It's Golden Globe day!!!

Another movie award season is upon us and as usual, the Lindell's have spent the last month seeing as many movies as possible. After last year's writer's strike, the Golden Globes have returned! And as usual, several movies nominated are "limited release" and not in theaters currently around Buffalo. What kind of place is this?? The good news, it looks like at least a few will be in theaters by end of January so at least we'll be able to see them before the Oscars. Here is a list of the movies we were able to see prior to tonight's award show:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Burn After Reading
In Bruges
Mamma Mia
I've Loved You So Long
Milk
Changeling
Doubt
Pineapple Express
Bolt (in 3-D even!)
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

The movies we weren't able to see:

Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road (come on, a Jan 23 worldwide release?? 2 weeks after the Globes??)
Happy-Go-Lucky
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (we straight blew that one as it left Regal before we saw it)
The Wrestler
Last Chance Harvey
Defiance
Gran Torino
Cadillac Records

So, we did a pretty good job with what we had since there was only one movie we didn't see that we even had a chance of seeing. This life in Buffalo isn't conducive to our love of movies. Yeah, the blockbuster movies are fun to see but it's always the Oscar nominated "smaller audience" ones that leave me feeling really satisfied. Oh well, someday we'll be back in the Seattle/Portland area and this won't be a problem.

I will save my predictions for the Oscars since we just didn't see enough movies in each category to give an educated guess. However, I will give my opinion in the 2 categories that we did complete:

Supporting Actor--Heath Ledger will win it hands down due to all the publicity he's received and I will admit, he did a great job in the Dark Knight. I just hope when it comes to the Oscar, they don't solely give it to him because he passed away. He was a great actor but this performance might not be enough for me to give it to him. I will make a better prediction once I see the other Oscar nominees.

Animated Film--Wall-E definitely deserves it in my book. I really enjoyed our 3-D experience of "Bolt" but Wall-E gets my vote. The animation was incredible and I really loved the story.

That's about it for now. I love awards season! Red Carpet arrival at 6pm...