So did we win lotto?

We do love our movies. Always have. This photo was our collection 3 years ago and doesn't include the old VHS collection out the back in the garage. (It's what we do instead of having kids).

Still when we came to looking at the list of academy award winners, we didn't own half as many as we thought we would.

This did cause us to question our taste and perhaps the wisdom of our investment in schlock movies!

Maybe we're totally out of touch with what really makes a good movie? I still love "Hudson Hawk" but it was universally panned and I'd rather watch "Transformers" or "Star Wars" any day than "Crash" or "Forrest Gump". So maybe the academy is hopelessly out of touch with what people want to see or what makes a truly 'best' picture?

That's what we tell ourselves as we search our shelves, "Showgirls", "Secret of My Success", "Scream", "Sibling Rivalry", "Shaun of the Dead" - no "Slumdog Millionaire".

Then, "Goonies", "Ghost", "Grosse Point Blank", "Glen or Glenda" - but no "Gone with the Wind"?!?!?

We could be in trouble!

In the end it turns out we already own 22/82 of the best picture winners, not bad for loud and proud lovers of all things trashy in moviedom! But the next step is to do some serious searching (and bank account depleting) on amazon.com

It's a fun search and within a week of deciding on our quest we're the proud owners of another 22 of the best picture winners (including "Slumdog Millionaire", but still no "Gone with the Wind").

More than half of the movies are ours, now it's time to start watching!

First on our list was Patton (1970) and we watched this with Mat's dad on our first Friday night at the movies...

Stay tuned for our review and where to from there
(and our frantic searching on BigPond DVDs in an effort to
stem the flow from our poor bank account!)