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Watching movies can be one of the most comfortable experiences in the world. Imagine sitting comfortably in your couch next to someone you really love, both of you just enjoying a really good, Oscar type movie. You know... the ones where you just watched them and somehow you start to think you're the main character of the movie.

Downloading movies can be a great resource to getting movies, specially now that great resources are coming out where you can download movies in a legal way. But before you get on a crusade to download every movie made by Hollywood in the past ten years, there are actually a few things you can do to reduce the time you spend downloading them and increase the speed at which you download them at.

First of all, it's recommended that before you start your download a movie you clear up your computer by closing all of the windows you really aren't using. That's what we recommend until you start getting a good speed and then you can let go and start looking at other monkey stuff while your the movie gets downloaded.

Second of all, we recommend to choose two movies you are keen of watching at the moment and start downloading them both at the same time. This works great because it creates a 'race' between the two and we have found that in most cases it actually increases the speed at which a single download would go.

Third of all, be sure to check that you have both

A) Available space in you computer, one of the most irritating things in the world can be to have spent the last two hours waiting for your movie to download when you get the message 'not enough disk in space' one minute before it was over. Be sure to have at ideally 2 GB for a single movie, and a minimum of 750.

B) Available time to download. If you're going to start to download a movie, depending on how fast is your connection, your going to need from 30 minutes to several hours to download a movie file. On average, if you are downloading a movie at 32 Kb/s it can take around 6 hours, versus the 12 minutes if you're downloading it at 1.25MB/s.

If you are organized and check everything in advance, downloading movies online will surely be a cool ride for you, make sure you download your movies from a legal source and don't make illegal copies to sell and your all fired up and ready to enjoy the full movie experience.