Well, my stats for the year were impressive. I met all of my goals, exceeded a few of them, and watched more movies than any of the other years I've tracked. I also focused much more heavily on watching first viewings.
Here are the goals, which I set at the start of last year, and the movies that fulfilled those requirements.
Documentary - 8
Bronies, Darkon, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue…, Heckler, Life 2.0, Best Worst Movie, After Porn Ends, Tabloid, Star Warriors, Life after Django Reinhardt, I Think We're Alone Now, Tales From the Script
Musical - 7
Into the Woods, Singin' in the Rain, The Muppet Movie, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Muppets, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sci-Fi - 18
The Host, Star Trek IV, Men in Black 3, Star Trek, Star Trek into Darkness, Silent Running, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Westworld, Futurama: Bender's Game, Starcrash, Super 8, Phase IV, The World's End, Branded, Hell, The One, The Angry Red Planet, Pacific Rim, Disturbing Behavior, Europa Report, The Asphyx, Robot & Frank
20s - 2
The Man Who Laughs, The Gold Rush
30s - 3
Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Reefer Madness
40s - 5
Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wolf Man
50s - 5
How to Marry a Millionaire, The Trouble with Harry, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Singin' in the Rain, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Angry Red Planet, The Creature From the Black Lagoon
60s - 6
Marnie, A Fistful of Dollars, Torn Curtain, For a Few Dollars More, Topaz, From Russia With Love, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, 8 1/2, The Odd Couple, Eyes Without A Face, The Trouble With Angels
70s - 18
The Muppet Movie, Frenzy, Summer of '42, The Sting, Jaws, Badlands, The Sentinel, Being There, Silent Running, Westworld, The Godfather, Starcrash, The Omen, Phase IV, Apocalypse Now, Blue Summer, The Conversation, Saturday Night Fever, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Madhouse, The Asphyx
The same breakdown as I made last year-
20s 2
30s 4
40s 5
50s 8
60s 12
70s 21
80s 25
90s 12
00s 34
10s 83
Action 42
Anthology 8
Comedy 43
Documentary 12
Drama 49
Fantasy 5
Horror 74
Musical 7
Romance 4
Sci-Fi 22
Superheros 11
Zombies 1
Total Viewed Repeat percentage First Time Percentage
2011 151 1.98 58.94
2012 186 3.76 63.97
2013 206 9.7 90.29
Notable information
I realized that determining what qualifies as sci-fi is a really difficult thing. There are a few really obvious ones, like Silent Running, which is almost purely sci-fi. But when it comes to movies like The Host, it's a monster movie, which uses a sci-fi background to make it come to fruition. Sci-fi is a prism that other genres get filtered through.
My repeat viewing percentage is high. I wish I could explain that. But my first time percentage is much higher than usual.
What did I learn from this?
I liked the goals at first. And I saw a lot of things I normally wouldn't have put the time into, and I became better-rounded as a result. As the year wore on, I became a bit more annoyed with the goals, and with my focus on only watching new movies. I had some horror movies on disc that I really wanted to watch, and I've been putting them off.
So, for next year - no goals. I'm not going to try to outdo myself.
But I suppose I have one goal, but it's not something I can quantify. I want to learn more about horror, and about screenwriting. I've been wanting to review all of the horror movies I own, and see if I can identify the things that make me scared.
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