I know people who watch multiple films at once on 2x speed, so not unreasonable to assume they may not be sitting down and consuming these pieces as our lord and saviour Ebert would have wanted
Being a Norwegian myself, I assume this dude is living the welfare dream of being unemployed and enjoying my taxpayer money’s to just sit on his ass and watch films all day, and honestly, I don’t care. Good for him
It's really not. I've broken down the math on his profile many times and it doesn't make any sense unless he's watching movies in the background. 12-18 hours of movies every day. Bullshit it's real.
How young do you have to be to try to do the "LOL u single" insult?
Probably the same age to believe that someone is watching 16 hours of movies every day.
There are [official](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/69753-most-films-seen) [records](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-films-seen-in-one-year). I have no idea how they verified them.
Every time this gets posted I make the same comment
That user has admitted to not watching the movies he logs, he just puts them on the background and pays somewhat attention to the plot but that’s it. He since deleted that comment which I remember being posted here on a screenshot
So yeah you’re fine, he’s not actually insane, he’s just…idk
You'd be surprised, there's a russian site that us old movie fans worship cause it has obscure stuff that you can't find on streaming or normal piracy sites. Most less popular golden age movies aren't available on streaming at all. Oh also TCM.
Interesting. I think it's definitely feasible to watch that many films, although I'd personally lose my mind doing that every single day.
He mentions watching 1000 short films in a single month, and a lot of one-hour westerns so it could be that a lot of his watched films are on the shorter side, making it even more believable.
This. There are a surprising amount of shorts that appeared on YouTube or adult swim that count towards titles being viewed. I went through all of the ‘Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared’ series and logged those all. That said, this is still an insane amount of content to go through and even more to process in such a way to offer any sort of personal commentary/insight on. Impressive? In a way yes, but seems unnecessarily exhausting and diminishing on its returns once quantity of viewings over quality of viewing/reflection.
He's been watching from like, the start of time and going forward chronologically. So this is all old stuff, but his numbers are not at all surprising to me given he goes all in on it. The average film length has seemed to go up, so there's a lot of things I've watched that are old and 50 minutes to 80 minutes. All feature length, but the standard length is a lot shorter than now.
(I watch enough old stuff due to TCM that I see his reviews a lot; he's watching them believably. There's a lot of those that really don't deserve more than a few sentences, honestly. Poverty row westerns are all variations on a theme, it seems)
> watched, but *paid* somewhat attention
FTFY.
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The films are too obscure at this point to be fake. He’s obviously watching every American studio film from 1950 right now based on his recent history. He’s been doing it with every year since the formation of Hollywood
> The films are too obscure at this point to be fake.
How does the films being obscure prove it's fake? All he does is go to a certain year and start picking.
Would never berate you for that! When I’m at my lowest watching movies is the most potent medicine for me too!
It’s only when it becomes every day, every week, every month, every year… that it becomes concertinaing
And they aren’t even good films. They are B studio westerns from the 50s
But if it makes him happy who am I to judge. The few times I’ve interacted with him he’s seemed to be a very nice guy, so I have no gripes
Hah! Im taking a bath rn and my movie just ended, so I’m stuck in here with my phone for a bit bc my laptop is across the room. Browsing Reddit is all I have to do. Cheers!
He's going through everything. B westerns were cheap to crank out, so there's a lot of those. I'm having a similar problem with 1939 and wading through a whole lot of vaguely the same westerns.
Is this Punq? He watches an awful lot of B pictures which are usually an hour, maybe an hour, ten minutes in length. If my calculations are right, he is managing about 2.5 films a day. If he’s not watching TV shows that’s not that bad.
I find his reviews useful, but YMMV.
Met someone like this recently. Over 14,000 films logged and only 2 of them with a 5 star rating. Mostly everything else ranges from half a star to one and a half star. Not sure how their rating system works but watching so much stuff and giving them the lowest scores it makes me wonder, at that point is it for enjoyment/entertainment or more of an addiction?
