I have been known to see movies. When I was but a wee sprite, I collected ticket stubs and pasted them on sheets of paper and rated movies on an absurd scale of 1 to 20, including half numbers. This didn’t last long. In later years I sometimes kept track of how many movies I saw in theaters. One year in my early twenties I saw about 230 movies theatrically, thanks largely to The New Beverly in Los Angeles. And for another couple of years in the ‘90s I kept track of every movie I saw, video or theatrical, that was new to me.

But I’d never kept track of every movie I saw, both video and theatrical, both new to me and familiar, until this year. How many did I watch in 2015? It’s a question everyone who is me has been fascinated by. Let’s go to the numbers.

Total number of movies seen, including multiple viewings: 378 (yikes!)

Unique movies: 372

Total theatrical: 116

Theatrical on glorious film: 63

Video: 262

First time seen: 236

How about a breakdown by decade? Excellent idea.

1910s – 1

1920s – 4

1930s – 7

1940s – 22

1950s – 36

1960s – 22

1970s – 47

1980s – 58

1990s – 43

2000s – 22

2010s – 116, and just from 2015 – 69

Not too suprising. I am a child of the ‘70s and ‘80s, after all. I feel comfortable there. Digging a bit deeper, I see that of the 58 movies I saw from the ‘80s, only 14 were new to me. But of the 47 I saw from the ‘70s, 31 were new to me. There’s much to explore in that amazing decade of film, and I guess the great ones I’ve seen A LOT already, and didn’t return to much.

As for the 43 from the ‘90s, only 11 were new to me. I guess I know what I like from those years. Were the ‘00s a crap decade overall? I feel like I lost interest in movies a bit over those years. Of the 22 I saw, 11 were new to me.

From just 2010 to 2014 I saw 47 movies, 34 new to me, catching up on what I’ve lately missed, and re-watching my recent favorites. And from 2015 I saw 66 new movies, plus I saw Mad Max: Fury Road three times, and Turbo Kid twice. Have you still not seen Turbo Kid? Now’s the time, folks.

From days more olden, I clearly need to ramp up my intake of ‘30s movies, and earlier. And then, a few years from now, when I’ve seen every movie ever made, I can finally take a break.

But enough generalities. Let’s check out the movies.

First off, a dying breed, movies seen in theaters on 35mm film (or, where noted, 70mm). Asterisk for first time seen:

Absolute Beginners (1986)*

After The Thin Man (1936)*

The Black Pirate (1926)*

Body Heat (1981)

The Border (1981)*

The Burglar (1957)*

Caught (1949)*

Cave of The Spider Woman (Pan si dong) (1927)*

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Crime of Passion (1957)*

The Crowd (1928)*

Cry Terror! (1958)*

Dementia (1955)*

Elevator To The Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud) (1958)

Elf (2003)*

eXistenZ (1999)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)*

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Ghost Train (1927)*

The Goonies (1985)

The Grim Game (1919)*

The Guilty (1947)*

Guns, Girls, And Gangsters (1959)*

The Hateful Eight (2015)* 70mm

The Hidden Room (AKA Obsession) (1949)*

The Honeymoon Killers (1969)*

How I Won The War (1967)*

In A Lonely Place (1950)

Inside Detroit (1956)*

Ivy (1947)*

The Jerk (1979)

The Keep (1983)*

Killer’s Kiss (1955)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 70mm

Lost Highway (1996)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)*

A New Leaf (1971)*

Nightfall (1957)*

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

Piranha (1978)*

The Quay Brothers in 35mm (2015)*

The Reckless Moment (1949)*

Ride The Pink Horse (1947)*

Road Games (1981)*

RoboCop (1987)

Rolling Thunder (1977)

Runaway Train (1985)

The Set-Up (1949)

The Seven-Ups (1973)*

Shockproof (1949)*

Sleep, My Love (1948)*

So Dark The Night (1946)*

The Suspect (1944)*

They Live (1988)

The Thing (1982)

The Time Machine (1960)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

Unforgiven (1992)

Vertigo (1958) 70mm

White of The Eye (1987)*

Witness To Murder (1954)*

 

Movies seen in theaters in digital form:

The American Friend (1977)*

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)*

The Babadook (2014)*

Burroughs: The Movie (1983)*

Cal (1984)*

Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police (2015)*

Carol (2015)*

Commando (1985)

