The Oscars!

The Oscars are tonight!  I'm excited.  We just finished watching the last of the Best Picture nominees that we're going to watch (we watched all but one!), and I really loved a lot of the movies this year!  Two of them I did not enjoy, but for very different reasons. I'll give you my thoughts on each movie!

1.  BlacKkKlansman - I really loved this movie.  I definitely would be happy if this got Best Picture, but this one isn't MY pick for Best Picture.  It also isn't the one that I think will get it.  This one dealt with some very difficult subject matter, but it was SO well done, and there were funny parts and serious parts, and it was just great.  There were also LOTS of parallels throughout the movie between what was happening during that time period and what is happening now, and juuuust in case the viewer wasn't understanding the parallels, they really put it right in your face at the end of the movie, which I thought was amazing.  I loved this movie.  I am pulling for Adam Driver as Best Supporting Actor!  He's an awesome actor.

2.  Black Panther - I thought this movie was VERY enjoyable, and I think it's very awesome that a Marvel movie was finally nominated, but this definitely isn't my pick for Best Picture.  Fun movie though!  And I think it's nominated for Best Costumes and Best Production Design, so I hope it wins for those categories.  Everything looked beautiful in this movie.

3. Bohemian Rhapsody - I loooooved this movie!!  I'm kinda hoping this wins, but I don't think it will. And I DEFINITELY think Rami Malek needs to win for Best Actor!  He was awesome.  Really great movie.  It made me laugh, it made me cry, it was just really great. 

4.  The Favourite - We did not see this one!  It was kinda our last priority, and we ran out of time.  It doesn't look great to me, but I'll probably watch it sometime.

5.  Green Book - Oh my goodness, loved this movie so much.  I loved Viggo Mortensen in it and also Mahershala Ali. This was SO well done, and I really loved it.  This is my pick for Best Picture!!  I really hope it wins.  I think it has a good shot!  Everyone should see this movie - It's SO good.  Loved it, loved it, loved it. 

6.  Roma - This one was great!!  It really surprised me how much I liked this one.  I'd seen a few different trailers for it, and I couldn't get a good feel for it.  I'd heard from multiple people that it was awesome, but I just wasn't sure if I was going to like it.  But, I definitely did!!  I thought it was great, and this is the one that I think will win.  It isn't MY pick, but I think it'll win, and I'll be happy if it does win.  I also think this will win for Best Director!  It's a Netflix movie, so it's an easy one to watch!

7.  A Star is Born - I didn't like this one at all.  Like, not even a little bit.  I know this is like the 4th or 5th remake of this one, but I just didn't enjoy it.  And, I truly can't believe that Lady Gaga is nominated for Best Actress.  Her acting was NOT good for the most part.  She had a few scenes that she did a great job in, but for most of it I was like, "Oh my gosh... this is terrible".  Bradley Cooper did a good job though, and so did Sam Elliott. But I'm not rooting for either one of them.

8. Vice - I didn't like this one either.  I think it was REALLY well done and everyone involved (acting, directing, etc) did a great job, but OH MY GOSH this movie made me so upset, angry, stressed, and sad.  I had a feeling that's how I was going to feel watching this one, so I wasn't excited to see it.  So, I think they did a great job with this one, but I just really didn't enjoy it one bit.

Guinness is 6 years old! Plus Oscar nominations.

Guinness turned 6 years old on Groundhog Day, and I can't believe how quickly the time has flown by!!  It seems like just yesterday he was a little puppy.  We hung out with him all day on his birthday, and there was snow on the ground (he loooooves snow!!), so we played lots of frisbee with him throughout the day! We also boiled up a little bit of chicken breast, because that is his faaaavorite.  And of course me and Kevin watched the movie Groundhog Day, because that is tradition!!  I love that movie. 

Here's our little goober as a puppy!! 

Another one of him as a puppy.  He's still got that white line down his forehead! 

He had so much fun playing frisbee on his birthday! 

Here he is chowing down on some boiled chicken. 

And here he is suuuuuuper passed out after a fun birthday!! 

You can kinda see the white line down his forehead here!  This was during a nice walk yesterday! 

We have had some craaaazy weather the past few weeks.  We have had insanely cold temperatures (down to 1 degree), and just a few days ago it got up in the 60s.  So... I cannot keep up.  The poor planet is broken.  Climate change is real, guys.  But, one of the days we had snow,  Kevin pointed out something ADORABLE on our front porch!!  A bunch of birds had been hopping around in our snow, and left the cutest little footprints.  Oh, and there's a few Guinness footprints there as well, so just ignore those! 

The Oscar nominations were announced!!  Wahoo!!  You guys know I love the Oscars (I have no idea why... but I do), and for the past 5 years or something Kevin and I have tried to watch all of the Best Picture nominations.  I think we only actually watched all of them once, but we have been VERY close a few times!!  This year the Best Picture nominees are:

-BlacKkKlansman:  This one is by Spike Lee, and we just watched this one over this past weekend!  It's based on a true story about the first African-American police officer in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s, and how he organized an investigation into the local KKK chapter.  John David Washington (Denzel Washington's son!) stars in this, and Adam Driver is AMAZING in it.  He's nominated for Best Supporting Actor for it. 

-Black Panther:  I love this one!!!  I've seen this one so many times already (and saw it in the movie theater too), and I think it's so cool that a Marvel movie is nominated!!  It was such a great movie.

-Bohemian Rhapsody:  I haven't seen this one yet, but I really want to!  This one is about Freddie Mercury, and it looks amazing.  Rami Malek looks so much like Freddie!  It's crazy.  I've heard this one is a front-runner to win, but I have no opinion yet!

-The Favourite:  I don't know much about this one!  I know Emma Stone is in it, and I know it's supposed to be funny?  But other than that I don't know anything at all.

-Green Book:  This one looks great!!  I really want to see this one.  And Mahershala Ali is amazing in everything he does, so I'm always excited to see anything he's in.  Mahershala is nominated for Best Supporting Actor too I think, so that seems like a tough competition this year! 

-Roma:  I literally know nothing about this one, except that I know it's on Netflix and I've heard it's great!!  I think we'll definitely watch this one.

-A Star Is Born:  I think this is the 4th or 5th time this movie has been done?  I'm not super excited to see this one, but maybe I'll end up loving it?  I'm not sure!  I do love Bradley Cooper, and sometimes I like Lady Gaga (though I haven't really seen her acting I don't think?), so this one is kind of a wild card for me.  But I've heard this one is a front-runner to win too. 

-Vice: This is the one about Dick Cheney.  This one definitely seems interesting!  Christian Bale is very unrecognizable as Cheney, and Sam Rockwell is great in everything (ANOTHER Supporting Actor nomination!), so I'm guessing this one will be pretty good.

So, so far we've seen 2 out of 8!  We'll see how far we get before the Oscars at the end of month!