And now the Flop House Movie Minute.

We are posting this Flop House Movie Minute a little early in order to help you win big

at your Oscar party by picking the best picture winner by the only scientific means available.

Antigrams.

It has been proven that the title of the awesomest anagram always wins, which was confirmed

by last year's win by no country for old men, a.k.a.

Fry monocled nun route.

So let's apply the anagram system to this year's crop of nominees.

First off is milk.

The only anagram for milk is milk, and that's barely an anagram at all, so we can discard it as a contender.

Next up, the reader.

The best anagram for the reader is earth deer, which has a certain poetic, images,

William Carlos Williams quality, but lacks snap.

We can safely bet against the reader.

Frost Nixon is slightly more promising.

Its letters rearrange into snort no fix, which is clearly an anti-cocaine statement.

While the Academy typically rewards message films, usually they like messages that bludge

on you in the most overt way possible, rather than one subtly hidden in the letters of the movie's title.

Thus we can eliminate Frost Nixon.

Now we get down to the real contenders.

Slumdog millionaire provides us with a veritable cornucopia of riches.

A million sumo girdle.

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