Silver Linings Playbook
Jennifer and I are watching a lot of movies lately. Some I have not blogged about. Today, for Our Valentine's Day, we saw Silver Linings Playbook after a nice lunch at Chili's . This marks our 25th Valentine's Day together. We had one before we married. At any rate it is a very good romantic comedy and I'd rank it a 7 maybe an 8. I think the screenplay is excellent, and is Oscar-winning calibre, the acting is totally up to par (it is the first film in over 30 years and only the 14th movie in history to be nominated for all four major acting awards in tomorrow night's Oscars), and it is comparable with Lincoln (to the degree a romantic comedy can be compared directly with an historical drama), which joins it with other films for the Best Picture nomination in this year's Academy Awards . I have not seen Argo , nor any of the other Best Picture nominees save for Zero Dark Thirty . If I rank the three contenders I have seen as of today, I give Zero D