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Being incredibly anal, I keep a written record of every film I've seen (that's every film I've seen from start to finish or have seen more than 70% of (some you just have to turn off!)) in an Excel worksheet.
I have just come back from the Edinburgh Film Festival where I saw 18 films in 4 and a bit days (and met Ralph Fiennes and had a good natter) and where I passed the 2000 films seen mark.
SO:
Age: 23 (as of Monday just gone)
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
God knows.
Yep same here I have absolutely no idea.
YOU IS CRAZY ANAL MAN. I have no idea
I haven't got a clue.
What do you actually do with the Excel worksheet?
Is it just a listing of the films? Or are you reviewing them?
How can you possibly count for all the films you've watched as a kid??
I would have no idea how many i've seen.
How can you possibly count for all the films you've watched as a kid??
I would have no idea how many i've seen.
2000+ plus is enough to impress most people but on these forums the number is small fry where you will find nutters who have seen pratically every film in the western hemisphere.
I mention no names but theres at least 5 of these nutters :D :nuts:
I'm 30 and seen just the 1 film. Oh, what's it called....it'll come to me..
Originally posted by Assilem23
Being incredibly anal, I keep a written record of every film I've seen (that's every film I've seen from start to finish or have seen more than 70% of (some you just have to turn off!)) in an Excel worksheet.
I have just come back from the Edinburgh Film Festival where I saw 18 films in 4 and a bit days (and met Ralph Fiennes and had a good natter) and where I passed the 2000 films seen mark.
SO:
Age: 23 (as of Monday just gone)
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
:dork:
Oh, and I have no idea.
i must have seen at least one film a day since i was 13 so that would be 9 x 365 = 2285
oh and for the last three years i've worked in a video shop so i watch films all day long..........
so roughly all of them, ever.
BTW that is beyond anal, that's obsessive.
and scary.
not that you're strange or anything, i like you honest
(is there a nervous smiley?)
I've no idea, but I suspect it would be fewer than you'd think - for every obscure Icelandic-Japanese culture clash comedy I've seen, there are three Best Picture Oscar winners that I haven't!
Originally posted by danielzavitz
i must have seen at least one film a day since i was 13 so that would be 9 x 365 = 2285
oh and for the last three years i've worked in a video shop so i watch films all day long..........
so roughly all of them, ever.
BTW that is beyond anal, that's obsessive.
and scary.
not that you're strange or anything, i like you honest
(is there a nervous smiley?)
Surely you haven't seen a <b>different</b> film everyday though ?
That would take some doing.
Seen 2011 films have you ???
... some members surpass that in their DVD collection! :nuts:
Originally posted by Cirrus888
Seen 2011 films have you ???
... some members surpass that in their DVD collection! :nuts:
Yeah, but I bet they've not actually seen 90% of those... :nuts:
Originally posted by LouBarlow
Surely you haven't seen a <b>different</b> film everyday though ?
That would take some doing.
wouldn't surprise me if it averages out at one a day. i watch almost every title that comes out at work so at the very least i watch 4 a week. i suppose being an insomniac helps.
Including TV, video and DVD viewings, I've probably averaged 3-4 a week since the age of twenty, and more than that in my three years at University. At Southampton, we used to have a film festival at the end of the summer term, where you could watch nearly 40 in a week!
So let's say 4 a week, so that's 208 a year. I'll be 38 in October, so that comes to 3744. Plus a not inconsiderable amount during my teens (fewer in the cinema, more on TV and we didn't have a VCR then). Some of the total will of course be repeat viewings, though as I've said before, I don't watch films time and time again. (I've seen <i>The Elephant Man</i> eight times and <i>2001</i> seven, so they're the probable record holders.)
I suspect I'm approaching 4500 films now.
And there are several well-known films I haven't seen yet, but that's another thread...
there was a bloke on the big breakfast once who had seen 20,000 films and had kept a record of every one - his own mini reviews.
he was very old though:p
At a rough guess I'd say about 2,000.
Not enough and never will see enough!
