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08-28-2003, 05:07 PM
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How many movies have you seen?
Maybe I'm the only one crazy enough to do this, but I recently decided to try to recall every movie I've ever seen. Excluding shorts, TV movies and straight-to-videos, and only counting movies that I'm at least 90% sure I've seen, and seen all the way through, my total is 1187. I'm sure there are a few more that will occur to me, but it's probably not much more than 1200. I'm 32 years old, btw.
Interesting (well, interesting to me) factoids:
# of movies I saw for the first time on DVD: 284
# of movies my movie-crazy girlfriend and I have seen in the theater in the past two years: 92
# of those 92 movies that I actually liked: 36
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08-28-2003, 05:42 PM
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I could not even begin to make an estimate. But it is a lot. 
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08-28-2003, 09:03 PM
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Ditto.
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08-28-2003, 09:39 PM
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Geez.
Well, I probably like only about 1 film in 10 enough to want to buy it. And I've bought over 700 films, so that's about 7000 right there. But I'm also certain that when I was younger I saw lots of movies I can't even remember, so add a couple more.
I dunno, 9000 give or take a couple of thousand?
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08-29-2003, 08:11 AM
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One hundred beeeeeeeellion...
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08-29-2003, 10:38 AM
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No clue, but at least as many as George. |
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08-29-2003, 12:54 PM
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Too many ... but yet, not enough
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08-29-2003, 01:00 PM
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Well, you might be surprised! It's fairly easy (and fun) to do on iMDB using the "My Movies" thing. Although you have to be careful about adding movies to your list twice, since they don't seem to have any option to prevent that.
I figured mine would be around 2000. And I would guess that the tendency for most people is to overestimate. 9000 seems pretty crazy. That's 5 movies a week, EVERY week, for 35 years. And that's not including watching stuff more than once.
Yesterday I remembered Betrayed, Quest for Fire and City of Lost Children... and I watched Altered States and Ringu, which brings my total up to 1192  |
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08-29-2003, 03:47 PM
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Martin, I don't think I've ever seen this put forth here before. And I haven't the foggiest as to how many films I've seen. At least a dozen or so.
Welcome back, btw.
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08-29-2003, 04:09 PM
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Would that be per day or week, Jack?
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08-29-2003, 04:10 PM
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I've rated around 1300 at Netflix, but since that consists only of movies I've rented or that happen to show up on the opening screen, I would guess I've seen more than 2 or 3 times that. BUT, saying I've seen 3,000 means 100 for every year of my life. Now, while I've seen 2 or 3 times that number for the last 4-5 years, I really doubt I saw anywhere near 100 movies that I hadn't seen before, a year for the first 15 years of my life.
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08-29-2003, 05:34 PM
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I'll admit I probably overestimated. But it's a pretty damn tough thing to do. The thing is, while it might seem ridiculous to have seen 5 movies a week for 35 years (actually it's 4.95 ), as a kid I would watch on tv easily 3-4 movies every weekend. I'm sure there are weeks I watched less than 5 movies, and I know there are weeks in my life I've watched a hell of a lot more. But who really knows the total number.
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"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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