When this whole Coronavirus thing started, I made a deal with my brain. He sings Happy Birthday in my head, and I wash my hands. Only one of us kept our end of the deal. Guess who...
XP3 - Friday The 13th Part VI - Jason Lives [1986] is the best F13 movie!
The third of five videos about movie-related experiences in 2019.
Momentarily escape from the horrors of real life with the horrors of make believe.
Tommy Jarvis brings everyone's favorite hockey masked killer back from the dead.
Happy Friday The 13th!
XP2 - Dial M For Murder [1954] and my first time ordering a cocktail!
The second of five videos about movie-related experiences in 2019.
I saw the Alfred Hitchcock classic Dial M For Murder at the Hippodrome (The Hipp) in Gainesville, Florida, and ordered a cocktail for the very first time.
Sorry it took so long. My brain was bullying me. #DialHForHipster
And Happy Valentine's Day!
XP1 - RoboCop [1987] is the ultimate comfort movie!
The first of five videos about movie-related experiences in 2019.*
Join me for my favorite comfort movie, RoboCop.
Part man, part machine, all comfort.
I also discuss cognitive impairment, memory loss, and share my updated 2019 movie graph.
*Newly edited to elaborate on a few points.
Lists. Charts. Graphs. Sad.
I like making lists. A few years ago, I started making a list of every movie I watch each year. It's gotten a lot more detailed than when I started, becoming more of a chart than a list, and will perhaps continue to evolve. Here's what I currently put on the chart:
1. The date I watched the movie. I started documenting this detail in 2016.
2. The title of the movie and year it was released. I color code to signify
whether or not I watched it for the first time. If so, the title is in
black. If I've watched it before, I make it grey.
3. Any comments I find to be relevant, such as who I watched it with, if I
watched it with a commentary track, if I saw it in the theater, etc.
Then at the end of the year, because I find it interesting, I count up the feature length movies. For the total, I count repeat viewings too, including when I watched a movie, and then rewatched it with a commentary track. I also count how many I saw for the first time, and how many I saw in the theater.
In 2014, I saw 231 movies in total, 121 of which I was seeing for the first time, and 20 of which were in the theater.
In 2015, I saw 109 movies in total, 52 of which I was seeing for the first time, and only 3 of which were in the theater.
In 2016, I saw 88 movies in total, 38 of which I was seeing for the first time, and 4 of which were in the theater.
Just because I wanted to see what it would look like, I decided to put together a simple line graph.
To give some context, I was unemployed in 2014, and was living much closer to my best friend / cousin, who is my favorite person to watch movies with. We went to the movie theater together quite a bit. There have been a few times where I visited him over a weekend and we saw 6 movies in the theater. At the beginning of 2015, I moved to another state, got a job, and didn't have my movie watching friend around. Since my move, due to my work schedule, the absence of my friend, and various other factors, I haven't watched nearly as many movies as I would have liked. That explains the dramatic plunge in numbers between 2014 and 2015 (as well as my lack of posts here). I intend to do better this year, and I intend to keep up with the charts for the rest of my life, creating an updated graph each year. Right now the graph looks a little sad, but I'm sure it will get more interesting as the years go on.
Do you keep track of the movies you watch? Let me know if you have any ideas for my chart and graph.
1. The date I watched the movie. I started documenting this detail in 2016.
2. The title of the movie and year it was released. I color code to signify
whether or not I watched it for the first time. If so, the title is in
black. If I've watched it before, I make it grey.
3. Any comments I find to be relevant, such as who I watched it with, if I
watched it with a commentary track, if I saw it in the theater, etc.
Then at the end of the year, because I find it interesting, I count up the feature length movies. For the total, I count repeat viewings too, including when I watched a movie, and then rewatched it with a commentary track. I also count how many I saw for the first time, and how many I saw in the theater.
In 2014, I saw 231 movies in total, 121 of which I was seeing for the first time, and 20 of which were in the theater.
In 2015, I saw 109 movies in total, 52 of which I was seeing for the first time, and only 3 of which were in the theater.
In 2016, I saw 88 movies in total, 38 of which I was seeing for the first time, and 4 of which were in the theater.
Just because I wanted to see what it would look like, I decided to put together a simple line graph.
To give some context, I was unemployed in 2014, and was living much closer to my best friend / cousin, who is my favorite person to watch movies with. We went to the movie theater together quite a bit. There have been a few times where I visited him over a weekend and we saw 6 movies in the theater. At the beginning of 2015, I moved to another state, got a job, and didn't have my movie watching friend around. Since my move, due to my work schedule, the absence of my friend, and various other factors, I haven't watched nearly as many movies as I would have liked. That explains the dramatic plunge in numbers between 2014 and 2015 (as well as my lack of posts here). I intend to do better this year, and I intend to keep up with the charts for the rest of my life, creating an updated graph each year. Right now the graph looks a little sad, but I'm sure it will get more interesting as the years go on.
Do you keep track of the movies you watch? Let me know if you have any ideas for my chart and graph.
Regarding all of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers.
It seems like every day I see more headlines promising newly leaked information about Star Wars: Episode VII. There's a book I have that came out in 1983 about the making of Return Of The Jedi, and during a recent reading, this one part of a quote by the producer of the film stuck out to me.
It seems as though that has changed since 1983. I'm very curious though about what their research entailed, and what the same research techniques would find today. Have you been reading leaked information or have you been avoiding it?
HOWARD KAZANJIAN
We know from research that Star Wars fans don't want their enjoyment
spoiled by the secrets of the plot being revealed prematurely.
We know from research that Star Wars fans don't want their enjoyment
spoiled by the secrets of the plot being revealed prematurely.
It seems as though that has changed since 1983. I'm very curious though about what their research entailed, and what the same research techniques would find today. Have you been reading leaked information or have you been avoiding it?
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