I wanted to watch 365 movies this year. Went a bit overboard and just closed the year after 750 movies.

I mostly watched two movies a day after work and went alphabetically through my collection backlog, which made for some very funny combinations, like watching The Boy in the striped Pyjamas back to back with The Jungle Book (with their German titles they are right next to each other). I also buy new releases basically every week, so i watched everything i bought new before continuing the pile of shame i call my backlog.

The oldest movie was Metropolis from 1927 and i think the newest movie might have been The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from not long ago.

Most of the titles i were frist times for me, i would guess there were around 20 - 25 rewatches among them.

I tracked everything in Letterboxd, so if anyones interested: https://letterboxd.com/gumbulum/

I also made a little graph that shows the IMDb rating of every movie i watched. I always stumble upon people saying they basically never watch anything with a rating below 6 or so, and i think that is quite sad. You shouldn't discriminate by ratings! https://imgur.com/QBHrBwP

I've also crowned a movie of the week every week, they can be seen in this imdb list https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021090686/

Adding up all the runtimes and removing an average of 5 minutes because i often don't sit through the complete credits i spent 1303 hours out of the 8760 in a year watching movies.

Watching that many movies while having a regular job and trying to maintain a healthy social life was quite the challenge, so i'm really quite proud tho have basically doubled my new years resolution goal, while also being sad that there is no way to top it in 2019, as watching even more wouldn't be healthy i fear.

edit: oh and if someone wants a laugh (or a cringe, i don't know if it is actually funny), i have a small blog where i basically rant about the titles foreign movies get in Germany: http://minusthegood.tumblr.com/

Submitted December 31, 2018 at 01:07AM by gumbulum http://bit.ly/2ApP8Vb