"So... 100 Movies of Fall?" "I hate you."

We did it! We had our doubts along the way, for sure, and Brandon threatened to pull the plug more than once, but I am really glad we persevered. Sure, it's not really a great accomplishment, and we certainly could have done something much more productive with our time, but in the end we do feel like we at least followed through and finished something we started, and got to spend lots of quality time together. To be completely honest, I gained a bunch of weight, we're both in awful shape, our DVRs are about ready to explode, so a lot of other parts of our lives did suffer in the process. However, we are pleased we actually did it.

Usually I love pretty much every movie I watch while I am watching it. I am the worst movie critic on earth because I will feel however the film makers want me to feel and accept just about anything that is thrown at me. During this project I found myself watching movies differently and being more critical knowing I was going to have to write about them, and ultimately got a lot more out of them. I discovered that as a general rule I can't stand 70s movies and absolutely adore 50s movies. I fell madly in love with Lou Taylor Pucci and had an extreme epiphany about Casey Affleck. We realized that Amy Ryan can do pretty much anything and steal every scene she's in. Brandon realized that AFI's Top 100 movies list is VERY inconsistent, and that people who claim that they love The Godfather Trilogy are either retarded or have never sat through that mess. Oh, and don't get him started on The Deerhunter. Mostly he's just happy we actually made the effort to watch movies instead of spending all of our free time watching tv or playing video games. "TV rarely reaches art," he said. I guess I can agree to an extent, but TV will never be replaced as my entertainment medium of choice and I am dying to get back to it.

Overall, this was a really cool experiment, and although I think the fact that Brandon picked a World Cup summer to do it was horrific planning on his part, we both had a great time with it. Now if only we could put this much into a worthwhile project... ;o)