How many different movies have you seen?

1000 - 2000

I have seen more than 1.600 different movies.

Some years ago, I spent a free weekend going through IMDB's most popular movies from 1950 to now, year by year. E.g. for 1950, this is the page you get: 'http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1950,1950&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc' It results in about 2000 movies per year, and I went through every year giving a star rating to any movie that I could recall seeing.

I'm lucky to have quite a good memory, and I can recall what I think is pretty much every movie that I've ever seen, with the exception of some random TV movies I watched as a kid, I just don't know what they are... Before beginning this process, I had already given quite a few movies star ratings, and I went through various actors/actresses movie lists just starring anything that I'd seen. This also took care of any movies before 1950 (mostly).

I continued the yearly rating process going through every year until 2014 (I think, that's when I did this). It took many, many hours, but it was great fun! Eventually though I noticed a JavaScript bug which mean't that occasionally some of my ratings weren't being saved properly, so I exported my IMDB ratings to a CSV file and continued to update the list manually, as well as giving any new addition to the list a short review. I update the list after every new movie that I see. I also moderate my old ratings sometimes.

The total number of movies in that CSV file, or in other words, the total I can recall ever watching is: 2231 so far. It would be much, much higher if I wasn't such a fan of video games/programming as a kid.

Between 1000 and 2000 i would guess.

I think I'd probably just crack the 2000 mark

500-600. I have rated approximately 450 movies on IMDb, and I have probably seen about 50-100 movies which I haven't rated.

Over 4000

2000 - 4000

I have seen over 2,100+ individual legitimate movies (i.e. strictly inline with what the OP wants to know). i know this because it's what IMDb shows i have rated and there is actually some i have seen that i don't have rated but it's not many as i would guess it can't be more than 50-100 TOPS (probably less than 50 though) beyond what i have rated.

counting re-watches (along with that individual movie figure from above(i.e. 2,100+))... while i don't know the exact figure i can safely say i have seen AT LEAST 3,000+ movies. it's just a question of how far over that figure it is and that's where i start to guesstimate things but i would not be surprised if it's around 4,000 or so as if you want me to take my best guess given the info i know (some of it shown below) i think a 3,500-4,000 or so should be pretty close as even if i am underestimating the volume of movies i have seen, counting re-watches, it's got to be LESS THAN 5,000 as i would be surprised if i was wrong on that much.

p.s. if you want to get a bit more detailed... even deducting movies i could not finish due to boredom (i.e. roughly 140 movies) then that figure for the topic would still be basically 2,000-ish (probably still 2,000+). so i would still claim the '2000 - 4000' vote in the topic.

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I am one of those people who claim 2,000+ because it's a fact and i am sure others around here have me beat like Darksidebeadle etc.

hell, if you factor in re-watches i am WELL BEYOND 2,000.

just to look at the facts, since i been logging info (i.e. Dec 27th 2011 to date) here is some movie viewing facts for me...

Total movies seen in the following years (these are ALL movies i watched regardless of when they are released etc)...

2012 = 239 movies (119 first, 120 re-watch)
2013 = 233 movies (107 first, 126 re-watch)
2014 = 336 movies (145 first, 191 re-watch)
2015 = 301 movies (105 first, 196 re-watch)
2016 = 274 movies (89 first, 185 re-watch)

so just in that five years of time, counting re-watches, i have viewed a total of 1,383 movies even though only 565 of them are first time viewings as the rest, which is 818 movies, are re-watches of movies i have seen before.

if you want to get into the details a bit more... there is a really small amount (LESS THAN 177 movies(more like roughly 140 movies out of the 2,100+)) i could not finish due to boredom that would be counted amongst those stats above but it's pretty much a non-issue as it would not deduct much from those stats and still basically proves what i claim. so even trying to penalize me as much as possible and going strictly by the individual movie standard the OP wants to know i would still be right around 2,000 movies seen, give or take, simply because IMDb shows i have 2,164 titles rated and removing any non-movie stuff and deducting roughly 140 movies that's still very close to 2,000 movies one way or the other.

i am surprised you have trouble believing someone who claims even a 1,000+ movies as that's not difficult especially when you have been watching movies for 10+ years etc. hell, like i proved above i have seen over 1,000 (when counting re-watches) in a five year time frame.

NOTE: it was around the year 2003 (at this time i would have been 23-24 years old(ill be 38 years old Oct 2017)) when the general volume of movies i watched started to shoot up.



counting re-watches... while i can't say for certain, i think it's plausible i have seen roughly that many movies in my lifetime simply because i know for a fact i have seen at least 2,100+ movies and that's not counting re-watches and adding re-watches it's EASILY into the high 2,000's as it's just a question of how far i am past the high 2,000's as given the info below i can safely claim i have seen 3,000+ movies if you count re-watches.

because looking at the stats i posted above... solely looking at re-watches ONLY in that five year time span it's 818 movies. so adding those re-watches to the 2,100+ total movies i have seen in general that means i can safely claim AT LEAST 2,900+ conservatively and it's pretty safe to say i am beyond that given i have been re-watching quite a few movies before 2012, i just don't have exact statistics on those years though.

so as you can see it's not a stretch for me to plausibly claim i have seen 3,650 movies or so (assuming we count re-watches). i just can't say for certain is all.

p.s. also, not that it matters much... but you forgot leap years which would actually make that 3650 figure a bit more over a 10 year time frame as a typical year has 365 days, like you already know, but once every four years there is a leap year with 366 days. like for example... 2008,2012,2016,2020 and so on are all leap years.

I honestly don't have a clue. I've never tried to count them all.