I have been kind of resisting watching Fences because I saw a stage production years ago with James Earl Jones and, I don't know, I don't want to replace that memory with the movie? Something like that.

From what I just read in The Hollywood Reporter, they seem to have basically filmed the play so maybe you're not missing anything?

This is the first year I fully implemented my 2-hour rule (in that I don't feel obligated to see any Oscar movie over two hours), and I realized I'm perfectly fine with it. Life's too short. I may watch Manchester by the Sea or Fences on DVD, but I have no impetus to see them in a theater. And I have zero interest in Hacksaw Ridge. Or Silence (but mostly because that is a great book memory from college that I don't want to mess with).

I still have screeners to watch of Loving and 20th Century Women at some point in the next couple of days, but have otherwise covered all major categories (and the live action and animated shorts, which I see every year in the theater).

Yes, I couldn't face Hacksaw Ridge, apparently it's very gory. (Also: Mel Gibson).

The Lobster is a very, very weird film but certainly worth a look.

I too am doing my Oscars homework. I watched Life, Animated last night and intend to see Captain Fantastic, Fences, and My Life as a Zucchini before Sunday evening. We'll be live-blogging again so I have to get up at 3 am.

On a non-Oscar note, I saw Get Out tonight and found it very entertaining. A bit of a genre hybrid but I think a strong directorial debut by Peele.

ETA: Avoid the trailer if possible. I'm glad I only watched it just now.

Andrew Garfield's over-exaggerated Southern accent in the trailer made Hacksaw Ridge a hard pass for me before I knew Gibson had anything to do with it. I've seen video of Desmond Doss; he did not sound like Forrest Gump or Eunice from those "Mama's Family" skits on The Carol Burnett Show.

Andrew Garfield's over-exaggerated Southern accent in the trailer made Hacksaw Ridge a hard pass for me before I knew Gibson had anything to do with it.

Was it better or worse than his one in Doctor Who?

I honestly can't remember him from his Doctor Who episodes, so I couldn't say.

So not only Andrew Garfield, most of the cast is Australian. Then Hugo Weaving as his dad.

Matt, 'Daleks in Manhattan' and 'Evolution of the Daleks' were his. The worst of the Martha-era ones, honestly. Set in Depression-era Manhattan and OMG.

Yeah, I remember the Pig Guy and the human/Dalek hybrid from those episodes, just not Andrew Garfield. I probably didn't know who he was back when it aired, but curiously that proved no barrier to having a vivid recollection of Tom Ellis from that same season.

He's the annoying one who's supposed to be from Tennessee or something! Wears a hat. Sucks.