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I would love to talk about this more in detail, but it's such an exhaustive amount of info, that I don't really know how to breach the subject.  The list is broken up by order of watch, which isn't helpful.  I wish I had the data sorted by decade or genre or something.  It's too much even for me to review.

I watched a disgusting amount of movies this year, shattering my previous record by more than double.  I saw 386 first-time watches in the calendar year of 2022.  My goal was 365 and I ended up surpassing that.  There are some things on here that might not technically be considered movies, like hour+ comedy specials, but I think they're listed as films in most places, so I included them.

The Wheel (La Roue) (1923)
The Assistant (2019)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Mass (2021)
Russian Ark (Russkij Kovcheg) (2002)
The French Dispatch (2021)
Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika) (1953)
Blonde Cobra (1963)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de M. Hulot) (1953)
Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar (2021)
The Earrings of Madame De... (Madame De...) (1953)
Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur) (1953)
Eternals (2021)
Shane (1953)
Voyage in Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (1953)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
The Lost Daughter (2021)
The Bigamist (1953)
Cyrano (2021)
Beat the Devil (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
A Hero (2021)
Flee (2021)
Tales of Ugetsu (Ugetsu Monogatari) (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Band Wagon (1953)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Big Heat (1953)
Badlands (1973)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Within Our Gates (1920)
The Best of Youth (La Meglio Gioventù) (2003)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine) (1973)
Drive My Car (2021)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Amarcord (1973)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972)
Serpico (1973)
F for Fake (Vérités et Mensonges) (1973)
Attica (2021)
Mean Streets (1973)
Sleeper (1973)
Talk to Her (Hable Con Ella) (2002)
House of Gucci (2021)
The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Papillon (1973)
Fantastic Planet (La Planéte Sauvage) (1973)
Turkish Delight (Turks Fruit) (1973)
Don't Look Now (1973)
The Harder They Come (1973)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
The King's Man (2021)
West Side Story (2021)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Giant (1956)
Artists and Models (1955)
Free Guy (2021)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)
Napoléon (1927)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Lolita (1962)
The Batman (2022)
Pride and Predjudice (2005)
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1962)
The Hand of God (2021)
The Pianist (2002)
For Sama (2019)
Way Down East (1920)
The Eclipse (L'Eclisse) (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel Exterminador) (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Four Good Days (2020)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Writing With Fire (2021)
My Life to Live (Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux) (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Pier (La Jetée) (1962)
Dog Star Man (1962)
A Dog's Life (Mondo Cane) (1962)
Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas) (1962)
Parallel Mothers (2021)
Jackass Forever (2022)
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1962)
An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no Aji) (1962)
Kimi (2022)
Nobody (2021)
Palm Springs (2020)
Grey Gardens (1975)
The Sound of Music (1965)
1900 (Novecento) (1976)
Turning Red (2022)
Pierrot Goes Wild (Pierrot le Fou) (1965)
The War Game (1965)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini Zabutykh Predkiv) (1965)
Tokyo Olympiad (Tokyo Orimpikku) (1965)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Vinyl (1965)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022)
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (De man die Zijn Haar Kort Liet Knippen) (1965)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Ronny Chieng: Speakeasy (2022)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na Korze) (1965)
Juliet of the Spirits (Giuletta Degli Spiriti) (1965)
Alphaville (Alphaville, une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution) (1965)
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
Chimes at Midnight (Campanadas a Medianoche) (1965)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition (2016)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis Znaleziony w Saragossie) (1965)
Repulsion (1965)
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
Golden River (Subarnarekha) (1965)
The Mad Masters (Les Maîtres Fous) (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
My Uncle (Mon Oncle) (1958)
Week End (1967)
Hombre (1967)
Capernaum (2018)
Report (1967)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Earth Entranced (Terra em Transe) (1967)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Kingdom (Riget) (1994)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens Leende) (1955)
The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) (1921)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Fat Girl (A Ma Soeur!) (2001)
The Lost City (2022)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Viy (1967)
Closely Watched Trains (Ostre Sledované Vlaky) (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
Playtime (1967)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 Choses Que je Sais D'elle) (1967)
Belle de Jour (1967)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967)
The Godson (Le Samouraï) (1967)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) (1926)
Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Häxan (1923)
Jackass 4.5 (2022)
Jackass 3.5 (2011)
The Man From Laramie (1955)
Our Hospitality (1923)
The Northman (2022)
A Throw of Dice (Prapancha Pash) (1929)
The Man with the Movie Camera (Chelovek S Kinoapparatom) (1929)
Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
America: The Motion Picture (2021)
Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (2022)
Zero Kelvin (Kjærlighetens Kjøtere) (1995)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Smiling Madame Beudet (La Souriante Madame Beudet) (1922)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
Walkabout (1971)
Klute (1971)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (W.R.: Misterije Organizma) (1971)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
