I hit an interesting milestone back in January. I started keeping track of all the movies I watched back in 2004, along with a few basic stats like year and format. Now it's fifteen years later, and I have a massive amount of useless data to share. Some of the stats are included below for your amusement.
I decided to take the plunge and join Letterboxd, since some of their new data wrangling features caught my attention. I took the opportunity to go back through my records and rerate some titles as I was inputting them into the site. It turns out that my views on individual movies can change massively in hindsight. Did I really give Lee Chang-dong's "Poetry" and Peter Berg's "Love Survivor" the same rating when they came out? What could I have been thinking? I let my memory influence some of the adjustments - if I couldn't remember much about a highly rated title, I often docked it half a star. My recall is admittedly pretty bad past seven or eight years in the past, but there were some fairly recent titles that I had to look up to spark any kind of recognition. What the heck was "Last Days in the Desert"? Or "The Machine"? Why are there so many movies called "The Square"?
I'll eventually input the rest of the movies I've watched prior to 2004 to get my lifetime stats - I'm estimating about two thousand additional titles - but I wanted to get a snapshot of the data for this fifteen year period recorded first.
Movies watched: 4177
Hours: 7,682
Directors: 2,058
Countries: 96
Movies from the USA - 2620
Movies from the UK - 697
Movies from France - 620
Movies from Germany - 318
Movies from Italy - 227
Movies from Japan - 191
Movies from Canada - 141
Movies from Sweden - 77
Movies from Spain - 77
Movies from Belgium - 68
Movies from Australia - 68
Movies from China - 58
Movies from Denmark - 50
Movies from Russia - 45
Movies from Mexico - 36
Movies from Czech Republic - 35
Movies from Brazil - 28
Movies in English - 3334
Movies in French - 676
Movies in German - 343
Movies in Spanish - 324
Movies in Italian - 276
Movies in Japanese - 223
Movies in Russian - 174
Movies in Chinese - 110
Movies in Arabic - 73
Movies watched in class - 3
Movies watched on a bus - 2
Movies watched on a boat - 11
Movies watched on a plane - 20
Movies watched on VHS - 26
Movies watched in theaters - 160
Movies watched at anime conventions - 3
Movies made before 1920 -20
Movies made in the 1920s - 83
Movies made in the 1930s - 138
Movies made in the 1940s - 151
Movies made in the 1950s - 245
Movies made in the 1960s - 296
Movies made in the 1970s - 466
Movies made in the 1980s - 370
Movies made in the 1990s - 263
Movies made in the 2000s - 740
Movies made in the 2010s - 1410
Movies rated 5 stars - 66
Movies rated 4.5 stars - 210
Movies rated 4 stars - 813
Movies rated 3.5 stars - 1240
Movies rated 3 stars - 1149
Movies rated 2.5 stars - 472
Movies rated 2 stars - 183
Movies rated 1.5 stars - 27
Movies rated 1 star - 14
Movies rated zero or .5 stars - 3
Most watched directors:
Woody Allen - 26 movies
Alfred Hitchcock - 23
Ingmar Bergman - 19
Werner Herzog - 19
Fritz Lang - 18
Martin Scorsese - 18
David Cronenberg - 17
Jean-Luc Godard - 17
Akira Kurosawa - 15
François Truffaut - 15
Highest rated directors:
Joshua Oppenheimer - 4.8/5
Michael Apted - 4.7
Lee Chang-dong - 4.6
Costa-Gavras - 4.5
Jan Troell - 4.3
Lee Chang-dong - 4.6
Costa-Gavras - 4.5
Jan Troell - 4.3
Stanley Kubrick - 4.2
James Ivory - 4.2
Ang Lee - 4.2
Fernando Meirelles - 4.2
Robert Benton - 4.2
Fred C. Newmeyer - 4.2
Sam Taylor 4.2
René Clément - 4.2
Satyajit Ray - 4.2
Akira Kurosawa - 4.2
Béla Tarr 4.2
Arthur Penn - 4.2
Peter Watkins - 4.2
Laurence Olivier - 4.2
Elia Kazan - 4.1
James Ivory - 4.2
Ang Lee - 4.2
Fernando Meirelles - 4.2
Robert Benton - 4.2
Fred C. Newmeyer - 4.2
Sam Taylor 4.2
René Clément - 4.2
Satyajit Ray - 4.2
Akira Kurosawa - 4.2
Béla Tarr 4.2
Arthur Penn - 4.2
Peter Watkins - 4.2
Laurence Olivier - 4.2
Elia Kazan - 4.1
Most watched actors:
Johnny Depp - 36 movies
Willem Dafoe - 36
Michael Caine - 34
Samuel L. Jackson - 34
Robert De Niro - 29
Willem Dafoe - 36
Michael Caine - 34
Samuel L. Jackson - 34
Robert De Niro - 29
Meryl Streep - 29
Matt Damon - 28
Bill Hader - 28
Bill Hader - 28
Philip Seymour Hoffman - 27
Max von Sydow - 27
Most watched writers:
Woody Allen - 26 movies
Ian Fleming - 21
Billy Wilder - 18
Ingmar Bergman - 18
Akira Kurosawa - 17
Highest rated writers:
Michael Herr - 4.8
Calder Willingham - 4.7
Lee Chang-dong - 4.6
Paddy Chayefsky - 4.5
Adolfo Franci - 4.5
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - 4.5
Walter Reisch - 4.5
Vittorio De Sica - 4.5
Budd Schulberg - 4.5
Kazuo Ishiguro - 4.5
Animated films - 240
Documentaries - 277
Horror - 304
Sci-Fi - 390
Westerns - 93
Finally, the least popular title I've watched is apparently "Master Q: Incredible Pet Detective," a Chinese animated film from 2003 that was screened at an anime convention I attended many moons ago. A grand total of seven people have logged it on Letterboxd, including yours truly. It's also available on Youtube, but I do not recommend it.
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