Celebrating this milestone, because I mis-calculated and missed the blog's 5th year birthday some years ago.
Summary
The blog has been activate since 15th October 2011 with first movie "Billy Elliot" and Andrea's reaction, which prompted me to record that.
700 movies have been recorded. There are 509 unique movie titles, although I think the true number is actually 500ish because of accidental duplicates and some promos or advertisements sneaking their way in.
Out of the 700 posts, thumbs up has been rewarded 581 times (83%), zero thumbs awarded 34 times (4.86%), thumbs down awarded 75 times (10.71%) and no thumbs applied or miscellaneous ratings 10 times (1.43%).
Frequency
My most watched movie (to no surprise) is "You've Got Mail" with 11 viewings. It also miraculously received a perfect two thumbs up each of those 11 times. I think this really secures it as my favourite movie, and will now OFFICIAL, throwing the de facto "Moulin Rouge" off the list. Moulin Rouge does not appear on the blog at all since 2011, which is surprising because I swear I have watched it (but probably did not finish it; hence no record).
Next come "Bridesmaids" (10), "Love Actually" and "Midnight in Paris" (8) and rounding out fifth spot are "Mean Girls", "Superbad" and "The Devil Wears Prada" (7). All of these should come as no surprise to myself, or people who know me.
I was surprised that the following made it high up the list in terms of frequency: "A League of Their Own", "About A Boy", "The Inbetweeners Movie", "Chef", "The Blind Side", "The Help", "The Proposal".
Also surprised I have only seen "Singin' In the Rain" and "Ratatouille" twice each in eight years. I love those movies, I would have thought I watched them much more.
Two Thumbs Up
Two thumbs up has been rewarded 126 times, to 66 unique movie titles. First place goes to "You've Got Mail" again with 11 two thumbs up!
Next come "Love Actually" (7), "Superbad" (7), "Mean Girls" (6) and rounding out fifth spot are "Finding Nemo" and "Midnight in Paris" (5).
Some movies that I awarded two thumbs up at the time, but are shocking to me now include “Bad Grandpa”, “Chennai Express”, “Iron Sky”, “Les Miserables”, “Life of Pi”, “Police Academy”, “Ruby Sparks”, “Silver Linings Playbook”, “Skyfall”, “The Bank Job”, “The Descendants”, “This Is The End”. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
"Zoolander" (2013 viewing) received ten billion thumbs up...
Two Thumbs Down
The stinkers.
Do NOT watch “Don’t Mess with the Zohan”, “Somewhere”, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”, “College”, “Empire Records” (controversial I know), “Bad Moms”, “Man on the Moon”, “Tiptoes”. Save yourself the time and do something better with your life.
"Damsels in Distress" received minus ten thumbs down...
I have never repeated viewing of any of the thumbs down movie titles. I am not an idiot.
Special Mentions
32 people were mentioned by name, in 122 reviews. 1 dog was mentioned, Snitzel!
As expected, Josh leads the pack with 54 special mentions.
Next come Dad (9), Daniel (8), Nicole (6) and Snitzel (6). Apologies to many people who got fewer shout-outs than Snitzel the dog.
Other Random Stuff
In eight years, I have seen Toy Story 3 twice, but have not watched Toy Story or Toy Story 2 in its entirety.
I am not consistent. See "Avengers Infinity War (25.01.2019) vs. Endgame (26.04.2019)" and "Deadpool (14.02.2016) vs. Deadpool 2 (18.05.2018)" for ratings that do not match the sentiment.
Conclusion
So now you know a lot about me based purely on my movie viewing patterns. You will probably judge me for the quality and calibre of movies that I love. But whatever; I love what I love, and I will gobble up my comfort-movies like a fat kid eats cake.
Thank you to everyone for following this so far. By everyone, I mean like 3 - 4 people, you know who you are.
Love, Katrina