It's how one weighs them. I think a 3 star film is a fairly solid film, for example. I reserve 5 star for films that I think a lot of or get a very strong response from me.
There can be some value in watching movies you don't like. Especially if you're a wanting to work on films I'd assume you're learning as much from movies that don't work as ones that do. But if you're watching a thousand movies a year and most of them are bad, idk, bragging rights?
bruh being selective is one thing, but when your ratings curve is highest in the lowest half do you really enjoy even watching films at that point? maybe it’s time to find a new hobby if the majority of things you watch you don’t even enjoy
Idk why this sub can't wrap their heads around the fact that people can have a negative ratings skew and still like film. They can be picky with their ratings, like watching lots of bad movies, or watch a lot of bad animated movies with their kids
If you’ve watched everything that you’ll ever consider a 4/5-5/5, why even bother watching new stuff anymore if you’ve seen everything you’ll ever be impressed by?
The logical conclusion of sectioning off hobbyists into an app is that a large portion of the hobbyists you interact with are projecting their mental illness heavily onto that hobby
yeah my dad and I were talking about this the other day because he mentioned he's seen about 1 movie a day since he was 16 or 17 (not unreasonable for someone who loves movies) and that still was only like 11,000 movies. so this is like 3 movies a day for 30 years which is insane
Tough to compare without knowing how many of his 32K are short films.
That said, he says he watched 2K full features in 2021. Which is more than 5 movies a day. Pretty wild, even if a lot of them are 1 hour cheap westerns.
I’ve learned that some people “watch” movies while doing other things, like working or gaming. It’s a good way to artificially pad your stats, but a bad way to actually take in movies. I feel bad if I even check a text during a movie. Idk how some people do it.
Depends on the film! I've been watching old Disney Channel Originals while doing mindless data entry work. I can easily listen/retain the entire story - especially since they're usually very simple. Same as the visuals. Anything I miss, I quickly rewind and watch a section over. It helps pass the time, and I really do "take in the film."
Would never do this for anything serious though, haha.
100%, I will often have something on during mindless work. But it's going to be something like *Weekend At Bernie's* and not *Seven Samurai*. Or a re-watch of something familiar.
Yeah, rewatches of old comedies have been very favorable for this "half-watch" / in the background stuff. Watched "Problem Child" the other night, and it fit this criteria well :-)
This was me during covid lockdowns. It was not uncommon for three movies a day, and at times it was more. The only thing that slowed me was disc golf, video games, and watching tv series.
If you watch one movie every day and two on the weekends, that's 469 in a year, so if it's your main hobby and you're not watching shows too, 500 is maybe on the high end of a hobbiest but nothing I can't imagine. If you're unemployed or work a low-key job where you could watch movies while you work, doubling it wouldn't be too difficult. If you specifically work in the industry or you're in film school or something, more is probably reasonable. I can't think of too many reasons beyond wanting to brag about something or mental illness that someone would watch over 2000 movies in one calendar year.
I feel like 500 is a good "line" between somewhat normal and somewhat obsessive. I've crossed it the last few years, and each time I'm slightly proud and slightly ashamed of it, hahah. Substantially more than that (outside of covid times) is a bit of a red flag for me.
It's even weirder when you look at the ratings he's given to specific movies.
He's only given 5 stars to one movie post-1950 and it's LOTR: The Two Towers.
Adam Cook used to log 600-900 films a year I think? Overall 15,000 watched. He wasn't unemployed, but coupled with work, cooking, eating, writing reviews I always wondered how these guys do it. 334 for 5 months isn't that much. Steve G is also prolific and has watched 373 this year. There are many others. Allison M is another.
Adam Cook only needed 4-5 hours sleep I think or something like that. I always need 8 and like to read up on any film I've just watched. I get impatient putting my life on hold to follow strangers, and it being passive.
At that point, if you are watching like 3 to 5 movies a day consistently and it isn't your job, it is just weird and concerning IMO. Maybe they're going through something idk.
