My 2024 Film Statistics
If you read my Christmas Movie Survey from December, you learned that I love statistics. I’m a big spreadsheet guy (you don’t have to make fun of me for that, my wife already does) & I keep a very thorough log of all the films I watch with dates, general movie information, & my ratings. I am also a big fan of Letterboxd and would love if you through me a follow! https://boxd.it/6VDEN I do keep my own info as long as what I log in Letterboxd, because as previously mentioned I find it enjoyable. All that to say, I logged all the movies I watched in 2024, and I have all the stats for you. And buckle up, because well, I watched a lot of movies.
I watched a total of 453 movies in 2024. Yep. 453. Full feature length films (didn’t count short films for this). The first movie I watched was ‘Anyone But You’ on New Years 2024 and the last was ‘Black Adam’ on New Years Eve. If you’re curious, since 2024 was a leap year and there were 366 days, I watched 1.24 movies a day. So nearly 1 and a quarter movie a day. Sheesh.
I personally rank my movies on a scale of 1-10 and I will do .5s if necessary. I’m generally pretty positive with my scores because I just love movies, but my wife jokes that ‘a 7 from Shane is really a 5.’ That being said, my average score of the films watched this year was a 7.17. I included the decimal places because 7.17 is actually my birthday & that just seemed like a fun coincidence to include.
The highest possible score I give out is a 10, which was given 42 times (9.2%), while the lowest I give is a 1. 5 films were given 1s (1.1%) and they were ‘El Conde,’ ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ ‘Fant4stic,’ ‘Mirror,’ & the 2000 version of ‘Planet of the Apes.’ 2 additional movies scored 1.5s those being the 90s unreleased version of ‘The Fantastic Four’ & the infamous ‘Star Wars Holiday Special.’
I differentiate my viewings of films into three different categories: ‘New,’ ‘First,’ & ‘Rewatch.’ Movies designated as ‘New’ are films that were released in that year and were first time watches. 71 films, or 15.7%, fell into this category. ‘First’ signifies films that were not new in 2024, but it was the first time I had ever personally watched these films. It led the way with 240 first time watches, or 53%. Finally, ‘Rewatch’ is for films that I had previously seen and revisited in 2024. There were 142 films, or 31.3%, that were rewatches.
Speaking of rewatches, some films got rewatched in 2024, meaning I watched them twice in that year. There were 10 films that fit this bill: ‘Borat’ (9/27 & 10/4), ‘The Dark Knight’ (4/17, 10/11), ‘Dune: Part Two’ (3/2, 12/12), ‘Gladiator’ (2/19, 11/22), ‘Godzilla Minus One’ (3/3, 9/25), ‘The Holdovers’ (1/23, 12/19), ‘IF’ (6/16, 7/19), ‘Logan’ (4/16, 8/9), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ (1/7, 10/14), & ‘Twisters’ (7/21, 8/4). Films were rewatched for a variety of reasons, including wanting to show them to my wife, watching them for YouTube videos, rewatching them before seeing a sequel, and some just because I wanted to. ‘Twisters’ was the only film that was seen both time in theaters.
Sometimes I watch movies just for the heck of it & sometimes I do it with a purpose. 194 (42.8%) movies were watched for a specific reason. 26 of those were specifically for this blog (though the article I watched a lot of them for isn’t out yet), 29 of them were watched for the Oscars that occurred in 2024, 22 of them were for my completion of my scratch off poster of the ‘100 Best Movies,’ & 117 of them were for YouTube videos, specifically my series were I rate other people’s favorite movies.
I made it to theater 20 times in 2024 (a number I think will increase a good amount in 2024), which resulted in 4.4% of my movies being viewed on the silver screen.
86 movies were watched with my wife, which is 18.7%, and we counted some of the movies she watched without me this year and she actually surpassed 100 movies in 2024!
There were 19 movies that I watched this year that were in a language other than English & 2 that had no speaking whatsoever, resulting in 4.6% of my total movies. I watched 1 film in all of the following languages: Cantonese, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, & Wolof. I also watched 2 films in French & 4 each in Japanese & Spanish.
