The problem is, there are a lot of movies. I try to watch at least two a week in my continued education as a novice film producer, but my Netflix queue is already over 250 movies, and new pictures are released into theater every weekend. That doesn’t even begin to count the movies I should rewatch, which range from those meriting frequent repeat viewing (such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Thomas Crown Affair – taken together, my blueprint for life) to those that I watched so long ago I might as well now consider as having never been viewed (including such classics as the entire Indiana Jones series).

Yes, at times I feel like just giving up, unplugging my DVD player and receding into a wasteland of cultural illiteracy. But then it hits me: movie people are vastly better looking than tech people, and if I forsake the movie part of my professional life, I’ll be forced to look at geeks all the time. At which point, I fire up some popcorn and settle in to my seat – it might not be easy, but a serious devotion to the celluloid past more than pays off. Besides, there are many worse ways to spend an evening than bathing in the flickering glow of a truly American art form brought to life.