Joey's 2001 Movie Adventure

1. I saw 157 movies in the theater in 2001. There were 150 different movies and 7 movies that I say more than once (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Ghost World, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Memento, Moulin Rouge, O Brother, Where Art Thou?).
   
2. Of the 150 different films I saw, 146 were new releases (far exceeding my previous record of 111 in 1999). The four not-new films were Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Touch of Evil, Funny Girl, and Curse of the Spider Woman.
   
3. I saw 43 movies at the Regal Cinema Round Lake Beach, plus 42 films at Marcus Cinema Gurnee and 27 at the Landmark Renaissance Place in Highland Park. This accounts for 71.34% of all the movies of the year.
   
4. I spent $811.30 on admissions to these films, averaging $5.17 per film. I snuck into 33 films (paid for one and snuck into at least one more). Taking those out, the average admission would be $6.34.
   
5. I saw 88 films (56.05%) by myself, 63 films with one other person (usually my friend Karen), 5 with two others, and one with four others.
   
6. I saw 72 films (48.00%) that were rated R by the MPAA, and 58 that were PG-13, 12 were PG, 3 were G, and 5 were not rated.
   
7. I saw 21 films in January; 15 in November and December; 14 in June and August; 13 in April, July, September, and October; 10 in May, 9 in February, and 7 in March.
   
8. I saw 32 films (20.38%) on a Friday, 29 on Sunday, 26 on Thursday, 21 on Saturday, 19 on Monday, 16 on Tuesday, and 14 on a Wednesday.
   
9. I saw 70 films (44.59%) that started between 6pm-9pm, 33 each from 3pm-6pm and 9pm-Midnight, 12 Before Noon, and 9 from Noon-3pm.
   
10. If you added up the run-time of all the films (not previews or anything), it'd be 11 days, 23 hours, and 32 minutes. This is an average of 109.8854 minutes per film. It is also 3.29136% of the year.
    
11. The shortest movie I saw was an IMAX film called Haunted Castle at 38 minutes long, and the longest was Pearl Harbor at 180 minutes. I didn't like either of them particularly.
    
12. I saw 17 films (10.83%) that were subtitled.
    
13. The longest I went in 2001 without seeing a movie was 17 days.
    
14. On 11/25/01, I saw four movies. On 4/13/01 and 12/25/01 I saw three movies. On 58 different days I saw two films.

Anything else you want to know? You can get the PDF version or the Zip'd Excel version of my data (starting Jan. 1999), if you have too much time to kill.

Blah blah blah. I published my least favorite movies of the year a few days ago. I won't publish my list of my favorites until I see all the movies of this year's Oscar class (Monster's Ball, Black Hawk Down, Iris, stuff like that).

It ain't perfect, but it's good enough for now.

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If one more person asks me how my holidays were, I'm going to punch them. The only acceptible answers range from "fine" to "excellent". If you had a lousy holiday, no one wants to hear about it. That's the problem in general when happy people get depressed. No one wants to hear about it. It's just them bitching or trolling for attention. But damn it, sometimes I want to share my stuff, get it all out in the open and shit. So I guess it's good that I have this journal as my outlet. If you don't want to read about it, you just scroll down and the problem is all better. Or at least that's what *I* do.

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I think perhaps I'll watch Requiem for a Dream tonight. I think that'd be a good movie to watch when you're depressed since it's such a downer that it's bound to make your life seem all shiny and happy by comparison. Of course, it might drive me deeper into depression until i poke my eyeballs out with a stick.

I don't want to be working. I want to go home.

I don't want to be home. Home is boring.

I don't know what I want.