The 306 films my wife saw in the theater in 2018

Her record is 475 films in the theater in one year, but that was when she took her vacation to coincide with the Chicago European Film Festival.

 

I love that you guys go out to see so many movies. Speaking of TV, have you ever checked out TCM? The have an astonishing library of films with great prints on television.

 

TAKE THAT BACK!!!

I don't watch TV except for hockey games. Gaming, playing music, listening to some, spending time with my wife, bringing my dog to the park or lake, etc. I have a load of hobbies which consume time.

In reality, I don't care how other people use their time and it sounds like you get a lot out of it. To me, watching a movie is a passive activity and I can only be passive for so long. Love movies and get engrossed in stories but watching that a movie every night would result in me getting restless and want to *do* something...

Different strokes and all that.

Meanwhile, I've been on a kick in discovering and obtaining copies of color-restored movies, the latest being The Fellowship Of The Ring which is terribly colored on Blu-Ray for no real good reason, really. Also darkened a lot in some scenes. The Blu-Ray is the 2nd row of pics.



Quick question ; do you ever rewatch movies at home that you enjoyed when you saw them initially in the theater?

 

I see a lot more live music than she does, and of course shooting live music and editing the videos I shot.

Not in recent years. We have a dedicated home theater, but it honestly hasn't been used in a few years - whenever I'm home, we're out seeing movies in the theater. I frequently re-watch films on my TV at my Kansas City apartment, especially what Quentin Tarantino called "Hang out movies" - films you watch just to spend time with characters you like. I've seen the Brendan Fraiser film Blast From The Past an unreasonable number of times.

 

I have a cable tuner here in my KC apartment, but 99% of what I watch is via my Roku. In Chicago, we have an OTA antenna and a tuner, but the last thing she watched on TV was the Oscars.

A long time ago, we had a couple of TiVOs and plenty of TV shows we both enjoyed, but shows we liked kept getting canceled. Too many heartbreaks.

 

If you watch just ONE film anytime soon, watch Heavy Trip.

 

Amazing! She must come here and give us her verdicts on each film she sees!

 

Following!

 

Wow, I think I've seen just a handful of movies more than 1 time on their initial run (I saw Star Wars twice when I was a kid and the newest Mad Max as I saw it with two different groups of friends). I'd go crazy seeing any film 5 times in such a short time span, at that point I'd have the dialog memorized! But hey, different strokes for different folks and all that.

 

Wow. I thought I was a movie nut, but your wife has got me (and likely everyone else on this forum) beat!

 

Apparently she is nowhere near the champion. Reportedly, a lawyer in New York City sees more than a thousand films in the theater a year.

But compare it to the amount of TV the average American watches in a year - her 306 movies, averaging just over two hours each, is less than 700 hours of viewing. Most have seen that much TV in a few months.

I got curious and did a search. According to the New York Times:

On average, American adults are watching five hours and four minutes of television per day. The bulk of that — about four and a half hours of it — is live television, which is television watched when originally broadcast. Thirty minutes more comes via DVR.

That's 1971 hours of TV.

 

She was a member and forgot her password.

 

It would be cool to read a little blurb about each movie she’s seen, but that’s me.

I don’t get to the theater much anymore. My little boy is a handful and won’t sit still for any length of time. It’s okay, though, as I stream a lot of stuff.

 

Some films have to be seen more than one time. I didn't really get Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon until the third time I saw it. The first time I was reading the subtitles to follow the story. The second time I was watching the character who was speaking. The third time I was watching the character who was listening. That third time was the emotional payload.

Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh are old friends, and she was widowed when his best friend gave his life to save Chow.

These two people are desperately in love, but they cannot act upon that because it would dishonor both of them. All of this is told on the faces of each is they listen to the other.

I never would have realized this if I hadn't seen it three times, and I'm confident that more will be revealed to me the next time I see.

 

But... Avengers Infinity? I can understand foreign films with subtitles (especially fast ones) but not a comic book film. But hey, if she enjoys it that’s awesome.

 

I saw Bohemian Rhapsody the other week, 3 different groups of people talked all the way through it, even raising their voices with the louder music sections. Grrr... I think I have given up with the cinema.

 

Was this at a theater out in the suburbs? Because we see most of our films in the city, people are perfectly quiet and respectful.

 

In a large town, it is not uncommon over the last decade or so, it has gradually driven me crazy.

