RECAP: I’ve been collection all of the movie tickets for every movie I’ve seen in the theater for the last 11 years. A few weeks ago, I decided to take all of the information on these tickets and create a spreadsheet to find out exactly how much money and time I’ve spent on going to the theater. For a full description of what this madness is all about, check out this previous post.

Well, the results are in! I’ve successfully tabulated all of the movie tickets in my collection, the first of which dated all the way back to April 11, 1997. It was long, monotonous, boring work, but damn it, it was something that needed to be done. I’m sure I missed a few tickets here and there throughout the years, but this certainly paints a pretty clear picture of my theater-attending habits. Here are some of the results:

Number of Movies Seen: 258
Total Spent on Movies: $1,602.25
Total Amount of Time: 498 Hours 39 Minutes

Okay, now let’s break this down. 258 movies means I’ve essentially seen a movie every other week for more than the last decade and during that time I’ve spent nearly 500 hours watching them. Dizamn. That’s nearly 21 straight days spent in a theater seat being bathed and in the majestic glow of a movie screen… which is roughly 2 straight days a year. Mind you, this doesn’t include any time watching previews, though more often than not, that can be offset by the fact that I didn’t sit through the full credits on most of the flicks on the list. Then we have the fact that the $1,600 figure doesn’t include the thousands I’ve spent on concessions while seeing these movies… as any proper film-fanatic would agree, popcorn is absolutely required to properly view a movie in the theater.

Here are some more interesting facts I established while making my list:

First Movie on List: ‘Anaconda’ (April 11, 1997)
Latest Movie on List: ‘The Dark Knight’ (July 23, 2008)
Year I Saw the Most Movies: 2007 & 2008 (a tie at 29)
Year I Saw the Fewest Movies: 2003 (13)
Year I Spent the Most: 2008 (Currently $232.50)
Year I Spent the Least: 1998 ($68.50)
Most Repeated Viewings: ‘The Dark Knight’ (4 – yeah, I like it, okay?)
Most WTF Movie on List: ‘Leave It to Beaver’

What the… I totally forgot I saw the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ movie in the theater. Talk about having nothing else to do. Man, I must have been pretty desperate at the time… that movie is lame as fuck. Additionally, it’s nice to see we’re only halfway through the year and I’ve already seen as many movies as I saw in the entirety of last year. Looks like I’ll be breaking my record once this weekend comes to a close and I’ve seen ‘X-Files’ and ‘Step Brothers’.

I plan to get a page up with all of the information I collected (including name, date, time, ticket price and runtime) somtime in the future for anyone that may be interested to see the trends in tickets prices and all that snazzy shit. I’ll do my best to keep the new page as up to date as possible, and until then I’ll continue to update my nifty new Excel spreadsheet. Fun fun.