"I'm going to see even more movies this year!"

Last year I saw a lot of movies.  At the beginning of each year I put a note on Facebook listing my Top 10 movies of last year for my friends to share their own list, and tell me where I'm wrong or have crap taste.  For last year I couldn't narrow it down to 10 and listed 20.  And that was just the best ones.  I believe the statistics are that the average Australian sees 7 movies per year.  I'm way ahead of that cause I don't have any other hobbies.  During the week of the Brisbane International Film Festival, I saw 11 movies in 7 days. Ten movies at the festival, then I saw The Town with my Dad during the week just for the fun of it.  Looking at Empire Magazine's Top 50 movies you should have seen in 2010, I probably saw about 12 at the movies and another 7 on DVD.  But that's only 19 out of what they rated as the best films.  So my goal for 2011 was to see even more movies than last year.  If you see more movies you're likely to see more good ones right? I also had a mini-goal to see all of the movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar before Oscar night.

So, how am I going?

I totally failed the mini-goal.  Several of the films in the running were only released a few weeks before the Oscars in Australia and for some reason I had a lot of things on in those few weeks.  So my vote was on Social Network as I hadn't seen The King's Speech, but of course that won.  Still yet to see that.

On the bigger goal I am also not going real well.  To date I've seen 3 movies this year - The Green Hornet, Black Swan and 127 Hours.  This is below my own previous average and means I've already missed a few.  I now have to step it up if I'm going to get through all the movies I'm excited about this year (but that's another post).  So the plan is to do at least 2 movies this week while I'm still on holidays to catch up.  I'll let you know how they are.  Interested to know how many movies you see each month.