Seeing as I saw my first film aged about 8 and I am now 37 (only just though ;) ) and for the last 10 years or so I have used my TV 90% for Movie viewing,I must have seen thousands!!
I used to have over 1,500 Horror films on VHS (of which I had seen them all) and that is before I take into account the 150+LD's and nearly 500 DVD's I have got :eek:
If I get some free time,I will put on a Movie before I would watch anything else,every time.
Originally posted by danielzavitz
there was a bloke on the big breakfast once who had seen 20,000 films and had kept a record of every one - his own mini reviews.
he was very old though:p
Barry Norman???
Originally posted by Assilem23
Being incredibly anal, I keep a written record of every film I've seen (that's every film I've seen from start to finish or have seen more than 70% of (some you just have to turn off!)) in an Excel worksheet.
I have just come back from the Edinburgh Film Festival where I saw 18 films in 4 and a bit days (and met Ralph Fiennes and had a good natter) and where I passed the 2000 films seen mark.
SO:
Age: 23 (as of Monday just gone)
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
When did you start? I mean the list can't be accurate for your entire life.
Must be at least 1500 by now (aged 25)
Originally posted by 8-]
When did you start? I mean the list can't be accurate for your entire life.
I started the list about four years ago when I thought I'd seen a lot of films. I put in it the films I could remember from my childhood - which wasn't many as I didn't really watch TV until I was about 13 and then really wasn't interested in it. I preferred to read. At about 18 I watched The Man Without A Face and remmebered being moved in a way cinema hadn't moved me before and decided I should check out some films that weren't Speed or Die Hard (which is what everyone else in my family watches). So basically it's about 50 films from my childhood and the rest are from 18 onwards. And then the majority of them are from the last two or three years when I realised there was a whole film culture I hadn't even touched.... foreign markets, silent films, and anything pre-1980 which hadn't interested me then.
Now my favourite types of film are either subtitled or silent.... they're just better films for me.
As to that guy on the Big Breakfast - he's in the Guiness Book Of Records. The mini-reviews were what made the Guiness Book.. recognise his claim at having seen those films. He'd gone to the cinema almost everyday of his life and tried to see a different film each time.... I read it in the newspaper at the time. One day I hope to have seen that many!
Oh, and I don't count repeat viewings. I'm sure I've seen Eve's Bayou about twenty odd times, Die Hard a gizzillion (it's the only film that seemed on our VCR during my early teens).
I keep the list as I find it helps me keep track of what I've seen... like I went to the video shop where I go to Uni and rented out Indiscreet (an old Cary Grant flick) got back and stuck it in the video player and then had this feeling I'd seen it somewhere along the line.... checked my database, and indeed I had! I just didn't recall when, so it must have been some years before. Still watched it again, though.
In the Excel sheet I just have the titles, but I'm trying to create a system whereby I can put mini reviews, star ratings, lists of actors etc... a little like DVDProfiler or the IMDb. I also highlight the ones I have on DVD and VHS. This is useful for my friends who can check that easier when they want to know what I have.
How can you seriously have a list of every film you've seen?
I haven't got a clue how many i've seen, as some weeks i'll watch a film every day, and some weeks i won't watch any.
The most i've watched in a short period of time was 7 in 28 hours, and that was only because I was on a plane to Austrailia.
Obsessive Film Disorder.:D :shocker:
Originally posted by Assilem23
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
If you assume "most" means 51% then that works out at about one film a day at the very least.
How do you find the time to watch that many?
At uni I often watch two or three a day, sometimes more.
For a long time I didn't have many friends so I watched lots of films, and now I have friends, but at Uni during the day I don't have many lectures and have lots of free time so I watch films. Coupled with the fact that I run the Cine-Club at my Uni, I just get to see lots of films.
I also try and go to the cinema at least once a week.
Basically I'm a film nut. I love cinema. Probably does border on the obsessive, if not actually passed that line. God knows I'm obsessive about other things. Why not film.
Hell, yes, I'm an Obsessive Film Fan. I admit it. To go and chat to an actor about his films simply because you have the chance, that's obsessive. Regularly travelling forty odd miles just to see a new release. That is too.
