by Chris Marshall:
Well, the 1990s are finished. This decade in The Oscar
Project took place during a time of major change in my life. I watched the
first movie of the decade in somebody else’s apartment in Columbus, Ohio,
because my power was out, and I watched the last while lying in bed in
Smithville, Mississippi. It’s kind of hard to imagine that I wrote the first
post of this series two and a half months ago when I should have been paying
attention in my hierarchical linear modeling class at Ohio State.
It’s been quite a ride. When I first started in late April,
I’d seen 21/84 of the winners, or 25%. Now I’ve seen 80/84, or 95%. By Tuesday,
I will have seen every single one of them, which I bet very few people are able
to say. There have been some really bad movies, though not as many as I
expected, and some extremely good ones, many of which completely took me off
guard.
