Here is a (more or less) complete list of the movies I watched in 2008. I was surprised to count 65 movies on the list, and I may have missed a few. I admit my first thought is, “that’s a lot of time I could’ve spent doing something else.”
Let’s see, it’s about 130 hours, and it really is more because there were about 12 movies I started and didn’t finish for various reasons. So, add another 6 hours. Then there’s the transportation time to and from the theater, although most of these were DVDs. Then there’s the fact that some of these are multi-disk series. So, let’s call it an even 150 hours.
There’s about 8765 hours in one year so I spent 1.7% of my time in 2008 watching movies.
Here are some other activities by way of comparison:
Sleeping: 31% (7.5 hours per day)
Working: 30% (50 hours per week)
Eating: 6% (1.5 hours per day)
Reading: 6% (1.5 hours per day)
Driving: 3% (45 minutes per day)
Church activities: 2% (3.5 hours per week)
Watching TV: 1.5% (3 hours per week)
Who knows what I did with the other 18.8% of my time. There’s cleaning, yard work, exercise, hanging out…
Here’s the movie list in the order I watched them:
No Reservations
August Rush
Dan in Real Life
Lost: Season 1
Lost: Season 2
Lost: Season 3
Charlie Wilson’s War
Live Free or Die Hard
Beowulf
Planet Earth (half of series)
Vacancy
Romper Stomper
American Gangster
The Chamber
The Water Horse
I Am Legend
No Country for Old Men
Cloverfield
National Treasure
Band of Brothers (entire series)
Juno
Apocalypto
Hollywoodland
Battlestar Galactica, Season One
Mr Brooks
Atonement
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Vantage Point
The Deep End
Gone Baby Gone
Eastern Promises
Once
Into the Wild
21
Stealing Sinatra
Forbidden Kingdom
Off the Map
Prince Caspian
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Iron Man
Just Like Heaven
Shaun of the Dead
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Zodiac
There Will Be Blood
Glengarry Glen Ross
Unfaithful
Glory
The Black Book
Get Smart
Flannel Pjammas
Cool Hand Luke
L.A. Confidential
The Brood
Carnival of Souls
12 Angry Men (1957)
Madigan
Shock Waves
Sleuth (1972)
The Brood
Indy Jones and the Crystal Skull
Shock Waves
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Alien
Aliens
Here’s the list of movies I started but did not finish because I wasn’t “getting” it:
Little Miss Sunshine
Hot Fuzz (I have to give this a try again since I really liked Shaun of the Dead)
Perfume
Office Space (Okay, okay I’m a loser for not liking this movie. I will try again in 2009)
Crash (Cronenberg)
The Rock
Here’s the list of movies I started but didn’t finish because something came up:
A Room with a View (I’ve seen this before)
12 Angry Men (1997)
The Namesake
Sleuth (2007)
Vampyr (I sold this at my store before I could finish it; bummer as it probably won’t show up again soon.)
Enemy at the Gates
And, finally, here is the list of movies I watched in 2008 that I liked the best, and Apocalypto was my favorite:
Romper Stomper
No Country for Old Men
Cloverfield
Band of Brothers
Apocalypto
Atonement
Eastern Promises
Shaun of the Dead
Once
Off the Map
The Black Book
Cool Hand Luke
Carnival of Souls
12 Angry Men (1957)