Its an interesting question and I wish I knew but I don't:(
I used to keep a list of every band I saw live. But i stopped that in August 1992 when I went to backpack around America. It was 300 at that point and I've seen at least 10 today. I really wish I'd kept that list going.
Originally posted by Cirrus888
I mention no names but theres at least 5 of these nutters :D :nuts:
Name and shame :D
Originally posted by sampath
Yeah, but I bet they've not actually seen 90% of those... :nuts:
And you would be wrong :nuts:
Originally posted by robzinski
How can you seriously have a list of every film you've seen?
Well I did not keep a list of all the movies I've seen on TV or VHS and then LD and DVD and Theater, but I started collecting and keeping movie ticket stubs, the other halves you know, since the first movie I saw in theaters was one in 1996, The Island of Dr. Moreau, since then I think I've thrown away 2 or 3 ticket stubs but still have that first one, and keep them all in folders designed for credit and business cards, I'm yet to count them though.
The oldest ones are barely readable, yellowish, print has almost completey gone off but you can still read the titles and dates, it's so cool!
I've been meaning to count how many movies I've seen all in all, at least approximately, but I don't know whether to count repeat viewing or not, since at least 35% are those, and how do you count TV shows with episodes at 25 and 45 minutes, and that troubles me... *takes a moment*...
I think it's better to keep 4 counts in this case,
two for movies: different movies you've seen all in all in every format and media, then just total viewings of all movies, that is including repeat viewings, and a two just for episodic TV, including mini series, in episodes first all diffierent, then including repeat viewings. Now that would be anal, if ticket stub collecting and my sig are not yet. :dork:
I am reminded of a short story in "The Acid House" by Irvine Welsh. In it, this guy has a copy of Halliwells Film & Movie Guide in which he crosses out every film he has seen.
He works through the whole book until he has seen every film in it, then realises he has completely wasted his life and hangs himself.... on camera, of course.
Me, I guess I've seen between about 1500 from birth till now (29).
:eek:
"I have 104 friends" :dork: ;)
I really dunno. How long have you kept a record though? Surely you saw some when you were young that you can't remember now?
Don't really have a clue, but I used to work in a cinema/fleapit - so probably around a thousand there, then another 500 as a paying punter, then more on TV/VHS/DVD so - maybe around 3000?
Jesus...get a life...no smileys or anything...just get a life.
And that doesn't mean stop watching films, there's nothing wrong with that. Just stop...
a) Filing them like invoices and
b) Telling people about it...
Hmmm...Citizen Kane and Brimstone & Treacle yesterday...what does that take me to ? Who gives a flying f...
gary191265 - your response to this post is completely unnecessary and out of order. Please do not use abusive replies.
I start writing down the films I see and when and where I see them every year in January...and get to April, usually. I don't do it to brag about or nuthin, it simply makes those top ten lists and reflections on the year just passed a helluva lot easier. Besides, I have a terrible memory. But as said, I never make it past April for some reason.
As to how many in total...do short films count? Documentaries? If so, then what type of Docu? 45 minute nature films as well?
In my best years (15-20) I surely saw some 400-500 films a year, easily, with nothing better to do, a tremendous passion for film and a part-time job at a Videostore which helped quite a bit. Now I average at about 250 a year, including the annual 40something at the Vienna Film Festival (where I feel 16 and passionate again :)
Speaking of festivals: Planning to finally go to London in November...what's the ticket situation like? Are some showings not open to the general public? Are the Cinemas more or less near one another? Heard so many good things about it, can't afford to go the whole 18 days, but a week would be tremendously cool.
and so on....
peace
Funny you should as this but a couple of month ago.I went to Blockbusters for the first time in a year.
She asked me if i was a regular,and before i could tell her,she told me"yes you are 978 rentals".
Oh poo look at all that wasted money.
+Picture's + dvds.
Am i sad.
Originally posted by Batesman
As to how many in total...do short films count? Documentaries? If so, then what type of Docu? 45 minute nature films as well?
I do count short films, but documentaries must be cinematically released or have been screened at a film festival, otherwise they are just a TV documentary and they don't count. So something like Nanook Of The North, yes, Fires Of The Amazon (Correspondent docu tonight), no.
string, length, piece of - discuss!
