Introduction...continued

How will I choose?  What order?

At first it sounded logical to watch the films in order, but then I'd be stuck in different decade each week.  Yes, that may be nice if I wanted to get the 'feeling' of the decade. Pontificate about why movies were chosen based on the social climate, world events, cultural significance...but I think that I'd abandon the project in a week.  One can only tolerate so many black and white movies in a row...

I chose the first movie, "Going My Way" because it was on Netflix Instant Download.  I still have Big Bang Theory, Season 2 to finish watching, so it's instant download for now.  I can't abandon Sheldon mid-season...it's in the Roommate Agreement.

At this point, I'm only going to focus on the ones that I haven't seen yet.  If I have time at the end, then I will re-watch them.

Here's a list of the Oscar Best Pictures.  The ones that I've seen are crossed out.

• Wings
• The Broadway Melody
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Cimarron
• Grand Hotel
• Calvacade
• It Happened One Night
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• The Great Ziegfeld
• The Life of Emile Zola
• You Can't Take It With You
• Gone with the Wind
• Rebecca
• How Green Was My Valley
• Mrs. Miniver
• Casablanca
• Going My Way
• The Lost Weekend
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Hamlet
• All the King's Men
• All About Eve
• An American in Paris
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• From Here to Eternity
• On the Waterfront
• Marty
• Around the World in 80 Days
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Gigi
• Ben-Hur
• The Apartment
• West Side Story
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Tom Jones
• My Fair Lady
• The Sound of Music
• A Man for All Seasons
• In the Heat of the Night
• Oliver!
• Midnight Cowboy
• Patton
• The French Connection
• The Godfather
• The Sting
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Rocky
• Annie Hall
• The Deer Hunter
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• Ordinary People
• Gandhi
• Terms of Endearment
• Amadeus
• Out of Africa
• Platoon
• The Last Emperor
• Rain Man
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Dances with Wolves
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Unforgiven
• Schindler's List
• Forest Gump
• Braveheart
• The English Patient
• Titanic
• Shakespeare in Love
• American Beauty
• Gladiator
• Beautiful Mind
• Chicago
• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
• Million Dollar Baby
• Crash
• The Departed
• No Country for Old Men
• Slumdog Millionare
• The Hurt Locker
• The King's Speech