 

She's not one of those people that sees only foreign films and is all disdainful of "Hollywood tripe", she's more like Roger Ebert in that every film should be judged by how well it achieves its aim.

Tonight, she's going to see Luchino Visconti's Ludwig and tomorrow Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev.

But she's as ready to see a Hong Kong action film by John Woo, or a romantic comedy, or a documentary, or anything that strikes her fancy.

 

Well, we Chicago people are legendary for our shyness and quietness.

Over the last decade it's happened to me exactly twice.

One time, I was having to see a film in a completely full theater, and the sixteen-year-old twit sat next to me thought she would be text messaging her friends all the way through the movie. I'm a big hairy guy, who my wife - who loves me - calls "scary looking", and I turn to this little pinhead and said "Put that away. Right now." And she did.

The second time, I was at the Cinemark Century in Evanston, a couple of women decided the movie theater was the perfect place to catch up on their vapid, pointless, idiotic lives. I waited for a break in the action, stood up, and told them that everybody else was there to hear the movie NOT THEM and if they wanted to talk the Starbucks was downstairs. They got all offended, left in a huff. I got a round of applause.

Again I've been seeing more than a hundred films a year in the theater, and over 10 years that's more than a thousand films. That's a hell of a good percentage.

 

living her best life//// bullitt, I wanna hold your hand, wings of desire etc on the big screen, too cool.... I could probably give her a run for the money back in my day. curious to see what she thinks of the films, favorites and such.
ps reminds me of this!

 

...Thank you! Ats'a nice!
I will say more in a seperate line on the Shorts.







DeVoe, post: 20293962, member: 40393"]Not sure as I wasn't home to see them with her this year. In 2017 I was home to see them, and AMC showed animated, live-action and documentary as three separate programs. She was very annoyed at Landmark this year, because they had the different shorts programs on the same day but separated by 2 hours. She felt, I thought quite rightly, that anybody who went to the trouble of seeing any of the nominated short films wanted to see them all.[/QUOTE]

 

For those who are interested, here are the films she saw in 2017. All 475 of them. I put them in a spoiler tag to keep the text manageable.

She saw 220 of them with MoviePass. I'm not sure she killed the company, but it's a possibility, and if she did, she's sorry.

Spoiler

2017 - 475 movies
(used MoviePass 220 times)

136 Movies at AMC River East 21
89 at Gene Siskel Film Center
68 at Music Box
46 at AMC Galewood 14
40 at AMC Streets of Woodfield
23 at AMC Rosemont (Muvico)
20 at Cinemark Century Evanston
15 at Facets Cinematheque
12 at Regal City North 14
11 at The Patio Theater
4 at Pickwick Theater
3 at Regal Webster Place
2 at AMC Showplace Niles 12
2 films at Davis Theater
1 at Brew & View
1 at Logan
1 at Wilmette Theater
1 at AMC Village Crossing

2017 movies

Here are the movies I saw in 2017, alphabetized, with duplicates left in. The * means I used MoviePass for it.

