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2009-01-19T13:48:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago I sat down to a standard Wednesday evening at Buffalo Wild Wings in Monroeville with a few close friends of mine. The conversation towards the end of the eve turned to me and my severe lack of cinematic consumption.

I love movies. And, if I do say so myself, I feel that I have a pretty decent taste in movies (with the exception, perhaps, of my obsession with Jim Carrey movies...but Eternal Sunshine was good, right??). The issue lies not in the movies that I have seen that I consider "good," but in the good movies that I have yet to see for the first time.

Example: Last week (I'm 25 by the way) I saw Casablanca for the FIRST TIME!! That should be a misdemeanor some how. Not necessarily a felony, but at LEAST a misdemeanor.

Naturally, my artsy-fartsy, liberal-minded (mostly), sponge-brained, freekin-awesome friends had something to say about this problem (after all, the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one). For about an hour and a half, my mentors and sponsors began the process of intervention. We filled two standard-issue bar food napkins with movies from every conceivable genre, director, topic, and smell. Yes...smell. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest smells like latex. Prove me wrong.

The purpose of this blog: to track my progress of cinematic education.

I got my list. I got my Netflix account. I got my new (to me) comfy chair. And now, thanks to the power of the Internets, I've got YOU!

The next post will be the list. I want everyone to send me their picks - favorites, hate-its, must-sees. And after I watch a flick, I'll tell you what I thought.

Face it...this could be fun. Well, at least for those of you making fun of me for being a musical theater supporter who has never seen The Sound of Music front to back.

Let's do this. 3...2...1...

Reel Progress

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