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03-31-2004, 05:28 PM
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How many movies have you seen?
This is a very hard question to answer but I vote for all the movies I've seen over at IMDB to help keep a running total. I feel I've voted for almsot everything I've seen, though am missing a few. I figure I've seen somewhere in the area of 1400-1600.
You guys?
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03-31-2004, 07:12 PM
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Well Joe I own more films than you've seen, 2430 films not inc doubles. 
At a wild guess I've probably seen about 10,000 films since the late sixties.
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03-31-2004, 08:00 PM
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I wouldn't want to try to calculate because then I might run across some movies that I wanted to forget, and thankfully have.  |
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03-31-2004, 10:05 PM
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Wow, damn near 20 years of constant film watching...that's gotta be quite a few movies. I'd say on average I see about 200 total new films a year, so that would be roughly 4000. That's probably a little low though...maybe I'll start going through IMDB alphabetically  |
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03-31-2004, 11:33 PM
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A whole. freaking. lot.
6,000? That sounds like a good estimate.
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04-01-2004, 05:24 AM
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I've tried estimating this before, but depending on how I do it, my estimates vary by a few thousand films. I have no idea really, but considering how many freaking movies I watch, it's probably a lot.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
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04-01-2004, 08:03 AM
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Who needs to count? All i know is that between the opening titles, and the closing credits, i am not of this world. I am in somebody elses......
I once stood out from the crowd. Now, I am trying desperately to get back in.
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04-01-2004, 09:29 AM
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Wow, I have no idea, I have started watching a lot more over the past coupla years. I think I could guestimate around 5,000.
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04-01-2004, 04:58 PM
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lets say for the sake of easy math the average home theater forum reader has seen 5000 movies. Thats about 10,000 hours. Or 417 days. thats about 1.25 years of nonstop moviewatching. A year of our lives. If we have an average age of 30, then by the time we are 60 we would probably have spent somwhere between 2 and 3 years watching films. Would you have rather be spending the time doing somthing else? working out? picking up girls, and or guys. Travelling. reading. Now if you include television, I know I avaerage about 3 hours a night. thats 21 hours a weeks, and of course 1092 hours a year. Thats 45.5 days per year of nonstop tv watching. over 30 years thats 1365 days, and over 60 years thats 2730 or 7.5 years. So between television and movies we will probably spend 10 years of our adult lives with our eyes glued too some type of screen. Thats is either scary, or an excuse to upgrade your home theater system, ormaybe both. I also play video games, add that to the equation and it could be more like 13 years. probably a 6th of your life and if you subtract sleeping, its more like a fourth. A FOURTH OF OUR LIVES. Man i have to go make some memories rather then living vivariously through fictious characters. NAAA, Maybe tomorow, apprentice is on tonight.
Movies are like books, except you can\'t set your\' drink on them, well.. unless its a DVD...oh nevermind
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04-01-2004, 05:14 PM
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Also do you mean individual films or how many times I've watched a movie period. Because I've seen the original Star Wars trilogy dozens of times each (ditto for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terminator 2, and Back to the Future).
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