Do You Have a Life?

An Afternoon Comment Diversion / Dustin Rowles

Comment Diversions | December 23, 2008 | Comments (207)

Facebook is not only a great place to idle away your hours (when you’re not here, of course), but it’s a nice source of inspiration for our weekly comment diversions. I don’t know where this latest one originated, but several of the Eloquents are playing, so I thought I’d bring the joy to Pajiba today to give you something to do while you’re pretending to work ahead of the holiday (and, by the by, if you haven’t joined the Pajiba Facebook yet, it’s here — and several of us on staff are friend whores, so you can also poke away at us individually, and then poke your way through the Pajiba community of Eloquents, putting both faces and names to the commenter handles).

So, apparently, if you have watched 85 or more of the 239 movies listed below, you have no life. But I think, in the Pajiba world, it’s a badge of honor. I’ve seen 204 of them, but I hardly count, what with watching movies being my job. Here’s Nicole’s list (I hope she doesn’t mind): She’s seen 115, which is a nice number, I think — it shows you’re a lover of film, but that you also leave your house occasionally.

No need to copy/paste the entire list into each comment — a final tally, I think, would be sufficient.

( )Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x)Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
Total:7

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
(x) Saw
( ) Saw II
(x) White Noise
(x) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
( ) Failure to Launch
(x) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far:16

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 22

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 28

( ) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
( ) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
( ) Robots
Total so far: 32

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
( ) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG
Total so far: 38

(x) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
( ) The Ring
(x) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
( ) Flubber
Total so far: 42

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 46

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child’s Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
(x) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 53

(x) Bad Boys
(x) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean’s Eleven
(x) Ocean’s Twelve
( ) Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
(x) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 59

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
(x) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 64

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She’s All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 72

(x) X-Men
(x) X2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
( ) Shrek 2
Total so far: 91

(x) Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
(x) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf’s Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 96

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 102

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
(x) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
( ) Three
Total so Far: 105

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
Total so far: 108

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
( ) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( )Waterworld
Total so far: 111

( ) Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 111

( ) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
( )Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
( )Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 114

(x) The Matrix
( ) The Matrix Reloaded
( ) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
( ) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
( ) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal

Total so far: 115

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Comments

166

I have never been more proud. Or more ashamed.

Posted by: Clee Shay at December 23, 2008 3:36 PM

132...

Posted by: grinder at December 23, 2008 3:42 PM

114.
How many of those have I memorized? Well, probably just The Princess Bride, but there are a few others that come close.

Posted by: Pea at December 23, 2008 3:44 PM

103.

Among them, Club Dread, all three Matrix movies and all six Goddamned Star Wars movies.

I suddenly feel all empty inside.

Posted by: greer at December 23, 2008 3:44 PM

I played yesterday-my total was also 166.

:eyes Clee Shay warily:

Posted by: Julie at December 23, 2008 3:44 PM

118.

How could anybody who even occasionally goes to movies not score above 85?

Now that that's out of the way, what in the screaming blue hell is Ewoks Caravan Of Courage?! Sounds religiousy...

Posted by: Skitz at December 23, 2008 3:47 PM

123...and not nearly as bad as I expected...that's an odd list.

Posted by: Smokin at December 23, 2008 3:48 PM

201. this put a lot of things in perspective for me...

Posted by: Colin at December 23, 2008 3:49 PM

105

Weeee! I still have some semblance of a life! Mind you it's not much, but it's mine!

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at December 23, 2008 3:49 PM

128

Posted by: kelley at December 23, 2008 3:51 PM

137. I'm not sure how to feel about that yet. Some of these movies are on my all time favorites' list. Others pain me to admit having watched the whole mess. I'm convinced I have an incurable disease; I'm hoping someone can put a name on it for me. The affliction is this: once I sit down and start watching a movie I am unable to stop, short of the couch actually bursting into flames. And even then, after it was doused I'd find a different seat. I think I've only shut off 3 or 4 movies in my entire life, and one of those was Vampires: Los Muertos (with Bon Jovi). Anyone who's had that misfortune will instantly understand.

Posted by: Xtreme at December 23, 2008 3:51 PM

91. But I don't leave the house much, what the fuck am I doing?

On demand television show marathon perhaps? :::confusion:::

Posted by: soto at December 23, 2008 3:52 PM

102, including possibly the best sequel of all time:

cruel intentions 2 anyone?

