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Title: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Scott on December 17, 2003, 12:43:05 AM
Was just thinking the other day about how many movies I have seen throughout my life and found that I have seen about 750 films. Possibly up to 800 if I give credit for a few non-memorable films to the list. It's not that many considering I'm 39 and I seen 200 of them in just the past year.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Ash on December 17, 2003, 01:03:05 AM
I have no idea but it would probably be more than I could imagine.

At least 1000 probably.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Dunners on December 17, 2003, 01:46:17 AM
Isnt this like asking a teenager how many times he masterbates a year? :P

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: raj on December 17, 2003, 11:12:48 AM
Um, a whole lot?  Bunches?  Tons?
Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: onionhead on December 17, 2003, 01:41:52 PM
Borrowing a quote from Eileen Brennan in Jeepers Creepers--"More than a couple."

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: AndyC on December 17, 2003, 02:19:36 PM
I don't even know how I would estimate that. It could be close to a couple of thousand, with all of the tv movies and so forth.

Seeing the Picture of Everything recently caused me to stop and think about the vast amount of pop culture I've assimilated in 32 years - movies, TV shows, songs. Staggering.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: The Burgomaster on December 17, 2003, 02:41:19 PM
I'd guess I've seen at least 3,000 - 4,000.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Brother Ragnarok on December 18, 2003, 02:02:09 AM
I wouldn't even know where to start counting.  My parents and I used to rent movies all the time, as far back as I can remember and probably even before that.  It's gotta be in the quadruple digits, and that's not even counting multiple viewings of the same movie.

Brother R

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Eirik on December 18, 2003, 03:31:44 AM
I sat down and actually wrote out a list (took me the better part of a pretty slow day)and I only got to 377.  Maybe I haven't seen as many movies as some, but I have to wonder about any estimate over 1,000.  I am 33 years old.
Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Neville on December 18, 2003, 09:26:57 AM
Let me see... I watched lots of stuff as a kid, but my movie-mania really started when I was 12, after I saw Tim Burton's "Batman" in 1989. Since then I've seen at least 4 movies per week. That would make (quick look to the Windows Calculator) about 2,912 movies since then. Of course, I've seen many of them more than once, but I can't figure out how to calculate that.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Will on December 18, 2003, 11:34:35 AM
2,046

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: The Burgomaster on December 18, 2003, 01:17:22 PM
Eirik wrote:

"I sat down and actually wrote out a list (took me the better part of a pretty slow day)and I only got to 377. Maybe I haven't seen as many movies as some, but I have to wonder about any estimate over 1,000. I am 33 years old."

I am 39 years old and I own around 1,000 DVDs, so I can guarantee that I have seen that many.  And there are many, many more that I have seen that I do NOT own.  I'd say that my 3,000 - 4,000 guess is pretty accurate.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: trekgeezer on December 18, 2003, 06:33:21 PM
42,839

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Eirik on December 19, 2003, 12:33:31 AM
You own 1,000 DVDs???  Jesus, I hope you didn't pay full price for all of them!  I stand corrected.

I have a friend who had over 5,000 music CDs.  Me and my other friends got together after helping him move and laid it on the line: Never again.
Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Evil Matt on December 19, 2003, 06:15:58 AM
Nine.  And they are...

1)Howard the Duck
2) Tron
3) King Kong Lives
4) The Dirt Bike Kid
5) Porky's 2
6) Ghostbusters
7) House Party 3
8) They Still Call Me Bruce
9) Ghoulies 2


I'm really picky about what I watch...

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Neon Noodle on December 21, 2003, 12:21:20 PM

> I have a friend who had over 5,000 music CDs.  Me and my other
> friends got together after helping him move and laid it on the
> line: Never again.

Holy crap! If these 5,000 are all originals; then he should invest about a year consolidating tracks on a burner!

I've seen maybe 1,000 films. However, I do a little reviewing on the side so some movies get multiple viewings. I'm sure if I applied the same amount of time to my studies as I do to watching movies, I'd have a cure for Alzheimer's by now...

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on December 21, 2003, 04:40:21 PM
How many movies have you seen in your life? More then some, less then others. Being unemployed in 1980 and having nothing better to do, I sat down and calculated I had seen somewhere between 1200 and 1500 moives uo to that time. On the average of some three donzen if not more, movies each year, since then, the total number of movies I have, is somewhere between 2028 and 2328.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: The Burgomaster on December 21, 2003, 06:37:50 PM
I guess this thread could lead to another thread titled "How many GOOD movies have you seen in your life."

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: The Burgomaster on December 23, 2003, 02:05:20 PM
In reviewing this thread, I believe that Evil Matt is the only one who has watched the 9 essential movies in film history.  If you watch these 9, you will see everything you need to see.  There is no benefit to watching any other movies.

Bless you, Matt.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Scott on December 23, 2003, 09:46:17 PM
Well, I can't say I agree with those movie picks of Evil Matt's, but I love his quote "Everything's funnier with monkeys." Cracks me up every time.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: Evil Matt on December 27, 2003, 01:16:59 AM
I should clarify, it's not like I watched those movies because I wanted to.  Those 9 were the only films available to me that weren't expressionist Swedish Pilates instruction films.  But I'm glad people like my quote.

And bless all of you, too.

Title: Re: How Many Movies Have You Seen In Your Life?
Post by: StatCat on December 28, 2003, 12:17:36 AM
I have too many, and have seen too few of them is all I will say