Welcome to the never-ending stream of movies
January 1st, 2008 • chatter
Almost two weeks ago I was staring at my overfilled DVD rack and began to realize I have way too many movies. I’ve got too many movies that are still in their original plastic. The capacity was definitely strained by the 28 or so movies that my girlfriend got me for Yule, I really had to rearrange quite a few things to get them all to fit. Realizing that I have about 10 movies and a few TV series I’ve never watched, I decided that I was going to watch every DVD I own in 2008. When tonight rolled around, I realized my own folly: indecision.
I started scanning the rack a few days ago and tried to devise the best way to watch all these movies and TV shows in a year, I just decided to start at the upper left and watch hopefully watch everything. Then I started seeing that I’d blow through all my regular box office movies in a month or so, horror movies would take nearly 3 months, TV shows will probably take a good 4 months and I didn’t even try to figure out how long the foreign movies and anime would take to watch given their extreme length. How the hell did I think I’d fit this all into a single year and still have time to do other things?
Then, again, it’s down to choice. I could watch all my cheesy horror movies and enjoy them, or watch the anime I’ve been meaning to finish for years like Berserk or Macross Saga. Tonight’s choice of movie took almost 20 minutes and I wasn’t even picking, I left Jess do that. After back and forth while I’m mulling over delicious steaks, I just pick out American Psycho. It’s a great choice for eating a big bleeding steak. Much like eating a steak during Cannibal Holocaust was a great choice. Both are great movies for very different and similar reasons.
Jess enjoyed American Psycho and thoroughly enjoyed the dark satire of yuppie culture, I relished in the dementia of the first Christian Bale role I ever really enjoyed, which he definitely enhanced in The Machinist after he played Batman. If tonight’s movie took 20 minutes to find, how the hell am I going to do this for the next 11 months and 30 days?