Get Carter (1971)
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
The Hired Hand (1971)
Murmur of the Heart (Le Souffle au Coeur) (1971)
Shaft (1971)
Wanda (1971)
The Devils (1971)
Norm MacDonald: Nothing Special (2022)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler) (1922)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Paddington 2 (2017)
The Sorrow and the Pity (La Chagrin et la Pitié) (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Lantana (2001)
Wake in Fright (1971)
The Red and the White (Csillagosok, Katonák) (1967)
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie et Son Temps) (1988)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
The Hole (Le Trou) (1960)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli) (1960)
The Adventure (L'Avventura) (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Cabaret (1972)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
The Housemaid (Hanyeo) (1960)
Nope (2022)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) (1960)
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1960)
Black Sunday (La Maschera del Demonio / Revenge of the Vampire) (1960)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
The Sea Beast (2022)
Mother! (2017)
The Young One (La Joven) (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le Pianiste) (1960)
Ordet (1955)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
The Fireman's Ball (Horí, Má Panenko) (1967)
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018)
The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel) (1930)
The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) (1924)
The Beautiful Troublemaker (La Belle Noiseuse) (1991)
8 1/2 (1963)
The Birds (1963)
Prey (2022)
The Servant (1963)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Elvis (2022)
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna) (1963)
The House is Black (Khaneh Siah Ast) (1963)
Hud (1963)
The Cool World (1963)
No Man's Land (2001)
Barren Lives (Vidas Secas) (1963)
The Predator (2018)
The Haunting (1963)
Contempt (Le Mépris) (1963)
An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo Henge) (1963)
Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story (2022)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
Lady Macbeth (2016)
RRR (2022)
Strike (Stachka) (1924)
A Brighter Summer Day (Guling Jie Shaonian Sha Ren Shijian) (1991)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Woodstock (1970)
The Great White Silence (1924)
The Travelling Players (O Thiassos) (1975)
Greed (1924)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios) (1988)
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (1988)
Alice (Neco z Alenky) (1988)
Ariel (1988)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
A Tale of the Wind (Une Histoire de Vent) (1988)
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) (1988)
Crimes of the Future (2022)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è Fermato a Eboli) (1979)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
The Story of Women (Une Affaire de Femmes) (1988)
Drowning By Numbers (1988)
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Sheng Wang: Sweet & Juicy (2022)
Landscape in the Mist (Topio Stin Omichli) (1988)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Pinocchio (2022)
The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) (2001)
The Eagle (1925)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Seven Chances (1925)
Scoob! (2020)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Rublyov) (1966)
RED (2010)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Hocus Pocus (2003)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
The Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
The Butcher (Le Boucher) (1970)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
Tristana (1970)
The Sound of 007 (2022)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970)
El Topo (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Deep End (1970)
The Ear (Ucho) (1970)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Redeem Team (2022)
Jo Koy: Live from the Los Angeles Forum (2022)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L'uccello Dalle Piume de Cristallo) (1970)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)
Clerks III (2022)
Performance (1970)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) (1970)
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! (2022)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini) (1970)
The Handmaiden (2016)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Reds (1981)
The General (1927)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Hasan Minhaj: The King's Jester (2022)
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Vagabond (Sans Toit ni Loi) (1985)
The Big Parade (1925)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau) (1974)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Tong Nien Wang Shi) (1985)
Spirited (2022)
Come and See (Idi i Smotri) (1985)
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Out of Africa (1985)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
Ran (1985)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
The Color Purple (1985)
A Room with a View (1985)
The Official Story (La Historia Oficial) (1985)
Tampopo (1985)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Tár (2022)
Smile (2022)
What Time Is It There? (Ni na Bian Ji Dian) (2001)
Sunrise (1927)
Gandhi (1982)
The Unknown (1927)
The Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1945)
The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride (Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge) (1995)
October (Oktyabr) (1927)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Paisan (Paisà) (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) (1946)
The Killers (1946)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
The Big Sleep (1946)
She Said (2022)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
Gilda (1946)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
The Woman King (2022)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Great Epectations (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Notorious (1946)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Black Narcissus (1946)
The Fabelmans (2022)
Kandahar (Safar e Ghandehar) (2001)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Under the Shadow (2016)
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) (1982)
The Kid Brother (1927)
Short Cuts (1993)
Fire of Love (2022)
Police Academy (1984)
Bullet Train (2022)

