What movies are you watching?

[VinylGuy]

Happy New Year to VinylGuy, Jorge, Mickey and all other active in this movie thread.

Happy new year!!

[Mickey]

Happy to be included in this roundup even though I took six months off of posting so I could become even more insufferable.

[Mickey]

Lets bond with Licorice Pizza

Let's get that torrent going baby.

[VinylGuy]

Lets bond with Licorice Pizza

Let's get that torrent going baby.

im actually saving myself for the theatre experience. January 27th cant come soon enough.

[Mickey]

Why don't you buy a promise ring for you and Licorice Pizza.

[Ello Sailor]

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Happy to be included in this roundup even though I took six months off of posting so I could become even more insufferable.

You aren't insufferable.

[epilogue]

Why don't you buy a promise ring for you and Licorice Pizza.

[spike]

I do not think female Ghostbusters is meaningful. A blip in the culture war. I'd already forgotten about it.

Why do you think that is?

[Jorge]

Wow Don't Look Up was awful. What a waste of a great cast

[Mickey]

I do not think female Ghostbusters is meaningful. A blip in the culture war. I'd already forgotten about it.

Why do you think that is?

History is overdetermined baby.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

In 2021, I watched 288 movies that I'd never seen before (as an adult). That's only counting movies of at least 60 minutes or more, not shorts. I don't track re-watches, but I'd estimate that re-watches would get that number close to 300 for the year. I didn't do the calculations to compare this number to previous years and I don't have detailed enough records from before 2012 to do so even if I wanted to, but that's almost certainly my most ever in a single year.

[The Argonaut]

OK, OK, I did the calculations. 2021 really blows previous years out of the water.

Between 2006 and 2012, I watched an average of ~185 features per year. This number is far from exact. I don't know exactly when I started tracking, but it was sometime in mid-2006, so that lost half year drags the average down. Unfortunately, I also don't have details about individual years. I did at one point, but I made a mistake in March of 2012 that lost them. I still know what I watched, just not when I watched them. I suspect that 2007-2009 when I was in college was up above 200 a year, but never reaching the 2021 record number.

Then from 2013 to 2021, this was the average number of features per year:

2013--- 160
2014--- 150
2015--- 136
2016--- 104
2017--- 132
2018--- 103
2019--- 83
2020--- 45
2021--- 288

So I've seen exactly 2,500 features. Wow, good timing for this post. Exactly 2,500 features

[Anders]

That’s very cool.

[Anders]

Elling

[Anders]

Training Day

[Mickey]

Jesus Argo, and here I thought my 155 including rewatches was a year of vigorous viewing.

[Anders]

I’ve seen 660 from my list this year, and a handful (5-10) from just seeing a random movie with friends or extended family, or some netflix movie I didn’t list.

[Anders]

Zoolander