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The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: February 2018

Do you have a pile of BDs that remain unwatched? A shelf of DVDs you've yet to see? Or would you admit to owning a box of dust-covered VHS tapes that you never got around to checking out? If the answer to any of these questions is yes (and of course that's the case), then this thread is the place for you. It's a <s>support group</s> spot where you can track your progress in trying to eliminate those unwatched films in your collection.

Here's the instructions, courtesy of the former Mister Peepers, (now known as The Man with the Golden Doujinshi), who chaired these unwatched threads for several years:

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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers

What Is This? Where Am I?

Spun off from an idea I had in the Unwatched DVD Pile thread, I decided to let everyone keep track of how they are coming along with their unwatched stuff along with seeing how everyone else is doing compared to you.

It may shock you to see how much you buy compared to how much you watch.

How Do I Start My Own List?

Here's a template. You'll have to remove the space before the 'b' for it to work right.

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[ b]Movies To Watch:[/ b] 0



[ b]Movies Watched:[/ b] 0



[ b]New Movies Bought:[/ b]0



[ b]This Month's Net Change:[/ b]0



[ b]Total Net Change :[/ b]0

There are 5 different sections for your post.

Section one will be how many movies you have to watch at the beginning of the month. This won't get updated.

Section two will be your list of movies as you watch them. Update as you watch.

Section three will be for the bad, bad man who forces you to buy new movies even though you can't finish what you have. You could either to a count and change it as you get it, or impress us all with a list instead so we can see that you bought the new Power Rangers movie.

Section four will be your monthly net change. It'll be zero at the first first of each month. It works like this, let's say you watch 3 movies, it just became -3. The next day there's a 20% off sale at DDD, add 40 more so now it's +37.

Section five is your total net change. This one will carry over from the previous month or if you are just starting out, it will be zero. As you watch or buy movies, you will adjust this as well as the monthly net change.

Total Net Change is confusing. Why did you do that and a monthly one?

After the first month, my net for the month was +59. I didn't want to start off a new month with such a high number so I made it so you track both. At least that way I could be even for something and not feel like such a loser.

How Do I Count TV sets or double feature DVDs?

You count them how you would normally count them. It's up for you to decide how you want to do it.

What If I Watch Stuff As I Buy? Can I Still Join?

There's no problem if you want to keep track of what you do.

That's all there is to it. Mister Peepers also created an optional checklist, providing folks with a creative approach to tackling the unwatched pile:

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And should you want to go back and check your progress from a previous month...

Older Threads

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Now what are you waiting for? Get to watchin'! :)

Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: February 2018

My 2018 Goals:

To watch more than I buy in all 12 months. My record is 8 of 12 months, I believe. And down in flames in January! :lol:
To completely watch every unwatched BD I have (236 to start the year! :eek: I was at 157 to begin 2015, 97 to begin 2016, 125 to start 2017)

Movies/Shows To Watch (as of February 1, 2018): 1,631

Movies/Shows Watched in February: 42
Arrival (BD)
Australia (BD)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (BD)
Billy Elliot (BD)
Bird
Black Dahlia
Bones: Season 1
Boogie Nights
The Boxtrolls (BD)
Boyhood (BD)
Brooklyn (BD)
Caroline in the City: Season 2
Carrie (1976) (BD)
Chariots of Fire
Coal Miner's Daughter
Dead Man Walking (BD)
Dead Poets Society (BD)
Fences (BD)
The Fifth Element (BD)
Foxcatcher (BD)
The Full Monty (BD)
Greatest NBA Finals Moments
Hell or High Water (BD)
Hitchcock
In the Valley of Elah (BD)
Kung Fu Panda (BD)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (BD)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (BD)
Michael Clayton (BD)
Mirror Mirror (BD)
Modern Family: Season 2 (BD)
Moonlight (BD)
Norma Rae (BD)
North by Northwest (BD)
Oklahoma!
Political Animals: Complete Series
Shadow of a Doubt (BD)
Sophie's Choice
Step by Step: Television Favorites
The Visitor
Whiplash (BD)
Working Girl (BD)

