How I Got to Watching so Many Movies

When I was young, I was definitely encouraged to be active. I was involved in many different after school activities. I had no time for watching television or movies. Even when I did have some time, it was taken up with homework or writing.

Once I got to college I had much more time. I started buying more movies, holding movie nights at my apartment, renting movies, and watching movies/tv shows while I did my homework. I used to walk around video rental stores for hours just looking at dvds and making lists of movies I wanted to see. My friends started to come along too and we would walk around chatting about movies, movie cases, and some even played a game with me involving dvds around the store.

I tended to raid the Family Video because they had great deals. I would rent 15 movies a week because that was the maximum at that location. Each time I moved I found a new video store to raid and knew all the best deals. Many of the employees at each store knew me by name and would chat with me about movies.
Eventually I got Netflix and was able to start rating movies that I had seen. That didn't stop me from renting movies from the store. I rated movies during class and eventually got to the point where Netflix only had 8 movies to recommend to me (now it's back up to 90). Netflix discs didn't seem to come fast enough and I didn't always like watching movies instantly on my computer. I enjoyed the comfort of my television and a dvd in a dvd player. But that got to be expensive and my Blockbuster rewards were running out. Luckily Netflix instant cue and Hulu kept getting better and better and I was able to borrow dvds from friends.

Of course dvds weren't the only way I watched movies. I worked for a movie theater my sophomore year of college up until when I graduated. I mostly worked summers and breaks, but my last year I worked there during the school year. I was able to see movies before they came out and I usually went to see one movie a week. I made a lot of good friends at the theater, started getting better at knowing actors/actresses and pop culture, started watching the Oscars, and learned a lot about the behind the scenes of movies. It was then that I truly became a movie snob.

Originally, I wrote this blog on Tumblr. However, Blogger seems to be easier to use and customize, so I switched. Many of the first posts on this blog, including this one, were written a month ago.

Now, I'm by no means a good reviewer. I don't know as much as those who have studied the field (even though I did take a film history course). I am writing these for fun and they are my opinion. Please enjoy as I start writing 10 reviews a week.