I have no idea, but it must be a lot :p
I didn't relise watching films was a competition.
Do you get double points for watching really long films.
And can i claim 200 points for sitting through all of 'Freddie got fingered'?
Originally posted by Arch Stanton
I didn't relise watching films was a competition.
Do you get double points for watching really long films.
And can i claim 200 points for sitting through all of 'Freddie got fingered'?
Claim 100000000! :-)
It's not a competition. I was just curious to see what the average was through a group of people who watch movies regulararly. Obviously people don't really care.
It's not so much they don't care - they just don't know. I've kept all my cinema tickets since Batman in 1989, but still have no idea. Definitely more than 1,000 - but other than that, unsure.
I'd be interested to know how often I've seen certain films though - over 80% of my viewing (at home) is stuff I've already seen (although I must be near the 100 mark for cinema visits in 2002 alone!). I'm sure I've watched over a hundred films at least a dozen times each. And it's not impossible that I've seen Star Wars, Jaws or possibly The Sound of Music into treble figures.
Originally posted by McD
I'm sure I've watched over a hundred films at least a dozen times each. And it's not impossible that I've seen Star Wars, Jaws or possibly The Sound of Music into treble figures.
It's very rare for me to watch films repeatedly all the way through - I honestly don't think I've seen <U>any</U> feature film a double-figure number of times, and the number I've seen more than, say, thrice is in a tiny minority.
<I>Withnail & I</I> probably holds the record, but that's more because I used to live with a woman who was totally addicted to it than any particular desire of mine to watch it loads of times!
When our local art house cinema opened a couple of years ago I started keeping an Excel sheet of films I'd seen (both there and at the multiplexes), but its only purposes are:
a) so when someone says, What was your favourite film of the year then? (usually on this forum!) I can use it as a reminder of what I did see...
b) I record the aspect ratio, since that is something you don't always get on IMDB.
I don't bother with films I see on TV or DVD though...
I have just come back from the Edinburgh Film Festival where I saw 18 films in 4 and a bit days (and met Ralph Fiennes and had a good natter) and where I passed the 2000 films seen mark.
SO:
Age: 23 (as of Monday just gone)
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
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God knows.
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Yep same here I have absolutely no idea.
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YOU IS CRAZY ANAL MAN. I have no idea
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I haven't got a clue.
What do you actually do with the Excel worksheet?
Is it just a listing of the films? Or are you reviewing them?
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How can you possibly count for all the films you've watched as a kid??
I would have no idea how many i've seen.
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How can you possibly count for all the films you've watched as a kid??
I would have no idea how many i've seen.
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2000+ plus is enough to impress most people but on these forums the number is small fry where you will find nutters who have seen pratically every film in the western hemisphere.
I mention no names but theres at least 5 of these nutters :D :nuts:
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I'm 30 and seen just the 1 film. Oh, what's it called....it'll come to me..
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Originally posted by Assilem23
Being incredibly anal, I keep a written record of every film I've seen (that's every film I've seen from start to finish or have seen more than 70% of (some you just have to turn off!)) in an Excel worksheet.
I have just come back from the Edinburgh Film Festival where I saw 18 films in 4 and a bit days (and met Ralph Fiennes and had a good natter) and where I passed the 2000 films seen mark.
SO:
Age: 23 (as of Monday just gone)
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
:dork:
Oh, and I have no idea.
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i must have seen at least one film a day since i was 13 so that would be 9 x 365 = 2285
oh and for the last three years i've worked in a video shop so i watch films all day long..........
so roughly all of them, ever.
BTW that is beyond anal, that's obsessive.
and scary.
not that you're strange or anything, i like you honest
(is there a nervous smiley?)
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I've no idea, but I suspect it would be fewer than you'd think - for every obscure Icelandic-Japanese culture clash comedy I've seen, there are three Best Picture Oscar winners that I haven't!
