Sometimes ideas for the blog come to me out or the blue, or during an innocuous conversation amongst friends. The next series of post was conceived from the latter. At a surprise party for one of my good friends, avid reader of Off the Mark Thoughts and real life compadre, Anthony, brought up the question: Who will be the Best Picture nominees this year?
While it would be an awesome project, it would also be a completely uneducated guess at which movies would populate what essentially is the Academy's top-ten list. Only because I have not seen enough "Oscar-Caliber" films to compile a competent list.
So in lieu of that, I thought I'd rank the top-twenty movies that I've seen in 2012. Yay!
If you haven't figured it out yet, I have this OCD issue where I need to list every thing in order from favorite to least favorite. Video games, songs, movies, breakfast cereal (Honey Nut Cheerios, end of story) nothing is off-limits. Most lists are fluid, some are solid, and they are all usually more time consuming than they need to be.
How this will work is that numbers 20-16 will be in one post on December 5th, 15-11 will follow on December 12th, 10-6 will be on December 19th, and the top-five will each get an individual post starting December 26th. The time between each post will be allotted to discussions/arguments about the rankings and/or post from guests to defend or disagree with my opinions.
As a little tease, I will reveal the (not so) honorable mentions because I paid money to see 22 films this year and I think I should mention them all.