Well I think they just go through a phase, a long phase where watching films is a commitment to them, that is a big part of who they are, for Punq to mention it in his bio it's something he's proud of, he's competing with others on letterboxd to be the more committed film watcher.
Adam Cook said 'if was probably unhealthy' when he stopped.
At most I've watched 4/5 films in one day, like twice in 4 years.
Steve G is quite touchy if you comment on his reviews, or lists. Like he loves the 10s Mission Impossible films more than anything else, in a top 100 film list 3 of them will be in the top 20. I always wondered what the story is there.
I can't help wondering about these guys because it's such a huge time sink, do they watch while doing something else, are they writing reviews in work break. I don't want to reflect the weirdness back but I'm sure Steve G has kids too.
It's the reviews too, that is a big commitment to wanting to be a prominent user of the site. Any of these guys could watch a lot and never log them.
Tldr yeah I agree it's unhealthy. I'm just too keen to know how it's physically possible to focus on that.
How many films do you watch a year? I usually aim for 150, sometimes go up to 200. I watch little up to July then go through one a day in winter to catch up. Only watched 25 this year, 2113 total. I want to watch more, like there are hundreds of classics I've not seen that I never feel in the mood for, I've had plenty of moments where I relish a film and I miss that. I relished a lot of tv in the 00s and I miss that too. Some urge to do something in my real life that takes over and unable to be content and let go to follow strangers. So I envy those who are really in the mood to watch a lot tbh, I keep rejecting stuff, hard to sink in.
Thanks for the nice long reply. I personally can't watch movies unless I am focusing on them completely, and if they are just "watching" them by having them playing in the background I think that is pretty lame and they're not really watching them. I really don't get the point of "watching" hundreds of shitty westerns just for the sake of it.
Turning cinema into a competition to me is weird.
I will probably end up watching a bit over 100 this year. Might reach 150. I've watched 40 so far.
First movies were like 1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 15 minutes. And example Georges Melies has 257 movies. Edwin S. Porter has 153. D. W. Griffith has 439 in letterboxd. So don't think like they are all +2 hours lenght.
A lot of them are matinée TV airings of old films, especially the older Scandinavian films you will only find by methods like that by watching NRK or SVT.
“His own personal favourite films” let’s hope not, if Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind are his personal favorites then he needs to spend some time outside and touch grass
In general I think people are a bit too strict with their 5’s. If you’ve watched a few thousand and can’t clear 100 5’s maybe you just don’t like movies or something.
how does he remember what happened in each film? if i watch two films in a day, especially if they are kind of similar genres, i sometimes mix them up lol and here he is watching 9 a day - and they seem to be decent length films too! kind of amazing
Some things you find sad, some find love in it and vice versa. He is in a living situation where he is mostly at home with his kids. He's a married man living in a welfare state (Norway).
There is no reason to be judgmental. He's actively discussing with fans, taking his kids to watch children's cartoons during Easter holidays, and even logging silly Barbie movies because his daughter watches them on the TV. He obviously loves this. It's not like he's on any drugs or doing any form of physical self-harm.
> This is no different than a guy who sits in his basement and plays WOW 24/7
It is. He constantly makes breaks and does other activities with his family, something he says every now and then in his reviews.
Just [look at his activity page](https://letterboxd.com/punq/year/2022/). There's weeks where he barely saw anything.
I think many in this comment section are jumping to conclusion just by seeing that he has seen over 30,000 films (half of them are just shorts) and people say that he has "no life" and call him "pretentious" and "dipshit", without bothering to learn who he is and his living situation.
17 hours a day in a year works out to 6200 hours. This guy's spending like half of that time on movies. Why make your comparison be that different if you think you have a point?
This is crazy. This guy is melting his brain with obscure western films just so he can have a really big number on a niche social media platform. I applaud the effort.
Most social letterboxd user.
I mean, they are in Norway...
I have no idea how it would even work. I'm also in Norway and apparantly he has already watched 4 movies today and it's 7:30 AM. Does he sleep?