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Originally posted by danielzavitz
i must have seen at least one film a day since i was 13 so that would be 9 x 365 = 2285
oh and for the last three years i've worked in a video shop so i watch films all day long..........
so roughly all of them, ever.
BTW that is beyond anal, that's obsessive.
and scary.
not that you're strange or anything, i like you honest
(is there a nervous smiley?)
Surely you haven't seen a <b>different</b> film everyday though ?
That would take some doing.
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Seen 2011 films have you ???
... some members surpass that in their DVD collection! :nuts:
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Originally posted by Cirrus888
Seen 2011 films have you ???
... some members surpass that in their DVD collection! :nuts:
Yeah, but I bet they've not actually seen 90% of those... :nuts:
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Originally posted by LouBarlow
Surely you haven't seen a <b>different</b> film everyday though ?
That would take some doing.
wouldn't surprise me if it averages out at one a day. i watch almost every title that comes out at work so at the very least i watch 4 a week. i suppose being an insomniac helps.
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Including TV, video and DVD viewings, I've probably averaged 3-4 a week since the age of twenty, and more than that in my three years at University. At Southampton, we used to have a film festival at the end of the summer term, where you could watch nearly 40 in a week!
So let's say 4 a week, so that's 208 a year. I'll be 38 in October, so that comes to 3744. Plus a not inconsiderable amount during my teens (fewer in the cinema, more on TV and we didn't have a VCR then). Some of the total will of course be repeat viewings, though as I've said before, I don't watch films time and time again. (I've seen <i>The Elephant Man</i> eight times and <i>2001</i> seven, so they're the probable record holders.)
I suspect I'm approaching 4500 films now.
And there are several well-known films I haven't seen yet, but that's another thread...
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there was a bloke on the big breakfast once who had seen 20,000 films and had kept a record of every one - his own mini reviews.
he was very old though:p
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At a rough guess I'd say about 2,000.
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Not enough and never will see enough!
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Seeing as I saw my first film aged about 8 and I am now 37 (only just though ;) ) and for the last 10 years or so I have used my TV 90% for Movie viewing,I must have seen thousands!!
I used to have over 1,500 Horror films on VHS (of which I had seen them all) and that is before I take into account the 150+LD's and nearly 500 DVD's I have got :eek:
If I get some free time,I will put on a Movie before I would watch anything else,every time.
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Originally posted by danielzavitz
there was a bloke on the big breakfast once who had seen 20,000 films and had kept a record of every one - his own mini reviews.
he was very old though:p
Barry Norman???
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Originally posted by Assilem23
Being incredibly anal, I keep a written record of every film I've seen (that's every film I've seen from start to finish or have seen more than 70% of (some you just have to turn off!)) in an Excel worksheet.
I have just come back from the Edinburgh Film Festival where I saw 18 films in 4 and a bit days (and met Ralph Fiennes and had a good natter) and where I passed the 2000 films seen mark.
SO:
Age: 23 (as of Monday just gone)
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
When did you start? I mean the list can't be accurate for your entire life.
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Must be at least 1500 by now (aged 25)
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Originally posted by 8-]
When did you start? I mean the list can't be accurate for your entire life.
I started the list about four years ago when I thought I'd seen a lot of films. I put in it the films I could remember from my childhood - which wasn't many as I didn't really watch TV until I was about 13 and then really wasn't interested in it. I preferred to read. At about 18 I watched The Man Without A Face and remmebered being moved in a way cinema hadn't moved me before and decided I should check out some films that weren't Speed or Die Hard (which is what everyone else in my family watches). So basically it's about 50 films from my childhood and the rest are from 18 onwards. And then the majority of them are from the last two or three years when I realised there was a whole film culture I hadn't even touched.... foreign markets, silent films, and anything pre-1980 which hadn't interested me then.
Now my favourite types of film are either subtitled or silent.... they're just better films for me.
As to that guy on the Big Breakfast - he's in the Guiness Book Of Records. The mini-reviews were what made the Guiness Book.. recognise his claim at having seen those films. He'd gone to the cinema almost everyday of his life and tried to see a different film each time.... I read it in the newspaper at the time. One day I hope to have seen that many!
