Your Unemployed Daughter

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Yep, I’m that bad a moviegoer. If you don’t believe me, let me assure you that the movie I saw prior to the aforementioned was New Moon. And before that? I don’t even remember! Julie and Julia, perhaps?

Of course, if we expand my movie-watching to include films viewed at home as well as en theater, we can add such goodies as, um, Julie and Julia again (yeah, it was on Movies on Demand and I demanded it!), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (on FREE Movies on Demand, which I love), and Mad Men Season 2. I know, I know, that’s not a movie. You people are sticklers!

All this means that, basically, this list of Best Picture Oscar Nominees means a whole lot of nuthin’ to me:

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Except that I really did want to see Up in the Air, I did, cause you know it’s all about firings and all and that’s kinda my speshiality. And An Education, because even though I know now that Peter Sarsgaard is the type of faux Brooklyn hippie who actually rides around in a Hummer and knocks people out of his way to get to his oil-guzzler after, say, performing in an off-Broadway show (you heard it here!), I do like that gal Carey Mulligan.

Of course, there’s that Avatar thing that I have no interest in seeing except I am the one person in the entire world who apparently feels that way except for one other person I know who can’t see it because SHE CAN’T SEE IN 3-D (Imagine the horror!). And then there’s Sandra Bullock’s ultra-manipulative white people movie about “saving” black people through the beautiful emotional connector known as football. Color me disinterested. If it were foosball, now, that I would watch. Compare that to Push, which I hear is actually good, but far too traumatic for my sensitive spirit—not to mention the title is so long-winded and high-falutin’ as to prevent me from every uttering it out loud, or even in my own head.

So let’s take some bets, shall we? Which of these movies will I actually see before the Oscars are awarded … or the next installment of the Twilight Saga is released?