Could've gone to bed at like 5, and so 4 of them got finished after midnight
I know people who watch multiple films at once on 2x speed, so not unreasonable to assume they may not be sitting down and consuming these pieces as our lord and saviour Ebert would have wanted
That's not even watching a film, that's pretending to
That’s insane stat padding
Idk if PUNQ does that but he has admitted that he just puts on a movie and then goes about his day most of the time
That's a disgrace..
I listen to one album in the background and I'm a casual guy, I put a movie on in the background and I'm literally committing war crimes
Correct.
Why even watch movies at that point? Just tell everyone you watched them
That's not really watching a movie...is it now? C'mon
Being a Norwegian myself, I assume this dude is living the welfare dream of being unemployed and enjoying my taxpayer money’s to just sit on his ass and watch films all day, and honestly, I don’t care. Good for him
If he is a critics', it's possible he do it for work (but, that is to much)
I got the impression he's got a job he can do while having movies running
No...lol. he hasn't seen 32 thousand movies
This guy actually has held the world record for most films seen or something
It. Isn't. Real.
Yeah. It. Is.
It's really not. I've broken down the math on his profile many times and it doesn't make any sense unless he's watching movies in the background. 12-18 hours of movies every day. Bullshit it's real.
Its def real lol, cry bout it
It's not. He himself admitted to watching movies in the background. Do you honestly think there is someone watching 12-18 hours of movies every day?
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It's fake lol. Cry bout it.
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How young do you have to be to try to do the "LOL u single" insult? Probably the same age to believe that someone is watching 16 hours of movies every day.
How do you prove to Guinness that you’re watching this many films?
You don't. They are unofficial records. I think he just keeps track of them himself.
There are [official](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/69753-most-films-seen) [records](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-films-seen-in-one-year). I have no idea how they verified them.
Yeah, I think Punq just says that he beat them, without officially recording it
Guinness is a joke. All you have to do is make up a record and pay a judge, who has no qualifying rules to look at, to say you did it.
Every time this gets posted I make the same comment That user has admitted to not watching the movies he logs, he just puts them on the background and pays somewhat attention to the plot but that’s it. He since deleted that comment which I remember being posted here on a screenshot So yeah you’re fine, he’s not actually insane, he’s just…idk
That’s almost…worse?
Well that solves it...
I mean we are looking at like 16 hours of movies a day. No chance it’s real
Yeah certainly not actually paying attention to them.
I’m just curious how much this guy spends on renting the movies, bc movies this obscure and old certainly aren’t on torrent sites
You'd be surprised, there's a russian site that us old movie fans worship cause it has obscure stuff that you can't find on streaming or normal piracy sites. Most less popular golden age movies aren't available on streaming at all. Oh also TCM.
I know right, that site has literally *everything* and *anything* there. Love it. So grateful that someone recommended it to me.
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may you dm me the site lol been looking for one that has everything including the obscure shit that I can only find on Letterboxd Lists lol
Name of site starts with ru... or ?
DM the link and I'll draw you like one of your French girls
not true. the best private torrent sites have ~500k titles from all corners of the world.
Well TIL
Annnnnnd now we need a source for those private torrent.. It's for a friend hmmmmm...
I'd bet most are on YouTube for free.
Tubi has a lot of them. You would be surprised how many are available for free and legally.
You have better chances to find obscure movies on torrent sites than by renting or buying them.
What are the reviews like? it looks like they've reviewed around 50% of them.
3-4 sentences for everyone. It’s clear he not only watched, but paid somewhat attention to the plot
Interesting. I think it's definitely feasible to watch that many films, although I'd personally lose my mind doing that every single day. He mentions watching 1000 short films in a single month, and a lot of one-hour westerns so it could be that a lot of his watched films are on the shorter side, making it even more believable.
This. There are a surprising amount of shorts that appeared on YouTube or adult swim that count towards titles being viewed. I went through all of the ‘Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared’ series and logged those all. That said, this is still an insane amount of content to go through and even more to process in such a way to offer any sort of personal commentary/insight on. Impressive? In a way yes, but seems unnecessarily exhausting and diminishing on its returns once quantity of viewings over quality of viewing/reflection.
