You might be our people if you remember when movie night meant wandering the aisles of a video store, reading box covers. You might be our people if maybe you didn’t live through the 80s — but somehow you miss them anyway. You’ve said “wait, watch this part” to someone who didn’t care — and told them anyway. You own the Blu-ray of a movie just because of one 4-minute shot. You might be our people if you wrote a writers’ prompt on Reddit you’re certain would make a great film. You’ve defended practical effects in an argument nobody started. Maybe you’ve rewritten a Letterboxd review three times to get the phrasing right. You’ve watched the movie, then watched the making-of, then watched the movie again — differently. 

You might be our people if you’ve walked out of a theater recently thinking: they don’t make them like this anymore. You weren’t complaining. You were grieving. Maybe you don’t want the movies of your childhood back. You want the conditions that made them possible. 

If any of this is you — you’re not nostalgic. You’re paying attention. 
You’re not hard to please. You just know the difference.

There are more of you than the industry thinks. And there should be somewhere for you to gather.

Welcome to the family.  

Can you guess the movie that’s on the screen? If you can you might be our people. If you found this, you might know something about websites.