Shooting film isn't hard. Actually, it's a little too easy to fall down the rabbit hole. Film just makes photos look good. So long as you're pointed in the right direction, and your camera isn't full of bullet holes, it's hard to mess up. Lots of the pictures you take won't work, but a typical roll of film has 36 frames. Even when you get your photos back and they're bad, one after the other, there's always one. 

Shooting film isn't magical, it's not a cheat code. In the end, most photos never get looked at. After a couple years, or even a couple days, they're forgotten. They're really all the same. Most photos aren't special. Still! My best film photo is better than my best digital photo.

All the stars have to align to make any photo good. Maybe it's a photo of a rockstar, maybe it's a photo of your brother slipping on a bucket. You have to be there, with the right light, the right context, and sometimes the right camera skills. If everything's right, or you steal some divine blessing, it will be good no matter what camera you use. 

But if it's on film, it'll be a little more like a painting. 

Maybe, if everyone were taking film photos, an iPhone pic would seem special and different. But that's not happening, and I don't think it will anytime soon. 

A mediocre digital camera can be upwards of $600, but film cameras have been around for a long time, and there are so, so, many excellent used cameras just waiting for you. You can get all the gear you need to shoot incredible film photos - for under $60.

Still, if you want to spend a lot of money and get a very rare film camera, you certainly can. You'd be in the company of many contemporary photo journalists, and the most technical of all photographers, who still use film today. You'd be in the company of legends, and also average idiots, like me. Cheers.