2012: The Year in Film

 2012: The Year in Film - with Mr. D.

     As you all know, I love movies. Movies have been one of my passions for my entire life. When I went to Boston University, I majored in film.  I didn't go follow that career path, but I have not lost my love of film.

     I love all types of movies. action/adventure, suspenseful thrillers, horror, science fiction, western, documentary, foreign, you name it, I've seen it. To date, I have seen over 3,000 different films. I add "different" to that sentence because that does not count the 100+ times I have seen The Road Warrior. In my list of movies, The Road Warrior counts once and once only. I haven't counted, but there are probably 200 or so films that I've seen ten times or more.

     As I mentioned, I have a list of the films I've seen. Year after year the list gets more and more involved. All you need to do is ask and I will show you the file and explain my madness.  Two things I love are movies and stats, so here are some stats about the movies I watched last year. Keep in mind that this is the year 2012 only.

Total movies: 375

Movies seen more than once in 2012: 5 (Breakdown, Contagion, American Grindhouse, The Big Lebowski, Cabin in the Woods)

New movies (movies I had never seen before 2012): 262

Best Picture Winners seen: 33 (There have been 84 Best Picture winners and I have seen 81 of them!)

Mr. D's Ratings:  225 were "recommended", 129 were "okay" meaning I didn't strongly like or dislike them, and 21 were "bombs" which means I thought it was junk and a total waste of my time.

Average release date: 1975 which means I watched a good amount of old movies

Average run time of movie: 106 minutes

Total movie time in minutes: 39,202

Total movie time in hours: 653

Total movie time in days: 27

Genre breakdown:

83 drama

69 mystery/suspense/thriller

51 science fiction/fantasy

49 action/adventure/epic

37 comedy

35 horror

15 western

13 music/musical

10 foreign

09 documentary

04 family

Where did I see it?:

166 Netflix (either DVD or streaming - my price per rental for the year? 94 cents - they must hate me)

105 TCM (Turner Classic Movies)

072 Movies I own

008 On Demand

007 Red Box

006 Theater

003 Borrowed from Mr. Kondas (bonus points if you can tell me what...hint: it's a trilogy)

002 Borrowed from my daughter Dakota

002 Premium cable channels

001 PBS

001 Amazon Prime

001 You Tube

001 Regular TV (with commercials...what was I thinking?)

     That's my statistical look at movies for the year 2012. It was the most films I have ever watched in a single calendar year. I set out to watch 366 this year, one for each day of the year. I went over that by a bit. I don't think I'll try to beat this mark in 2013. I will, however, watch close to 250. A lot of people ask me how I can spend so much time watching movies. My answer is that I really don't watch TV. Think of how many hours of TV you watch in a day. Try to calculate that. It'll probably make my 650 hours seem small.

     My "thing" for 2013, as Hannah calls it, is to have a different theme each month. January is A-Z month. I'm watching one movie per letter of the alphabet in order. Tonight's movie will begin with the letter "P". I'd love to hear suggestions for upcoming months. I'm always willing to talk movies!

     On a related note, I'm going to put a forum on our Moodle for you to post some of your favorite movies. I'm sure I've seen a few of them.