And this is why I shoot mostly film... with digital it's too easy and tempting to resort to parlor tricks instead of taking a genuinely good photograph.
The difference, in terms of taking shots, is night and day - with my digital camera, I'll snap 10+ shots of the same thing to try and find the right one; with this, I spend five minutes angling around and trying to find the right shot off the bat.
I'm not a good photographer by any means; in fact, I'm substantially below average if I'm honest about it. But raising the bar to entry certains makes you focus on what you're doing a lot more.
Which I guess is a long and winding way of saying I agree. It's more fun when there' more effort involved.
In photography parlance we call it chimping - i.e., jumping around like a monkey and clicking the shutter like crazy, trying to get the right shot. Even if you get the right one, you have no idea if it's your skill, luck, or just law of large numbers...
When I shoot film I feel more purposeful - I rarely ever take more than a single exposure of any one particular thing - it also teaches you to be patient, and hold the shutter until you know you have the right shot. On rapid-fire you will often get a good picture, but no idea what makes it good, whereas with film I'm aware that this picture works because, say, I waited until there was no one in the background.
My current favored camera is a Leica R4s - only manual and aperture priority modes, manual focus, manual aperture control, and only 2 metering modes (you only ever need one - center-weighted). When you strip a machine down to the bare minimum it opens a lot of creative doors.
I've since started shooting 35mm & medium format, and I sold the Minolta and bought an Epson V700, which is a flatbed. I also used an Epson 4490 while I was in NY for a while last year, really good value for money.
I haven't updated my flickr site for a while, but you can see some here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusgr/tags/film/ And to see the best the Epson can do, see here: http://flickriver.com/groups/466058@N21/pool/interesting/ (This last link exploits the rule that good photos are made with any combination of technology. ;).)
It's his life work, most of it is 35 mm, some on 60x60, he's been a professional photographer his whole life long and the thought of a fire there scares me.
So I have been thinking off and on about how to tackle that job, it would take quite a bit of time and money to do it properly.
Couldn't find them with a quick google though, they may not have survived the GFC.