I love movies. I’m a little obsessive, some might say. I actually keep an Excel spreadsheet of all the movies that I see. I keep track of total number, number of unique films (I see some more than once) and number of new releases.
Last year (1999), I saw 172 total movies (138 unique, 111 of those new release), and so far this year I’m at 87/79/75 (behind last year’s pace). And, yes, those are all in the theater.
My friends often laugh at me, but I say if you have a hobby, you might as well go full bore. The Excel spreadsheet is a bit ridiculous, I’ll admit, with it’s pivot tables, charts, and statistics. But I have fun with it. (If you want to see it, drop me an e-mail and I’ll send it.)
So anyway, my question is: How many movies do you see in the theater each year?
172? That’s a lot of movies. I see a lot of movies, but I don’t think there’s usually that many that I want to see in the theater. Well, maybe I’m underestimating myself.
I’d probably say maybe 60-70 at most in a year. Now that a couple of cheap theaters have opened up, I see more, so that’s about how many.
However, if you were talking about how many movies I see a year, period…I would probably need NASA to total it up. I rent a lot of movies, purchase a lot of movies, and people lend me a lot of movies. Plus I’m a Film Production major, so I watch maybe 3 movies a week in classes.
My guess is that I see 50 a year, either in the theaters, on tape, on DVD, or on TV. I can be picky when it comes to movies, so I don’t always watch everything out there.
Ummmmm…I might have seen ONE movie in a theater during this past 12 months. When did Star Wars: TPM come out? That’s the last theater movie I saw. And I was sorely disappointed, let me tell you.
“Objection, you honour! The lightsaber fights were pretty cool.”
-Prosecutor in the first Clerks: The Cartoon show
I got to go with a large group, so it was still pretty fun. It was disappointing, but still fun. Also, my one friend that is insanely obsessed with Star Wars brought a few lightsabers, so we had fun in line.
I usually don’t get around to dragging myself out to the theatre. I saw “X-Men” with my dad recently, but before that, I think the last one I saw was “American Beauty” in, like, January or something.
Probably somewhere in the vicinity of 5 - in the theater itself. I see a lot of “sunday night movies” on TV. The quality is often lacking though, and there’s ALWAYS a Steve Martin movie on. Grr…
I don’t see terribly many movies in the theater. I’m still struggling to make my way through all the good movies made since the dawn of film and don’t usually have patience for the filth that makes it onto the silver screen these days. I am not at all shocked by the number of movies that you see in a year, Joey (can I call you Joey?), since I probably watch between 100 and 150 movies in a year. What does shock me is your obsessive spreadsheet business. Take up smoking or baby seal clubbing, man. Those spreadsheets will ruin your eyes.
This is sad. I work in radio and from that association I get unlimited free movies. I mean unlimited. I could go see 4 free movies a day. Know how many I really see ?Maybe 2 a month. I know, it is an awful waste of opportunities. I love movies too. Its just that I don’t like to go see 'em alone. Working the odd hours I do means that most of the time I would have to do just that. I want to see “The Cell”. The last film I saw was “The Perfect Storm”. I haven’t paid for a movie ticket in over three years. The sporadic times I have a girlfriend it is worth it. I suppose that is my problem, not having constant free movies - but rather not having a constant girlfriend. Hmmmmmmmmm.
My wife and I try to go to a movie every week. So that would be … wait a minute let me do the math … {thinking … um … carry the two … } about 52.
BUT … there are those dry spells when there just isn’t anything interesting enough to trudge on down to the theater for, so I’ll say conservatively, - 35-40 movies a year.
If we count video rentals, the number triples.
I see 75-90 a year (at least since 1982, which I started keeping track). It dropped off badly when our daughter was born, but once we got a VCR, it’s been pretty consistent.
Great moments in Patheticism:
July 16th, 1999: Joey sees five movies in one day (at three different theaters) while in California on a business trip. The eclectic mix of movies: Eyes Wide Shut, The Blair Witch Project, The Red Violin, Run Lola Run, and Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.
I’ve seen four in a day quite a few times. In 1998 I’d guess I only saw about 50 total, but once I started keeping track, I went nutso.