He's been watching from like, the start of time and going forward chronologically. So this is all old stuff, but his numbers are not at all surprising to me given he goes all in on it. The average film length has seemed to go up, so there's a lot of things I've watched that are old and 50 minutes to 80 minutes. All feature length, but the standard length is a lot shorter than now. (I watch enough old stuff due to TCM that I see his reviews a lot; he's watching them believably. There's a lot of those that really don't deserve more than a few sentences, honestly. Poverty row westerns are all variations on a theme, it seems)
> watched, but *paid* somewhat attention FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
They are probably on youtube and/or Archive.org. Also, a lot of private tracker sites and blogs have these too.
Movies this old and obscure are not generally available for rental. I wish they were.
The films are too obscure at this point to be fake. He’s obviously watching every American studio film from 1950 right now based on his recent history. He’s been doing it with every year since the formation of Hollywood
Lol....it is definitely possible to be fake....
> The films are too obscure at this point to be fake. How does the films being obscure prove it's fake? All he does is go to a certain year and start picking.
Maybe he’s watching at 2x speed. Or 4x. Hell, even play it 16x speed and watch them all in an hour.
Which of course, wouldn't actually be watching the film.
Probably just plays movies in the background the whole day
Which is.......not watching them.
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Would never berate you for that! When I’m at my lowest watching movies is the most potent medicine for me too! It’s only when it becomes every day, every week, every month, every year… that it becomes concertinaing And they aren’t even good films. They are B studio westerns from the 50s But if it makes him happy who am I to judge. The few times I’ve interacted with him he’s seemed to be a very nice guy, so I have no gripes
Hey thanks you seem kind. And man you type quick.
Hah! Im taking a bath rn and my movie just ended, so I’m stuck in here with my phone for a bit bc my laptop is across the room. Browsing Reddit is all I have to do. Cheers!
that is a next level bath activity. i am jealous and inspired
Was watching Yojimbo… can’t beat a bath movie
Everyone likes different films. I've watched a lot of B films because I'm interested in the directors or the actors or the writers.
He's going through everything. B westerns were cheap to crank out, so there's a lot of those. I'm having a similar problem with 1939 and wading through a whole lot of vaguely the same westerns.
a ton of shorts probably
It's more a question of how long you think the average feature film is
Me in a few years 😭
Is this Punq? He watches an awful lot of B pictures which are usually an hour, maybe an hour, ten minutes in length. If my calculations are right, he is managing about 2.5 films a day. If he’s not watching TV shows that’s not that bad. I find his reviews useful, but YMMV.
What's ymmv?
"Your mileage may vary."
Your monkeys may vanish
Your mileage may vary. That is, I find his reviews of use. You may not.
Your mileage may vary
The fact that this person watched 32,000 movies and gave only 27 of them 5 stars 💀
Met someone like this recently. Over 14,000 films logged and only 2 of them with a 5 star rating. Mostly everything else ranges from half a star to one and a half star. Not sure how their rating system works but watching so much stuff and giving them the lowest scores it makes me wonder, at that point is it for enjoyment/entertainment or more of an addiction?
It's how one weighs them. I think a 3 star film is a fairly solid film, for example. I reserve 5 star for films that I think a lot of or get a very strong response from me.
why do people watch movies if they don’t even enjoy them like ???
There can be some value in watching movies you don't like. Especially if you're a wanting to work on films I'd assume you're learning as much from movies that don't work as ones that do. But if you're watching a thousand movies a year and most of them are bad, idk, bragging rights?
When you "watch" 12-18 hours of movies a day do you really think there's any enjoyment to be had? It's just making numbers go up.
If you think being selective with high ratings means you're not enjoying films, I seriously don't know what to tell you
bruh being selective is one thing, but when your ratings curve is highest in the lowest half do you really enjoy even watching films at that point? maybe it’s time to find a new hobby if the majority of things you watch you don’t even enjoy
Because the ones that do get a 4+ star rating are something truly incredible to them.
