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The Worlds End (2013) so good I had to pick it up.

     With streaming video so easily accessible I decided to cut down on clutter and stop buying movies.  It's definitely a guy thing to build your own video vault of your favorite movies so you don't have to worry about what to watch when there are people over.  Or, if like me you or someone else makes a reference to a great film you like to have it handy so they can see why it's so great if they don't get the reference. I haven't bought a movie in a long time, since 2009 if I had to think about it.  So, to see a film that makes you think it's so great you break that trend and not only get a copy, but get it on all formats of DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download is because it's pretty freaking awesome.  The Worlds End is not only an exciting, funny, film but among my friends and I it was a truly relate-able film.  It follows Gary King and his friends on one last trip down memory lane in their home town of Newton Haven, the trip consists of a pub ...

What makes you relate to a film?

There are certain films made that maybe not everyone is a fan of, but you are.  It can be a movie that a lot of people hate, or that really successful one that people love.  Whatever it is, certain films grab hold us of because of how we relate to them.  While it's not my favorite movie, I like to watch it because I can relate to going to White Castle at 3 in the morning because I got the munchies from an over indulged evening with family and friends.  The film that I relate these experiences to is Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle . The film is in the genre of what a lot of people call "stoner films" like Cheech and Chong, and although I don't participate in the indulgences they do in that film I can relate to craving some of those little burgers.  Another one I caught recently and keep watching is The World's End because I can relate to having that one night as a young man thinking, "This is probably one of best times of my life".  That film revol...