1 Mile To You *
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
20th Century Women *
47 Meters Down *
90 Minutes of the Fever
A Beautiful Accident *
A Cure For Wellness
A Dog's Purpose *
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Fistful of Fingers (1995)
A Ghost Story *
A Girl Who Walks Home Alone At Night
A Monster Calls *
A Quiet Passion *
A Star is Born (Advance screening)
A Street Cat Named Bob
A Taxi Driver *
A United Kingdom
Abracadabra *
Afterimage *
Aftermath *
Alien (1979)
Alien: Covenant
All Eyez On Me *
All I See Is You *
Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds *
Alpha (Advance screening)
American Assassin
American Made *
American Satan *
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power *
Anatahan (1953) *
Ant-Man (2015)
Arrival *
Atomic Blonde
Atomic Blonde *
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) *
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Awakening the Zodiac
Babe: Pig In The City (1998)
Baby Driver
Baby Driver *
Badrinath Ki Dulhania *
Band Aid *
Bang! The Bert Berns Story
Bang! The Bert Berns Story *
Battle of the Sexes *
Beat the Devil (1953)
Beatriz at Dinner
Beauty and the Beast (1991) *
Beauty and the Beast *
Before I Fall *
Being There (1979)
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened *
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Bill Nye: The Science Guy *
Bitter Harvest *
Black Sabbath (1963)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 *
Blood and Black Lace (1964) *
Blue Velvet (1986) *
Brave New Jersey *
Brawl in Cell Block 99 *
Brigsby Bear
Brigsby Bear
Brigsby Bear *
Brimstone & Glory
Caddyshack (1980)
California Typewriter *
Call Center
Call Me By Your Name
Candy Mountain (1987)
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Captain Underpants
Cars 3 *
Chavela
Churchill *
City of Ghosts
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Coco
Coco *
Collide *
Colossal
Colossal *
Columbus
Columbus
Cook Up A Storm *
Daisy Winters
Daisy Winters *
Dave Made a Maze *
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Desert Hearts (1986)
Despicable Me 3
Detroit
Detroit *
Dick Tracy (1990)
Dig Two Graves *
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) *
Dolores
Donnie Darko (2001)
Downsizing *
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Duckweed
Dunkirk
Dunkirk *
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Earth: One Amazing Day *
Elle
Endless Poetry
Eraserhead (1977)
Everybody Loves Somebody
Everything, Everything
Evolution
Ex Libris: New York Public Library *
Explosion *
Faces Places
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Favorites
Ferdinand
Fight For Space *
Fire At Sea *
Footnotes *
For Here Or To Go? *
Frailty (2001)
Free Fire
From Dusk Til Dawn (1996)
From the Land of the Moon
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) *
Galaxy Quest (1999) *
Geostorm *
Get Out
Get Out *
Ghost In The Shell *
Ghost Of New Orleans *
Gifted
Gifted *
God of War *
Gold *
Good Time
Good Time *
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Grand Illusion (1937) *
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 *
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 *
Halloween (1978) *
Happy Death Day
Happy Death Day *
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) *
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story *
Harvey (1950)
He Walked By Night (1948)
Headshot *
Hidden Figures
Hot Fuzz (2007)
House (1977)
How to Be a Latin Lover
I Am Not Your Negro
I, Daniel Blake *
I, Olga Hepnarova *
I, Tonya
Il Boom (1963)
Imperfections *
In Transit *
Ingrid Goes West *
Iron Man (2008)
It
It
It Comes At Night
Ixcanul
Jab Harry Met Sejal
Jagga Jasoos
Jaws (1975)
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent *
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 2 *
Julieta *
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jungle *
Jurassic Park (1993)
Justice League *
Kaabil
Karl Marx City
Kedi
Kedi *
Kidnap
Kidnapped (1974) *
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
Killer of Sheep (1978) *
Killing Gunther *
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword *
King Cobra
King Kong (1933)
King Of The Belgians
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island *
La La Land *
Lady Bird
Lady Macbeth *
Landline (Jenny Slate film) *
Landline (Matthew Aaron film) *
Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
Leap! *
Life *
Like Crazy
Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Live By Night *
Logan *
Logan Lucky
Logan Lucky *
Lonesome (1928)
Los Tallos Amargos (1957)
Losers
Lost Highway (1997) *
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
Loving Vincent *
Loving Vincent *
Lowrider
Lucky *
Man in Red Bandana *
Manifesto
Marjorie Prime *
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House *
Marshall *
Maudie
Maudie
Megan Leavey *
Menashe
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Miles Between Us *
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo *
Moana *
Molly's Game *
Monterey Pop (1968)
Moonlight
mother! *
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mudbound
Mulan (1998) *
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Murder on the Orient Express
My Cousin Rachel *
My Friend Dahmer *
My Life As A Zucchini *
My Name Is Emily
No Maps On My Taps
Norman *
