The fact that you recorded this video while taking care of your daughter proofs you didn’t “waste” any time on those 1605 films. Really good stats man.
Amazing stats. A couple of years ago (like 7-8 years actually) I began a "movie trip", going from country to country, not travelling but watching movies. Starting in my home country of Sweden, then Finland, then Norway, over water to Iceland, Ireland and so on. Most difficult was actually Moldavia, finding a decent movie with subtitles. Then I started my African movie trip with Egypt, going west with Sudan, the amazing movie countries of Mali and Senegal. Equatorial guinea was difficult. Only one official produced movie at that time, note even having a distribution yet. Had to wait a year to watch that movie. To sum it up, it is a fun way to experience a country through movies. In some countries I "stopped" and watch a handful before moving on. Sadly my trip came to a halt in Mozambique. Couldn't find anything with subtitles.
That’s actually a really impressive idea, I love the sound of that. I may have to implement that at some point, I can imagine it being great fun! I was tempted to also do something similar with years, so watching stuff from 1921, and from there doing 1922 until I’m ready to move on to 1923.
@@fridenpaden I have been trying this, what's your letterboxd id and did you make a list for this? Also, which moldivian,senegalese, sudanese, Mali movie have you watched?
@@masoomahmed9560 This was long before letterbox. Problem was to find movies with subtitles. But here are som great movies that I watched: Mali: Yeleen (1987) Senegal: Borom Sarret & La Noire de (1966) Burkina Faso/Senegal?: Moolaade Guinnea-Bissau: Mortu Nega Liberia. Johnny Mad Dog I can recommend all of them. Great movies. I can't remember the Sudanese movie. I think it was about a tree. And the only thing I rememember about the Moldavian movie was that there were many scenes in bed.
Awesome. You should check out some more obscure or independent movies from filmmakers like Giuseppe Andrews, Damon Packard, Ryan Trecartin, Shinya Tsukamoto, Takashi Miike, and Joel Haver. Just some cool areas to branch out into. I also love Czech New Wave movies.
Guess I'll see what you think of them since I'm following you on letterboxd now. Wouldn't be surprised if you hate some of the artsier/strange ones 😅. But hey it's always worth it to try new things. They were pretty eye-opening for me as an independent filmmaker.
@@bryanbassett2110 True, Miike has some big hits, but he also has a lot of obscure movies that are great in completely different ways. Guy has a lot of range as a filmmaker.
Absolute legend, great job and very cool breakdown of your stats. I had a measly 76 entries in Letterboxd this year, which would take you a couple weeks to go through ahah
Given how many movies you watch you might have seen them but since you seem to enjoy Japanese movies I love the director Takeshi Kitano, and my favorite of his is “Sonatine”. For your France watchlist, I recommend “A prophet” if you haven’t seen it (most of the movies from the same director are great).
i barely comment in youtube videos but this is just amazing, congratulations man, specially since i’m assuming you have a job + a daughter and family / social live it’s just admiring, THIS is commitment , i’m always going to support people being fully committed to their passions! keep up with the great job bro ❤
Wow thanks man! Really nice to see! Believe it or not, I actually work in a shop called the “Television & Movie Store” so films are basically my entire life at this point 😂
What a legend, I'm curious, especially with a baby, how frequently do you sit down and completely zone in vs having a film on more so in the background?
Man, that’s a great question. The honest answer is I’m not sure. If I’ve put a movie on, I’m definitely paying all my attention to it, but like you said the baby naturally does distract, so I wouldn’t be able to say. Funnily enough there were a few other movies that my Wife put on, which I didn’t log, because I was either focused on something else or not really watching enough, so I wouldn’t log a movie unless I felt confident it had gotten the respect it deserved. Great question though!
