inessential by Brent Simmons

Oscars

I’ll be watching to Oscars tonight. Here’s a list of movies I have not seen (I’m going by the oscars.com nominations list):

Hotel Rwanda
Finding Neverland
The Aviator
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
Collateral
Closer
Being Julia
Maria Full of Grace
Vera Drake
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kinsey
The Incredibles
Shark Tale
Shrek 2
Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events
The Phantom of the Opera
A Very Long Engagement
House of Flying Daggers
The Passion of the Christ
Born into Brothels
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Super Size Me
Tupac: Resurrection
Twist of Faith
Autism is a World
The Children of Leningradsky
Hardwood
Mighty Times: The Children’s March
Sister Rose’s Passion
As it is in Heaven
The Chorus
Downfall
The Sea Inside
Yesterday
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Village
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Polar Express
Birthday Boy
Gopher Broke
Guard Dog
Lorenzo
Ryan
Everything in this Country Must
Little Terrorist
7:35 in the Morning
Two Cars, One Night
Wasp
I, Robot
Before Sunset

Here are the nominated movies that I have seen:

Spiderman 2
Troy

Here are the movies that I would like to see:

The Aviator
The Incredibles
I, Robot
Collateral

The thing is, I love movies, it’s just that the nominated movies are usually movies that I don’t want to see.

But anyway, it doesn’t matter—the real fun of the Oscars is talking about the funny clothes people wear.