Posted by: eat my shorts at December 23, 2008 3:53 PM

As I said in Facebook, this is way too much work. I'm making up a number --> 197.

Posted by: jamiepants at December 23, 2008 3:55 PM

Funny thing is, I've seen Cruel Intentions 1 AND 3. I should give myself the extra point for sitting through it, despite not seeing 2.

Posted by: Colin at December 23, 2008 3:55 PM

192

The rest are now in my nexflix queue.

Posted by: rene at December 23, 2008 3:56 PM

113.

I've some how managed to see just about every tween/romcom on the list but have only seen one Star Wars movie. And I call myself a sci-fi nerd. I'm so ashamed.

Posted by: mandasarah at December 23, 2008 3:56 PM

81. Yes, with both Ewok TV movies.

Posted by: Jay at December 23, 2008 3:56 PM

156 I am proud to be in such good company as Julie and Clee Shay. Let's watch a movie together.

Posted by: Mike R. at December 23, 2008 3:57 PM

76 including those seen only in part. So far, I'm the most lifefull one here. Everything's coming up Bullet! The only one's I regret missing are I Spit On Your Grave, Waiting for Guffman and maybe Calendar Girls and I sure wish I'd missed a lot of those I've seen.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at December 23, 2008 3:58 PM

111

Posted by: Jason at December 23, 2008 3:59 PM

87.5

A few were halfsies-walked out of the first Harry Potter, forced into watching part of a LotR movie, don't remember which one, and skipped through most of The Notebook because that movie suh-hucks.

Posted by: Sabrina at December 23, 2008 4:00 PM

120. That's reasonable, I think, though there were definitely movies that that I thought I had seen when I actually haven't. Weird.

Posted by: kalafraja at December 23, 2008 4:01 PM

I'm with jamiepants. Just too much work. Plus I think I've done this before, though I'll be damned if I can remember my score.

Also: even if we only count since the age of 12, seeing 239 movies in 15 years probably wouldn't disqualify me from having a life. Eight-five is fucking small potatoes. Maybe it should be: "If you've seen more than 85 of these movies this month, you have no life."

Posted by: Sean at December 23, 2008 4:01 PM

Ninety-nine! Can I have back those two minutes of my non-existant life.

Posted by: Mrs Smith at December 23, 2008 4:03 PM

174. I'm okay with that.

Posted by: Dangle McGee at December 23, 2008 4:03 PM

87 - does that mean I've almost got a life? Because Club Dredd was still on that list... not on purpose, at least.

Now I want to know what the hell was the criteria for this list?

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at December 23, 2008 4:04 PM

153. This is such a weird list. Virtually no classic films, yet tons bad, bad movies. I'm not sure how to feel about this total.

Posted by: Em at December 23, 2008 4:04 PM

83 - odd list.

Posted by: Bierceambrose at December 23, 2008 4:06 PM

164. But only the good 164.

Ewoks bitches!

Posted by: admin at December 23, 2008 4:07 PM

132

Posted by: Jon G at December 23, 2008 4:09 PM

102. Upped mostly by the Pixar and dork film inclusions. Hampered by my dislike of horror.

Posted by: twig at December 23, 2008 4:12 PM

56! Fifty-six!

Amazing! I do so have a life! Mind you, only 20 of those films were actually seen in theaters - the rest were all either video or DVD, or caught on telly.

(And 12 of the 20 make up the three Indiana Jones, 6 Star Wars and 3 LotR films.)

Posted by: The Wanderer at December 23, 2008 4:16 PM

138. L-o-s-er.

Posted by: Lauren at December 23, 2008 4:16 PM

Posted by: courtney at December 23, 2008 4:17 PM

94....I watch a lot of movies, but I don't really want to watch any of the movies on that list that I haven't seen. In fact, I've carefully avoided most of those movies.

Posted by: pianofilledwithflames at December 23, 2008 4:18 PM

178... almost my handicap

Posted by: jim at December 23, 2008 4:19 PM

114. Is someone gonna do some stats on these numbers?

Posted by: Sandra L at December 23, 2008 4:19 PM

150 booyah...it's funny I actually did this today on Facebook. Hmmm...yeah.

