How many films did you watch in 2013?

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MiniJamesW

Mine is the weak number of 155 :(

Unfortunately I didn't have access to many films in February and all of the summer so that stopped me from watching more films. Hopefully in 2013 I will be able to watch more films!
 
Zensteve said:
Prolly spent more time working on films, than watching 'em, this year. That's a huge amount you've seen!

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That's good! I actually hope to be making more films than watching in 2014. Haha, I thought it wasn't as much because I saw a one forum member here say he saw 500! I guess I saw enough LOL.
 
How did you keep track of the number? I probably watched more scripted tv than movies last year. This year movies are in the lead though. 2-0
 
Zensteve said:
Prolly spent more time working on films, than watching 'em, this year. That's a huge amount you've seen!

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Steve = My Role Model.

New Year's Eve Resolution = Be More Like Steve. And also like IDOM, too, who also seems to be an ITer who's constantly making stuff. =)


I'm not one to keep track. I probably should. I know some people, some people on IT, I think Scoopicman or Flickr mentioned that he does so, keeps all of their ticket stubs. Man, long ago the thought occurred to me to do so. But I chose not to. That's okay, though. It suits me. That would just be another thing (or more s--t, as George Carlin might have said) to accumulate. And now with Netflix (and even Amazon), I see more content than ever, I'm sure. Hey, for "film buffs," that's not a bad development. Hey?

I think I saw most of the big releases this year, thanks to a family member who takes me along to the movies.

Now might be a good time for someone to start a thread for the best of 2013? Or the most interesting? Etc.
 
I have no idea how many movies I've seen. I'm guess that I'm like Zen; but then again, maybe not. I get really, really busy, then I'm slow for a while. When I'm slow I catch up on TV shows and watch a few films here and there. Mostly kids fare when I get to a movie theatre, although my wife and I will indulge in something more "mature" on occasion. Once in a while I get a Saturday night all to myself, so I'll watch two or three I've never seen before and crank them up fairly loud - can't do that when the wife and kids are home and trying to sleep.
 
Can't say for sure but I'd say just about one per day minus the month when I shot my feature, so a little over 300. It helps when you worked at a movie theatre for most of the year though!
 
Most of them that hit my theater. I'm a manager at the local one, so I cheat a little and didn't have to pay for them at all.
 
I know watched 5 in one day if that helps. I went to the movies from 10 to 10, surviving only on popcorn and coke icee's
 
richy said:
New Year's Eve Resolution = Be More Like Steve. And also like IDOM, too, who also seems to be an ITer who's constantly making stuff. =)
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That's funny - I don't really do resolutions but one of my main goals is also to be making more stuff this year!

I know some people, some people on IT, I think Scoopicman or Flickr mentioned that he does so, keeps all of their ticket stubs.
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I've been doing that for about 15 years, I've got about 550 stubs which works out to ~36/year (this year was 30). I'm not religious about saving them though so the average may be a bit higher, although it's certainly trending down in recent years.

Interesting to look back on though. Figure an average ticket price of $8 and it's about $4500 spent on tickets (although I saw many of those with my wife so the total is probably closer to double that). At about ~90 minutes each that's 825 hours spent in a theater - 34 full 24 hour days, or over 100 work days! That's just theatrical - I've probably watched at least 3-4x as many at home in that time period. Definitely makes me think I need to cut back on watching and put a little more time into making films next year...
 
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