Novitiate *
Obit
October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)
Okja
Okja *
Once Upon A Time 3D
Only the Brave
Oscar Shorts (Animated/Live Action) *
Oscar Shorts (Documentary)
Paint It Black *
Pale Flower (1964)
Patriots Day *
Patti Cake$
Pelle The Conqueror (1987)
Personal Shopper
Pet Sematary (1989)
Phoenix Forgotten *
Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Polina
Popeye (1980)
Predator (1987)
Princess Cyd *
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women *
Punch-Drunk Love (2003)
Queen Of The Desert
Raees
Raising Arizona (1987) *
Rangoon *
Rashomon (1950) *
Raw
Re-Animator (1985)
Rear Window (1954) *
Rebel in the Rye *
Rememory
Rememory *
Reservoir Dogs (1992) *
Reset
Revolutions of the Night: The Enigma of Henry Darger
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979) *
Rock Dog
Roman J. Israel Esq. *
Sachin - A Billion Dreams *
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Santa Sangre (1989)
Saving Banksy *
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010) *
Secret Superstar *
Seven Samurai (1954)
Shaun of the Dead (2004) *
Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
Silence *
Simran
Singin In The Rain (1952) *
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Sleight *
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Some Freaks *
Son of the Sheik (1926)
Song To Song
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming *
Spider-Man: Homecoming *
Split
Split *
Stalker (1979)
Star Wars: the Last Jedi *
Star Wars: the Last Jedi *
Stop Making Sense (1984) *
Strange Weather *
Stronger *
Suburbicon *
Superbad (2007)
T2 Trainspotting
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Thank You For Your Service
The Adventurers
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
The Avengers (2012)
The Avengers (2012)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography *
The Bad Batch
The Battleship Island *
The Beguiled *
The Belko Experiment *
The Big Sick
The Big Sick *
The Black Prince *
The Blot (1921) *
The Book of Henry *
The Breadwinner *
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Circle
The Darkest Hour
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Devotion of Suspect X
The Dinner *
The Disaster Artist
The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
The Eagle Huntress *
The Elephant Man (1980) *
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Fifth Element (1997) *
The Florida Project *
The Foreigner
The Founder
The Girl Without Hands
The Glass Castle
The Goonies (1985)
The Great Wall *
The Great Wall 3D
The Greatest Showman
The Half-Breed (1916)
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
The Hero *
The Hitman's Bodyguard *
The Iron Giant (1999) *
The Journey *
The Killing of a Sacred Deer *
The LEGO Batman Movie
The LEGO Batman Movie *
The LEGO Ninjago Movie
The Life Of Oharu (1952) *
The Light of the Moon *
The Lion King (1994)
The Little Hours *
The Lost City of Z *
The Lovers
The Man Who Invented Christmas
The Mountain Between Us *
The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Nile Hilton Incident
The Oath
The Old Dark House (1932)
The Ottoman Lieutenant *
The Paris Opera *
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Phantom Thread
The Pirates of Somalia *
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Promise
The Red Turtle
The Salesman *
The Sea *
The Sense of an Ending *
The Shack
The Shape Of Water
The Shape of Water
The Snowman
The Space Between Us
The Straight Story (1999)
The Terminator (1984)
The Thousand Faces Of Dunjia *
The Trip to Spain
The Unknown Girl *
The Void
The Wall *
The Wanderers (1979)
The Wedding Plan
The Wilde Wedding *
The Wizard of Oz
The World's End (2013)
The Zookeeper's Wife
Their Finest
Thelma *
Them! (1954)
Things To Come *
Thor (2011)
Thor: Ragnarok *
Thor: Ragnarok
Thor: Ragnarok
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri *
Throne Of Blood (1957)
Time to Die (1965)
Toilet: A Love Story
Tommy's Honour *
Toni Erdmann *
Tootsie (1982) *
Tragedy Girls *
Train To Busan (2016)
True To The Game *
Truman
Tulip Fever *
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Ugetsu (1953) *
Un Padre No Tan Padre
Unbroken Glass
Under The Skin *
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 3D
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets *
Valley of Bones *
Veronika Voss (1982)
Victoria and Abdul
Voice from the Stone *
Walker (1987)
Waltz With Bashir *
War for the Planet of the Apes *
Whisky Galore! *
Wild At Heart (1990)
Wilson *
Wind River
Wish Upon *
Wolf Warrior 2
Wolf Warrior 2
Wolf Warrior 2 *
Wonder
Wonder Wheel
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman *
Wonder Woman 3D
Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck *
Woodpeckers *
Yojimbo (1961)
You're Killing Me Susana
Young Frankenstein (1974) *
Your Name
Your Name
Youth *

 

I think that they are still around, at least my wife still gets email from them. Did they tell you that they were out of business? Maybe they were just trying to get rid of her!

 

She was a member when they were charging $49 a month, and it was a wonderful deal for her. Then they dropped it to $9.95 on her birthday!

She is on AMC Stubs A*List now, and would be open to MoviePass again or Sinemia if they come up with something that lets her see as many films as she likes.