2025 Year in Review, Century of Viewing

The 'century of viewing' covered 1900 to 2025. I watched movies, shorts, cartoon shorts, television series, television episodes, YouTube documentaries, etc.

• 40.4% of my viewing was black and white. (242)
• 58.4% of my viewing was color. (350)
• 1.2% of my viewing was both black and white and color. (7)

Which decade did I watch the most from?!?!?!

• 1920s 20.7% (124)
• 1990s 10.9% (65)
• 2020s 10.4% (62)
• 1980s 8.0% (48)
• 2000s 7.8% (47)
• 2010s 7.7% (46)
• 1910s 6.7% (40)
• 1930s 6.2% (37)
• 1970s 6.0% (36)
• 1950s 5.8% (35)
• 1960s 5.3% (32)
• 1900s 0.7% (4)

Stars Upon Thars --

• 1 star 0.3% (usually because I would stop watching if I thought it was *that* terrible. Two movies were rated one star.)
• 2 stars 6.5% (this includes 2 1/2 stars, which is CENTER of what a movie can be) (39 movies)
• 3 stars 25.9% (again including 3 1/2 stars) (155 movies)
• 4 stars 29.9% (again including 4 1/2 stars) (179 movies)
• 5 stars 37.4% (this does include repeats) (224 movies, again this includes those I watched more than once)

Genres. This isn't really completely accurate...because silent movies most of them would also count as COMEDIES or romances or drama or whatnot. And I did combine categories--on my spreadsheet I had three different descriptions for 'action' (action superhero, action thriller, and action/adventure). Same with other categories. Romantic comedies AND romantic dramas were combined to romance. And it does not take into account holiday romantic comedies or holiday romantic dramas.

• Silent movie 26.9% (161)
• speculative fiction 17.6% (105)
• romance 9.2% (55)
• musical 7.5% (45)
• comedy 6.4% (38)
• holiday 5.5% (33)
• action 5.2% (31)
• period drama 5% (30)
• animated 5% (30)
• documentary 3.5% (21)
• drama 3.2% (19)
• mystery/crime 2.7% (16)
• war drama 1.7% (10)
• sports 0.5% (3)
• competition 0.2% (1)
  
  

Top three movies from January: Ivanhoe, The General, Seven Chances
Top three movies from February: Groundhog Day, The Camerman, Benny & Joon
Top three movies from March: What About Bob?, Sherlock Jr., You Can't Run Away From It
Top three movies from April: Hayseed Romance, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Gospel of John
Top three movies from May: Remember the Day, Music and Lyrics, Battling Butler
Top three movies from June: Batman (1966), Kate & Leopold, Spite Marriage;
Top three movies from July: Blast from the Past, Clue, Time After Time
Top three movies from August: Primeval, Adventures in Babysitting, Big Fish
Top three movies from September: The Fifth Element, Edward Scissorhands, Poseidon Adventure
Top three movies from October: Lethal Weapon  (all of them), The Martian, The Invisible Man
Top three movies from November: Dinosaurus, The Day Day the Earth Stood Still, The Time Machine
Top three movies from December: VHS Christmas Carols, Die Hard, Muppet Christmas Carol



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