December 2020’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

And there we have it!  A full year of doing these lists!  This happens so rarely for me, so I’m not sure but… I feel like I committed to doing something, then followed through with it.  Crazy to think of, eh?!?

I’ll work on the year end stats for tomorrow, but we still have one more month to wrap up before that!  So…

The List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Rating
Dec01	National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation	1989	5
Dec02	The Big Lebowski	1998	5
Dec03	The Prisoner of 22nd Avenue*	1975	3.5
Dec04	All Dogs Go To Heaven	1989	2.5
Dec06	The Prize*	1963	2
Dec07	Armour of God*	1986	4
Dec08	Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II*	1991	4.5
Dec09	The Lady Vanishes*	1938	4
Dec10	Big	1988	5
Dec11	Nothing But Trouble*	1944	2
Dec12	Project A*	1983	3.5
Dec13	Home Alone	1990	4.5
Dec14	Shine a Light*	2008	3
Dec14	Darkman*	1990	4
Dec15	Christmas In Connecticut*	1945	4

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	Year Released
Dec 16	The ‘burbs*	1989	3
Dec17	Splash	1984	3.5
Dec19	Music. Money. Madness: Jimi Hendrix, Live In Maui*	2020	2.5
Dec19	Jimi Hendrix*	1973	3
Dec19	Remember the Night*	1940	4
Dec20	The Bishop’s Wife*	1947	4
Dec21	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang*	2005	2.5
Dec22	Mr. Soft Touch*	1949	3.5
Dec23	Cover Up*	1949	3.5
Dec24	The Lion in Winter*	1968	3
Dec26	Holiday*	1938	4
Dec27	Dark Victory*	1939	3
Dec28	The Forbidden Kingdom*	2008	4
Dec29	Rollerball*	1975	1.5
Dec30	All the King’s Men*	1949	3
Dec31	Silver Linings Playbook*	2012	2.5

The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 31
The number of first-time watches: 25
Oldest movie: Tie: Holiday and The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Longest movie: Tie: The Prize and The Lion In Winter (2hr 14m)
Most watched actor: Jackie Chan (4) 
Movies watched by decade:
‘30s – 3
‘40s – 7
‘50s – 0
‘60s – 2
‘70s – 3
‘80s – 6
‘90s – 4
‘00s – 3
‘10s – 1
2020 – 1

How I watched them:

PVR/DVR – 20
DVD Collection – 1
Blu-ray Collection – 7
4K Blu-ray collection – 1
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 0
Amazon Prime – 0
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 0
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 0
Pirates – 1

Genres:
Action – 1
Animated – 1
Comedy – 7
Comic Book – 0
Concert – 1
Crime – 1
Documentaries – 2
Dramas – 4
Fantasy – 2
Film Noir – 2
Horror – 0
Holiday – 5
Kung Fu – 3
Musical – 0
Science Fiction – 1
Thriller – 1
War – 0
Western – 0

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  20/25 – .800 even  (Last month: .750)
Home Runs: 1 – Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II
Strikeouts: 0, but Rollerball came close as several scenes were skipped. 

Awards
The Movie More People Should See: The Forbidden Kingdom
Most Fun First Time Watch: Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II
Most Fun Re-watch: The Big Lebowski
Most Forgettable: Silver Linings Playbook
Movie That Most Lived Up to How I remembered it: Big
Not As Good As I Remembered: All Dogs Go To Heaven
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: All The King’s Men
Most surprising performance: Cary Grant, The Bishop’s Wife
Most Pleasant Surprise: Darkman
Most Disappointing Movie:  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Worst Movie: Rollerball
Best Movie: Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II

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