Starbucking

This is an odd but entertaining little documentary about a guy named Winter (just Winter; that’s his legal name) whose hobby is trying to visit every Starbucks Coffee Shop in the world. He’s been doing this now for over 10 years. Winter realizes this is sort of a pointless pursuit in and of itself, but he simply wanted to do something different. And I’d say he’s succeeded, having as of this writing visited about 95% of the Starbucks stores in the U.S. as well as several stores in other countries.As goofy as all this might seem, there’s even some actual philosophy behind what Winter is doing. He says that we have enough resources in the world today that people shouldn’t have to work as much as they do. Instead, they should be able to devote more time to various creative or just plain fun projects and pursuits. He’s aware this isn’t necessarily practical, especially for people living in third world countries and so on. It’s simply his vision of an ideal world.Winter is definitely a character. I’m not sure if I’d want to spend too much time hanging out with him in real life (or anyone who has as much caffeine coursing through their veins as this guy does), but spending an hour and a half watching him in this movie was fun. I give Starbucking a 7 ½ out of 10.