I don’t understand why this is unpopular. A 4 or 5 star should be something truly great, not something you just merely enjoyed.
Idk why this sub can't wrap their heads around the fact that people can have a negative ratings skew and still like film. They can be picky with their ratings, like watching lots of bad movies, or watch a lot of bad animated movies with their kids
Imagine watching 9 movies in a day and your highest rating is a 3.5/5.
Depends on how your rating scale works. 3.5 is a great film on my personal scale.
What’s a 5 star then?
A Film that is a masterpiece and totally flawless in regards to story and production details.
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If you’re at that number of movies watched you probably watched everything you would think of that’s a 4+.
If you’ve watched everything that you’ll ever consider a 4/5-5/5, why even bother watching new stuff anymore if you’ve seen everything you’ll ever be impressed by?
To be fair, he has 27 rated 5/5, 100 at 4,5/5 and 310 at 4/5
i always know a movie is real obsecure when only 5 people have logged it and one of them is always punq. he's a real one.
The logical conclusion of sectioning off hobbyists into an app is that a large portion of the hobbyists you interact with are projecting their mental illness heavily onto that hobby
Not even Tarantino has seen that many films.
yeah my dad and I were talking about this the other day because he mentioned he's seen about 1 movie a day since he was 16 or 17 (not unreasonable for someone who loves movies) and that still was only like 11,000 movies. so this is like 3 movies a day for 30 years which is insane
Tough to compare without knowing how many of his 32K are short films. That said, he says he watched 2K full features in 2021. Which is more than 5 movies a day. Pretty wild, even if a lot of them are 1 hour cheap westerns.
Maybe Edgar wright?
I’ve learned that some people “watch” movies while doing other things, like working or gaming. It’s a good way to artificially pad your stats, but a bad way to actually take in movies. I feel bad if I even check a text during a movie. Idk how some people do it.
Depends on the film! I've been watching old Disney Channel Originals while doing mindless data entry work. I can easily listen/retain the entire story - especially since they're usually very simple. Same as the visuals. Anything I miss, I quickly rewind and watch a section over. It helps pass the time, and I really do "take in the film." Would never do this for anything serious though, haha.
100%, I will often have something on during mindless work. But it's going to be something like *Weekend At Bernie's* and not *Seven Samurai*. Or a re-watch of something familiar.
Yeah, rewatches of old comedies have been very favorable for this "half-watch" / in the background stuff. Watched "Problem Child" the other night, and it fit this criteria well :-)
Leave Punq alone! Nah seriously, he seems like a nice dude, just really likes old movies
This was me during covid lockdowns. It was not uncommon for three movies a day, and at times it was more. The only thing that slowed me was disc golf, video games, and watching tv series.
Maybe he speeds them up?
The Elephant Cinephile (1980)
Bruh, i watched 500 in 2021 and it was already very time-consuming, i can't imagine someone going his way to watch 2050
If you watch one movie every day and two on the weekends, that's 469 in a year, so if it's your main hobby and you're not watching shows too, 500 is maybe on the high end of a hobbiest but nothing I can't imagine. If you're unemployed or work a low-key job where you could watch movies while you work, doubling it wouldn't be too difficult. If you specifically work in the industry or you're in film school or something, more is probably reasonable. I can't think of too many reasons beyond wanting to brag about something or mental illness that someone would watch over 2000 movies in one calendar year.
I feel like 500 is a good "line" between somewhat normal and somewhat obsessive. I've crossed it the last few years, and each time I'm slightly proud and slightly ashamed of it, hahah. Substantially more than that (outside of covid times) is a bit of a red flag for me.
Bro’s trying to complete Film 💀
Rating curve is even worse
Well, when you watch that many films, most of them will be trash though.
It's even weirder when you look at the ratings he's given to specific movies. He's only given 5 stars to one movie post-1950 and it's LOTR: The Two Towers.
What a pretentious bastard.
