A quick shout-out to the Criterion Contraption, where an aspiring screenwriter is watching and writing about every DVD released by the Collection. You can use the index to read each piece in order of spine number, and that's what I've been doing whenever I have a dull moment for the last few weeks. He started off a bit rough but quickly found his voice, offering great trivia and insights that are magnificently film-geeky without being annoying or esoteric. Sometimes even when he thinks the movie is bad he still makes me want to watch it.

I can relate a bit to the completism that inspires/plagues the author. There was my dictionary project, in which I read through a significant portion of the Oxford English Dictionary to pick out the collection of words that now appear as "Random Rare Word" on the home page of this site. And in college when M2 showed their entire library of videos in alphabetical order, I watched as much as I could and recorded on three videotapes the videos of the bands that I liked, many of which I had never seen before and had no other way of seeing. Unfortunately the quality of the VCR was pretty bad. Fortunately we now have Youtube and DVD collections.