The End.
One year ago today I started this blog. I thought it’d be interesting to monitor my viewing habits, which I considered to be awfully poor. I frequently stopped movies in the middle never to pick them back up. I gorged myself on hours of TV shows on DVD rather than invest in 90 minutes of a feature film. So in an attempt to get back on the wagon, I pitted the only weapon I knew against myself. I refer, of course, to my unfailing neuroses.
365 days later and I’m ready to stop the detailed tracking of titles, thoughts, runtimes, dates, and instead not worry about when I might start or finish a film. Sure, I probably finished more movies in one sitting than ever before in my life, but I’ve also seen less, and given up on opportunities so that I wouldn’t have to catalog them. However, a positive side effect has been my return to a regular creative writing schedule which I sorely lacked in the last few years.
I’ll stop here—I won’t bore you with my ruminations on the act of viewing. Most other conclusions can be drawn straight from the raw data, which I’ve conveniently gathered into a few infographics of varying interest and skill level. See for yourself which month I watched the most movies (June), how many films I saw in the theater (42), or which letter of the alphabet started most of the titles that I watched (S).
Bask in the 277 hours and 12 minutes I spent this year watching movies (that’s 11.5 days, or roughly 3% of the entire year). Take comfort in the fact that the ideal runtime (100 minutes, in my opinion) is also the average runtime of all of the movies I tracked. But most importantly, come follow me over at my new, multi-purpose blog, which you can find here. I can’t promise my neuroses won’t intervene, and I imagine I’ll write about films every so often, but rest assured they will never run amok as they do here.
Thanks for taking the time to read my writing (hi Mom).
JW
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