diff --git a/movies/movies b/movies/movies
index 7e732e6..138dbb4 100755
--- a/movies/movies
+++ b/movies/movies
@@ -3,22 +3,25 @@
 
 checkInternet()
 {
-  echo -e "GET http://google.com HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc google.com 80 > /dev/null 2>&1
-  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo -e "GET http://google.com HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc google.com 80 > /dev/null 2>&1 # query google with a get request
+  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then #check if the output is 0, if so no errors have occured and we have connected to google successfully
     return 0
   else
-    echo "Error: no active internet connection" >&2
+    echo "Error: no active internet connection" >&2 #sent to stderr
     return 1
   fi
 }
 
+## This function grabs information about a movie and using python parses the
+## JSON response to extrapolate the information for storage
 getMovieInfo()
 {
-  apiKey=946f500a
-  movie="$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8+$9"
-  movieInfo=$(curl -s "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=$movie&apikey=$apiKey") > /dev/null
+  apiKey=946f500a # try not to abuse this it is a key that came from the ruby-scripts repo I link to.
+  movie="$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8+$9" ## format the inputs to use for the api
+  movieInfo=$(curl -s "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=$movie&apikey=$apiKey") > /dev/null # query the server and get the JSON response
   checkResponse=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Response']")
-  if [[ $checkResponse == "False" ]];then { echo "No movie found" ; return 1 ;} fi
+  if [[ $checkResponse == "False" ]];then { echo "No movie found" ; return 1 ;} fi ## check to see if the movie was found
+  # The rest of the code is just extrapolating the data with python from the JSON response
   title=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Title']")
   year=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Year']")
   score=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Ratings'][1]['Value']")
@@ -27,8 +30,11 @@ getMovieInfo()
   director=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Director']")
   actors=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Actors']")
   plot=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Plot']")
+  unset movieInfo # don't need this anymore
+  unset checkResponse # don't need this anymore
 }
 
+# Prints the movie information out in a human readable format
 printMovieInfo()
 {
   echo
@@ -45,6 +51,6 @@ printMovieInfo()
   echo
 }
 
-checkInternet || exit 1
-getMovieInfo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 || exit 1
-printMovieInfo
+checkInternet || exit 1 # check if we have a valid internet connection if this isnt true the rest of the script will not work so stop here
+getMovieInfo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 || exit 1 ## exit if we return 1 (chances are movie was not found)
+printMovieInfo ## print out the data