2022 Movie Watching Review!

It's the most magical time of year, people! We've been tracking all the films I've watched all year and now it's finally time to get some numbers. In total it was a very good year - the most movies I've watched since 2018 (where I cranked a staggering 249 movies, I don't think I'll hit that again and ever have a normal life). 200 really is becoming right around my average. Maybe a high average. Here's our total stats!

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total movies	198	220	224	249	200	182	181	202
First-time viewings	n/a	117	133	157	131	110	111	154
First-time viewing %	n/a	53%	59%	63%	66%	60%	61%	76%
Streaming	n/a	55	81	157	118	133	134	160
Streaming %	n/a	25%	36%	63%	59%	73%	74%	79%
TV	86	84	55	10	7	3	11	3
TV %	43%	38%	25%	4%	4%	2%	6%	2%
Theater	10	11	12	16	8	2	7	9
Theater %	5%	5%	5%	6%	4%	1%	4%	5%

A few things off the bat - mostly my first-time viewings were outstanding. I've been hovering around 50-60% forever, which is honestly weird. Like, I watch that many movies I've already seen before? That's bonkers. Hitting 76% is a huge breakthrough. Streaming also keeps finding a way to creep higher and higher. I can't believe that just a few years ago the amount of movies I watched on TV dwarfed streaming. It now ends up pretty outdated to even include it on this list. Undoubtedly that's a big reason why I had so many repeat viewings. Streaming really is a great boon for movie lovers.

Theater percentages were up although I again don't see all that many movies in theaters. I just don't live in NYC or LA and we don't get a ton here that really interest me. I'm also perfectly fine understanding the text of a film from the lazy comfort of my own domicile. The only other big gap to add would be DVD viewings, which I should probably look back and figure out.

Let's get into the nitty gritty of viewing methods:

Amazon Prime	6	3.0%
Disney+	10	5.0%
HBOMax	60	29.7%
Netflix Streaming	35	17.3%
Netflix DVD	23	11.4%
TV	3	1.5%
Theater	9	4.5%
Paramount+	5	2.5%
Peacock	10	5.0%
Planes	6	3.0%
Other Streaming	22	10.9%
Hulu	12	5.9%
Total Streaming:	160	79.2%

Naturally, HBOMax crushes it again. Can we give them some of this data so they understand how good they are as a pure movie service? It will be a dark day indeed when they completely switch over to reality TV programming. Everything else is kind of similar. Disney+ only really got a boost from the Star Wars marathon to end the year. Other than that, Paramount+ and Amazon Prime are pretty similar. Peacock and Hulu having an edge surprised me, the former for being a little high and the latter for being a little low.

Other streaming included:

Allblk

Apple+

SlingTV

PlutoTV

XUMO

TUBI

Xfinity

YouTube

I actually watched eight films on Tubi, which beat out most of the other "bigger" streaming services. The rest were four or under. Which again, isn't all that far off. We can think about really including everyone in the years to come.

HBOMax was actually down very slightly from 2021. Hulu, Netflix DVD, and Netflix Streaming were all remarkably steady. The big change really is the addition of new niche services. In 2021 we had Sling, Pluto, and Xfinity here and there but "other streaming" was only 2.2%. This year it was 10.9%. Certainly something to keep an eye on!

By Year

1920s	2	1.0%
1930s	1	0.5%
1940s	1	0.5%
1950s	4	2.0%
1960s	2	1.0%
1970s	12	5.9%
1980s	17	8.4%
1990s	23	11.4%
2000s	25	12.4%
2010s	35	17.3%
2020s	80	39.6%
2022	48	23.8%

There isn't a whole lot of change from 2021 to this. The only notable sink is the 2010s which decreased almost 9%. I suppose a lot of that is naturally from pulling more films from the current year, which siphons more 2020 and 2021 instead of 2019 films. I only watched two from 2020, which is likely more a product of the decreased releases that year than anything. I watched ten more films from the current year than I did in 2021, but the percentages were largely similar.

By Month

January	17
February	15
March	12
April	23
May	17
June	16
July	15
August	14
September	14
October	20
November	18
December	21

I should figure out a long term average for my months. There never seems to be any rhyme or reason besides December being high as I try to get in everything I've missed over the year.

Here we go!

									AVERAGE
January	19	17	23	16	22	15	15	17	18
February	11	15	12	14	17	21	15	11	15
March	15	12	18	16	14	27	16	12	16
April	15	23	15	25	22	23	13	12	19
May	15	17	22	13	19	22	29	19	20
June	20	16	25	8	18	19	24	18	19
July	16	15	16	18	17	15	10	15	15
August	12	14	18	25	18	25	14	17	18
September	10	14	16	13	20	16	12	14	14
October	14	20	17	10	19	24	10	15	16
November	12	18	18	10	18	21	20	16	17
December	22	21	20	28	20	21	22	16	21

I only saw two movies twice this year. Jackass Forever and The Northman. Both well worth it!

General Thoughts:

It was a good year all around but boy I watched some really bad movies this year. A lot of that was me trying to clean up some queues with the 52 in '22 series. I don't regret doing that, but it's tough to learn the hard lesson that most movies that people think are bad are very bad. But I'm happy with my numbers this year, as always there could be more older films added but I'm always just glad to get every decade represented. The most recent year unrepresented was 2000, which is good I guess. That's getting to be a while ago!

Every single year I think about not doing this, but the effort isn't all that much for the fun data we get out of it. I enjoy stripping it down and this year was much more reasonable. Again we don't really have a reason to judge things by month but it's a nice way to organize a massive ridiculous list. What if I started tracking by genre? Ooh that's a good bad idea.

See you next year!