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Post by mslo79 on Nov 4, 2018 3:19:18 GMT
moviemouthI am not saying your lying (as it's possible for someone to do what you claim even though it's not easy as random things can occur in ones life to delay movie viewings longer than 3 days etc), it's just you have done something I can't see too many people pulling off. like I would imagine the odds are against it for most people to never have went more than 3 days between movie viewings for say 10 years straight as it seems like there is a decent chance a random thing would occur in a persons life that would delay them from seeing a movie. hence, go longer than 3 days without seeing a movie in a 10 year time frame. while not as impressive as the 3 days thing, it's still pretty impressive given your looking at about 15 years and not exceeding 5 days between movie viewings for a entire 15 years (or so) of time. but I guess come to think of it, if someone spaces their movie watching decently, it would not be too difficult to avoid exceeding 5 days before seeing another movie. but with that said... I guess it might boil down to what a person does as if someone does not do much outside of watching movies, like say don't really watch TV shows or play video games etc etc, it would make it easier for someone to stay within that standard. just some thoughts NOTE: as for myself in say 15 years or so of time (I am 39 now and around 2003(basically 15 years ago) was basically when I started to increase the general volume of movies I watch)... I would imagine I have not cracked a full month without seeing a movie but even hear I can't say for sure as it's possible I could have went longer than a month but if it's happened I would imagine it's not much. but I do hit an occasional week or two or so without seeing a movie here and there though. p.s. but jcush's seeing at least 1 movie per day for 5 years straight... that's even more impressive and much harder to pull off because it seems life's random occurrences would make someone not see a movie here and there in a single day.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 4, 2018 3:29:32 GMT
moviemouth I am not saying your lying (as it's possible for someone to do what you claim even though it's not easy as random things can occur in ones life to delay movie viewings longer than 3 days etc), it's just you have done something I can't see too many people pulling off. like I would imagine the odds are against it for most people to never have went more than 3 days between movie viewings for say 10 years straight as it seems like there is a decent chance a random thing would occur in a persons life that would delay them from seeing a movie. hence, go longer than 3 days without seeing a movie in a 10 year time frame. while not as impressive as the 3 days thing, it's still pretty impressive given your looking at about 15 years and not exceeding 5 days between movie viewings for a entire 15 years (or so) of time. but I guess come to think of it, if someone spaces their movie watching decently, it would not be too difficult to avoid exceeding 5 days before seeing another movie. but with that said... I guess it might boil down to what a person does as if someone does not do much outside of watching movies, like say don't really watch TV shows or play video games etc etc, it would make it easier for someone to stay within that standard. just some thoughts NOTE: as for myself in say 15 years or so of time (I am 39 now and around 2003(basically 15 years ago) was basically when I started to increase the general volume of movies I watch)... I would imagine I have not cracked a full month without seeing a movie but even hear I can't say for sure as it's possible I could have went longer than a month but if it's happened I would imagine it's not much. but I do hit an occasional week or two or so without seeing a movie here and there though. p.s. but jcush's seeing at least 1 movie per day for 5 years straight... that's even more impressive and much harder to pull off because it seems life's random occurrences would make someone not see a movie here and there in a single day. This is what my average day consists of. I work for 5 hours, I sleep for 8 hours and spend the remaining hours watching TV shows and movies. Of course I could be forgetting some period where I went longer than 3 days, but I can only answer from what I remember.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 4, 2018 3:38:01 GMT
moviemouthKnowing that, it's easier to believe. but like I was saying... it seems like there could be a reasonable chance life's random occurrences could throw off the routine at least once in a while especially over 10 years of time etc. still, even though it's less impressive knowing that info, it's still at least a little impressive though just some thoughts.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 4, 2018 3:40:14 GMT
moviemouth Knowing that, it's easier to believe. but like I was saying... it seems like there could be a reasonable chance life's random occurrences could throw off the routine at least once in a while especially over 10 years of time etc. still, even though it's less impressive knowing that info, it's still at least a little impressive though just some thoughts. What does it matter either way? You are making a big deal about some silly question that is just being asked for fun.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 4, 2018 3:42:33 GMT
moviemouthI am simply striking up conversation about it. just something I talk about around here when these kinds of topics come up. I guess I just tend to get into topics like these with stats a bit more than the random topic around here is all.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 4, 2018 3:45:55 GMT
moviemouth I am simply striking up conversation about it. just something I talk about around here when these kinds of topics come up. I guess I just tend to get into topics like these with stats a bit more than the random topic around here is all. It's feels more intrusive than just a conversation. I don't like being questioned in such a way.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 4, 2018 4:03:58 GMT
moviemouth Don't let my comments get to you. I did not mean any disrespect. I just like a little more details is all on topics like these and that's pretty much why I said what I said. besides... at the end of the day, I said I was a little impressed with you and jcush etc. that's not a negative thing NOTE: I guess some might see it(like watching lots of movies etc) as a negative thing, but I don't. because at the end of the day... the users around IMDb2 probably watch more movies than most people if I had to guess. when I talk to you and others in general you can generally assume it's in a non-confrontational manner. maybe every now and then someone will rile me up a little though. but it's no where near the point that it's anywhere near most of my comments as it's pretty much a small amount of them (this topic is definitely not one I was riled up over as I have been calm the entire time). I know some might agree and disagree with some comments I say, hell, we have did it a fair amount here in the past, but it's not like I am out to screw with you or anything over it (if I was it would look bad on me, especially given I am 39 years old as someone who's 20-25 might get away with it (like it's more expected of them to act up) but not at our age range). it's cool
with all of that said... if you don't like anything I ask, you can choose to ignore it and that will be the end of the conversation as I am not going to press someone about random topics as I might reply to something someone said but if they don't reply, that's the end of it right there.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Nov 4, 2018 4:12:50 GMT
I watch TV everyday, but I like to binge on TV series, amd watch late night talk shows, so unless I am looking for a particular movie, I can go a few months without watching a movie.
