It seems to be that throughout the whole of January people talk about their new year’s resolutions. Whether they have still managed to keep to them and if they have given up. Then there’s the people who go through the whole month saying “another of my new resolutions is to…” 3 weeks into the month.

I do have some. Some I plan to start in a few weeks/months and one or two I have started. Though for the most part, I don’t generally bother. This year I hope to quit smoking – but I’m postponing it for a bit – definitely by 30th April though. Another is to ease up on my alcohol intake. I guess I have made some headway with that one. Thirdly I plan to blog more – that one I’m certainly doing.

Another is to watch more movies. At one point last year I said (though I put it down to having had a few drinks) I want to try watching a movie everyday for a year. This will never ever work out, so i quickly scraped it. This year though, I am going to watch more movies than before. This week I watched three. Three great movies. The Last Kiss (Zach Braff), Brokeback Mountain and The Pursuit of Happyness (Will Smith). I enjoyed each one. Each time I do something that I don’t do very often, then do it three days in a row it just makes me want to do it every day.

However, my new plan is to watch all of the movies that have been nominated for an Oscar this year. I have 30 days to see as many as possible. Certainly the main categories; picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor/actress, original screenplay. So far I’ve seen 3, out of 58! I reckon the hardest category will be ‘documentary feature’ and ‘documentary short’, but I have until this time next year.

I have made a list of all 41 movies with Oscar nominations. those in bold I have seen. Check my progress here.

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