Stat Geeks Only! 2022: Statistical Breakdown

 2022 Statistical Breakdown

            I've always been a numbers person, a stats geek, etc. Numbers and statistics have always fascinated me for a variety of reasons. Add that to the fact that I love to keep track of things (especially film related) and you end up with this.

            One of the pages of my movie database spreadsheet (known as IMDavidb) is devoted to stats. I first began keeping track of the movies I watched over 40 years ago, and began constructing my database as soon as there was such a thing as a personal computer and one was given to me by the Hudson School District in 1988. I think they wanted me to use it for school purposes.

            In any event, to paraphrase Walter Sobchak, "THIS IS WHAT YOU GET, LARRY!"

            I give you Cinema Wellman's "Statistical Year in Film."

# of Films Screened: 867

72.25/month

16.67/week

2.37/day

Total Run Time: 82,441 minutes

 1,374 hours

57.25 days

225.8 minutes/3.76 hours per day

Average Run Time: 95.1 minutes

Average Year of Release: 1984.4

Different Countries Represented: 48

            At first glance, that may seem like a lot of time to spend watching movies. Actually it looks like a lot at second glance as well, but I've always been able to rationalize it, at least to myself. 

            When I was teaching, my students knew how crazy I was for movies and that I spent a lot of my time watching and archiving them. Whenever the numbers came up they told me that it was ridiculous that I spent over three hours a day on average watching movies. My question to them was how many hours they spent a day playing video games or on Tiktok/Instagram/etc. Their answer was usually much more than my movie time.

            It's what I love, it's how I spend the vast majority of my leisure time, and I'm more than okay with that.

            Every once in a while I enjoy dividing my total number of days on the planet by the number of movies I've seen. As of this writing that's 22,167 days on Earth and 8,017 movies screened. 

            That means I've seen a new movie every 2.7 days of my life. That obviously includes all of those days that I wasn't even aware that movies existed. 

            I like to think that I've made up for lost time. 

Keep up with everything Cinema Wellman!

Our first episode of 2023 will be available Wednesday, January 11th!

December Screenings: Top 10/Bottom 5