Factoid #176
20 01 2010When I know I am flying Continental, I like to check the in-flight movie schedule online prior to flying to see what I can expect on the plane. The schedule is usually dead on, but they have been off on occasion.
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