When added together, the cumulative length of 2013′s Best Picture nominees totals a staggering 1,345 minutes — or nearly one full day of movie. (Fun fact: This year’s Best Picture hopefuls are the longest on average since 2005, when 170-minute The Aviator was nominated.)
By contrast, it’ll take you just 54 seconds to watch CollegeHumor’s excellent Vine parodies of all 9 nominiated films. Starting with, say, their biting take on The Silver Linings Playbook:
Oscar Movies Vined: Silver Linings Playbook #OscarMoviesVined vine.co/v/b6wneEA57aU—
(@CollegeHumor) February 20, 2013
This six-second Amour spoof has all the movie’s plot with none of the soul-crushing despair:
Oscar Movies Vined: Amour vine.co/v/b6HwEJH2md2—
(@CollegeHumor) February 20, 2013
And then, of course, there’s the humor site’s brave rumination on Django Unchained:
Oscar Movies Vined: Django Unchained #OscarMoviesVined vine.co/v/b6peKbT266K—
(@CollegeHumor) February 20, 2013
Check out the rest on CollegeHumor.com — then use all that time you saved to, like, go outside, or something.
Read more:
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