… or maybe not.

Anyway, last night, after returning home after my visit, well, home, I thought I’d lay down and watch a DVD on my laptop. However, I have a small problem. Most of my DVDs, I’ve seen like 20 times, at least the fun ones. But I also have some 15-20 movies on DVD that I’ve never seen before. This, of course, annoys me, and last night, I came up with a plan: In the next 3 months, I’ll try to watch every unseen DVD I own.

But there’s a catch. Obviously. There’s always a catch; this is a law of nature, just like Murphy’s. And I just realized how brilliantly that name is used in “Scrubs”. But that’s besides the point here.

The catch, you see, is almost all of my unseen DVDs are boring dramas. They’re DVDs I’ve bought when in a quasi-intellectual, pretentious mood. Let’s have a look at the list, shall we?

First of all, there’s The Assassination of Richard Nixon (which I watched last night, by the way, and will post a review of shortly), The Fog of War, The Contender, Electra, Fantastic Four, Donnie Darko, Trainspotting, Godfather II, Godfather III, Blood of Others, All Quiet On The Western Front, Phone Booth, The Crow, Spartacus, Malcolm X, David Lynch’ Dune, Gettysburg and The Last Samurai.

Sure, many of these are probably not boring. Most of them are actually quite good, I can imagine. But few of them sounds like something I’d like to sit down and watch after a long day of studying — notable exeptions being Donnie Darko, Fantastic Four and Electra. (Not that I study much, but you get the point.) When I watch a film, I like to relax and be entertained; I get intellectual stimulation and whatnot from what I study. Admittedly, it can be refreshing to watch something uncomfrotable, but the main problem is that even though I might enjoy actually seeing a serious-ish film, I’ll never (at least rarely) get motivated enough to actually start seeing one. So I see the same, rather substanceless but entertaining films again and again and again.

But this fall and winter, things’ll change. I’ll get through at least 75 % of these films, even if it kills me. (The probability of it killing me is, of course, non-existant.) But if I manage to sit down and watch one or two of these per week, it’ll greatly increase my chances of making my 104-films-per-year goal. After all, I only need to see 23 more this year (seeing as I managed 55 in the first 6 months of 2006), and these films alone number almost 20.

So I’ll see what I can do…

Oh well, at least I got to quote Baldrick, even if it was cheap.