Summary of 2016 viewing

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Summary of 2016 viewing

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Below is a summary of my year's viewing for 2016. Below that is also a summary of my 2015 viewing, and then for 2014, because I don't think I created such summaries for those years. The summary for 2013 can be found here: https://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4290#p42422.


2016 SUMMARY

    New films watched during 2016: 130.

    Masterpieces (scores between 91 and 100) watched in 2016: one film, Himizu (2011, Sion Sono).

    Tier 10 in 2016: 6 films. They were: Himizu, Chimes at Midnight, HyperNormalisation, El botón de nácar, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Love (Gaspar Noé).

    Tier 9 in 2016: 11 films.

    Lowest-scoring films watched in 2016: Slack Bay and Battlefield Earth (scores of 15).

    Seen at the theatre in 2016: 6 films. They were: Star Trek Beyond, Sieranevada, Evolution, Relève, Slack Bay, Lo and Behold.

    Re-watched in 2016: 10 films. They were: Certified Copy, Days of Heaven, Knowing, Lo and Behold, A Man Escaped, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Psycho, Star Trek into Darkness, Transcendence, When We Were Kings.


2015 SUMMARY

    New films watched during 2015: 164.

    Masterpieces watched in 2015: zero.

    Tier 10 in 2015: 4 films. They were: The Man With a Movie Camera, Tale of Tales (1979), Kis Uykusu, Venus in Fur (2014).

    Tier 9 in 2015: 12 films.

    Lowest scoring film watched in 2015: God's Not Dead (score: 15).

    Seen at the theatre in 2015: 1 film. It was: Furious 7.

    Re-watched in 2015: 11 films. They were: Black Swan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Her, Inception, La Jetée, Nymphomaniac, Solaris (2002), Stalker, Synecdoche, New York, The Thing (1982), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning.

2014 SUMMARY

    New films watched during 2014: 216.

    Masterpieces watched in 2014: one film, P'tit Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont).

    Tier 10 in 2014: 7 films. They were: P'tit Quinquin, Early Summer, Nymphomaniac, Same Old Song, Her, The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque, The Wolf of Wall Street.

    Tier 9 in 2014: 12 films.

    Lowest-scoring films watched in 2014: Batman: Gotham Knight, Goodbye to Language 3D, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (scores of 15).

    Seen at the theatre in 2014: 8 films. They were: Nymphomaniac, Noah, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Goodbye to Language 3D, P'tit Quinquin, Life of Riley, The Galapagos Affair, Interstellar.

    Re-watched in 2014: 8 films. They were: Breaking the Waves, Contagion, Her, The Hunger Games, Only God Forgives, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Tree of Life, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning.


OVERALL SUMMARY

In the past three years, and across 510 rankings, I have seen only two films (one of them a TV series) I consider to be masterpieces, and only 17 out of 510 rankings have fallen in my top tier (which amounts to one third of what one would expect in purely statistical terms).

My big discovery of 2016 was Sion Sono (even though I'd previously seen a couple of his movies, including the one most people, but not me, seem to consider his masterpiece, Love Exposure).

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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I'm so curious why your number of films watched is dwindling! It gives me anxiety to think what if next year I don't see as many, or significantly less, films as this year! But I obsessively consume, often overlooking quality. Perhaps you're more actively hunting for masterpieces? Or has life become more complicated in general as often happens?

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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I watched about 100 less movies this year than average because I'm such a stud or more that TV IS SO GOOD NOW.

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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The main reason for the decline in number of rankings in 2015 and 2016 is that I was working in Ecuador. But there may be other reasons as well, along the lines you're suggesting.

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for auld lang syne

Post by paulofilmo »

I am hesitant to say that I've only watched about 90 films over the course of the year. It's been a year of twists and turns and quiet contemplation, as I have focused my efforts mostly upon rampant masturbation and witless daydreaming.

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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One of my previous small New Year's resolutions was to watch a movie per day, and while at first it seemed like a lot, I'm happy that I'm currently ahead of schedule with 372 movies watched this year :)

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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Jesus, I watched 438 films this year :shock: (not including shorts, docs or TV shows because I only rank feature films).

I'm currently about half way through Street of Shame too.

I spend far too much time on my couch...

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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The Tier 10s watched in 2016 (and thus recommended):

Repo Man (1984)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Kid (1921)
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Paper Moon (1973)
Rashomon (1950)
Cabaret (1972)
Sunrise (1927)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Le Roman de Renard (1930) - the only 100 ranking of the year.
Pygmalion (1938)
The Browning Version (1951)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
All About Eve (1950)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Viridiana (1961)

Happy new year everyone! :D

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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My 2016 summary is that I think I have now seen everything.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Re: Summary of 2016 viewing

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New rankings in 2016: only 89 this time around. Rewatched about a dozen.
T10: 2
T9: 6
T8: 9
T7: 9
T6: 6
T5: 15
T4: 20
T3: 15
T2: 5
T1: 2
T10s: Louie (TV series) + The Lobster
T1s: Star Wars Holiday Special + The Fourth Kind

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