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01 January 2023

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!

20152016201720182019202020212022
Total movies198220224249200182181202
First-time viewingsn/a117133157131110111154
First-time viewing %n/a53%59%63%66%60%61%76%
Streamingn/a5581157118133134160
Streaming %n/a25%36%63%59%73%74%79%
TV8684551073113
TV %43%38%25%4%4%2%6%2%
Theater101112168279
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 It now ends up pretty outdated to even include it on this list.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 Prime63.0%
Disney+105.0%
HBOMax6029.7%
Netflix Streaming3517.3%
Netflix DVD2311.4%
TV31.5%
Theater94.5%
Paramount+52.5%
Peacock105.0%
Planes63.0%
Other Streaming2210.9%
Hulu125.9%
Total Streaming:16079.2%

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

1920s21.0%
1930s10.5%
1940s10.5%
1950s42.0%
1960s21.0%
1970s125.9%
1980s178.4%
1990s2311.4%
2000s2512.4%
2010s3517.3%
2020s8039.6%
20224823.8%

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

January17
February15
March12
April23
May17
June16
July15
August14
September14
October20
November18
December21

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
January191723162215151718
February111512141721151115
March151218161427161216
April152315252223131219
May151722131922291920
June20162581819241819
July161516181715101515
August121418251825141718
September101416132016121414
October142017101924101516
November121818101821201617
December222120282021221621

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!

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