Total movies watched: 29.
Favorite movie of the month: TÁR.
Worst movies of the month: Men and Cell. Those were memorably, frustratingly bad.
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Total movies watched: 24.
Favorite movie of the month: Bringing Up Baby.
Worst movie of the month: Red Dawn.
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In 2022, I watched 333 movies, the great majority of which I hadn’t seen before. Last year may have been the most films I’d seen in a single year up to that point, but this year blew it away. 333 compared to 236? Almost a hundred more movies is no contest. That being said, I did see some amazing things for the first time last year, so check out that post.
This large number of films can only mean three things: I’ve seen a lot of great movies, I’ve seen a lot of terrible movies, and I had more free time on my hands than I thought I would. The ones listed below have monopolized my thoughts. They refuse to go quietly and deserve a special mention here.
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Total movies watched: 31.
Favorite movie of the month: Burning. But also, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and Confess, Fletch were absolute delights.
Worst movie of the month: Lucy and Amsterdam. The first was just tripe and the second was a waste of an amazing cast.
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Total movies watched: 31.
Favorite movie of the month: After Yang.
Worst movie of the month: High-Rise.
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Total movies watched: 31.
Favorite movie of the month: Booksmart. Business Proposal was also amazing, but it’s not a movie. Honorable mention, though.
Worst movie of the month: Jurassic World Dominion.
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Total movies watched: 31.
Favorite movie of the month: Down with Love.
Worst movie of the month: Brightburn, although Pitch Perfect 3 was a close second. The unrealized promise of the former was what clinched this dreaded spot for the film.
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Total movies watched: 26.
Favorite movie of the month: Station Eleven. It’s not a movie, but so what? It was the best thing I watched all month.
Worst movie of the month: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
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Total movies watched: 26.
Favorite movie of the month: Klaus.
Worst movie of the month: Miami Vice.
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One of the two social networks I actually care about1 just hit a major milestone. A billion films were watched and logged in a little over a decade. That’s an average of 100,000,000 films a year. 273,973 films a day. 11,416 films every hour.
Impressive as hell. Here’s to a billion more!
The other obviously being Micro.blog. ↩︎
Total movies watched: 26.
Favorite movie of the month: Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Worst movie of the month: Llamageddon.
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Total movies watched: 27.
Favorite movie of the month: Supermarket Woman.
Worst movie of the month: Morbius.
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Total movies watched: 24.
Favorite movie of the month: The Batman.
Worst movie of the month: Naked Singularity.
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I’ve collected my movie theater ticket stubs since 2001. A whole 21 years! I haven’t counted them all yet, but it’s easily several hundred tickets.
I used to pile them into a small black box, but they started overflowing. I’ve given myself a nice project: Organize and affix them to pages in a binder for a nicer presentation. It’s been delightful to travel back in time and relive all those memories of theater visits gone by.
I’ve also used this as an opportunity to log all those movies into my Letterboxd account. I think that thing is now as comprehensive as I can make it.
What started as a passive habit is turning into something way more interactive and personal. I like this little hobby.
UPDATE: I counted them all. There are 551 tickets.
I love Letterboxd, but the quality of the discourse and criticism can be, let’s just say, lacking.
It’s almost strange how much better it gets the more you start blocking people. (Although, I guess the same can be said of all online social services.)
I’ve noticed that the review format I’ve been using for the last year, e.g., Letterboxd Diaries—January 2022, has started to feel restrictive. Confining myself to a handful of sentences to encapsulate my thoughts about entire films doesn’t feel like the best way to talk about them.
From now on, the links included with the movie titles in these Letterboxd Diaries will send you to my review on Letterboxd. This way, I can write as much or as little about these films as I want. I can stop worrying about these posts ballooning into the size of a small novel. Also, there can be multiple paragraphs. Exciting!
Total movies watched: 24.
Favorite movie of the month: Funny Face. I really loved Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, but it’s a tv show and not really in the spirit of this part.
Least favorite movie of the month: Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
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Total movies watched: 25.
My favorite movie of the month: Paddington. I watched some stellar films this month, but that’s the one that made me the happiest.
My least favorite movie of the month: It’s a toss-up between the bitter boredom of Self/less and the frustration of Vice.
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Significant portions of my days consist entirely of adding films to my Letterboxd and Criterion Channel watch lists. I fully expect to reach a point where there’s more in those two things than I’ll ever be able to see in my lifetime.
I’m resolving to complete my own version of the Criterion Challenge 2022. I’ve been meaning to watch more Criterion films (and make my subscription to their expensive streaming service worth it).
It should be a fun and hopefully enlightening endeavor.
In 2021, I watched 236 movies I hadn’t seen before. To my knowledge, it may be the most films I’ve ever watched in a single year. I owe it all to a continuing pandemic and finding the wonderful site, Letterboxd. This movie tracking/reviewing/social service has allowed me to become more engaged than ever with the films that I watch.1 Follow me on there if you’d like.
I’ve watched a lot this year, and there have been certain standouts at both ends of the quality spectrum. Some things have been exceptional, and others have made me wish I lacked eyes and ears. Good or bad, these are the films that stuck with me long after I finished them.2
A distinction I’ve never been able to give to something like IMDb. ↩︎
They’re not films that were released only in 2021, but the films that I watched for the first time this last year. Also, they’re in alphabetical order; don’t read anything into the placement of these items. Another also: this list is my subjective opinion, of course. You should like what you like. ↩︎
Total movies watched: 19.
Favorite movie of the month: Harakiri.
Least favorite movie of the month: The Net, but the Wall Street sequel was a real close second.
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Total movies watched: 22.
Favorite movie of the month: Psych 3: This Is Gus. I’m a little biased here—Psych is one of my favorite things ever.
Least favorite movie of the month: Red Notice.
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According to my Letterboxd account, I’ve just watched my two-hundredth film of the year. The one that got me there was Park Chan-wook’s unique vampire film, Thirst.
I wonder how many I’ll have watched by the end of the year…
Total movies watched: 23.
Favorite movie of the month: Still Walking.
Worst movie of the month: Hellboy. By a mile. Although, Batman Returns was a close second for me. Not because it was poorly made, but because it was so underwhelming while also being so well-regarded.
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Total movies watched: 24.
Favorite movie of the month: Grosse Pointe Blank. It would have been Crazy, Stupid, Love. if I hadn’t already seen it.
Least favorite movie of the month: Sharknado. I had to watch it for More Movies Please! This was one of the worst things, and not just movies, that I’ve ever witnessed.
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