Hello everyone,

Welcome to my blog! Ugh, those are words I never thought I'd type. Blogs seems so generally narcissistic--the idea that other people would want to spend their free time reading whatever you write just seems ego-feeding. But I digress...

I've talked to previous employers in entertainment about what I can do to become more successful and prepare myself to enter the industry. The common message was to know movies. Enjoy movies. Be nerdy about movies. While I have seen more movies than the average movie-goer, I am nowhere near movie-nerd level (yet). I plan to change that. I'm starting this blog to document my path to becoming a human film encyclopedia.

Currently, I am a college junior. When I graduate, I will enter the film industry. By the time I graduate, I want to have seen any movie anyone can think of. I never want people to ask me, "have you seen that movie ______" and for my answer to be anything but "yes, i thought it was _______ because ________."

So, why a blog? I think that having a blog and writing in it x number of times per week will help force me to keep up with my movie watching. Hold me accountable. Also, I imagine that the more I write, the better a writer I will become.

The format of this blog, I think, will be a paragraph or two documenting my thoughts on every movie I watch. This will hopefully serve to improve my memory of the movie, increase my writing skills, and force me to think critically about movies I watch.

So, let's start with the classics. One of my goals is to watch all of the American Film Institute Top 100 Films before I graduate. Another is the IMDB Top 250. That's 350 movies already... luckily I've already seen something like 13 of the AFI list and probably close to half of the IMDB list.

Without further ado, let's start watching...