Also, I watch movies in sections. It can take me 2 weeks to wath some movies,
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 4, 2018 4:14:12 GMT
moviemouth Don't let my comments get to you. I did not mean any disrespect. I just like a little more details is all on topics like these and that's pretty much why I said what I said. besides... at the end of the day, I said I was a little impressed with you and jcush etc. that's not a negative thing NOTE: I guess some might see it(like watching lots of movies etc) as a negative thing, but I don't. because at the end of the day... the users around IMDb2 probably watch more movies than most people if I had to guess. when I talk to you and others in general you can generally assume it's in a non-confrontational manner. maybe every now and then someone will rile me up a little though. but it's no where near the point that it's anywhere near most of my comments as it's pretty much a small amount of them (this topic is definitely not one I was riled up over as I have been calm the entire time). I know some might agree and disagree with some comments I say, hell, we have did it a fair amount here in the past, but it's not like I am out to screw with you or anything over it (if I was it would look bad on me, especially given I am 39 years old as someone who's 20-25 might get away with it (like it's more expected of them to act up) but not at our age range). it's cool
with all of that said... if you don't like anything I ask, you can choose to ignore it and that will be the end of the conversation as I am not going to press someone about random topics as I might reply to something someone said but if they don't reply, that's the end of it right there.
I have a little clearer picture now. It just felt like you were questioning me as if I was lying. Most people don't keep statistics like you do, where they can look back and find something out for a fact. My answers rely almost entirely on memory. So even if I am wrong about 3 days, it makes no difference because that is the closest to the truth I can think of. You questioning my answer isn't all of a sudden going to make my memory any better, thus the question seems almost pointless for you to ask imo.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Nov 4, 2018 9:41:25 GMT
No idea, maybe about a month. In the past few years it wouldn't be more than a few days.
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Post by mecano04 on Nov 5, 2018 0:14:45 GMT
mslo79I'm 32 years old and I would go as far back as when I was a kid. I was raised in a somewhat dysfunctional family with an authoritarian father. He is 6'2"/1,88m and back then he was about 225lbs/102Kgs, not just fat. Was I ever beaten? No but I got hit, slapped, yelled and screamed at to a point where I lost count. He worked on fear more than respect but he also came from a dysfunctional family, so that's what he knew. Basically, I had to be home at the hour he said, not one minute late. I couldn't go out much. On weekends, he was reading his newspaper during the day and it was the movies on TV at 18:30. It wasn't up for debate. My mother got me some VHS on my birthday and Christmas and I played them until they were barely readable. That was it from elementary to High school. It was always my way of "escaping" part of what was going on at home. Still over the years I kinda grew one me. In college, I went to one in downtown Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and it was literally at a 3 minutes walk from a movie theater with 18 rooms. Whenever I had 2 or more hours between classes I would go. One of my uncle is a movie buff. His DVD collection is in the thousands. We always watched (and still do today) one whenever I went there. Even if my father isn't in my life now, I still watch movies on a regular basis. Even when I went on travel recently, I watched some wherever I stayed, I watched whatever was available. Even if re-watching the same movie doesn't count, all the ones I saw on TV on the weekends do fit the bill.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 6, 2018 7:45:22 GMT
moviemouthWell look at it this way, take a random person and have them say... "I have not went longer than 3 days without seeing a movie in 10+ years time". you can see why someone might question that basic info to some degree because, I would imagine, it's noticeably outside of the norm of most people as while it's not a super difficult feat to pull off it's not going to be easy for most people to do, I would imagine. so it's nothing personal but a general mindset for that type of claim like there is some doubt but at the same time it's still plausible that it's true as I am sure there are some people in the world who do that and then some (like say... viewed at least one movie every day for say 10-20+ years straight etc). p.s. sure, I realize what you said is even more believable knowing what you told me though but I was more or less saying what I said based mostly around this info. like it could be applied any random person on a forum making a similar claim. NOTE: also, as a general people thing... there seems to be some people who BS or exaggerate stuff from what actually happened etc etc and play it off as the truth. I dislike this stuff because when you know they BS so much, while playing it off as true, you can't believe anything they say and even when they do tell you the truth on a random thing, you just assume it's a lie/BS because they BS too much in general to the point you can't believe anything they say. basically they screw themselves over which is why I am surprised these people do this stuff. for the record... I don't know too many people who are like this but I have seen it here and there. Yeah, I realize that. I don't question you for a second here as I would imagine