Posted by: griffimx at December 23, 2008 4:19 PM

150

And I noticed that while you saw the original Star Wars movies, you skipped on seeing the prequels. Way to go Rowles. You are a greater man than I.

Posted by: Sidewinder at December 23, 2008 4:19 PM

But I swear I don't have a life!

Posted by: Trouble at December 23, 2008 4:19 PM

126. Awesome. Why this list again? Strange.

Posted by: mc at December 23, 2008 4:19 PM

104
Quite a few on the list that I've not yet seen but are on my "to do" list. Thanks for the diversion - much needed today!

Posted by: prairiegirl at December 23, 2008 4:20 PM

191. There are a couple on there that I may have seen but didn't count cuz i can't quite remember, so it ay be higher. I know what movie i want to see next though...it's the one about boobeing naked on a bear-skin rug wearing nothing but a filly pair of socks, a necklace, and some horn-rimmed glasses. I would go see that more time than I've been to a Rocky Horror Show on a Saturday night.

...and I'm working on my 275th anniversary there.

Posted by: PissBoy at December 23, 2008 4:21 PM

189. I will still contest I have a life. Maybe just a few more years of movie watching then some people.

Posted by: jadashay at December 23, 2008 4:21 PM

190. I didn't break 200, which makes me sad.

Posted by: Snath at December 23, 2008 4:23 PM

183. I knew there was a reason I frequented this site...

Jay: I taped the Ewok movies off of network television as a kid. Oh yeah.

Posted by: Erica O. at December 23, 2008 4:26 PM

156, and definitely no life what so ever, but that's not the movies fault.

Posted by: Catag at December 23, 2008 4:26 PM

I think a good way to correlate the number would be Number of Movies on List Seen vs. Age simply because the older you get the higher the number should be.

Posted by: PissBoy at December 23, 2008 4:27 PM

179 and because I have a scary memory I can probably tell you where and when I saw most of them for the first time; In most cases who I was with as well.

In fact, just saw Waterworld for the very first time over the weekend because nearly Mr. Kizzer saw it in the free movies on demand. I wasn't impressed, or entertained for that matter, but now my number's 179 instead of a paltry 178 so I guess I owe him an apology for all the shit I gave him for making me watch it... Nah, that must just be the Christmas spirit acting up again. He should still feel bad for making me watch Waterworld.

Posted by: Kizzer at December 23, 2008 4:30 PM

88. but if i included the sequels of the movies that were up there but weren't posted for some reason, it would've been a few more :/

Posted by: becky at December 23, 2008 4:34 PM

56. But if you consider the fact that I've seen many of the movies on my list upwards of 5 times, well....

Posted by: frumpiefox at December 23, 2008 4:36 PM

It's an older list, becky, which is why some newer stuff isn't included.

Posted by: Snath at December 23, 2008 4:37 PM

142

I delurked to write that. God I wish I could erase High Tension from my list though.

Posted by: Stephen at December 23, 2008 4:37 PM

169 -

I started to get worried there for a minute, but that's sort of respectable.

But who the hell came up with this particular list? Fucking Princess Diaries 2? Then again, I guess that's a decent barometer for having no life...

Posted by: MG at December 23, 2008 4:38 PM

166, but I really thought it would be more.

Posted by: MissNev at December 23, 2008 4:39 PM

119. I already knew I had no life.

Posted by: Lindsey at December 23, 2008 4:43 PM

168...

Posted by: Matt at December 23, 2008 4:45 PM

145. That's the number of movies I'm certain I've seen. There's probably another 10 that I think I've seen but I'm not completely positive.

Posted by: DoubleH at December 23, 2008 4:48 PM

123....I am leasing a life, with an option to buy.

Posted by: Rubble44 at December 23, 2008 4:48 PM

147 (and that's with having seen none of the Potter flicks)

What's even more scary is the number of these films I actually own. I am a sad, strange little wagon.

Posted by: Alabamapink at December 23, 2008 4:51 PM

58, but I've seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The 3 LOTRs movies enough times to count for about 87.

