The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

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01-01-20, 01:51 AM

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The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

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 ~~support group~~ 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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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...

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

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01-01-20, 01:53 AM

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Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

My 2020 Goals:

To watch more than I buy in all 12 months. My record is 11 of 12 months, So close last year! November's Dollar Tree finds were too much to overcome.
To completely watch every unwatched BD I have...the end is in sight. (Went from 276 to start last year to 63 going into 2020! I was at 157 to begin 2015, 97 to begin 2016, 125 to start 2017, 236 to start 2018)

Movies/Shows To Watch (as of January 1, 2020): 1,492

Movies/Shows Watched in January: 29
The Adventures of Robin Hood: TV Guide Classics
All the Money in the World
Bates Motel: Season 2
A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
Breathless (BD)
The Crimson Field (BD)
Dallas: Season 2
Digging Up the Marrow
Dirty Jobs: Collection 2
Dirty Jobs: Collection 4
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (BD)
The Drew Carey Show: Season 1
Duck Commander: Before the Dynasty
The Dukes or Hazzard - Season 4
The Great Fire (BD)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (BD)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (BD)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (BD)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (BD)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (BD)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (BD)
Her (BD)
Hoodwinked (BD)
Route 66 Marathon Tour (BD)
Secretary (BD)
Sleeping With the Enemy (BD)
Wild Deep (BD)
The Wire: Season 1
The Wire: Season 2

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

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New Movies/Shows Bought in January: 28
2007 Hall of Fame Induction Weekend
All the Money in the World
The Bill Cosby: Season 1
Bones: Season 6
Brad's Status
Castle: Season 3
Castle: Season 4
Castle: Season 5
Continuum: Season 1
Continuum: Season 2 (BD)
Dinner for Schmucks (BD)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (BD)
Franklin & Bash: Season 1
The Good Wife: Season 3
I Love You, Man (BD)
Justified: Season 1
The Lone Ranger: Hi-Yo Silver Away!
Mama's Family: Season 1
Monsoon (BD)
Niagara (BD)
Nurse Jackie: Season 4
Nurse Jackie: Season 5
Nurse Jackie: Season 6
Once Upon a Time: Season 1
Sisters (BD)
The Sound of Music Live!
White Collar: Season 3
Who We Are Now

January Net Change: -1

2020 Net Change: -1

Total Net Change (Since Sept. '07): +1,203

Number of Unwatched BDs (Goal is to watch them all this year): 54

My Personal Unwatched Pile Statistics

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01-01-20, 07:23 AM

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Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

DVD's / BD's to Watch: 193 (Seasons of TV/Movies) out of 1011 Owned 19.19%

DVD's / BD's Watched (* = first time watch): 6

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New DVD's / BD's Purchased: 22

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Currently Watching:
Simpsons Season 3, Disc 4 (DvD)
Daria Season 1, Disc 2 (DvD)
Batman Beyond Season 1 Disc 1
Star Trek TOS Season 2, Disc 7

January Change: +16
May-December Change: -1

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01-01-20, 12:10 PM

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Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

DVDs/BDs To Watch (as of 1/1/20): 535

Movies to Watch

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TV to Watch:

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TV Documentaries/Miniseries/Movies to Watch

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DVDs/BDs Watched:

01. *Doctor Who: The Moonbase (Story 33) (1/2/20)
02. *Starhunter 2300 (1/4/20)
03. Band of Brothers (BD) (1/5/20)
04. *Poltergeist: The Legacy: Season 1 (1/10/20)

In Progress:

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

01. The Tudors: Season 3 (1/24/20)

Checklist

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December 2019’s Net Change:

Total Net Change (since 12/01/09): 113

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01-01-20, 12:22 PM

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Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

DVDs/BDs to Watch (as of 01/01/20): 343

Movies:

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TV:

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Animation:

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Documentaries:

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DVDs/BDs/Digital Watched: 16

1. The Hardy Boys: Season 3
2. Soap: Season 1 (free)
3. Soap: Season 2 (free)
4. Soap: Season 3
5. Soap: Season 4 (FINAL)
6. Battlestar Galactica (1978): Season 1 (The Definitive Collection) (BD) (FINAL)
7. Galactica 1980: Season 1 (The Definitive Collection) (BD) (FINAL)
8. The Greatest American Hero: Season 1
9. The Greatest American Hero: Season 2
10. The Greatest American Hero: Season 3 (FINAL)
11. Remington Steele: Season 1 (gift)
12. * Death on the Nile (1978)
13. Remington Steele: Season 2
14. Remington Steele: Season 3 (gift)
15. Remington Steele: Season 4 (gift)
16. Remington Steele: Season 5 (gift) (FINAL)

