Movies By The Numbers - Previous Years
In case you didn't notice, this site is really my personal film-watching-journal. Yes, it's available to you, because we're pals, but it's mostly for me to keep track of movies and jot down what I thought.
A few years ago now, I started compiling some numbers to get some metrics. I believe it stemmed out of a concern I was re-watching too many movies and not checking out enough new-to-me films. There is no right or wrong way of watching movies, exactly - though I will argue "that's not how movie watching works" from time to time when I get my dander up.
Anyway, our categories this year are:
- Decade of release
- Month in which movies were watched
- How many movies did I watch for the first time
- What genre does the movie represent best
- In what format did I watch movies
- Was the movie a new movie
- How many Godzilla movies did I watch
And, to start off - I watched movies 253 times in 2024.
If you want, you can check out the spreadsheet here.
Some of those were repeats. I did watch M3GAN, Godzilla: Minus One, The Fall Guy and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire twice each.
So, I watched something like 249 unique movies in 2024.
Caveats
I'll be honest, I probably should count a few Hallmark movies that were just *on* but I wasn't watching, but my shame is already great enough when it comes to Hallmark, so we'll just say "249 movies is plenty, my guy" and leave me alone.
I am counting duplicates as unique movies in my counts below, just FYI. So, yes, M3GAN will count twice in horror, for example.
Some of these things are weird. I called a YouTube video a documentary, because that's what it is. I also included some of the streaming docs that are not-quite-TV and not-quite-a-movie.
Decade
My definition of a decade is that a movie was released between January 01, of the zero (0) year of the decade, and December 31 of the nine (9) year of the decade. For example: a movie must have been released between January 1, 1950 and December 31, 1959 to be considered part of the 1950's.
1920's: 03
1930's: 11
1940's: 08
1950's: 34
1960's: 24
1970's: 13
1980's: 34
1990's: 21
2000's: 14
2010's: 17
2020's: 74
Month of Viewing
So, this is pretty obvious. It is a count of the number of movies I watched in each month. However, it is worth mentioning - the date in which I say I watched a movie is when I *finished* the movie. If I start on January 31 and finish on February 1, even crossing the midnight line as I watch, that's a February movie.
January: 19
February: 16
March: 26
April: 21
May: 23
June: 23
July: 26
August: 11
September: 15
October: 27
November: 22
December: 24
First Viewing
So, this is my "new-to-me" count, which is the most important number to me when I'm collecting data.
I define "new-to-me" or "First Viewing" as a movie I've never watched all the way through which I have now seen. Even if I've seen half of a movie before, or seen it in parts - I will still count a full viewing for the first time a "First Viewing".
Per unique movies like Fall Guy, which I watched twice, they weren't counted twice, obviously.
This year I watched: 181 new-to-me movies
I re-watched: 72 movies
That's 71.54% of the movies watched which were new-to-me.
This is, in my opinion, great.
I've been trying to make sure I'm expanding my horizons, and this year, I kinda-sorta did that. I had special efforts like my sprint through some Akira Kurosawa movies and some Fellini movies. I finally watched a few others, like Diary of a Lost Girl that I had been meaning to watch for *years*.
But I also watched way too many Hallmark movies, so... I'm not replacing Pauline Kael anytime soon.
Genre Breakdown
Action: 15
Adventure: 8
Animation: 5
Comedy: 31
Doc: 13
Drama: 28
Holiday: 26
Horror: 30
MST3K: 4
Musical: 5
Mystery: 2
Noir: 30
Romance: 1
Sci-Fi: 43
Superhero: 6
Western: 6
This is an impossible area to feel like every movie isn't open for debate as to what genre it should fit into. After all - superhero media usually fits into sub-genres. "Western" is barely a genre and more of a setting.
I even broke down Action and Adventure, and maybe that wasn't a great idea. But, it does give you a rough idea of what kinds of stuff I watched.
Maybe the biggest surprise is seeing how few superhero movies I watched this year versus (18 last year) and how many more sci-fi movies I watched 43 sci-fi flicks instead o the 7 I watched in 2023.
I have no idea how I'm organizing these categories. Do with this as you will.
Format of Viewing
I think this is pretty self explanatory. This is how I watched a movie.
AFS Cinema: 1
Alamo: 7
Amazon: 71
AMC: 3
Apple+: 2
Cinepolis: 2
Criterion: 34
Disc: 25
Disney+: 10
Fox Movies: 1
Hallmark: 14
Hulu: 9
Max: 21
Netflix: 14
Paramount+: 4
Peacock: 13
Regal Cinema: 1
Santikos: 1
TCM: 12
Tubi: 1
YouTube: 7
That's only 12 movies in the theater, which sounds right.
Hallmark, Fox Movies and TCM are all essentially cable. So - that's like 27 movies on cable this year.
I also am still doing physical media as evidenced by the 25 movies watched on disc, both personally owned and from the library.
Amazon is a bit of a misnomer. Amazon included some movies that were on services like Full Moon which I'd use as a free trial.
New Movies for the Year
I marked 49 movies watched this year as "New" movies. That means something different now that when I started tracking this item. Movies move to streaming so fast, if I catch the movie during its initial release or early on streaming, I'm still calling it "new". If it's months or a year after theatrical release, I'm not calling it "new".
And, of course, many, many things I watched never saw a movie theater. So, this is just the initial release wherever it took place.
Godzilla!
I noted I watched a lot of Godzilla this year, and we watched Godzilla movies 16 times.
Anyway...
That was 2024. I watched fewer movies than I had during the heydays of COVID. But It was *a lot*.
And that was between Cubs baseball, Texas Longhorn football, WNBA, The Olympics, TV shows, and other things. So, yeah, not a busy year, but we did have other things than movies going on.
For 2025, I hope to hit similar numbers for "new-to-me" movies, at least percentage-wise. And to explore more famous films and filmmakers that I've just not gotten around to.
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