I look at that list of movies and—without any extra effort—realize I’ve seen more than half of them already, will be seeing The Artist very soon, have been procrastinating on The Descendants and am just not really interested in War Horse or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Point being: without any special effort, just by going and seeing movies because I love movies, I already know the nominees pretty well.

I mean, if you can’t be troubled to see a pretty popular film like Midnight in Paris before talking about Academy snobbery maybe you just don’t really like the movies all that much.

Also, re: HP7p2—good movie. Probably deserving of a nomination over something like what I expect is an extremely saccharin Extemely Loud and Incredibly Close. But the problem with the Harry Potter movie series is a significant part of that series is straight up mediocre (I’m looking your way, Chris Columbus), and so the series as a whole probably isn’t deserving of the awards-carpeting treatment that LOTR got for Return of the King.

I love Harry Potter, but with a few exceptions (7 and 7p2 are exceptions) it just isn’t…engaging enough to do the books justice the way Jackson’s LOTR—Elves at Helm’s Deep aside—did for those books.