Posted by: BWeaves at December 23, 2008 4:58 PM

151 ... sigh

Posted by: blacksred at December 23, 2008 4:59 PM

I played on Facebook. I had 96.

Posted by: Melody at December 23, 2008 5:01 PM

149

damn i am with pink also...its sad i own a lot of these. most of these i have seen more than once

Posted by: pabs at December 23, 2008 5:03 PM

128. Respectable, I think.

Posted by: zio at December 23, 2008 5:08 PM

104 - thankfully minus a few hours when I decided not to sit through on hangover Sunday tv (The Mask, The Grinch, ALong Came Polly, etc.). but still...

Posted by: eskiimomo at December 23, 2008 5:16 PM

95... and I've been alive shorter than most of the people here. The worst one of these films is probably Scary Movie, Dead Mans Chest, Napoleon Dynamite, or the Grinch. Dead Mans Chest was so awful, the porno movie version with the sex scenes cut out would be more fun to watch. Scary Movie was so unfunny, it made Rob Schneider look like Billy Wilder. And the Grinch made Boris Karlof actually come back to life as a mummy in anger.

No life, and I'm only 16.

Posted by: George at December 23, 2008 5:22 PM

148 - it is funny how many movies on this list I've seen by accident. I didn't mean to watch them, it just sort of happened.

Posted by: phquaryn at December 23, 2008 5:25 PM

150 even.

Posted by: Squrrox at December 23, 2008 5:25 PM

184...the list brought back some memories...and not all good ones.

Posted by: L at December 23, 2008 5:27 PM

An even hundred! 100! Whee! and it means exactly nothin' like every other meme!

But I do love Joe Dirt. I laugh at that every time it's on cable, and I don't care who knows.

Posted by: Stacy D at December 23, 2008 5:28 PM

94. someof these movies suck though. can't believe i watched them and remembered the plot.

Posted by: dene chen at December 23, 2008 5:32 PM

136

...and a big thanks for whittling another 4 minutes off the clock before I can leave work! Damn Central Standard time zone.

Posted by: lovechampagne at December 23, 2008 5:35 PM

Dammit, after reading Stacy D's comment on Joe Dirt it finally hit, I know the critical movie that's missing... MAJOR LEAGUE! How could this list not have Major League? Every time it's on t.v. I turn the channel to that, doesn't matter how drunk I am. Drives the trophy wife mental...

Posted by: Xtreme at December 23, 2008 5:35 PM

104.

Huh. I really thought I've have a higher score than that. Of course, there were quite a few movies on that list that I wouldn't see, even under punishment of death.

Posted by: Jeni at December 23, 2008 5:37 PM

27. That's an eclectic list, though. I've seen a lot more movies, just not THESE movies.

Posted by: rlr260 at December 23, 2008 5:37 PM

106

Posted by: Kate at December 23, 2008 5:41 PM

93. Does that mean I sort of have a life? Because I really haven't for quite a while now.

I can't believe Dustin hasn't seen Old School or Shaun of the Dead. Or even Waiting for Guffman.

Posted by: katy at December 23, 2008 5:48 PM

149 for me, woot!

Posted by: Celie at December 23, 2008 5:51 PM

Ye gods and little fishes, but I appear to be in rare company. Only two people have seen fewer than I.

I suppose I should turn in my Pajiba business cards and go rent some DVDs.

Posted by: Archvillain at December 23, 2008 5:52 PM

108...pretty middle-of-the-pack. Honestly, I thought that'd be a low score among this crowd!

Posted by: meaux at December 23, 2008 5:53 PM

123. i dont know what that says about me!

Posted by: NDR at December 23, 2008 5:54 PM

So, I only watched 75 of these. And that 75 counts King Kong three times since it didn't specify which one. So even though I break a hundred films watched each year easily (not even accounting for time wasted on books, live theater, live music, recorded music, video games, board games, and online communities/blogs), I magically have a life? Fail. I can't afford to have a life. All my money is wasted on shitty and/or pretentious films no one gives a damn about. Which is why they aren't on a list on Facebook. Because only me and that smelly homeless guy saw them, and he didn't even pay for a ticket.

