freaky movie freaks

Last night, on one of the movie channels, I watched Cinemania, a documentary about people who seem to live only to go to the movies. Each of them can talk you to death about the influence of Bergman or why Citizen Kane is overrated, but they can't necessarily tell you what day, month, or year it is.

Now, I have a home theatre. Quite a nice one. I like movies. I know a few people who love movies. I know one who has an astonishingly extensive collection that dates back to the 30s. But he's not a nutter. I can conclusively say that I've never seem people as obsessive as this. Nope, not even golfers.

These folks are just plain creepy. Intelligent on some level, but damn creepy. None of them seem to bathe, work, or contibute to society as a whole beyond their obession for attending a film of choice - every day. Without exception. I think they were all on some sort of social assistance. Typically, they live in seedy one room apartments in NYC that are stacked with every form of movie junk that you can possibly think of. One woman was especially proud of her Burger King Jurassic Park plastic cup collection. Well done.

If I every get this freaky about anything, kill me.

Here's the synopsis, from IMDB.

Here's the official site.

Not that any one of these nut jobs knows that the Internet exists.

Cinemania is one of those things you start watching, and then an hour later, you're still watching, and figure that you might as well stick it out until then end.

Damn freaks made me miss Forever Eden. Now that would have been a constructive use of my time.