The "Watch every movie you own in alphabetical order" Thread

[Todd Tomorrow]

That would take me two years if I were to watch a Blu-Ray I currently own every night.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

That would take me two years if I were to watch a Blu-Ray I currently own every night.

It would take me well over 4.

[MifuneFan]

Thread where bevins posts the movies he watches in A-Z order, and everyone else explains why they're not crazy enough to do the same.

[bevins2016]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Thread where bevins posts the movies he watches in A-Z order, and everyone else explains why they're not crazy enough to do the same.

Hey if there isn't enough interest in the thread I'll just shut it down. I'm not going to only post myself if nobody else does.

[The Great Owl]

No. I've put off starting my Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman box set long enough already.

[georgemc98]

Was gonna do this at the start of the summer. I guess it's 310 to Yuma tonight

[DvdClon]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

No. I've put off starting my Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman box set long enough already.

I'm working through my unwatched pile alphabetically as well and am finishing up the H's. The Zatoichi box set is smirking at me, know it will be untouched for a while. In addition, it is keeping me from:

Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Theorem, The
Zodiac
Zombieland
Zorba the Greek
Zulu

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by bevins2016

Hey if there isn't enough interest in the thread I'll just shut it down. I'm not going to only post myself if nobody else does.

Well it's an idea that has potential to be fun and interesting, just like any other novelty viewing pattern, but your idea of assigning points then having to say something nerdy about the movie just seems too much like work. Can't you just say that you're watching all your movies in alphabetical, offer that up as an idea for someone else to do, check in on the forum every now and then and discuss where you're at, etc.?

[ol_Dut]

I am willing to start this at the end of June when my schedule becomes sane again. It will be a great way to get through films I have been putting off for too long.

[Whirlygig]

I had the same problem as the OP, and I considered alphabetical. But instead, I labeled the rows and columns of my shelves and then asked people on Facebook to post random things and let that determine what I watched (and I posted the result for them to make it interactive).

For example, once I labeled the rows as A, B, C, etc. Columns the same. Then each column fits about 30 movies. So... "Comment with the name of your favorite celebrity". Take their initials to pick the row & column and their birthday to pick the film. If the initials or number exceed your row/column/movie count then wrap around til you get there. If you only want to watch unwatched, then skip the watched ones while counting.

It actually yielded some pretty coincidental results, with movies that often had some relation to the celebrity they had typed.

I've also coded up a random generator for this same purpose before.

[The Great Owl]

One of these days, when I'm an old man, and I'm retired from work without a care in the entire world, I'm going to watch my Blu-rays and DVDs in biographical order.

I'm dead serious.

I'm going to start with the first movies that I remember seeing at an extremely young age. (Benji, Jaws, Star Wars, Goldfinger, etc.)

I will then work my way up to the movies that I discovered later on during my childhood. (Planet of the Apes, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman II, etc.)

From there, I'll go through my teenage years, my college years, my early adult years, and so on.

I'll begin by putting my Blu-rays in the order that I discovered each movie during my life. This is different from the production date, mind you, because there were a lot of movies that I discovered decades after the fact (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, etc.), but I will be watching them in the order that I first discovered them during my lifetime, so that the viewings will be like going through a big memory reel of my own life.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

One of these days, when I'm an old man, and I'm retired from work without a care in the entire world, I'm going to watch my Blu-rays and DVDs in biographical order.

I'm dead serious.

I'm going to start with the first movies that I remember seeing at an extremely young age. (Benji, Jaws, Star Wars, Goldfinger, etc.)

I will then work my way up to the movies that I discovered later on during my childhood. (Planet of the Apes, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman II, etc.)

From there, I'll go through my teenage years, my college years, my early adult years, and so on.

I'll begin by putting my Blu-rays in the order that I discovered each movie during my life. This is different from the production date, mind you, because there were a lot of movies that I discovered decades after the fact (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, etc.), but I will be watching them in the order that I first discovered them during my lifetime, so that the viewings will be like going through a big memory reel of my own life.

Biographical order, did you get that from High Fidelity?

Lately I've just been solving the blind buy problem by only watching blind buys, weeding out the ones I don't want to keep. In a couple of months I want my collection to only contain films I've seen and have deemed to be "keepers".

[jlk5844]

I've considered alphabetical order and chronological order before, but I'm young and still exploring and discovering cinema. I've seen a LOT of movies in my lifetime already, and there's still a ton more to devour. I'd like to continue that, but also get back to my favorites that I've neglected over the past year and a half (maybe more for some of them) while doing this. I may do one or both of these eventually when I feel like there's not much left on my so-called movie bucket list. That could be 10 years from now, lol.

[RebelPrince1986]

What are you going to do when you're in the P's and you buy a movie that starts with J????!

Originally Posted by Whirlygig

I had the same problem as the OP, and I considered alphabetical. But instead, I labeled the rows and columns of my shelves and then asked people on Facebook to post random things and let that determine what I watched (and I posted the result for them to make it interactive).

For example, once I labeled the rows as A, B, C, etc. Columns the same. Then each column fits about 30 movies. So... "Comment with the name of your favorite celebrity". Take their initials to pick the row & column and their birthday to pick the film. If the initials or number exceed your row/column/movie count then wrap around til you get there. If you only want to watch unwatched, then skip the watched ones while counting.

It actually yielded some pretty coincidental results, with movies that often had some relation to the celebrity they had typed.

I've also coded up a random generator for this same purpose before.

I'd wager you're difficult to live with lol

[bevins2016]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

Well it's an idea that has potential to be fun and interesting, just like any other novelty viewing pattern, but your idea of assigning points then having to say something nerdy about the movie just seems too much like work. Can't you just say that you're watching all your movies in alphabetical, offer that up as an idea for someone else to do, check in on the forum every now and then and discuss where you're at, etc.?

Well this is a discussion forum not a classroom. If you don't want to check in on every movie you watch you don't have too. As far as saying something nerdy I did say it was optional I just thought it would be fun. And assigning two scores for a movie out of ten does not take much time at all. Less than 5 minutes. Probably less than a minute for most.

I mainly want people to have fun and for those who decide to participate use this as a way of revisiting movies they haven't seen in a while or at all. Another thing is that for some people like me they might actually decide to get rid of a couple of movies that they decided they don't ever want to watch again after giving it another viewing.

[TripleHBK]

In the "Movies" sub forum there are similarly themed threads, though I've never seen a thread daring people to watch everything they own. That's far too much for me, but I'd probably follow along here. I hold a major Halloween Viewing event each year (This will be year 4) that I've got a specific set of rules I follow, and I'll usually have a "Summer Blockbuster" mini marathon each summer (Comprised of Films From Summer Movie Seasons Past), and I'm planning on Watching every Theatrically released Disney Animated classic (including Pixar) in chronological order next year after the last of the films have made it to Blu ray, but that's about all I can muster. The mere thought of going through 900+ films is too much for me to bare. (because I'll continue making purchases if I were to start this challenge and would end up with far more films than I started with)