TV Shows in Progress (Won't count until complete)

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New Movies/Shows Bought in February: 17
The Americans: Season 2
Community: Season 3
Community: Season 4
Faster
The Final Destination (BD)
The Good Lie
Greater (BD)
The Invisible (BD)
Killshot (BD)
The Love God?
Lucky Number Slevin (BD)
Machine Gun Preacher (BD)
Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon
The Reluctant Astronaut
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Truth
WKRP in Cincinnati: Season 2

February Net Change: -25

2018 Net Change: +136

Total Net Change (Since Sept. '07): +1,324

Number of Unwatched BDs (Goal is to watch them all this year): 256

My Personal Unwatched Pile Statistics

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DVD's / BD's to Watch (as of 01/31/18): 4,648

DVD's / BD's Watched: 16
01. The Fighter (2010)
02. Norma Rae (1979)
03. Brooklyn (2015)
04. Nebraska (2013)
05. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
06. Joy (2015)
07. Moonlight (2016)
08. Cast Away (2000)
09. Into the Wild (2007)
10. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
11. The Perfect Storm (2000)
12. My Week with Marilyn (2011)
13. The Odd Couple (1968)
14. The Birds (1963)
15. Warner Bros. Academy Awards Animation Collection (1940-1965)
16. The Kids Are All Right (2010)

New DVD's / BD's Purchased: 0

February Net Change: -16

Total Net Change (since 11/30/09): +3,517

Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: February 2018

Goal for 2018
Get the unwatched down to 0.

DVDs/BDs to Watch :
-Movies: 127
-TV "Seasons": 38
Total to start month: 165 Unwatched

Movies to Watch:

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TV Seasons/Sets to watch:

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Movies Watched:28

1. Doctor Strange
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2
3. Spider-Man: Homecoming
4. Cavalcade+
5. Beetlejuice
6. Batman
7. Batman Returns
8. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
9. Mars Attacks
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
11. The Corpse Bride
12. Gravity
13. Star Trek: Into Darkness
14. Star Trek: Beyond
15. Moonrise Kingdom
16. Fantastic Mr. Fox
17. A Hard Day's Night
18. Skyfall
19. Spectre+
20. Mad Max Fury Road
21. War for the Planet of the Apes
22. American Hustle
23. Django Unchained
24. The Hateful Eight
25. Drive
26. Man of La Mancha*+
27. Gate of Hell*+
28. Coco
29. Days of Heaven

TV Seasons Watched:
1.

TV Seasons In Progress:

New DVDs/BDs Bought (or * received as gifts/prizes): 1
1. Coco

Checklist:

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Started December 2017, will continue until I finish, and then start over I guess
--- Title from your favorite genre (out of what's in your pile): Elysium (SF)
--- Title from your least favorite genre (out of what's in your pile): The Big Sick (Romantic Comedy, though I am a sucker for them if good like this)
--- Title with a favorite actor (out of what's in your pile): Under the Skin (Scarlett Johansson)
--- Title with a loathed actor (out of what's in your pile): The Amazing Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield, who I find incredibly annoying and not a good actor)
--- Special feature: The Decline of Western Civilization Bonus Disk (various) + some of the bonus performances on Decline I
--- Commentary track: The Decline of Western Civilization I Dave Grohl commentary
--- Title from the hardest to reach part of your collection:Rawhide Season 1 (one of the ones I have in a binder)
--- Title starting with ABC: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
--- Title starting with DEF: Elysium
--- Title starting with GHI: I'm So Excited
--- Title starting with JKLM: Lucy
--- Title starting with NOP: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
--- Title starting with QRS: The Raid Redemption
--- Title starting with TUV: Thor
--- Title starting with WXYZ: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
--- First item alphabetically:
--- Last item alphabetically:
--- Oldest title(as in year made):
--- Oldest title in pile (as in it's been in the unwatched pile the longest as of last month): Rusty Knife (owned since Christmas 2009, finally watched--3 in set to go).
--- Newest title(as in year made): The Big Sick
--- Newest title in pile(as in it's been in the unwatched pile the shortest as of last month): 47 Ronin (at the time I watched it, anyway)
--- Finish a season of a TV series: Rawhide Season 1
--- Pick an item at random. Make sure those crappy ones get an equal chance to get picked.: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (used random number generator to choose)
--- Have a friend/spouse/child/dog/fish pick an item for you. No helping.: I'm So Excited

