2017 MOVIE STATS

There's no real reason anyone would be interested in this other than a general interest in me being an obsessive person who is pretty good at Microsoft Excel, but here are some pie charts and statistics about all of the movies I watched in 2017. I've been doing this for like 10 years, but I don't usually post it anywhere.

Arrows indicate how it compares to the previous year's numbers!
 This is for feature films only. I also have this all broken down for short films, but that seems even less worth posting.

Movies seen for the first time: 371 (↑132)
Movies rewatched: 73 (↑26)
Total: 444 (↑158, not having a job is the best! lol i can't pay my rent)

Watched the most movies in July: 58
Watched the least movies in April: 4 (I was in the middle of moving)
Movies seen in the theater (including rewatches): 110 (↑22)

Watched the most movies in the theater in July: 16
Watched the least movies in the theater in April: 1

Decades Breakdown
(new watches only)

1920s - 3, 1% (same)
1930s - 5, 1% (↓2%)
1940s - 10, 3% (↑1%)
1950s - 13, 3% (↑2%)
1960s - 22, 6% (↑2%)
1970s - 44, 12% (↑7%)
1980s - 96, 26% (↑12%)
1990s - 36, 10% (↓6%)
2000s - 38, 10% (↑2%)
2010s - 50, 13% (↓13%)
2017 - 55, 15% (↓5%)

Formats Breakdown
(includes rewatches)

Streaming: 140, 31% (↑15%)
Download: 110, 24% (↑12%)
35mm: 67, 15% (↑2%)
DCP: 39, 9% (↓9%)
DVD: 32, 7% (↓9%)
Blu-ray: 30, 7% (↓15%)
Youtube/Internet: 11, 2% (same)
Projected SD (dvd, etc): 7, 2% (↑2%)
Projected HD (blu-ray, etc): 4, 1% (same)
VHS: 3, 1% (↑1%)
16mm: 3, 1% (↑1%)
70mm: 1 (0 in 2016)
Airplane: 1 (0 in 2016)
2 in 3D (1 in 2016)
1 in IMAX (0 in 2016)


Watched movies from 31 different countries (not including rewatches or shorts). The highest, besides the US, were UK (34), Canada (24), France (22), Japan (13), Hong Kong (10) and Australia (10).

Watched 81 movies set in New York.

Most Watched Directors:
Roberta Findlay (7)
David DeCoteau (6)
Abel Ferrara (6)
Dario Argento (6, all in one night @ New Beverly)
Tobe Hooper (5, plus 1 short, and 12 episodes of TV)
Terence Fisher (5)
Spike Lee (5)
Lloyd Kaufman (5)

Most Watched Actors:
Nicolas Cage (23)
Christopher Lee (9)
Samuel L. Jackson (7)
Laurence Fishburne (6)
James Caan (6)
Rosie Perez (5)

TOP 10 BEST MOVIES I WATCHED THAT WERE NEW TO ME (not including 2017 movies)
1. Meet the Fokkens (2011, Gabrielle Provaas, Rob Schröder)
2. A Question of Silence (1982, Marleen Gorris)
3. Uptown Girls (2003, Boaz Yakin)
4. O.J.: Made in America (2016, Ezra Edelman)
5. Shakedown (1988, James Glickenhaus)
6. Double Down (2005, Neil Breen)
7. I Am Here....Now (2009, Neil Breen)
8. Giuseppe Makes a Movie (2014, Adam Rifkin)
9. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015, Andrew Jarecki)
10. The Telephone Book (1971, Nelson Lyon)

But I liked pretty much everything!
Top 50 Here

OTHER LISTS
Seasons of TV watched: 31 (↑16)
Books Read: a pathetically low number
Stand-up specials watched: 5 (↑4)

Best TV Watched (not 2017)
1. Game of Thrones Seasons 1-4 (ranked 4,3,1,2)
2. Search Party Season 1
3. Lady Dynamite Season 1
4. Comedy Bang Bang Season 2
5. Jessica Jones Season 1

Best Book Read (not 2017)
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch