Earthquake!!!!

I just heard there was another earthquake in the Caribbean - 5.8 in the Cayman Islands. I am quicker than BBC news... and probably Twitter.

2009 - the year when I started to write stuff down

Last year in January I was having a discussion with someone about movies (they were talking, I was sort of day dreaming). This devolved into one of my "normal conversations" about movies when I can't remember for shit what I've seen, what it was called, or (most of the time) what happened! I like movies and TBH I watch shit loads but I've never been one to drop a directors name into conversation or say, "I prefer his earlier work". So I had an idea - why not keep track of what I've seen. Nothing complicated like a review, just the name and a score out of 10. I kept my scores in a notepad and have only just thought about putting it on this blog... so 'in ranking order' - thanks to my new found skills in Excel ;) ..... ALL the movies I saw last summer [year]

Broken Embraces 9
Blade Runner: Final Cut 9
The Wrestler 8
Rashomon 8
Volver 8
Star Trek 8
Rec 8
American Splendour 8
Moon 8
Avatar 3D 8
Hangover 7.5
Vicky Cristina Barcelona 7.5
Slumdog Millionaire 7
Frost Nixon 7
Capote 7
Requiem for a dream 7
Man on wire 7
Terminator 4 7
Paris 7
1984 7
Persepolis 7
Role Models 7
Away we go 7
Appalooso 7
Wolverine 7
Eagle Eye 6.5
In Bruge 6.5
Women without Piano 6.5
28 Weeks Later 6
Atonement 6
Hellboy 6
Hellboy II 6
Flags of our fathers 6
The unbearable lightness of being 6
Waltz with Bashir 6
Public Enemies 6
Bruno 6
Letters from Iwo Jima 6
In the loop 6
An Education 6
Pearl Harbour 6
Rudo Y Cursi 6
Quiet Chaos 6
27 Dresses 5
The Spirit 5
5x2 5
Sacred Heart 5
Tony Takitani 5
Gran Torino 5
Up 3D 5
My son's room 5
The Happening 4
Devil Wears Prada 4
Seraphim Falls 4
Made of Honour 4
The Missing 3
Under the Tuscan Sun 3
My big fat greek wedding 3
Blackout 3
Girl in the Park 3
The Women 2


So in summary I watched 61 movies last year ... Fuck! That's loads
That works out, assuming 100 minutes a movie [no way Avatar], as 6 years .... wait that can't be right ... ermmm... just over 100 hours.... That doesn't seem like as long anymore ... /fail

To apply my limited knowledge of statistics (basically mean and sum) my average score was 6.073 which, in my book, makes me easily pleased or stupid?? My median score is 6 which means i'm generous [applause]. My lowest score is 2 and my highest 9 which is a range of 7 (a bit shit on a 10 point scale of my own making). I can't even blame this distribution on personal preference, since I did not choose to watch all these films but did rate all of them... /gf

I didn't give out a 0,1 or 10 mark which I think is fair, maybe I didn't want the directors/actors hunting me down in my nightmares/wet dreams... since I don't count myself a fanboy [Talladega Nights aside] or a hater.

The geometric mean is 5.8 but since I don't have a clue WTF this means I'll leave it at that ... [anyone]

Having learnt to go into a little bit more detail [thanks to the book Freakonomics] I have also learnt some stuff about myself throughout my year long odyssey:

For instance :

I like the first half of the alphabet more than the second (A-M average; 6.11, N-Z average; 6.03)

Let me know which of my scores are lamentable ... :P

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