August 2020’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

Well, I’m back to watching 30+ movies in a month which is my average.  Overall, most of them were just OK, but there are a few gems!  There is one movie here that I think will spark some conversation.  I did watch it while think of several of you.  See if you can spot which one it is… 

The List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Links will take you to write-ups posted.
• Bold font indicates a write-up is done and scheduled to be posted.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Aug01	The Andromeda Strain	1971	4.5
Aug01	Kicking and Screaming*	1995	0
Aug02	The Thing	1982	5
Aug03	Terminator: Dark Fate*	2019	3
Aug04	Westworld*	1973	3
Aug05	The Fury*	1978	3
Aug06	Woman of The Year*	1942	3
Aug08	A Big Hand for the Little Lady*	1966	2.5
Aug09	Jeremiah Johnson*	1972	4.5
Aug10	Foul Play*	1978	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Aug11	Pennies From Heaven*	1981	2.5
Aug12	Roxanne	1987	4
Aug13	The Dead Don’t Die*	2019	2
Aug15	The Running Man	1987	3.5
Aug16	Blue Thunder*	1982	2
Aug17	The King of Marvin Gardens	1972	2.5
Aug18	Sea Of Love*	1988	2.5
Aug20	Tokyo Joe*	1949	2.5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Aug21	The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years*	1988	3.5
Aug21	The Honeymoon Machine*	1961	2.5
Aug22	The Old Guard*	2020	2
Aug23	Soldier in the Rain*	1963	2.5
Aug24	The Rack*	1956	4.5
Aug25	The Left Handed Gun*	1958	3
Aug26	Extraction*	2020	3
Aug26	The Electric Horsemen*	1979	3
Aug27	In The Tall Grass*	2019	2
Aug28	Ip Man*	2008	5
Aug29	Da 5 Bloods*	2020	3
Aug30	The Mule*	2018	4
Aug31	White Heat*	1949	5

The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 31
The number of first-time watches: 26
Oldest movie: Woman of the Year (1942)
Longest movie: Da 5 Bloods (2hr 36m)
Most watched actor: Robert Redford (3) (2nd month in a row!)
The number of movies watched by decade:
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 3
‘50s – 3
‘60s – 3
‘70s – 7
‘80s – 7
‘90s – 1
‘00s – 1
‘10s – 7

How I watched them:
PVR/DVR – 19
DVD Collection – 0
Blu-ray Collection – 3
4K Blu-ray collection – 
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 5
Amazon Prime – 1
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 1
Kodi – 0
Disney+ – 0
Pirates – 1

Genres:
Action – 3
Animated – 0
Comedy – 9
Comic Book – 1
Crime – 0
Documentaries – 1
Dramas – 6
Fantasy – 0
Film Noir – 1
Horror – 1
Kung Fu – 1
Thriller – 0
War – 1
Western – 1

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  5s are home runs, 4s and 3s are hits, 2s and 1s are pop or ground outs, an NA (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

I have adjusted my scoring a bit by allowing half points.  I’m going to count 4.5s as homers and 2.5s as outs.  2.5 are movie I fell I didn’t waste my time but didn’t really need to see.

Good Movie Average:  15/26 – .576  (Last month: .809)
Home Runs: 4 – Ip Man, Jeremiah Johnson, White Heat, The Rack
Strikeouts: 1 – Kicking and Screaming (although The Old Guard came close)

Awards
Most Under-Watched: The Rack
Most Disappointing: Blue Thunder
Most Fun: Ip Man
Most Forgettable: Sea of Love
Most Fun re-watch: The Running Man
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: Jeremiah Johnson
Most surprising performance:  Tie! Diane Wiest – The Mule, Walter Pidgeon – The Rack
Appearance that made me cringe the most: Tie! Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons – The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years*
Most Pleasant Surprise: The Rack
Best Re-watch: The Thing
Worst Movie: Kicking and Screaming
Best Movie: Ip Man

Feel free to tell me how terrible my opinion(s) are in the comments!

I’m going to set a couple to goals for myself for September.  One is to finish off the X-Men movies that I started a few months ago.  I better watch the rest before I forget what has happened again!

Second, is to watch the rest of the Ip Man series.  So good!