Thoughts on 3,000 movies

I wanted to pause and reflect for a moment on watching 3,000 movies. I know this achievement ranks nowhere in terms of true importance, but it means something to me regardless. To hit that mark took me 15 years, 3 months, and 12 days. That's of nonstop movie watching. I've never stopped or paused watching and recording movies in the last 15 years. I've certainly taken days and weeks off, but there's never been a real break. That is a bit hard for me to fathom.

When I think about hitting 3,000 movies, my thoughts immediately go to what's next. All the movies I haven't seen yet. I am going to try and delay that for a bit and focus on the positives. I've seen a great deal of the best movies of all time. I certainly haven't seen all of them, but I have seen a lot. In terms of Academy Award winners, I've seen:
- 100% of the Best Picture Winners
- 95% of the Best Director Winners
- 89% of the Best Actor Winners
- 49% of the Best Actress Winners
- 55% of the Best Supporting Actor Winners
- 56% of the Best Supporting Actress Winners
- 59% of the Best Original Screenplay Winners
- 77% of the Best Adapted Screenplay Winners
- 51% of the Best Cinematography Winners
- 53% of the Best Visual Effects Winners
- 100% of the Best Animated Film Winners
- 37% of the Best Original Song Winners

I haven't gotten around to tracking the other categories. While I wish all those were 100%, that's pretty good, I believe. I've seen all the James Bond movies, every movie Tom Hanks has ever made, all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all the Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I've seen a lot of movies in every genre.

Here's some interesting facts about the 3,000 movies I've seen:
- The average movie rating is 6.75
- Only .27% of movies have scored a perfect 10
- 18.55% of the movies I've seen are "great" (8 or higher)
- 6.83% of the movies I've seen have scored below a 5
- I've seen at least 1 movie every year from 2016 going back to 1927
- The oldest movie I've seen is the short film, Blacksmith Scene, from 1893
- The oldest feature length movie I've seen is Hell's Hinges, from 1916.
- My goal is to see a minimum of 100 movies a year. I've done that every year from 1999-2015, a span of 17 years.
- The most movies I've seen in a single year was 2007 with a total of 138 movies. That's still only 21.8% of the total movies released that year.
- I've also seen 77 short films and 19 television series (92 total seasons and 1,614 individual episodes)

While there's a great deal to celebrate, I constantly consider what still needs to be done. Namely...
- I want to see every film to have ever won an Academy Award
- I'm still trying to track down every Godzilla movie.
- There's dozens and dozens of landmark movies I haven't gotten to see
- I started The Movie Files in 2001, so every movie I watched before that date wasn't included in the count. In the last 15 years, I have rewatched hundreds of films to get them included, but there are still so many movies I've seen that aren't on the website. I need to keep focusing on that.

Perhaps the thing that bothers me the most are these statistics:
- 58.62% of the movies I've seen have been released since 2000.
- An embarrassing 77.53% of the movies I've seen have been released since 1990.

What this means is that I desperately need to watch more older movies. This is difficult for a few reasons. First, the new is always exciting. Over 600 movies come out every year, and every year I'm trying to see 100 movies, minimum. That never stops, so I'm always pulled into the current year. Secondly, if you just look at films older than 1990, you're talking about 100 years of movies and about 80 years of feature-length films. There's a ton of cinema to watch and time is always limited. This is the most problematic area for me. I've seen a ton of older movies, but I've still barely scratched the surface.