The Match-Up and it's Effects

Recently, I was asked to try and quantify some effect my movie match-up experiment has made on my daily life. That's a hard one. I realized that I rarely go to see movies in the theater, so my experiment didn't cause me to dig into my pockets for movie money. Like many people these days, I used Netflix to watch to movies on my list. Again, this didn't really effect me too much since, with some careful planning, I was always provided the next movie on my list. Did it have any effect? Yes, but only in a more philosophical way.

What's most valuable thing to every one of us? No, not money, and shame on you if you answered that way. The correct answer is TIME. Out of my typical week I probably watch 1 movie a week. Sadly. There are times of the year that the number goes up quite a bit, but for now I rarely get the chance. The way this experiment was planned out, I needed to watch 4 movies a week, and that is not even counting the time I required to write the blog content. Which, I hate to say, doesn't coming flowing out of me in a rush. So, this means that I had to increase my movie watching by 4 times! And at about 2 hours a piece, my typical 2 hours a week of movie viewing turned into 8 hours a week. Also, you can figure about 30 minutes per movie to write about them (and sadly that's a generous time estimate.) So, we are really looking at 10 hours a week.

We are all short on time and it felt even more painful to sit and watch a movie I knew I didn't like from the first 15 minutes, because I needed to review it for my experiment. I honestly have sympathy for professional film critics now. We are all short on time, that big clock hanging over our heads is always ticking away, and some things just aren't worth our valuable time. To think I was originally planning on reviewing a total of 30 movies! At an average length of 2 hours, I would have spent about 90 hours watching/reviewing them! That's 22.5 hours a week, or 3 hours a day! Ummm, no thank you.