Posted by: Robert at December 23, 2008 5:56 PM

160! A large number in comparison to others on this list, but I know that this is just a small glimpse of the thousands of movies I have seen in my lifetime...

My only objection to this is that seeing some of the listed films in no way proves that you have no life. I, for one, don't know anyone who thought The Princess Bride was a waste of time!

Posted by: Claire at December 23, 2008 5:56 PM

179, I just recently got a life, mmmkay? J/k, there are tons of trilogies and sequels, which means sometimes I see the sequel just because. And thus, my tally is 179. I've seen pieces of others, just didnt think it was fair to include it.

A better survey is the Film Addict site which uses the IMDB top 250.

I watched 77% from that list!
http://plutor.org/filmaddict/?u=i1qowtfo&f=tqz87lfi

Posted by: Teresa at December 23, 2008 5:58 PM

131... I did not count the ones I saw partially on TV or other. if I count those it would be 135.

I am a movie buff and I'm actually upset there weren't more movie on this list but I'm oh so ashamed of having watched Butterfly effect :P

Posted by: yocean at December 23, 2008 5:58 PM

126... not too bad... it would have been higher if I didn't hate horror or torture porn...

EWOKS FTW!!!!

Posted by: Tammers at December 23, 2008 5:59 PM

146, damn that's depressing. Although I saw a large amount of those movies only once.

Posted by: BB at December 23, 2008 6:02 PM

129, Bitches! And yet I do actually have a life.

And lovechampagne, please do not dis the cst. It is clearly the best of the timezones.

Posted by: wsapnin at December 23, 2008 6:03 PM

155. I'm shocked. And slightly apalled.

Posted by: BizzyBees at December 23, 2008 6:08 PM

22 - I don't have enough of a life to have even that much of a life. And if I count only those I saw at the theater I can drop it down to 17.

Of course I'm enochlophobic and agorophobic so unless it shows up on IFC or Sundance, I'm limited to cable.

Posted by: funtime42 at December 23, 2008 6:10 PM

128. Too many movies I'm not willing to see are listed.

Posted by: JC at December 23, 2008 6:22 PM

146. But I feel like all of the ones that were seen on dates or while out with friends really shouldn't count.

Posted by: LB at December 23, 2008 6:24 PM

122 on this list, though I only got 18% on that IMDb list. I guess I've seen a lot of crappy movies - my excuse is that time I spent working in a video store. At least 30 of those 122 were during my year in that place. So many hours I'll never get back...

Either way, I think the ultimate measure of whether or not you have a life is your answer to the question "Wanna fill out this long survey about whether or not you have a life?"

Posted by: Shay at December 23, 2008 6:38 PM

137 for me. I should own stock in netflix, I must confess.

And NICOLE- you must, I repeat, MUST see Old School. Ferrell and Vince Vaughn at their funniest and finest!!! Plus a cameo by Snoop Dogg!!!

Posted by: Be Adequite! at December 23, 2008 6:43 PM

147. Some of them I just should have seen, but have managed to avoid. Case in point, Maid In Manhattan. Right? Right?!

Posted by: ben (thpbt) at December 23, 2008 6:43 PM

84. I am also "hampered" by my refusal to see any horror movies.

Posted by: Julia at December 23, 2008 6:44 PM

as a long time lurker on this site, I'm not surprised but WOW, then again, that's a lot of film. and a LOT of crap...

148

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Posted by: Leslie at December 23, 2008 6:47 PM

49. But then again I have outside interest.

Posted by: Pookie at December 23, 2008 6:51 PM

174

But it could be lower since I'm not sure if some of them were referring to remakes as opposed to originals (e.g. there's no way I saw the remake of The Fog, but nothing was keeping my 12-year-old self from watching the original on VHS!).

How's this for not having a life: I'm the only person (so far) to point out that the actor mentioned in the previous post, Jimmi Simpson, was actually in Loser, from where you got the header pic for this post.

Posted by: kushiro at December 23, 2008 6:52 PM

But I feel like all of the ones that were seen on dates or while out with friends really shouldn't count.

Everything counts in large amounts. Now lie in the bed you've made!

Oh and remember, that's Nicole's list, so she's the one to yell at for not having fucking seen "Sixteen Candles". What the fuck, woman???