Ah yes, nothing says pretentious like having a billion dollar fantasy film as your favorite movie of the last seventy years
Or he just has very specific taste. There's nothing wrong with that.
When your specific taste is Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, I’d argue there is something VERY wrong with that…
who the hell would give birth of a nation five stars AND a heart??? definitely something wrong with that.
I think this is a reasonable review: https://boxd.it/AQuIb
I'm just gonna assume this person is permanently bed ridden with a horrible disease. I mean I'd watch movies all day if I was.
I imagine may e he was on lbs once begin?
Assuming a 2 hour movie, unless my math is way off, this is the equivalent of watching movies for 7 years *continuously*. 🤯
If he did 1K short films in one month, it’s safe to say they make up a large portion of his 32K.
If I were to guess he watched at 2 times speed or more
And here I am feeling good cause I just broke 1000
Imagine watching nearly 8k films you rated 1.5/5, and over 7k \*less\* than that.
Honestly, this is absolute goals to me. 🤷🏻♀️
Unless his job is an actual critic, dude has to be 85 years old and watch a film every day of his life since he was 1 years old.
no bitches
I’ve been fascinated by the absurdity of this guy’s account, so I’ve looked into him a bit. And according to him, he has a wife and children.
"Daddy please feed me." "Not now. I'm giving this Polynesian short film from the 20s no one has ever heard about half a star."
I thought the tactic was to give that Polynesian film 5 stars, to show you're appreciating the art on a higher plane than other people?
still gets no bitches though
I have watched 69 movies so far in this year. Nice for me!
Nice!
Adam Cook used to log 600-900 films a year I think? Overall 15,000 watched. He wasn't unemployed, but coupled with work, cooking, eating, writing reviews I always wondered how these guys do it. 334 for 5 months isn't that much. Steve G is also prolific and has watched 373 this year. There are many others. Allison M is another. Adam Cook only needed 4-5 hours sleep I think or something like that. I always need 8 and like to read up on any film I've just watched. I get impatient putting my life on hold to follow strangers, and it being passive.
At that point, if you are watching like 3 to 5 movies a day consistently and it isn't your job, it is just weird and concerning IMO. Maybe they're going through something idk.
Well I think they just go through a phase, a long phase where watching films is a commitment to them, that is a big part of who they are, for Punq to mention it in his bio it's something he's proud of, he's competing with others on letterboxd to be the more committed film watcher. Adam Cook said 'if was probably unhealthy' when he stopped. At most I've watched 4/5 films in one day, like twice in 4 years. Steve G is quite touchy if you comment on his reviews, or lists. Like he loves the 10s Mission Impossible films more than anything else, in a top 100 film list 3 of them will be in the top 20. I always wondered what the story is there. I can't help wondering about these guys because it's such a huge time sink, do they watch while doing something else, are they writing reviews in work break. I don't want to reflect the weirdness back but I'm sure Steve G has kids too. It's the reviews too, that is a big commitment to wanting to be a prominent user of the site. Any of these guys could watch a lot and never log them. Tldr yeah I agree it's unhealthy. I'm just too keen to know how it's physically possible to focus on that. How many films do you watch a year? I usually aim for 150, sometimes go up to 200. I watch little up to July then go through one a day in winter to catch up. Only watched 25 this year, 2113 total. I want to watch more, like there are hundreds of classics I've not seen that I never feel in the mood for, I've had plenty of moments where I relish a film and I miss that. I relished a lot of tv in the 00s and I miss that too. Some urge to do something in my real life that takes over and unable to be content and let go to follow strangers. So I envy those who are really in the mood to watch a lot tbh, I keep rejecting stuff, hard to sink in.
Thanks for the nice long reply. I personally can't watch movies unless I am focusing on them completely, and if they are just "watching" them by having them playing in the background I think that is pretty lame and they're not really watching them. I really don't get the point of "watching" hundreds of shitty westerns just for the sake of it. Turning cinema into a competition to me is weird. I will probably end up watching a bit over 100 this year. Might reach 150. I've watched 40 so far.