@@gilanes Oh, I absolutely do! If you’re in the mood for a different kind of Spaghetti western, something goofy, like those Bud Spencer-Terence Hill flicks.The Provvidenza (English title: Providence) films are basically Spaghetti westerns, surreal humor, and Laurel and Hardy thrown into a blender. The first film is relatively easy to find, but the second film was damn near impossible to find a decent English copy of until a few years ago. I think you would like them both. They’re not on the same cinematic level as The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly, or Once Upon a Time in the West, but they are very entertaining. First film: m.ruclips.net/video/KmpD-yfiIXw/видео.html&pp=ygUbbGlmZSBpcyB0b3VnaCBlaCBwcm92aWRlbmNl Second film: m.ruclips.net/video/KIsX2k3FEBg/видео.html&pp=ygUbbGlmZSBpcyB0b3VnaCBlaCBwcm92aWRlbmNl
@@gilanes I actually had to download the second film off of some dodgy movie website, and then upload it to my secondary account just for it to be accessible in English.
do you have every streaming platform? And what do you do when you cannot find a film in those platforms? I usually struggle to find some films so I wanted to hear that from you. also really impressive how you watched basically like 3 to 4 films a day. I have a long list that I want to finish and I wanted to ask you like what’s the best way like to just concentrate on films. I am a college student and I do have my free time but I like doing a bunch of stuff also so it’s hard for me to find like a moment in the day to watch just one film.
I have a good few of them. I also have used basically every “free trial subscription” Amazon has available. I also have a lot of friends with a huge DVD range that I could borrow. A lot of films pre 50s do seem to be on RUclips as well actually or at least a good portion of the ones I’ve looked for have been! Good luck with your films as well man, any suggestions you’d recommend for me to check out?
Great question. Honestly I try to switch them up so there’s not many of the same movie back to back. So instead of watching 3 Marvel movies in a row for example, maybe a Hitchcock followed by a Kurosawa followed by a random Indie one. That’s not exact of course, but it’s a rough jist.
When you get to india kindly branch out of big name bollywood movies and try out south indian movies, particularly malayalam and tamil movies. You will be impressed.
@@gilanes those are great starter movies for bollywood see nayagan and thalapathi from mani ratnam also see dil se from him and see both jigarthanda movies one came out just last year see aniyan and Indian from shankar
interested in how you watch your movies. I assume when traveling to work this would be on your phone but at work or at home. is everything on your phone ? do you download them to your phone cause if you stream it I can't fathom how much data usage that would be.
Yeah, on phone. One or two a day will be on the TV with the Wife, but generally it’ll be on the phone. I’ll try to download them when I can, but I do get 40gb of data a month with my contract, so I’ve never needed to worry too much honestly.
A mixture of everything. I have a lot of the streaming services and amongst my coworkers a lot of potential DVD borrows. Honestly, a majority of the pre-1940s are on RUclips as well, which is a huge help.
Around 900 feature length movies (no included short films), but my real aim was watching a movie from every country/region. I’ve managed to do 175 places so far, so should complete the aim of it all goes to plan 🤞
Mass action movies which didn't care about physics (RRR, Jawan, Bahubali) Indian courtroom drama (sirf ek banda kaafi hai, jolly llb 1, jolly llb 2) Indian Cult classic for guys who got cheated (Shaadi mei zaroor ana)
Also 12th fail, eega,makdhera,koi mil gaya ,krissh,krissh3,robot,jailer,kgf1,kgf2,pushpa, sheeshaa,andhadhund,merry Christmas,mimi, munlshi pattern,Tumbad(it is a horror movie),lapachappi(marathi horror movie), brumhastra,RRR,Kantara,Pk,3 idiots,Munna Bhai mbbs,Drisyam 1,Drishyam 2, Kaithi, Vikram, Monica o my darling,Tu jhoothy mai makkar, Rocky aur rani ki prem kahani, Bajirao Mastani, Chennai express,padmavat,Gangs of vasepur 1&2, Rocketry the nambi effect, hi papa, hello Charlie ,ratsasan.These are all my recommendation I watched you will also like but there are so many more movies great than these which I haven't watched so it's a long journey.Happy watching 🎉
Nice! Where did you watch all the movies if I may ask? And did you have a list before you started watching or did you just pick most of the movies on the way?
I had a small book that I’d write suggestions into and had different sections. So I always had way more in there than I could manage and would add to it whenever a new movie was suggested to me. A lot of older movies also happened to be on RUclips or Plex which was handy. And my coworkers had a lot of DVDs to lend me haha.
You’re 100% right. Though like I said, a good chunk of time was spent travelling, on lunch break at work or whatnot, so it wouldn’t have been as easy to develop a skill instead.
That’s fair. Honestly I just love movies and started the year wanting to see physically how many I could watch. That then snowballed and the good start became consistency. I don’t see it as impressive and I see why some would say it’s lame, but I enjoyed it and was happy, so hey-ho I guess.
That averages 4.4 movies per day, each and every day.
Impressive.
The fact that you recorded this video while taking care of your daughter proofs you didn’t “waste” any time on those 1605 films. Really good stats man.
Amazing stats.
A couple of years ago (like 7-8 years actually) I began a "movie trip", going from country to country, not travelling but watching movies. Starting in my home country of Sweden, then Finland, then Norway, over water to Iceland, Ireland and so on. Most difficult was actually Moldavia, finding a decent movie with subtitles. Then I started my African movie trip with Egypt, going west with Sudan, the amazing movie countries of Mali and Senegal. Equatorial guinea was difficult. Only one official produced movie at that time, note even having a distribution yet. Had to wait a year to watch that movie. To sum it up, it is a fun way to experience a country through movies. In some countries I "stopped" and watch a handful before moving on. Sadly my trip came to a halt in Mozambique. Couldn't find anything with subtitles.
That’s actually a really impressive idea, I love the sound of that. I may have to implement that at some point, I can imagine it being great fun! I was tempted to also do something similar with years, so watching stuff from 1921, and from there doing 1922 until I’m ready to move on to 1923.
Really good idea I might try it next year and also what Pakistani movie you watched
@@fridenpaden I have been trying this, what's your letterboxd id and did you make a list for this? Also, which moldivian,senegalese, sudanese, Mali movie have you watched?
@@masoomahmed9560
This was long before letterbox. Problem was to find movies with subtitles. But here are som great movies that I watched:
Mali: Yeleen (1987)
Senegal: Borom Sarret & La Noire de (1966)
Burkina Faso/Senegal?: Moolaade
Guinnea-Bissau: Mortu Nega
Liberia. Johnny Mad Dog
I can recommend all of them. Great movies.
I can't remember the Sudanese movie. I think it was about a tree.
And the only thing I rememember about the Moldavian movie was that there were many scenes in bed.
@@fridenpaden thanks ☺
Awesome. You should check out some more obscure or independent movies from filmmakers like Giuseppe Andrews, Damon Packard, Ryan Trecartin, Shinya Tsukamoto, Takashi Miike, and Joel Haver. Just some cool areas to branch out into. I also love Czech New Wave movies.
Wow, will do! Will check them out and see what I find. Thanks for the suggestion, really appreciate it!
Guess I'll see what you think of them since I'm following you on letterboxd now. Wouldn't be surprised if you hate some of the artsier/strange ones 😅. But hey it's always worth it to try new things. They were pretty eye-opening for me as an independent filmmaker.
Ayy, thanks for the follow! I’m sure I’ll like them, haha well fingers crossed anyway 😂
Takashi Miike is not obscure. Never heard of a couple of those guys though. Thanks for the list!
@@bryanbassett2110 True, Miike has some big hits, but he also has a lot of obscure movies that are great in completely different ways. Guy has a lot of range as a filmmaker.
Absolute legend, great job and very cool breakdown of your stats. I had a measly 76 entries in Letterboxd this year, which would take you a couple weeks to go through ahah
Haha, nothing measly about it, that’s a good number! Any favourites you’d recommend?
Given how many movies you watch you might have seen them but since you seem to enjoy Japanese movies I love the director Takeshi Kitano, and my favorite of his is “Sonatine”. For your France watchlist, I recommend “A prophet” if you haven’t seen it (most of the movies from the same director are great).
i barely comment in youtube videos but this is just amazing, congratulations man, specially since i’m assuming you have a job + a daughter and family / social live it’s just admiring, THIS is commitment , i’m always going to support people being fully committed to their passions! keep up with the great job bro ❤
Wow thanks man! Really nice to see! Believe it or not, I actually work in a shop called the “Television & Movie Store” so films are basically my entire life at this point 😂
Amazing! Very impressive stuff man. Love to you and your family!
