Film isn't hard. Actually, it's a little too easy to fall down the rabbit hole. Film makes a lot of lame 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 from the lab, and it looks like something went wrong on every frame, there's always one that kinda makes the whole thing worth it.  

Film isn't a shortcut to great photos. In the end, most photos aren't remembered, after a couple years, or a couple days, they're forgotten. It's hard to make a photo that even you the photographer will want to revisit. Most photos aren't special. But. Of all the photos i've taken, the ones I come back to are film. Maybe that's a coincidence. 

All the stars have to align to make any photo good. Whether it's a photo of a rockstar, or 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 longer, and now there are so, so, many excellent used analog cameras just waiting for you. You can get all the gear you need to shoot film for sixty bucks.

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 some fancy photo journalists, and some brillinatly intense nerd photographers. You'd be in the company of legends! And also average idiots, like me. Cheers.