As Qrazy and I near having seen 700 films off the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list, we decided to have a friendly competition to help push us through the films we've been putting off. So a race has been declared, and sometime in the first half of 2011 a winner will rise up and thoroughly mock the loser for not shirking his other life obligations enough. We both watch films at a fairly decent clip (not like on fast-forward or anything), so we both feel that factoring in other viewings, just over a year should produce a champion. We have decided that you, Match-Cut poster, shall bear witness in our attempt to climb the cinematic viewing equivalent of Mt. Everest.
As there is a small difference in what we have viewed thus far, and Qrazy has finals or something, we will spend the next couple of weeks to round off our films seen at an even 700 (I have 9 to see, Qrazy 3). Then the flag will be dropped, and I will finally see Andrei Rublev, La Dolce Vita, and of course Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Qrazy will know the torture that is Bertolucci's 1900.