My goal was 25 and I nailed it the last day of the year with The Banshees of Inisherin.

We clearly have different schedules.

When I talk to people through the year, overwhelmingly, it's about having time.  But honestly, it's really not.

I'm watching down a list, for the most part, so I have the movies selected ahead of time.  I don't "flip around" and watch TV.  If I have time, I start the next movie.  And there are days, like random weekends in the off-season, where I can watch three in a day.

I get that in my case, it's excessive.  But I honestly don't believe I consume more media than the average person.  It's just not certain kinds of media.  ...no browsing TV, no rewatching my favorite things, no scrolling to find what to watch.

Maximizing the time you have is a lost skill in this country.

I wake up at 5 AM for the gym and go to sleep at 9:30 PM, so I only have movie time for weekends. I read books on my lunch breaks, but that only gets you so far. I'm reading Walden right now and this one will take awhile.

^ I have friends that will kinda mock me and be like "wow...it must be nice", but then sit on the couch and doom-scroll on their phone for 3 hours a night

Oh yeah, I only touch my laptop on weekends. I only post here during work or every Sad Sunday. The internet turned us into time wasters.

I don't really have a list, and if I tried to get comprehensive with what I watched, I would run into an acute case of list-envy after reading Dave's Tome of Cinematic Hoopla, so here is a short list of movies I enjoyed and some I have seen recently.

Marvel/DC:

Spider-man: No Way Home
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange and the Multitude of Mediocrity
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Werewolf By Night
Thor: Love And Thunder
The Batman
Black Adam
Peacemaker

__________

Avatar: The Way of Water
Top Gun: Maverick
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Bullet Train
Babylon
Jurassic World: Dominion
Amsterdam
Cyrano
Uncharted
The Gray Man
Prey
The Greatest Beer Run Ever

I've seen about 18 of those total.

Werewolf by Night was a lot of fun. Black and white will always look good to me.

I don't know how you do it Dave. I probably started to watch maybe a hundred movies in the last year and I turn them off 15 mins into them. If a movie doesn't get my attention in the first 15 mins, I'm out and I go do something else. I find more often than not recently that's the case with movies. I think there are too many movies being made today. Most are not worth my time. I spend more time looking through the list of movies to watch then actually watching them. 90% of them I have no interest in them at all and so many of them have the same basic plot. I can't tell you how many times with Sci-Fi's it's either about zombies or aliens. I mean come on at least replace zombies with child abducting dogs or something different. Anything. It doesn't even have to make sense. Maybe it's dogs and cats taking over the world together. Whatever, just something other than zombies or aliens.

By the way, do you keep a spreadsheet on this? I took your list and sorted by year and title if you are interested. If you are just keeping these in a document how do you even know if you have seen it before? I can't remember half the stuff I watch unless I look it up in a list.

Some movies from 2022 that you missed that I recommend. Not all of these are great, but all of them are at least worth a watch.

The In Between
The Adam Project
All the Old Knives
Father Stu
Operation Mincemeat
Spiderhead
Where the Crawdads Sing
13 Lives
Luckiest Girl Alive
The Good Nurse
The Wonder

i've seen 29 of those movies dave.

I am curious about this.  The reviews have been....mixed.  But some people love it and even people who don't love still seem to think you should see it.

I do use a spreadsheet, yes.

I get movies from three places:

1) I'm watching through a book called 1001 movies you should watch before you die.  Much of the list comes from there.
2) I watch every film nominated for any Academy Award and there are 50+ of those.
3) I watch films I genuinely want to watch that I select just for fun or with my family or whatever.


