Movie Buff , that’s what they call me 

People are different. It’s so glaringly obvious that I feel that it needs to be stated because of how easy it is to forget it. I myself forget this regularly and end up setting up expectations, standards and views of people that aren’t really realistic for those people to achieve. And, sadly, I think this happens a lot when I try talking with film buffs because sometimes I just don’t get other film buffs.

A movie needs to be watched where it is most suitable to be fully experienced. And a theater provides the kind of immerse, palpable experience that no other mode can. In my case, the joy I experience when I catch a film in a theater fills the void of an absent social life. 

I don't read any reviews of a film before walking into it. It influences and mars the experience in a big way when one watches the film with a preconceived notion of what works in it and what doesn't. The only way to recognize a bad film is by unknowingly becoming a part of it. When one finally identifies with what elements work and do not work in a film, they can tell if a film will turn out to be emotionally and intellectually productive at first glance.

  

The point to all this is that I’ve begun to understand that while we may all call ourselves movie buffs, a lot of us have very different motivations for why and how we go about watching movies. It’s not simply that we love movies and that we watch them.  There’s more nuance to that and I think if we can begin to recognize the differences in those nuances, we’ll do a much better job of understanding one another. We’re all movie lovers in some form, but we all have different ways of expressing and exploring our love of films. It’s less about if you are more or less of a film buff than I am, it’s more about the essential question: of what kind of film buff are you?

And yes I am huge movie buff. Regular theater goer is bound to notice me. Whenever I have free time I head to watch movies.