In Progress:

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New DVDs/BDs/Digital Bought (or received as gifts): 1

1. * Death on the Nile (1978)

January 2020's Net Change: -15

Total Net Change (since 11/01/09): -203
* = blind buy

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01-01-20, 06:10 PM

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Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

DVDs/BDs to Watch at start of month :: 95
-Movies: 55
-TV "Seasons": 40

Goals for 2020
1. Watch every movie I currently own.
2. Watch more than I get/buy each month.
3. Watch an average of 1 TV season/set per month.

Movies to Watch:

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TV Seasons/Sets to watch:

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Movies Watched: 8
1. Venom *
2. John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. Ready Player One *
5. Isle of Dogs
6. Fleischer Classics *
7. Amélie
8. On the Beach *

TV Seasons Watched: 0

TV Seasons In Progress:
1. Aaahh!!!! Real Monsters

New DVDs/BDs Bought/Received as Gifts: 5
1 A Brief History of Time Birthday present
2 Barry Lyndon Birthday present
3 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Prize from Comedy Challenge
4 Neighbors Prize from Comedy Challenge
5 Django the Bastard Prize from Comedy Challenge

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: 13 Assassins (First based on how excel sorts it)
--- Last item alphabetically: Zatoichi's Vengeance
--- 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

Net Change Since Start of the Month: -3 (Current Unwatched 92)

Total Net Change since these threads started: -29 (Since March '07, started with 121 unwatched)

Total Net Change since the even older thread where I first started tracking (517 unwatched):-425

*First Time Viewing (Blind Buy)

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01-04-20, 11:26 PM

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Re: The Unwatched Media Pile Thread: January 2020 (Resolve to Watch Your Stuff!)

DVD's/BD's to Watch (as of 12/31/19): 4,557

DVD's/BD's Watched: 11
01. Camelot: The Complete First Season (2011)
02. Ash vs. Evil Dead: The Complete First Season (2015-16)
03. Ash vs. Evil Dead: Season Two (2016)
04. Ash vs. Evil Dead: Season Three (2018)
05. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: The Final Season (1968-69)
06. Gosford Park (2001)
07. Hitchcock (2012)
08. Phantom Thread (2017)
09. Nightcrawler (2014)
10. Jackie (2016)
11. Worst Week: The Complete Series (2008-09)

New DVD's/BD's Purchased: 7
01. Dig: Season One
02. Justice
03. Like Crazy
04. The Longest Week
05. The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
06. Riot: Caged to Kill
07. The War Wagon

January Net Change: -4

Total Net Change (since 11/30/09): +3,439

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01-22-20, 11:15 PM

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Blind Buy
First time Viewing

Movies/Shows To Watch: 1037

Movies/Shows Watched: 5
1. Hellboy (2019) BD
2. The Office: Season 1
3. The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader BD
4. The Office: Season 2
5. The Mummy Returns BD

New Movies/Shows Bought: 16
1. 11:59 BD
2. Ink (Autographed) BD
3. The Frame (Autographed) BD
4. Waxwork BD
5. Waxwork II: Lost in Time BD
6. Warlock BD
7. Warlock: The Armageddon BD
8. Warlock III: The End of Innocence BD
9. Heroes: Season 1 BD
10. Heroes: Season 2 BD
11. Heroes: Season 3 BD
12. Heroes: Season 4 BD
13. Resident Evil: Vendetta BD
14. Tomorrowland BD
15. O Brother, Where Art Thou? BD
16. Pulp Fiction BD

Movies/Shows sold or put on the sell block: 3
1. Chronicle (Rental Version) BD
2. Heroes: Season 3 BD
3. Heroes: Season 4 BD

Month Net Change: +8

Total Net Change (Since June '07): +495 +487 at the end of December
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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. Red Heat (#435) - purchased 1/18/2003

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: 16 Hours 16 Minutes
Average Time Watched Per Day: 0 Hours 31 Minutes

Last Month
Total Time Watched: 13 Hours 18 Minutes
Average Time Watched Per Day: 0 Hours 25 Minutes

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