Filmography Completionist (or, an attempt was made)

When you plow through every movie and random-ass episodes of old tv shows (sometimes not quite legally) just to say you watched every single thing a specific actor was in. 

I mean, I try real hard. 

The first one that truly came out of nowhere was Matt Damon. Like...I saw gifs from Good Will Hunting out in the wild horny jungle that was 2010s tumblr. Borrowed the movie from my aunt because she owns everything. And I was a goner from there. I spent three months watching everything Matt Damon. A lot of it on illegal hosting sites on my very expensive mac because I was living at my parents' house and we didn't indulge in streaming back then, nor have premium movie channels or On Demand or smart tvs or jesus wasn't that just the dark ages? 

When I go on this adventure, I learn to appreciate stories and genres that I might not be interested in otherwise. After reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy for a fiction writing class, I never would have guessed a few years later I'd end up voluntarily reading All the Pretty Horses--and enjoying it. The best was reading all five Ripley books (the Ripliad!) by Highsmith. So that's a whole obsession. I've also read fucking ginormous books about Turing and Oppenheimer. And war stuff like Parade's End and Birdsong. 

My brother judged me once (actually he does it often) acting like it's an offense to...watch something for an actor and no other original reason? Bruh, that's what being a fan is. You support them in what they do. And if I think it's a big chore (it's rarely not) then I don't watch something. It is truly not a hindrance on my life.