Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, August 09, 2004 The Pitch: It's, like, a lot of movies! So in the course of writing the endless blabbity-blab of my previous post, I poked around in the deep recesses of the my bio page, trying to figure out which Bollywood movie I had first seen sans subtitles (turned out not to be Road, but Awara Paagal Deewana, that Whole Nine Yards meets every action scene in Hollywood from the previous three years flick, which I saw in July of 2002). And I got curious, and did a little quick cut and paste, and a little trick to get a quick count, and I got the rough count of how many movies I've seen between 1997 and now.538. Five hundred and thirty eight movies over approximately an eight year span (the count is off by at least six movies because I haven't updated my bio page in the last month). That averages out to 67.25 movies per year. At an average of two hours a movie, that's almost exactly an entire month and a half spent watching movies. Honestly, I think those numbers are quite a bit lower than a lot of my movie-watching friends, but still: 538 movies. If I continue that average and you give me a life expectancy of 70, that puts me at 2,690 movies before I kick the bucket. Something like seven straight months of movie-watching. (Actually, if I put it in the terms of a job, at forty hours a week, it becomes a more leisurely two-plus years, allowing for things like meals, sleep, weekends free--although what would a weekend free mean without going to the movies?--and like that.) Obvious I like myself a bit of lazy number-crunching, isn't it? So I'm thinking that over the next week or two, I'll pick of those stats--and the list itself--and see if anything worthwhile comes up. posted by Jeff Lester | 4:18 PM | |
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