February 2018 Net Change: -28 (Current Unwatched 137)

Total Net Change since these threads started: +16 (Since March '07, started with 121 unwatched)

Total Net Change since the even older thread where I first started tracking (517 unwatched):-380

+Blind Buy *Gift

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1449 unwatched DVDs/BDs

Watched:
1. Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches (2016)
2. It (2017)
3. Silver Bullet (1985)
4. Fair Game (1986)
... What’s Happening! Season 2 (1977-1978)
5. Outkast: The Videos (1993-2003)
6. Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) (2016)
7. Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) (2016)
8. Shiraz: A Romance of India (1928)
9. The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
10. The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
11. The People That Time Forgot (1977)
12. UA: Illuminate (1996-2003)
13. Bad Neighbours 2 (2016)
14. Namatjira Project (2016)

New Bought:
+40

This Month’s Net Change:
+26

Total Net Change:
+849

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Movies to Watch: 321

Movies Watched: 11
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
Duck, You Sucker
Get Out
Godzilla: Final Wars
Night of the Living Dead
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Philadelphia Story
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Sunset Boulevard
Suspiria

New Movies: 7
Blow-Up
Inside Llewyn Davis
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. IV
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. VII
Night of the Living Dead
Session 9
The Silence of the Lambs

This Month's Net Change: -4

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DVDs/BDs to Watch (as of 02/01/18): 395

Movies to Watch:

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TV to Watch:

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DVDs/BDs Watched: 8

1. * Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (BD)
2. * War for the Planet of the Apes (BD)
3. * Blade Runner 2049 (BD)
4. The Impossible (BD)
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (BD)
6. Gone Girl (BD) (gift)
7. Ash vs. Evil Dead: Season 2 (BD)
8. iZombie: Season 3 (BD)

In Progress:

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New DVDs/BDs Bought (or received as gifts): 3

1. * Homeland: Season 6 (BD)
2. <s>The Grand Budapest Hotel (BD)</s>
3. Hannibal: Season 3 (BD)

Checklist:

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February 2018's Net Change: -5

Total Net Change (since 11/01/09): -144
* = blind buy

Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: February 2018

Blind Buy
First time Viewing

Movies/Shows To Watch: 931

Movies/Shows Watched: 3
1. South Park: The Complete Fourteenth Season BD
2. The Mask of Zorro
3. True Detective: The Complete First Season BD

New Movies/Shows Bought: 2
1. Just Desserts: The Making Of "Creepshow" BD
2. Synchronicity BD

Movies/Shows sold or put on the sell block: 0

Month Net Change: -1

Total Net Change (Since June '07): +370+371 at the end of January
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Top 5 oldest unwatched DVDs:
1. Clerks: Uncensored (#187) - purchased 5/17/2002
2. Bloodsport (#254) - purchased 8/7/2002
3. Stephen King's Rose Red (#281) - purchased 8/9/2002
4. F/X 2 (#289) - purchased 9/2/2002
~~5. The Mask of Zorro (#307) - purchased 9/17/2002~~

Working On:
1. The Simpsons: Season 8
2. Seinfeld: Season 7
3. Stargate SG-1: Season 10
4. Stargate Atlantis: Season 3
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Current Month
Total Time Watched: 15 Hours 7 Minutes
Average Time Watched Per Day: 0 Hours 32 Minutes

Last Month
Total Time Watched: 5 Hours 11 Minutes
Average Time Watched Per Day: 0 Hours 10 Minutes