Oh, and I don't count repeat viewings. I'm sure I've seen Eve's Bayou about twenty odd times, Die Hard a gizzillion (it's the only film that seemed on our VCR during my early teens).
I keep the list as I find it helps me keep track of what I've seen... like I went to the video shop where I go to Uni and rented out Indiscreet (an old Cary Grant flick) got back and stuck it in the video player and then had this feeling I'd seen it somewhere along the line.... checked my database, and indeed I had! I just didn't recall when, so it must have been some years before. Still watched it again, though.
In the Excel sheet I just have the titles, but I'm trying to create a system whereby I can put mini reviews, star ratings, lists of actors etc... a little like DVDProfiler or the IMDb. I also highlight the ones I have on DVD and VHS. This is useful for my friends who can check that easier when they want to know what I have.
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How can you seriously have a list of every film you've seen?
I haven't got a clue how many i've seen, as some weeks i'll watch a film every day, and some weeks i won't watch any.
The most i've watched in a short period of time was 7 in 28 hours, and that was only because I was on a plane to Austrailia.
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Obsessive Film Disorder.:D :shocker:
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Originally posted by Assilem23
Films watched: 2011 (most of them in the last three years)
How 'bout you?
If you assume "most" means 51% then that works out at about one film a day at the very least.
How do you find the time to watch that many?
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At uni I often watch two or three a day, sometimes more.
For a long time I didn't have many friends so I watched lots of films, and now I have friends, but at Uni during the day I don't have many lectures and have lots of free time so I watch films. Coupled with the fact that I run the Cine-Club at my Uni, I just get to see lots of films.
I also try and go to the cinema at least once a week.
Basically I'm a film nut. I love cinema. Probably does border on the obsessive, if not actually passed that line. God knows I'm obsessive about other things. Why not film.
Hell, yes, I'm an Obsessive Film Fan. I admit it. To go and chat to an actor about his films simply because you have the chance, that's obsessive. Regularly travelling forty odd miles just to see a new release. That is too.
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Its an interesting question and I wish I knew but I don't:(
I used to keep a list of every band I saw live. But i stopped that in August 1992 when I went to backpack around America. It was 300 at that point and I've seen at least 10 today. I really wish I'd kept that list going.
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Originally posted by Cirrus888
I mention no names but theres at least 5 of these nutters :D :nuts:
Name and shame :D
Originally posted by sampath
Yeah, but I bet they've not actually seen 90% of those... :nuts:
And you would be wrong :nuts:
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Originally posted by robzinski
How can you seriously have a list of every film you've seen?
Well I did not keep a list of all the movies I've seen on TV or VHS and then LD and DVD and Theater, but I started collecting and keeping movie ticket stubs, the other halves you know, since the first movie I saw in theaters was one in 1996, The Island of Dr. Moreau, since then I think I've thrown away 2 or 3 ticket stubs but still have that first one, and keep them all in folders designed for credit and business cards, I'm yet to count them though.
The oldest ones are barely readable, yellowish, print has almost completey gone off but you can still read the titles and dates, it's so cool!
I've been meaning to count how many movies I've seen all in all, at least approximately, but I don't know whether to count repeat viewing or not, since at least 35% are those, and how do you count TV shows with episodes at 25 and 45 minutes, and that troubles me... *takes a moment*...
I think it's better to keep 4 counts in this case,
two for movies: different movies you've seen all in all in every format and media, then just total viewings of all movies, that is including repeat viewings, and a two just for episodic TV, including mini series, in episodes first all diffierent, then including repeat viewings. Now that would be anal, if ticket stub collecting and my sig are not yet. :dork:
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I am reminded of a short story in "The Acid House" by Irvine Welsh. In it, this guy has a copy of Halliwells Film & Movie Guide in which he crosses out every film he has seen.
He works through the whole book until he has seen every film in it, then realises he has completely wasted his life and hangs himself.... on camera, of course.
Me, I guess I've seen between about 1500 from birth till now (29).
:eek:
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"I have 104 friends" :dork: ;)
I really dunno. How long have you kept a record though? Surely you saw some when you were young that you can't remember now?