Creed (2015)*

Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World (2015)*

The Diary of A Teenage Girl (2015)*

The Duke of Burgundy (2015)*

El Cordero (2015)*

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2015)*

The End of The Tour (2015)*

Everest (2015)*

Ex Machina (2015)*

The Forbidden Room (2015)*

The Gift (2015)*

GoodFellas (1990)

A Hard Day (Kkeut-kka-ji-gan-da) (2015)*

Heaven Adores You (2015)*

Hits (2015)*

Inside Out (2015)*

It Follows (2015)*

Jacky and The Kingdom of Women (Jacky au royaume des filles) (2014)*

Jurassic World (2015)*

Kiss of Death (1947)

The Little Shop of Horrors: Director’s Cut (1986)*

Lost Soul: Doomed Journey of Stanley’s Dr. Moreau (2015)*

Love & Mercy (2015)*

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)*

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Man From Reno (2015)*

The Martian (2015)*

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)*

Phantom of The Paradise (1974)*

A Pigeon Sat on A Branch Reflecting on Existence (2015)*

Predestination (2015)*

Red Army (2015)*

Roar (1981)*

The Salt of The Earth (2015)*

The Salvation (2015)*

Sicario (2015)*

Spectre (2015)*

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)*

The Steel Trap (1952)*

The Tales of Hoffman (1951)*

The Tribe (Plemya) (2015)*

Welcome To Me (2015)*

Where To Invade Next (2015)*

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) (1987)

 

Movies seen on video:

Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1971)

Alien (1979)

All That Heaven Allows (1955)

Amelie (2001)

The American (2010)*

American Psycho (2000)

An American Werewolf In London (1981)

Amy (2015)*

Angel Heart (1987)

Atomic Submarine (1959)*

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)*

The Babadook (2014)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Batman (1966)

Batman Returns (1992)

Batman & Robin (1997)*

Beasts of No Nation (2015)*

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Being There (1979)

Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

Bitter Moon (1992)

Black Christmas (1974)*

Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai ri yan huo) (2015)*

The Black Hole (1979)

The Black Stallion (1979)

The Bling Ring (2013)*

Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)*

Blue Velvet (1986)

Bone Tomahawk (2015)*

Borgman (2014)

Breezy (1973)*

The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

Brief Encounter (1945)*

Broken Flowers (2005)

Bulworth (1998)

Burden of Dreams (1982)

The Cabin In The Woods (2012)

Calvary (2014)*

The Car (1977)*

Cat Ballou (1965)*

Chappie (2015)*

Children of Men (2006)

Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam) (1994)*

Citizenfour (2014)*

Class of 1999 (1990)*

Club Dread (2004)

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)*

Con Air (1997)

The Conjuring (2013)*

Cop Car (2015)*

Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) (1972)

Cry Danger (1951)

Dagon (2001)*

Day For Night (La Nuit américaine) (1973)*

Days of Being Wild (Ah fei zing zyun) (1990)*

Dead Man (1995)

Dear White People (2014)*

Devil Doll (1936)*

Donnie Darko (2001)

Donnie Brasco (1997)*

Dracula’s Daughter (1935)*

Dragonslayer (1981)

Dreamscape (1984)

The Driver (1978)*

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of The National Lampoon (2015)*

Duel (1971)*

Easy Rider (1969)

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

The Elephant Man (1980)

Enemy (2014)*

Eraserhead (1978)

Experimenter (2015)*

Extraterrestrial (2011)*

F Is For Fake (1973)*

Face/Off (1997)

Fallen Angels (Do lok tin si) (1995)*

Fast Five (2011)*

The Fast and The Furious (1955)*

The Fast and The Furious (2001)*

A Field In England (2013)

Finding Vivian Maier (2013)*

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Five Deadly Venoms (Wu du) (1978)*

For A Few Dollars More (1965)

Force Majeure (2014)*

Foreign Correspondent (1940)*

48 Hrs. (1982)

Freejack (1992)

Frenzy (1972)*

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)*

Frogs (1972)*

The Fugitive Kind (1960)*

Ghostbusters (1984)

God Told Me To (1976)*

Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief (2015)*

Gone Girl (2014)*

The Goodbye Girl (1977)*

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Grey Gardens (1975)*

The Gunfighter (1950)*

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

The Hidden Room (AKA Obsession) (1949)

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)*

An Honest Liar (2015)*

House On Hauted Hill (1959)*

How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)*

Ida (2014)*

Idiocracy (1998)

In Cold Blood (1967)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (1984)

Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou) (2002)*

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

The Interview (2014)*

Invasion of The Bee Girls (1973)*

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)*

It’s Such A Beautiful Day (2012)*

It’s Such A Beautiful Day (2012)

Jack Reacher (2012)*

JCVD (2008)*

John Carter (2012)*

John Wick (2014)*

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)*

Journey To The Seventh Planet (1962)*

Jurassic Park (1993)

Kill Me Three Times (2015)*

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)*

Life Is Sweet (1990)*

Lisztomania (1975)*

Live From New York! (2015)*

The Lone Gun (1954)*

The Lone Ranger (2013)

The Long Riders (1980)*

Long Weekend (1977)*

The Lovers On The Bridge (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) (1991)*

Lucy (2014)*

Mad Love (1935)*

Mad Max (1979)

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles (2015)*

Maps To The Stars (2015)*

Matinee (1993)

Mauvais Sang (1986)*

Medea (1969)*

Megaforce (1982)

Michael Clayton (2007)

The Monolith Monsters (1957)*

The Monster That Challenged The World (1957)*

Mr. Nobody (2010)*

My Best Fiend (1999)

Mystery Men (1999)*

The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad! (1988)

The Naked Jungle (1954)

Neighbors (1981)

Never Let Go (1960)*

Night of The Creeps (1986)*

Nightcrawler (2014)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Non-Stop (2014)*

Notorious (1948)

Nuts In May (1976)*

Odd Man Out (1947)*

Of Human Bondage (1934)*

On Dangerous Ground (1951)*

The Onion Field (1979)*

The Overnight (2015)*

The Past (Le passé) (2013)*

Paths of Glory (1957)

Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)

Pinocchio (1940)

A Poem Is A Naked Person (1974)*

Poltergeist (1982)

Pontypool (2009)*

Porco Rosso (1992)*

Powaqqatsi (1988)

Prince of Darkness (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987)

Private School (1983)*

Queen and Country (2014)*

Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981)

Reality (2015)*

The Remains of The Day (1993)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Ride In The Whirlwind (1966)*

Ripley’s Game (2003)*

River of No Return (1954)*

Road to Morocco (1942)*

The Road Warrior (AKA Mad Max II) (1981)

Rope of Sand (1949)*

Rushmore (1998)

Safe (1995)

Savages (1972)*

Salesman (1968)*

Sanjuro (1962)

Scarlet Street (1945)*

Schizopolis (1996)

Serial Mom (1994)

Shaft In Africa (1973)*

Shakespeare In Love (1998)

Shaun The Sheep Movie (2015)*

Shivers (1975)

The Shooting (1966)*

Skidoo (1968)*

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) (2011)*

Sleepaway Camp (1983)*

Sling Blade (1996)

Slither (2006)*

Slow West (2015)*

Son of Dracula (1943)*

Splendor In The Grass (1961)*

Spring Breakers (2013)

Stardust Memories (1980)

Starman (1984)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Strangers On A Train (1951)

The Stuff (1985)

Super (2011)*

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tôge) (1966)*

Take This Job and Shove It (1981)

The Tall T (1957)*

The Terminator (1984)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)*

That Guy Dick Miller (2015)*

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Time Bandits (1981)

To Die For (1995)

Tom Dowd & The Language of Music (2003)*

Tomorrowland (2015)*

Transcendence (2014)*

Trumbo (2007)*

Turbo Kid (2015)*

Turbo Kid (2015)

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) (2014)*

Upstream Color (2013)

V For Vendetta (2006)

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a tyden divu) (1970)*

Vampyres (1974)*

Vincent (Vincent n’a pas d’écailles) (2015)*

Virunga (2014)*

Waiting For Guffman (1996)

Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)*

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

What We Do In The Shadows (2014)*

While We’re Young (2015)*

Why Don’t You Play In Hell? (Jigoku de naze warui) (2014)*

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Wild Angels (1966)*

A Wolf At The Door (O Lobo astrás da Porta) (2015)*

The World’s End (2013)

The Wrecking Crew (2015)*

The Wrestler (2008)

Wrong Cops (2013)*

You, The Living (Du levande) (2007)*

You Only Live Once (1937)*

 

I’m not sure what we can learn from this list, aside from my needing another hobby, but one thing I am sure of: I saw some movies in 2015. I wonder if 2015 was an outlier, numbers-wise? Being the first year I’ve kept such a list, did I watch more movies than I would have otherwise? Now that I’ve normalized tracking what I watch, will I watch fewer movies in 2016? There’s only way to know for sure. A new list. Until this time next year, then…