Breaking it down by decades shows that I definitely lean into more modern films. The decades breakdown is as follows: 2 films from the 1930s, 7 films from the 1940s, 6 films from the 1950s, 5 films from the 1960s, 14 films from the 1970s, 27 films from the 1980s, 47 films from the 1990s, 98 films from the 2000s, 106 films from the 2010s, & 142 films from the 2020s. The years that had the most viewings were 2024 with 71 & 2023 with 44, though they had a slightly unfair advantage. In third place was 2019 with 14 films.
When it comes to directors I spent the most time with, there were a good amount who I watched more than two of their films (or some of their films twice):
Directors with 3 films watched:
Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up, The Other Guys, Step Brothers)
Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, X-Men: The Last Stand)
Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Juror No. 2, Unforgiven)
David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gone Girl, The Social Network)
David Leitch (Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, The Fall Guy)
David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Dune, The Elephant Man)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Dune: Part Two (twice))
James Mangold (Logan (twice), The Wolverine)
Jeff Fowler (Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy)
John Lasseter (A Bug’s Life, Cars, Toy Story 2)
Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, Horizon: An American Saga, Open Range)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street)
Matt Reeves (The Batman, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes)
Mel Gibson (Braveheart, Hacksaw Ridge, The Passion of the Christ)
Paul Feig (Jackpot!, A Simple Favor, Unaccompanied Minors)
Paul King (Paddington, Paddington 2, Wonka)
Ron Howard (Apollo 13, Hillbilly Elegy, How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Planet of the Apes)
3 directors had 4 viewings:
The director of (X-Men, X2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse)
Roland Emmerich (2012, Godzilla, Independence Day, The Patriot)
Steven Spielberg (Catch Me If You Can, Duel, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan)
2 directors had 5 viewings:
Matthew Vaughn (Argylle, Kick-Ass, Kingsman, Kingsman 2, X-Men: First Class)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained, Inglorious Basterds, Jackie Brown, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pulp Fiction)
3 directors had 6 viewings:
Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Rent, Stepmom)
Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator (twice), Gladiator II, The Martian, Napoleon)
Shawn Levy (The Adam Project, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Internship, Night at the Museum Trilogy)
And leading the way with 7 viewings were 2 directors:
Christopher Nolan (Following, Memento, The Dark Knight (twice), Inception, Interstellar, Oppenheimer)
Peter Jackson (Lord the Rings trilogy (Fellowship twice), The Hobbit Trilogy)
Finally I have a breakdown of genres. Film genres are something I find incredibly fascinating & will touch on a lot more this year. I personally believe that there are 10 ‘Main Genres’ of film, and everything else falls into one of these 10 categories. A film can absolutely fall into more than one genre, so these numbers may exceed the 453 number because some films are counted twice.
Main Genres:
Action- 63 (20 with action as the secondary genre)
Animated- 47
Comedy- 96 (51 secondary)
Documentary- 6 (4 for the Oscars, 2 for fun)
Drama- 103 (19 secondary)
Fantasy- 31 (6 secondary)
Horror- 12 (4 secondary)
Sci-Fi- 40 (5 secondary)
Thriller- 4 (18 secondary)
Western- 12
In the ‘Sub-Genres’ that I counted, the breakdown was as follows:
Adventure- 18
Anthology- 4
Apocalyptic- 3
Biblical- 4
Biopic- 21
Christmas- 45
Coming of Age- 19
Crime- 20
Disaster- 3
Dystopian- 6
Epic- 10
Folk Horror- 1
Historical- 7
Legal- 3
Martial Arts- 7
Mockumentary- 4
Monster- 10
Musical- 16
Mystery- 4
Noir- 1
Political- 2
Psychological- 2
Rom Com- 31
Romance- 11
Saticial- 1
Science Fantasy- 1
Slasher- 1
Spaghetti Western- 1
Sports- 16
Spy- 4
Superhero- 36
Survival- 2
War- 6
If you’re curious about my designation of different genres, stay tuned for those aforementioned genres articles coming soon.
Those are all the stats I recorded for 2024, and I can’t wait to see how 2025 compares. Thanks for reading!
