Best motion picture of the year nominations

1) Amour
2) Argo
3) Beasts of the Southern Wild
4) Django Unchained
5) Les Misérables
6) Life of Pi
7) Lincoln
8) Silver Linings Playbook
9) Zero Dark Thirty

I haven't seen any of these, and there's 5 that I didn't know anything about.

Of these, I want to buy Lincoln, Life of Pi in 3D, and Django Unchained.

I'm thinking I want to see 3) Breasts of the Southern Wild

You are exceptionally good at maintaining your focus Mark!

The link to my updated Best Picture spreadsheet.

You know how sometimes you can't bring yourself to watch a movie if you've read the book because you're worried you'll be disappointed? I'm fighting that feeling with Les Mis. Maybe I was young and impressionable but I remember being moved to tears in the theater when I saw it on stage. . . I'm worried the Hollywood version will lack that soul-tearing moment when Valjean sings "Bring Him Home". (I honestly just broke out in goosebumps thinking about it just now.) Did anyone see it?

I haven't seen it but i saw a documentary on the making of it. I was quite impressed by that. The singing and such was all done in real time voice and no in-booth re-dubs or anything like that.
It was as if they were just filming a stage production but kept moving and changing the background setting to real locations instead of moving props on stage.
I'm not a musical fan but this has caught my interest.

It is openly discussed elsewhere that the nominations are more of a popularity contest anymore and not a sign of an actual good film. Not saying that they aren't possibly decent movies, but I don't care for many (if any) of the "awards" ceremonies any more.

All the more reason to get involved in optimistic discussion here then about movies you enjoyed.

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