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Don't really have a clue, but I used to work in a cinema/fleapit - so probably around a thousand there, then another 500 as a paying punter, then more on TV/VHS/DVD so - maybe around 3000?
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Jesus...get a life...no smileys or anything...just get a life.
And that doesn't mean stop watching films, there's nothing wrong with that. Just stop...
a) Filing them like invoices and
b) Telling people about it...
Hmmm...Citizen Kane and Brimstone & Treacle yesterday...what does that take me to ? Who gives a flying f...
gary191265 - your response to this post is completely unnecessary and out of order. Please do not use abusive replies.
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I start writing down the films I see and when and where I see them every year in January...and get to April, usually. I don't do it to brag about or nuthin, it simply makes those top ten lists and reflections on the year just passed a helluva lot easier. Besides, I have a terrible memory. But as said, I never make it past April for some reason.
As to how many in total...do short films count? Documentaries? If so, then what type of Docu? 45 minute nature films as well?
In my best years (15-20) I surely saw some 400-500 films a year, easily, with nothing better to do, a tremendous passion for film and a part-time job at a Videostore which helped quite a bit. Now I average at about 250 a year, including the annual 40something at the Vienna Film Festival (where I feel 16 and passionate again :)
Speaking of festivals: Planning to finally go to London in November...what's the ticket situation like? Are some showings not open to the general public? Are the Cinemas more or less near one another? Heard so many good things about it, can't afford to go the whole 18 days, but a week would be tremendously cool.
and so on....
peace
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Funny you should as this but a couple of month ago.I went to Blockbusters for the first time in a year.
She asked me if i was a regular,and before i could tell her,she told me"yes you are 978 rentals".
Oh poo look at all that wasted money.
+Picture's + dvds.
Am i sad.
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Originally posted by Batesman
As to how many in total...do short films count? Documentaries? If so, then what type of Docu? 45 minute nature films as well?
I do count short films, but documentaries must be cinematically released or have been screened at a film festival, otherwise they are just a TV documentary and they don't count. So something like Nanook Of The North, yes, Fires Of The Amazon (Correspondent docu tonight), no.
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string, length, piece of - discuss!
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I have no idea, but it must be a lot :p
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I didn't relise watching films was a competition.
Do you get double points for watching really long films.
And can i claim 200 points for sitting through all of 'Freddie got fingered'?
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Originally posted by Arch Stanton
I didn't relise watching films was a competition.
Do you get double points for watching really long films.
And can i claim 200 points for sitting through all of 'Freddie got fingered'?
Claim 100000000! :-)
It's not a competition. I was just curious to see what the average was through a group of people who watch movies regulararly. Obviously people don't really care.
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It's not so much they don't care - they just don't know. I've kept all my cinema tickets since Batman in 1989, but still have no idea. Definitely more than 1,000 - but other than that, unsure.
I'd be interested to know how often I've seen certain films though - over 80% of my viewing (at home) is stuff I've already seen (although I must be near the 100 mark for cinema visits in 2002 alone!). I'm sure I've watched over a hundred films at least a dozen times each. And it's not impossible that I've seen Star Wars, Jaws or possibly The Sound of Music into treble figures.
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Originally posted by McD
I'm sure I've watched over a hundred films at least a dozen times each. And it's not impossible that I've seen Star Wars, Jaws or possibly The Sound of Music into treble figures.
It's very rare for me to watch films repeatedly all the way through - I honestly don't think I've seen <U>any</U> feature film a double-figure number of times, and the number I've seen more than, say, thrice is in a tiny minority.
<I>Withnail & I</I> probably holds the record, but that's more because I used to live with a woman who was totally addicted to it than any particular desire of mine to watch it loads of times!
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When our local art house cinema opened a couple of years ago I started keeping an Excel sheet of films I'd seen (both there and at the multiplexes), but its only purposes are:
a) so when someone says, What was your favourite film of the year then? (usually on this forum!) I can use it as a reminder of what I did see...
b) I record the aspect ratio, since that is something you don't always get on IMDB.
I don't bother with films I see on TV or DVD though...
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