March 2010 Archives

With the field for a 2010 best picture Oscar being expanded to 10 this year in theory to allow for more popular films to be nominated I thought it would be interesting to see which I have seen and how.  First however I will look at 2009 as a comparison to see if expanding the field worked.

2009:

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: The Criterion Collection
Watched this one on Blu-Ray and enjoyed it.

Frost/Nixon
No desire to see this.

Milk
No desire to see this.

The Reader
No desire to see this.

Slumdog Millionaire (Winner)
Saw it in the theater and really liked it.

In 2009 I only saw 2 out of 5 or 40% of the nominees, now is 2010 better?

2010:

Avatar
Watched this in the theater in mini IMAX 3D and loved it.

The Blind Side
Haven't seen it yet but would like to.

District 9
Watched this in the theater and really enjoyed it.

An Education
Haven't seen it and not sure that I want to.

The Hurt Locker (Winner)
Have the NetFlix here and hoping to watch this weekend.

Inglourious Basterds
Watched it on Blu-Ray and really liked it.

Precious
No desire to see this.

A Serious Man
Watched it on Blu-Ray and enjoyed it.

Up
Watched this in the theater in Disney 3D and loved it.

Up in the Air
Watched this in the theater and loved it.

In 2010 I have already seen 6 of the nominees and want to see another 2 with the last two being ones I don’t really want to see.  That makes it 80% this year which is much better than last year.  I would say for me at least the Oscars have become more relevant.  Maybe I will revisit this next year and see if it was just a blip or not.

I just have to say “I told you so” and 18 months ago.  About 18 months ago I posted some videos I got from taking a survey online that were a new potential TiVo interface.  The story was quickly picked up by quite a few sites and even got the attention of TiVoPony who nicely asked me to remove the post, which I did until today.  I figured with the announcement of the TiVo Premiere on Tuesday night it was ok to put the post back up.

The most interesting part for me is the fact that the videos from then are so close to the (near) final Premiere interface.  Most of the major features were in those videos.  Gives you some idea how long it takes to develop something for the consumer space.