the Hash you created up top

```
movies = { Batman_Begins: 4, Zoolander: 3, Zorro: 4, Superman: 2 }
```
Has symbols as keys, right?  Not strings.  So you're converting the string you collected from the user input and converting it to a symbol.  Hashes will sometimes let you match a symbol with a string or vis versa a string with a symbol, but it's not good to guess and hope it match.  If it doesn't you'll get nil values on accident.

read this (long, but worth knowing): http://www.robertsosinski.com/2009/01/11/the-difference-between-ruby-symbols-and-strings/