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Countdown to Oscar night is underway and wow – TEN??!! This year the Academy in its infinite wisdom or rather a knee jerk reaction to last year’s uproar over the omission of The Dark Knight from the nominee list has nominated TEN that’s right TEN movies in the Best Picture category.  Lest they overlook anybody or any film whether it’s REALLY deserving or not, to be in that vaulted category.   Think about Up in the Air and then think about A Gentleman’s Agreement, In the Heat of the Night and All Quiet on the Western Front.  Compare if you will Blind Side to All About Eve, Rebecca or Midnight Cowboy.  Believe if you will that Up was nominated but ET never was!  A Serious Man or Ghandi or Marty??  An Education in the same class as Gone With the Wind, How Green Was My Valley and On the Waterfront?  Having just watched The Hurt Locker which was extraordinarily realistic and thankfully lacking in major amounts of computer generated special effects and really was intense – it was not quite Mutiny on the Bounty, Lawrence of Arabia or From Here to Eternity.  And then there was The Godfather, Schindler’s List and Casablanca!!!!  For all of our advanced steps in technology which allow a director to have an indigenous people  fly on blue banshees, I think we’re going backwards in the overall caliber and quality of movies today.  Re: the title of this blog – out of the TEN, I’ve seen six and hence………

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