OSCAR LEAD UP: Part One - The Percentages

The Oscars are Sunday
(pretty people! pretty clothes!)
and since you all know that I
love
the movies
I've put into percentages
my 2010 movies viewing habits.

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NUMBER OF MOVIES RELEASED: 366

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES I'VE NEVER HEARD OF:  43 (159 titles)

Titles include: My Suicide, Celine: The Movie, Suck and The Yellow Handkerchief (which I mistaking guessed as a sad Korean/Chinese movie but is actually a well reviewed but rarely seen drama staring William Hurt)

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES I'D RATHER SHOOT MYSELF IN THE FACE THAN WATCH: 25 (92 titles)

Titles include: Yogi Bear, Sex and the City 2, The Tourist, Biutiful (looks too foreign and way too sad), Eat Pray Love and Knight & Day (Cameron Diaz should just not make movies)

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES I'VE HEARD OF AND I'M SURE THEY'RE FINE BUT I HAVE NO INTEREST IN: 16 (59 titles)

Titles include: Another Year, Howl, Get Low, Rabbit Hole, Paranormal Activity 2 and Stonewall Uprising.

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES I KNOW I'LL SEE...EVENTUALLY: 5 (20 titles)

Titles include: Animal Kingdom, I Love You Phillip Morris, Winter's Bone, Youth in Revolt and Despicable Me.

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES I GOTTA SEE!: 4 (15 titles)

Titles include: Burlesque (what? It looks hil-ar-io-us), Kick Ass, Let Me In, The Other Guys, Tron Legacy (looks like a good popcorn flick) and Blue Valentine.

and finally

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES I TOTALLY SAW: 6 (21 titles)

Full list of titles: 127 Hours, Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, Black Swan, The Complete Metropolis, Easy A, Exit Through The Gift Shop, The Fighter, Greenberg, Harry Potter 7: Part 1, Holy Rollers, Inception, Iron Man 2, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, Never Let Me Go, Red Riding Trilogy (you see one, you've seen them all - also this SNL skit sorta explains it all), Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Shutter Island, The Social Network, Tiny Furniture, Toy Story 3, and True Grit.

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*Yes, I know it only adds up to 99% but I hate remainders*

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PERCENTAGE OF THE MOVIES I SAW THAT I THOUGHT SUCKED: 5 (1 title - Alice in Wonderland) 

PERCENTAGE OF THE BEST PICTURE NOMINEES I'VE SEEN: 90 (all but Winter's Bone which is sitting on my DVD player)

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES THAT I SAW THAT I THINK SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE: 9.5 (2 titles - Exit Through the Gift Shop, even though I don't think documentaries can be nominated in the Best Picture category and Never Let Me Go)

PERCENTAGE OF MOVIES THAT I SAW THAT FEATURE ANDREW GARFIELD'S ASS: 9.5 (2 titles - the first movie in the Red Riding Trilogy and Never Let Me Go)

PERCENTAGE OF THOSE MOVIES FEATURING ANDREW GARFIELD'S ASS I ENJOYED A LITTLE MORE BECAUSE OF SAID FEATURE: 100

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And that's it. Tomorrow I'm going to write about my favorite movies of the year that were snubbed or ignored this year by critics or the Academy.