there is very few people who keep the kinds of stats I do on their movie viewings. p.s. I mostly do it just to see how long it's been since I last re-watched a movie or other random stats to see what kind of volume of movies I see in a month or year etc as the years pass and, occasionally, this info gets posted around these IMDb2 forums when topics where I can mention those come up which happens here and there. hell, it does take some effort to manage the text files etc I do so that's why I try to find a balance between getting decent stats but without organizing too many things as it can start to burn up a little too much time as I occasionally make tweaks on stuff stuff I log because the more stuff I log the more stuff I have to adjust when a movie improves or declines with a re-watch. I figure, in the future, even if I slow down on logging stuff I plan on logging at least the basic stuff for the foreseeable future into a log file like, for example... "-Movie Name Here (2010) (1st viewing) (Nov 6th 2018)". Yeah, I understand. like even if your off a bit, like you speculated on there, I guess in a basic sense you still watched a lot of movies and I can't see people questioning that as it's not a stretch at all for someone to watch many movies as the years pass if they are not married etc etc and your inline with this. so at the end of the day... I believe you. or at the very least, believe your being honest about your '3 days in 10+ years etc' claim even if your off a little bit. but, obviously, I don't expect one to recall precisely this kind of info with 100% accuracy as it's just not realistic for the vast majority of peoples memories to be that good. just some thoughts
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Post by Roberto on Nov 8, 2018 2:30:52 GMT
Hmm not sure. Before this year, I rarely took long breaks from watching movies unless I was watching a complete TV series, and even then i'm guessing it wasn't months. But this year I haven't seen anywhere near as much movies as I would have liked. I'm just so tired a lot of the time for some reason and don't feel up to watching movies. I find it's much easier to just play games for extended periods of time than to watch movies. Not too sure why that is.
Anyways, my guess would be maybe a month or 2?
How come you haven't watched any for 3 months? And what happened when you didn't watch any for 6-7?
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Nov 8, 2018 5:08:06 GMT
Hmm not sure. Before this year, I rarely took long breaks from watching movies unless I was watching a complete TV series, and even then i'm guessing it wasn't months. But this year I haven't seen anywhere near as much movies as I would have liked. I'm just so tired a lot of the time for some reason and don't feel up to watching movies. I find it's much easier to just play games for extended periods of time than to watch movies. Not too sure why that is. This happens to me with sitcoms or old TV shows. I should be watching movies, but end up sitting through (sometimes multiple) episodes of shows on Netflix or whatever. I think movies generally involve a greater level of concentration and commitment than, say, a familiar TV programme or gaming.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 6:03:36 GMT
Without watching any movies at all I would probably say a year and a half and I went over three years without watching any new movies 'cause there was nothing coming out that got my attention at the time and I was more interested in watching old movies and TV shows along with reading the comic books and novels coming out.
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Post by Marv on Nov 8, 2018 10:43:10 GMT
Honestly no idea. Probably a week...or so. I often throw an old movie on if I’m bored or about to go to sleep, instead of watching tv.
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Post by Roberto on Nov 11, 2018 1:33:24 GMT
Hmm not sure. Before this year, I rarely took long breaks from watching movies unless I was watching a complete TV series, and even then i'm guessing it wasn't months. But this year I haven't seen anywhere near as much movies as I would have liked. I'm just so tired a lot of the time for some reason and don't feel up to watching movies. I find it's much easier to just play games for extended periods of time than to watch movies. Not too sure why that is. This happens to my with sitcoms or old TV shows. I should be watching movies, but end up sitting through (sometime multiple) episodes of shows on Netflix or whatever. I think movies generally involve a greater level of concentration and commitment than, say, a familiar TV programme or gaming. I struggle to even watch multiple episodes back to back these days without feeling exhausted. Games though, I can play for hours on end for some reason. Not sure what is happening to me. Glad I can at least do that though, so I can play the brilliant Red Dead Redemption II.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Nov 11, 2018 5:21:57 GMT
This happens to my with sitcoms or old TV shows. I should be watching movies, but end up sitting through (sometime multiple) episodes of shows on Netflix or whatever. I think movies generally involve a greater level of concentration and commitment than, say, a familiar TV programme or gaming. I struggle to even watch multiple episodes back to back these days without feeling exhausted. Games though, I can play for hours on end for some reason. Not sure what is happening to me. Glad I can at least do that though, so I can play the brilliant Red Dead Redemption II. I guess games keep the mind active in a way movies and TV shows- which are consumed more passively - don't. It's been years since I was into gaming myself though.
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