The weeks leading to the Academy Awards are always very exciting for me. Once the nominations are announced, I only have a few weeks left to try and see as many Oscar-nominated films as possible. There's always a bunch of them I haven't seen during the year, either because I didn't think it would be interesting or I just didn't have time to see the movie. Almost Famous is part of the latter. The theatrical trailer was interesting enough.
Wonder boy follows rock group across the country and falls in love with fun girl.
Plus, there's sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Let's start by saying that I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Since I had missed its theatrical run, it was now in competition with hundreds of other videos I wanted to watch. However, since it was nominated for a few Oscars, I decided to rent it, so that I would have an edge in my Oscar pool. To put it simply, Almost Famous made me want to listen to all my Led Zeppelin albums that were now just collecting dust.