Posted by: Jay at December 23, 2008 6:53 PM

168, no life :(

Worth mentioning that High Tension was known as Switchblade Romance here in Blighty, and Joy Ride was repackaged as Road Kill. British Pajibans might have a couple more they didn't know about.

Posted by: Ginginho at December 23, 2008 6:56 PM

I have seen 209 of these movies and i am dead fucking serious .

Posted by: GILP at December 23, 2008 6:57 PM

161... Now I am starting to realize that I really should get paid for the amount of hours I sit on my ass.

Posted by: alana at December 23, 2008 7:14 PM

141. Not bad. And seeing some of those titles totally reminded me of the shame of seeing some of those movies. Seriously.

Posted by: KatSings at December 23, 2008 7:20 PM

George, you're 16? I never would have guessed.

Posted by: Snath at December 23, 2008 7:24 PM

138.

Posted by: FourKings at December 23, 2008 7:28 PM

166, but I didn't think any of these were particularly obscure.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at December 23, 2008 7:29 PM

85. Thanks to my kids and their movies.

Posted by: richmac at December 23, 2008 7:29 PM

153, although some I think were caught on TV and therefore I only saw most or the "clean" versions.

Posted by: Ariel at December 23, 2008 7:29 PM

170.

Baller.

Posted by: Kash at December 23, 2008 7:37 PM

143

Posted by: e at December 23, 2008 7:50 PM

76. Including NONE of the Star Wars or Indianas. And there's a crapload of horror on this list, which I'm not a fan of. I'm off to tinker with that film addict link that was posted a ways up and see how that one rates me...

Posted by: Gabs at December 23, 2008 7:59 PM

101. Am I the only person on the planet who actually liked Waterworld?

Posted by: Jessika at December 23, 2008 8:05 PM

134

I'm really surprised that its not higher

Posted by: Park at December 23, 2008 8:06 PM

77.
Phew, still have a life...borderline...

Posted by: lynx at December 23, 2008 8:12 PM

117. Many I still want to see, and many I've seen and wish i hadn't. No horror but the Ring and Event Horizon.

Odd list though. Predator but no Aliens? Many sci-fi/fantasy inclusins, but light on the comic-based movies (bar x-men and hulk). Also wherefor art thou Blade? I have Blade love. Yes, even #3. Redeemed by two things.
1) Ryan Reynolds.
2) Vampire Pomeranian. Reynolds is right.. w t f?!

Posted by: wisper at December 23, 2008 8:14 PM

175.
Grad school is practically designed for procrastination by film!

Posted by: muttleycrew at December 23, 2008 8:21 PM

125. And there's an error in the list above, should be 105 instead of 115, there's a counting error between 72 and 91.

But this isn't the real "I have no life" test. That test is "How many of the following television shows have you seen every episode of?"

Posted by: NewWavePolly at December 23, 2008 8:21 PM

164
Which is surprising to me because I'm always telling people that I don't watch very many movies.

Posted by: Vixen at December 23, 2008 8:22 PM

Why yes Snath, I am 16. I was born on May 1, 1992, so that leads to a bit of a handicap for me. Rocky Horror Picture show was well before my time, and I never want to see that unless I'm drunk, stoned, or on something stronger.

I spend most of my day hanging out with idiots, and this site is one of the few my school computer system hasn't blocked. So this site is a sort of sanctuary for me. Thanks Snath.

Jessika, I actually didn't mind Waterworld. After hearing again and again on how it was the worst film of all time, the non complete awfulness of it surprised me. It's not a good film, but it doesn't have to be. I still felt I enjoyed it, especially the crazy stuff.

Posted by: George at December 23, 2008 8:26 PM

The original list was Nicole's?? I don't even pay attention anymore, proving my descent into irrelevance. See what not having a life eventually does to you?

Posted by: katy at December 23, 2008 8:27 PM

149. I must say, TBS done got some answerin' to do.

Posted by: Cara at December 23, 2008 8:29 PM

106 ... and I've seen only a half dozen movies in the last couple of years. Not because I have a life, I just have had a shititude of other non-life things crowding out movies.

