Bret is a 31 year-old network engineer who works for a consulting company in Cherry Hill, NJ. He enjoys watching films and is one of the co-founders of the Really Really Bad Film Club. His all-time favorite film is My Fair Lady (1964), which he has seen at least 100 times.

"The musicals of the 40's, 50's, and 60's, when the music and dance were superb...those are my favorites. It speaks well of a time when we could see the action on the silver screen, and the characters would stop their lives to break into a song and a dance, and the audience never saw anything wrong with it. That was the finest time in the history of film, in my opinion. Nowadays, you couldn't produce My Fair Lady, or West Side Story, or Oklahoma without getting killed at the box office. Today's movie goers want action, they want to be thrilled for 90 minutes. I guess three hours of pagentry, song and dance are right out. "A good example of this is the failure of the Wizard of Oz re-release in the theaters two years ago. Erin and I went and took the kids, and we loved it! But the house was mostly empty, and even I felt a little disapointed in the 35mm format of the old film. After seeing it in the theater, I now firmly believe that this is one classic that is made for the TV's standard 1.37:1 aspect ratio. "The full Panavision effect of the 70mm format is why I'm such a fan of widescreen or letterbox format in video and DVD. There's a reason the filmmaker made his film with 70mm film. The panoramic beauty of a full 70mm shot is breath-taking! The only problem is that if you are going to collect widescreen editions of your favorite films, you'd better have a TV that makes it worth it. 35" and better is my recommendation, even though I suffer with my little 19-incher! (-: "I love foreign films, too, although I prefer to have the subtitles rather than overdubbing. Overdubbing steals the emotion of the original actor's performance. Even though you may not understand the actor's words, you can at least experience the power of his or her original performance."

Bret lives with his family in Pitman, NJ, in an apartment that shares a wall with the Broadway Theater. The location lends itself to easy access to reasonably recently released movies.

"They don't have first-run movies out on opening weekend, but they get them within a month or so. It's one of the greatest places to see a film, because it's an old theater with one screen, and it's wide-open! The acoustics are superb! And they've recently reopened the balcony. Imagine seeing a movie from the balcony! It's tremendous! "That theater has a lot of history. It was built in 1926, and they used to have weekly radio shows there during the depression, featuring Bob Hope and George Burns. Growing up in Pitman, the Broadway Theater meant the center of entertainment to me. I've seen all kinds of movies there, from Freaky Friday, ET, and Star Wars (in 1977) to American Beauty, Jery Maguire, and Star Wars (the re-release). And they're starting to bring the live shows back. I saw George Carlin there when I was 18, and I actually ran into George on the little alleyway that I now call my home."

Erin is a 22 year-old homemaker who hails from Tacoma, WA. She and Bret met online on the original MSN in 1996, and married in 1998 at the United Methodist Church of Pitman. She shares Bret's love for films and enjoys living next to the Broadway Theater as well.