How this became my favorite movie ever...

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2007)

Way back in 1997, at the young age of 17, I wandered into my local Hollywood Video store with the family, looking for a comedy to get me through the night.
At the time, I had been trying to get a job at one of the music shops in the mall (for the record, I never got one there). So when I stumbled upon this movie I had never heard of I thought it might be worth the $1.99 I'd pay for it. So I take it home and it became a favorite, but not my favorite.
Fast forward to a year later and I decide to move from Virginia to Alabama to be with my girlfriend who I met online. That weekend after moving my stuff into her apartment all we wanted to do was cuddle (as we haven't seen each other in months). We decided to watch a couple of movies. I started digging in my movies and she started digging in hers. We turned to each other and low and behold, we both were holding our copies of Empire Records. It was pretty hilarious at the time and the taste in movies sealed the deal on our relationship... We've been together nine years next month and have a four year old daughter together.
But the love for 'Empire' doesn't end there.
After moving to Alabama, I got a job at a movie theater. One of my co-workers there also held a second job at a movie rental store. He is the master of movie knowledge and he became one of my best friends. One day I started telling him about this movie. He had never even heard of it (this was in 2001 mind you). He said he wanted to see it so I brought it over and we watched it. He instantly named it his favorite movie of all time.
From that point forward, we couldn't work together a day without cracking jokes by referencing lines from this movie. Every day, at that place, was Rex Manning Day!