True Grit

          Last night I finally got out to my local small town theater to see a movie. The last movie I saw in theaters was Megamind, back in October. Most of the movies I watch are watched on my computer, or on the smaller laptop. Even when I watch a dvd on my television it's still underwhelming because of my relatively small t.v screen. So it's good to get out and experience the majesty of the movie theater. It really is an experience that can't be equalled, not even by huge home theater systems and surround sound and whatever else. There is something magical about going to the movies. I love it. I love sitting in the dark with a bunch of strangers. I especially love sitting through the coming attractions trailers. Not necessarily because of the trailers themselves, I've usually seen them already. But usually because in my theater there's no guarantee that any particular film will ever come to our town. However last night heralded the arrival of two films I'm interested in, Tron Legacy and Sanctum. Finally, I love the experience of waiting for a few days to see a movie, getting excited and then finally arriving and seeing it on the huge screen with surround sound, seeing the movie the way it was meant to be seen. Last night, that movie was True Grit.
   

It's Oscar Season.

So far I have seen four of the ten Best Picture nominees. All four were excellent films and certainly deserve to be honoured in the best picture category. As you may or may not know there are three main flavours of best picture nominee. Front runners, spoilers, and it's an honour to be nominated. Our front-runners this year are the documentary known as How to Make a Best Picture Winner a.k.a. The King's Speech and the young upstart The Social Network which is about this new fangled internet thing that most of the members of the academy don't understand. As you may have gathered I'm slightly bitter about this whole thing.