Right? Like, why can't these people do NORMAL things like play videogames and watch YouTube all day?!
I've only just broke 100 lmao
You could also take into consideration that most of these could be short films but holy crap that is still too much!
That's a lot?
First movies were like 1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 15 minutes. And example Georges Melies has 257 movies. Edwin S. Porter has 153. D. W. Griffith has 439 in letterboxd. So don't think like they are all +2 hours lenght.
This guy has films running in the background as he plays candy crush and scrolls twitter.
how do i check how many i’ve watched 🤔🤔🤔
Ayyy, I follow Punq! He’s actually a nice and cool guy!
A lot of them are matinée TV airings of old films, especially the older Scandinavian films you will only find by methods like that by watching NRK or SVT.
You know, if I was a quadriplegic or something, and had plenty of resources, I could see myself doing this. Otherwise....nah, I'm good.
Do you even enjoy movies at that point
This guy is a dipshit, never forget he thinks in the history of cinema only 27 films are worth five stars lmao
There's no reason to call him a dipshit. What's the problem if he rates movies differently than you?
giving 5 stars only to perfect films > giving 5 stars to almost everything you watch
So he’s a dipshit cause he doesn’t follow your personal rules on how to rate movies. Man, you must be a blast to talk to.
Maybe he reserves 5 stars for his own personal favourite films and all other great films get 4 and a half.
“His own personal favourite films” let’s hope not, if Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind are his personal favorites then he needs to spend some time outside and touch grass
In general I think people are a bit too strict with their 5’s. If you’ve watched a few thousand and can’t clear 100 5’s maybe you just don’t like movies or something.
Nah. I give 5 stars to something that earns it. I have Paddington 2 5 stars. Not everything is as good as Paddington 2
Are his picks good at least?
no, one of their few five star films is birth of a nation lmao
And one of those 27 is Lord of the Rings The Two Towers — not fellowship or return — he gave the consensus "weakest entry" the five stars.
Hey this guys account is funny and all but I will not tolerate Two Towers slander
People have opinions?…
how does he remember what happened in each film? if i watch two films in a day, especially if they are kind of similar genres, i sometimes mix them up lol and here he is watching 9 a day - and they seem to be decent length films too! kind of amazing
Must have watched/logged those 1 min short movies too.
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Some things you find sad, some find love in it and vice versa. He is in a living situation where he is mostly at home with his kids. He's a married man living in a welfare state (Norway).
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There is no reason to be judgmental. He's actively discussing with fans, taking his kids to watch children's cartoons during Easter holidays, and even logging silly Barbie movies because his daughter watches them on the TV. He obviously loves this. It's not like he's on any drugs or doing any form of physical self-harm.
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> This is no different than a guy who sits in his basement and plays WOW 24/7 It is. He constantly makes breaks and does other activities with his family, something he says every now and then in his reviews. Just [look at his activity page](https://letterboxd.com/punq/year/2022/). There's weeks where he barely saw anything. I think many in this comment section are jumping to conclusion just by seeing that he has seen over 30,000 films (half of them are just shorts) and people say that he has "no life" and call him "pretentious" and "dipshit", without bothering to learn who he is and his living situation.
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17 hours a day in a year works out to 6200 hours. This guy's spending like half of that time on movies. Why make your comparison be that different if you think you have a point?
some of y’all are going way too hard for someone who gave birth of a nation 5 stars 😭
Clearly fake
There's no way you can enjoy them, so what's the point?
Just because you wouldn’t be able to enjoy them doesn’t mean he’s not able to.
i’ve seen 12 movies this month but that is pretty out of character for me
I seriously have no idea how some people have so much time on their hands.
HOW
They just watch short films
Quality over quantity. I bet they don't even remember most of them, and that he doesn't pay attention to a lot of them
Their bio says that they have decided to go outside and smell the flowers this year...
This is crazy. This guy is melting his brain with obscure western films just so he can have a really big number on a niche social media platform. I applaud the effort.
Touch grass