1978, 1977, 1976 Best Picture winners are...

I can not believe how long it has been since the last time I did a post. I haven't forgotten or got bored with the blog but work takes up a lot of time. Yes I could have watched and done posts on Saturdays but when you spend 8 hours every day with 13 one and two year old's all you want to do on a Saturday is just sleep and recoup before having to start it all again on Monday. Don't get me wrong I love my job but the kids just wear you out. Yesterday at work the cutest thing happened. I was sitting on the floor with one of my kiddos and he was looking at my star shaped earrings. He points at them and says. "stars, stars" and then he started singing twinkle, twinkle little star. It was the cutest thing. The kids are always so interested in my earrings when I remember to wear them. I have one little girl who LOVES to look at my earrings and there have been a few times she has pulled them out. She will sit on my lap and turn my head from side to side to look at them. I will some times take out my earrings to show them to her before she pulls them out herself. I don't let her actually hold them, I do that. It is fascinating to see what interests them. Any way onto the movies :)

1978- Annie Hall



I just finished watching this and I actually liked it. I am not a big fan of Woody Allen but I really enjoyed his character even if the character irritated me at times with some of his quirks. To be honest I liked Woody Allen's character better than Diane Keaton's character. Overall I thought it was a fun movie and I would watch it again.

If you are interested the other movies that were nominated were: The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars and The Turning Point. I have seen Star Wars but not the other ones so I can't say if this really was the best to win. I guess if you are a die hard Star Wars fan then maybe you feel that it should have won because of all the cool special effects and what not. But since I am not a die hard fan or even a regular fan (thank goodness) I don't really care that it didn't win.

1977- Rocky



I really, really like this movie. Sport movies are usually not my cup of tea to watch but I did enjoy watching this. I did enjoy watching Remember The Titans and Glory Road and those were about sports. Any way back to Rocky. There really is nothing bad that I can say about this movie. I am glad that the movie won. Like I said before I really, really liked it. My favorite part of the movie is when he is training with the music in the background. It pumps me up and I don't know why. It's not like I am going to go out running after watching it. I also like the part when he runs up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. If I ever go to Philadelphia again I would love to go there are and take a picture of me on them and maybe even take a picture by the statue of Rocky that is there. Maybe I should put that on my bucket list. Maybe I should make a bucket list :)

I know that Eye of the Tiger isn't in this movie but I love that song. Every time I hear it on the radio I immediately picture Rocky. I also want to turn the volume up and roll down my windows when I hear it but I am not brave enough to do that. There was one day I was coming home from work and the song came on and I saw a person jogging and I really wanted to roll the window down and blast the song and drive along side them. That sounds really creepy but I just wanted to encourage them during their work out.

1976-  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest



This was an interesting movie to say the least but I did enjoy watching it. I feel weird saying that I enjoyed it cause in a way it is a sad movie. There are some funny parts in it. I watched this with my mom and she told me that Danny DeVito was in it. I did not believe her but there he was. I am so use to seeing him older and a little bit fatter. The saddest part of the movie to me was the ending. I actually got a little teary when watching the scene. I am going to tell the ending so if you have not seen the movie you might want to stop reading or you can continue if you don't mind knowing the ending. Let me tell a little about the movie before I get to the ending. Jack Nicholson's character McMurphy,  who is a criminal who has been sentenced to prison decides to have himself declared mentally insane so that he can go to an institution where he thinks it will be easier to do his time. He becomes friends with some of the patients and has to deal with the horrible Nurse Ratched. He tries to liven up the place by playing cards and basketball and at times it seems like the other patients are progressing in ways. Towards the end of the movie one of his friends commits suicide and McMurphy blames Nurse Ratched for it because of the way she and the institution treated the friend. He goes over and almost chokes her to death. The orderlies get him off and take him away. Rumors begin to go around about where McMurphy ended up. Some thought he finally escaped while others believed he had a lobotomy done to him. One night the orderlies bring him back to his bed in the night and his other friend named Chief comes over to see him. McMurphy doesn't respond when Chief tries to talk to him and that is when Chief notices 2 scars on his forehead. Chief realizes that his friend is gone and not wanting him to live the rest of his life in a vegetable-like state takes a pillow and suffocates McMurphy. Chief then breaks a window and escapes the way that McMurphy had planned on doing earlier in the movie. I am actually getting teary eyed while I am typing this. In a weird way it was a sweet thing for Chief to kill McMurphy. I wouldn't necessarily go and rent the movie but if it was on TV I might watch it again. I am sorry if I ruined the movie for any one but I would say to go out and watch it any ways.


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