There is also a website called letterboxd.com that allows you to checklist any movies you've seen.  That helps keep tabs.  I can't remember individual plots of a lot of these movies, particularly old, foreign ones.  They start to run together.

I also plan ahead.  I know the next movie on my list and where to watch it already set up.

I often do not like the movies, but I consider this more about education than enjoyment.  Movies can be both, but I will stick through things I hate.  It almost doesn't even matter.  And once in a while, you'll find stuff you really like, and I'm often surprised at how much I will enjoy some of these really old movies.  The 40s are great.  The 60s are not.

One thing that's also kinda cool is that you can really map influence and see where things came from.  Sometimes, there are homages from other films.  But sometimes, it's direct.
In the Shawshank Redemption, Andy asks Redd for a rock hammer, while Redd is watching a movie staring Rita Hayworth.  He says the line "I love it when she does that shit with her hair" and then later gifts Andy a poster of her.

Anyway, I just watched that movie the other day and recognized that hair flip.

I think that is the difference. You're actually watching the movie with a purpose. 9 times out of 10 when I start watching a movie, it's because I'm bored and looking for something to do and if I'm not invested in that movie 15 minutes into it, I'm turning it off because it's not fullfilling the purpose which is just to relieve the boredom.

I will sit through bad movies from time to time, but it's because I wanted to watch the movie for some reason. The last movie on your list, Bullet Train was like that. I wanted to watch it and we rented it for a trip to St. Louis, but I really didn't know what it was going to be like. I really wasn't into the movie much but I kept watching because I really didn't have anything better to do. It's not really that movie was all that bad, it's just not my type of movie. I don't really get the whole Tarrantino thing of making fun of gratuitous violence. I don't find it funny and I don't find it entertaining. I find it rather offensive honestly. The best parts of the movie were Brad Pitt talking with Sandra Bullock on the phone. Other than that. Meh.

One other thing that I just have to mention, I sort of have a "crush" on Joey King. I got laid off from my job at Southwest Airlines in March I think it was and it took a couple months to find another position so I had a lot of time on my hands this year. Since even I have a breaking point for playing video games and surfing the internet apparently, I started watching a lot of movies and I came across a movie called the Kissing Booth that stars Joey King and thought what the heck. I ended up really enjoying the movie and so I looked up Joey King and found that she did 2 more movies, the Kissing Booth 2 and 3 and I watched both of them and really enjoyed the entire series. I was hooked so then I started to look up Joey King on IMDB and realized that she has been in a couple other movies I had seen that I really liked and so I decided to start watching all of her movies and watched just about everything that looked even mildly entertaining and she's just a terrific young actress with a huge future in my opinion. Even the bad movies, she's pretty good in. Her last 2 movie choices have been sort of bad choices in my opinion, but I get why they cast her in the part. She pulled them off, but not really great movies.

Anyway long story short, if you ever watch movies just because a certain actor is in it, take a look at these movies from Joey King and remember her name. I think she's going to be a star in a very short time.

Joey King Movies I have watched this year:
Bullet Train
The Princess
The In Between
The Kissing Booth 1,2 & 3
The Lie
Summer '03
Radium Girls
Smartass
Wish I was Here

I also watched the TV series:
The Act.

She's also been in these movies which I had already seen and didn't rewatch:
The Conjuring
Oz the Great and Powerful

This in my opinion is a pretty impressive list of movies for someone who's only 23 and she's honestly terrific in all these movies even if the movie itself wasn't all that great. Maybe I just had too much time on my hands, but I really don't think so.

^^^ I had to look her up, then she had a familiar face but I couldn't place her.  Looking through her filmography I remembered her from White House Down when she was younger.

She looks very familiar to me, as well.  But almost as if she has famous parents or something.

I've seen her in things, but I don't associate her with any particular movie. 

She looks kinda like Rachael Weiss could be her mom.

Ah yes I missed that in her filmography. Another pretty good film and pretty good job as a young actress. She also has an older sister in films Hunter King.  Not nearly as successful but that would be hard to duplicate in my opinion.

Watch a couple of her movies and see what you think. The In Between is a good movie to start with, I actually think it's her best recent movie, it's underrated.