Back then, when I was in first year of college, I had this crazy impulse to get an external hard disk. It was the thing then. I was a film buff, saw at least three movies or so a week and couple of TV shows. So, I thought it would be prudent to get one and store things. It was a fashionable thing to have a film collection, mostly English movies. In hindsight, I realise now that half the movies that people waxed eloquent about were hardly impressive. But then, its like modern art, even if you don't understand it you say a word or two to praise it so that you can show how refined your tastes are. So back to the story, I did get a hard disk, and in my childish over-enthusiasm stocked it with movies. The process in itself was fun, I admit. Asking your friends, comparing notes with others on what were "The Maasest/Beshhtest...(fill any superlative)" movies. In six months I built up a decent collection and came a full circle when other people started asking for mine to copy those movies they did not have. That was a proud (seems shameful now, but hey we all do crazy things) day for me.
No discussion on movies is complete without the "IMDB 250" the GODFATHER ( pun unintended) of all best movie lists. No hard disk collection is complete without the Sacred 250. I was different in one aspect, I could never accept that a list of best movies could ever be made. Common, think of it, it is highly subjective, varies person to person. That people could vote for movies made in different generations I couldn't agree. So I steered clear of it. I'm not carried away by words like cult classic and all that. For the record, personally, I found Thuppaki far more engaging and entertaining than Goodfellas. I watch movies for what they are and not what is told about them. Some people say Blade Runner is the greatest Sci-Fi movie ever. I beg to differ. Most of it is hype, I've seen the movie. It is a painfully slow script, the book was far-more engaging (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) Primer, a little known indie film, by a Physics graduate is far superior.
Coming back to my hard disk, well, although the collection has grown and has saturated now, there are a lot of movies in it, that I never got around to see. I refrain from erasing it, telling myself that someday I'll get around to see them. I'm sure there are many out there with a similar tale of a disk full of movies they haven't seen and will never see in all probability. More than movies, I like TV shows slightly more. Can't think of a rational explanation, but I think it has got to do with the shorter length of a TV drama. I'm proud that I've seen all the TV shows in my hard disk collection. That offsets the guilt of not having failed to see the movies.
No discussion on movies is complete without the "IMDB 250" the GODFATHER ( pun unintended) of all best movie lists. No hard disk collection is complete without the Sacred 250. I was different in one aspect, I could never accept that a list of best movies could ever be made. Common, think of it, it is highly subjective, varies person to person. That people could vote for movies made in different generations I couldn't agree. So I steered clear of it. I'm not carried away by words like cult classic and all that. For the record, personally, I found Thuppaki far more engaging and entertaining than Goodfellas. I watch movies for what they are and not what is told about them. Some people say Blade Runner is the greatest Sci-Fi movie ever. I beg to differ. Most of it is hype, I've seen the movie. It is a painfully slow script, the book was far-more engaging (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) Primer, a little known indie film, by a Physics graduate is far superior.
Coming back to my hard disk, well, although the collection has grown and has saturated now, there are a lot of movies in it, that I never got around to see. I refrain from erasing it, telling myself that someday I'll get around to see them. I'm sure there are many out there with a similar tale of a disk full of movies they haven't seen and will never see in all probability. More than movies, I like TV shows slightly more. Can't think of a rational explanation, but I think it has got to do with the shorter length of a TV drama. I'm proud that I've seen all the TV shows in my hard disk collection. That offsets the guilt of not having failed to see the movies.
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