Sunday, December 15, 2019

The second one hundred movies on this blog


Image result for 200So another hundred movies in and the success rate is slightly higher now, with 12% rather than 11% meeting with my approval enough for me to watch them until the end and give a C+ or higher.  As for what I rejected, the F+s went from four to five, the D-s from nine to 17, the D's from 14 to 29, and the D+s and C-s also sort of doubling, from 19 to 40 and from 27 to 53 respectively.  The C's, which sit on that border of almost making it (sometimes after a half hour or more of viewing), exactly doubled, from 15 to 30.

Of the ones that passed, there are now nine C+s instead of four, six B-s instead of four, and a relatively impressive eight B's instead of three.  There's even a B+ now.

As for the decade breakdown, I did double the output from the 1920s, from one to two, while there were no additional movies from the '30s (still at six).  The '40s more than doubled, going from two to five.  The '50s continued to outdo the previous decades, but not as dramatically, rising from 11 to 17.  The '60s more than doubled, from four to nine, while the '70s more than tripled, from two to seven.  The '80s and '90s both nearly doubled, from 11 to 21 and from 16 to 31 respectively.  The 2000 more than doubled, from 27 to 57.  The 2010s rose from 20 to 45.  I'm surprised things were this consistent, but I think the proportions will still skew over time.

Action movies weren't quite as dominant, now 23 rather than 17.  There are now 37 comedies rather than 17, and 39 dramas rather than 25, not counting "dramedy," etc., like the 38 "historical dramas."

Warner Brothers remains the dominant studio, with 24 contributions, although as I said before, it's harder to classify in the modern era.  The number of movies based on books is another stat that has roughly doubled, from 19 to 41, so still about one-fifth of the total.

I don't have any predictions for the next hundred, other than I don't know if I'll get past the letter B.  Probably, but not too far.

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