You know what? I've got a shit ton of Blu-Rays/DVDs I've never watched, and I'm gonna just take a daily plunge until I have a job again.

Starting off:
And for tonight, in keeping with the Best Picture Winners...
Taking a break from Oscar films:
Back to Best Picture winners...
Weirdly not a lot of gifs of Costner in Dances With Wolves, but that's today's DVD
There's no gif for the 1939 The Four Feathers I'm currently watching on Criterion Blu-Ray, so here's a gif from the insanely, insanely ill-advised remake from the 2000s
So, obviously today I'm watching Peter Weir's Witness
Is there a Best Picture winner in the last half century that exists less than Out of Africa?
Today's viewing.

I used to hate any "I'm a baby boomer, and now I gotta grow up and raise kids and I have everything and it sucks"

Now I find it weirdly comforting
I know this one gets written off as Oscar bait, but god damn it is a hell of a film.
Today's viewing:
There's no gifs for 1979's bicycle movie Breaking Away, so here's this:
Haven't seen this since I was a little kid and
It's painfully cliche to talk about movies that "hit harder now" but...
The big watch today is Tom Jones (1963) but since we're going by DVDs I've bought and been meaning to watch, I'm also doing...
Haven't seen this in so long, I swore it started with him on the ship...
Had this DVD for decades and just never had the time. Sprawling but boring, it at least introduced me to Cantanflas, who is comedic gold.
Guess this thread is just gonna be Oscar win gifs for most of these films...
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