Holy crap dude this is awesome. Hate to go against you in movie trivia😂
What a legend, I'm curious, especially with a baby, how frequently do you sit down and completely zone in vs having a film on more so in the background?
Man, that’s a great question. The honest answer is I’m not sure. If I’ve put a movie on, I’m definitely paying all my attention to it, but like you said the baby naturally does distract, so I wouldn’t be able to say. Funnily enough there were a few other movies that my Wife put on, which I didn’t log, because I was either focused on something else or not really watching enough, so I wouldn’t log a movie unless I felt confident it had gotten the respect it deserved. Great question though!
@@gilanes that's incredible, thank you!
This needs way more views. Good job 👍
This was so fun to watch this is so awesome
Have you ever watched the Provvidenza movies? They were two Spaghetti western comedy films produced in the 1970s.
I’ve not! Do you recommend them? I’ll have to check them out as I do like my Spaghetti westerns!
@@gilanes Oh, I absolutely do! If you’re in the mood for a different kind of Spaghetti western, something goofy, like those Bud Spencer-Terence Hill flicks.The Provvidenza (English title: Providence) films are basically Spaghetti westerns, surreal humor, and Laurel and Hardy thrown into a blender.
The first film is relatively easy to find, but the second film was damn near impossible to find a decent English copy of until a few years ago. I think you would like them both. They’re not on the same cinematic level as The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly, or Once Upon a Time in the West, but they are very entertaining.
First film: m.ruclips.net/video/KmpD-yfiIXw/видео.html&pp=ygUbbGlmZSBpcyB0b3VnaCBlaCBwcm92aWRlbmNl
Second film: m.ruclips.net/video/KIsX2k3FEBg/видео.html&pp=ygUbbGlmZSBpcyB0b3VnaCBlaCBwcm92aWRlbmNl
Love that you’ve actually linked the full movie!! Will get round to watching these and let you know what I think!
@@gilanes No problem! These movies are a bit more obscure, so it made sense for me to link them.
@@gilanes I actually had to download the second film off of some dodgy movie website, and then upload it to my secondary account just for it to be accessible in English.
do you have every streaming platform? And what do you do when you cannot find a film in those platforms? I usually struggle to find some films so I wanted to hear that from you.
also really impressive how you watched basically like 3 to 4 films a day. I have a long list that I want to finish and I wanted to ask you like what’s the best way like to just concentrate on films. I am a college student and I do have my free time but I like doing a bunch of stuff also so it’s hard for me to find like a moment in the day to watch just one film.
I have a good few of them. I also have used basically every “free trial subscription” Amazon has available. I also have a lot of friends with a huge DVD range that I could borrow. A lot of films pre 50s do seem to be on RUclips as well actually or at least a good portion of the ones I’ve looked for have been!
Good luck with your films as well man, any suggestions you’d recommend for me to check out?
Great video
Dang I thought my 600+ movies a year was a lot…
That’s a fck ton lol
Awesome. Keep going.
wowww how is this even possible? crazy
No hobbies and a lot of time to spare, that’s how 😂
@@gilanes Liar, watching movies is a hobby, the best one
Thats awesome! Just followed you on letterboxd to keep track of what you're watching this year lol
I’ve seen that! Really appreciate that, I shall return the favour as I would be very interested in seeing your movie tastes also!
Very impressive but how do movies not start to get dull after watching so many. Do they not run together at this point.
Great question. Honestly I try to switch them up so there’s not many of the same movie back to back. So instead of watching 3 Marvel movies in a row for example, maybe a Hitchcock followed by a Kurosawa followed by a random Indie one. That’s not exact of course, but it’s a rough jist.
When you get to india kindly branch out of big name bollywood movies and try out south indian movies, particularly malayalam and tamil movies. You will be impressed.
Buzzing, I’ll check those out. I watched Om Shanti Om and 3 Idiots last year and loved both of those, so excited to see some more this year!
