Friday, July 31, 2009

Mid-year movie breakdown

I watch a lot of movies but I don't actually go to the movies. The wonderful invention known as Netflix has taken over my life. In fact, my internet browser opens up to the wonderous website every day. I must need movies!! (my need for movies supersedes my need for proper English and sentence structure. Yes, it is serious). I keep track of every movie that I watch in a long, obsessive compulsive list. As we have reached the halfway mark of '09, I will share some interesting tidbits about said list. Here we go:

The list consists of 176 titles.
The month I watched the most movies in was January with an astonishing 42 titles.
The month I watched the least movies in was June with only 16 titles.

Breakdown by decade:
1910-1919: 0
1920-1929: 4
1930-1939: 4
1940-1949: 15
1950-1959: 21
1960-1969: 29
1970-1979: 47
1980-1989: 14
1990-1999: 9
2000-2009: 33

Breakdown by genre (try to keep it as basic as possible):
Action: 28
Comedy: 15
Documentary: 6
Drama: 40
Horror: 35
Mystery/Thriller: 17
Science Fiction: 28
Western: 7

68 of the movies were made outside the United States.
16 of the movies have won an Academy Award.
27 of the movies have had Criterion releases.

The actor most represented on the list is Toshiro Mifune with 5 appearances. Tied for second place is William Holden and Vincent Price with 4 appearances each. (I had to stop figuring this out because it was driving me crazy, but I am pretty sure it is right).

The strangest movie on the list, for my money, is Valerie and her Week of Wonders. Made by a crazy Czech guy named Jaromil Jires in 1970.

This list, and all this info, is the clearest indication that I have absolutely no fucking life. I plan on continuing this trend throughout the year though. I want to see how many movies I can cram into a year. Stay tuned for December when I will present an end-of-year Movie Mash-up, compiling all the movies for '09 for your reading pleasure. I know you are just as excited as I am.

Happy movie watching!!!

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