@@gilanes those are great starter movies for bollywood see nayagan and thalapathi from mani ratnam also see dil se from him and see both jigarthanda movies one came out just last year see aniyan and Indian from shankar
interested in how you watch your movies. I assume when traveling to work this would be on your phone but at work or at home. is everything on your phone ? do you download them to your phone cause if you stream it I can't fathom how much data usage that would be.
Yeah, on phone. One or two a day will be on the TV with the Wife, but generally it’ll be on the phone. I’ll try to download them when I can, but I do get 40gb of data a month with my contract, so I’ve never needed to worry too much honestly.
5:54 eras tour movie when?!
Give this guy an Oscar
How do you watch your movies, plex, streaming, dvd, RUclips, torrent, kodi etc
A mixture of everything. I have a lot of the streaming services and amongst my coworkers a lot of potential DVD borrows. Honestly, a majority of the pre-1940s are on RUclips as well, which is a huge help.
What’s your Letterboxd link? You deserve a follow 👍🏼
Gilanes ☺️
@@gilanes Followed 👍🏼
Done!
Are all these narrative feature films?
Yeah, this doesn’t include any documentaries, any tv shows or anything less than 60 minutes long. 👍
@@gilanes damn that's impressive. What's your letterboxd username?
Gilanes 🤙🏻
@@gilanes how are you doing in 2024,so far
Around 900 feature length movies (no included short films), but my real aim was watching a movie from every country/region. I’ve managed to do 175 places so far, so should complete the aim of it all goes to plan 🤞
How about you try some Indian movies? (We have typical action masala to real gems)
I watched a few but certainly intend to watch more! Any suggestions?
Mass action movies which didn't care about physics (RRR, Jawan, Bahubali)
Indian courtroom drama (sirf ek banda kaafi hai, jolly llb 1, jolly llb 2)
Indian Cult classic for guys who got cheated (Shaadi mei zaroor ana)
Also 12th fail, eega,makdhera,koi mil gaya ,krissh,krissh3,robot,jailer,kgf1,kgf2,pushpa, sheeshaa,andhadhund,merry Christmas,mimi, munlshi pattern,Tumbad(it is a horror movie),lapachappi(marathi horror movie), brumhastra,RRR,Kantara,Pk,3 idiots,Munna Bhai mbbs,Drisyam 1,Drishyam 2, Kaithi, Vikram, Monica o my darling,Tu jhoothy mai makkar, Rocky aur rani ki prem kahani, Bajirao Mastani, Chennai express,padmavat,Gangs of vasepur 1&2, Rocketry the nambi effect, hi papa, hello Charlie ,ratsasan.These are all my recommendation I watched you will also like but there are so many more movies great than these which I haven't watched so it's a long journey.Happy watching 🎉
@@rudrakshbansode7969 aye man you got good taste. I have watched almost everyone of those movies. (Except 2-3)
Oh sweet, cheers for the suggestion guys! Best believe I’ll be making my way through all of those, will be looking forward to them!
Nice! Where did you watch all the movies if I may ask? And did you have a list before you started watching or did you just pick most of the movies on the way?
I had a small book that I’d write suggestions into and had different sections. So I always had way more in there than I could manage and would add to it whenever a new movie was suggested to me. A lot of older movies also happened to be on RUclips or Plex which was handy. And my coworkers had a lot of DVDs to lend me haha.
Bro watch' indian movies you will get subs and views and very gud movies
Imagine if you had spent that time developing a skill.
He enhanced his cinephile synapses 😎
You’re 100% right. Though like I said, a good chunk of time was spent travelling, on lunch break at work or whatnot, so it wouldn’t have been as easy to develop a skill instead.
@@gilanes I agree that it wasn’t easy. I just don’t see the point.
That’s fair. Honestly I just love movies and started the year wanting to see physically how many I could watch. That then snowballed and the good start became consistency. I don’t see it as impressive and I see why some would say it’s lame, but I enjoyed it and was happy, so hey-ho I guess.
@@gilanes You’re an inspiration to us movie buffs everywhere man! Do what makes you happy and that’s about as impressive as I think it’s gonna get