This is a cherrypick list though, i.e. people hear these are good/entertaining/so-bad-you-have-to-see-it and so most anybody who owns a television has seen a huge chunk of these. There are a bunch on here that I have seen just by virtue of flipping channels over the last decade, not because I went to the theatre, rented or netflixed them.

Dustin could probably tack on another 500 movies he's seen that aren't so cherrypicked and my score would only go up by 3 (and that's just because a list that long would inevitably have some goat porn).

Want to really measure lack of life? Make a new list but exclude any movies that have been shown on TNT or TBS.

Posted by: stipe42 at December 23, 2008 8:33 PM

A life? What is this "a life" of which you speak?

Glad to see I'm not bringing up the rear at 48. But I've seen way way more movies than this, just not so many recently as I've gotten more frugal/crankier.

Posted by: bucdaddy at December 23, 2008 8:44 PM

151 or 152, I got a brief hiccup in my count around the star wars block and I'll be fucked if I'm going to go back and count over again.

Anyway i'm firmly above the "no life" quota so it doesn't matter one way or t'other.

Posted by: Darwinfox at December 23, 2008 8:45 PM

Pookie,
Not to get picky, but does porn really count as an outside interest?
Just saying.

Posted by: grinder at December 23, 2008 9:06 PM

Um, so on the loser scale of 1-10 I think I am about a 7. OMG, I was cool in school, now I have become an AV geek. Please someone shoot me before I start wearing pocket protectors and plaid shirts!!! I beg you. I saw over 160 of them (and NO, I'm not gonna say how many over). Curse this wretched existence of mine. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Posted by: Matt the Great! at December 23, 2008 9:17 PM

111

Posted by: Adam C at December 23, 2008 9:32 PM

134 and I'm proud of it.

Posted by: Lindsey at December 23, 2008 9:45 PM

I didn't need a facebook quiz to tell me I don't have a life, I'm a spinster with a cat.
So 160, very proud.

Posted by: excuse nothing at December 23, 2008 9:50 PM

That warms my heart, George. I love youngins that aren't illiterate idiots. Huzzah!

Posted by: Snath at December 23, 2008 10:09 PM

Wow...only 78. Guess I do get out a little.

Posted by: HJ at December 23, 2008 10:43 PM

95, I think. It would be more if you counted movies I've only partially seen and movies that I saw and blocked out.
By the way, I couldn't remember what The Hot Chick was, though it sounded so familiar, and I just now realized that it's that Rob Schneider movie where he switched bodies with Rachel McAdams, and I actually think...I may have borrowed it from the library? Why would I have borrowed that from the library? But I think I did, at least I have memories of watching the movie. I'm so confused and I need to lie down. It's like a repressed memory resurfacing of 'Nam or your uncle molesting you, except you were the one molesting your mind.
So, 96.

Posted by: Cait at December 23, 2008 10:43 PM

Back from a temporary absence, I declare my number to be:

170

Not bad. Not good, but not bad.

Posted by: The Pink Hulk at December 23, 2008 10:52 PM

I'm going to say 65, but there's a lot on here I'm not including in this total that I've seen a few minutes or so of due to my boyfriend's love of having the TV on all the time as background noise and his love of changing the channel all the time. Therefore, some of the movies in the 65 are ones which I saw the second half of before the first half, or arranged in a bizarre pattern of scenes over the course of a year or so which eventually came to be coherently arranged in my brain.

Posted by: Genevieve at December 23, 2008 10:54 PM

155.

I have no regrets.

Posted by: Arran at December 23, 2008 10:54 PM

144, and damn proud of it! I honestly thought it would be more, and then I thought for a second about feeling guilty, but then, when I saw everyone else's numbers, I knew I was home.

Posted by: couch and pants at December 23, 2008 10:58 PM

101 - Not too high, but I'd still say I have no life. Being in grad school doesn't really help though.

Posted by: Dave at December 23, 2008 11:08 PM

124

I was surprised it was only that. Meh.

Posted by: grendel at December 23, 2008 11:12 PM

184 of which I own about 140. I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

Posted by: incest instigator at December 23, 2008 11:15 PM

Good to See another youngblood around here, George. So I'm not the only one who can't buy alcohol around here, good news. I hope we rise like an army.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at December 23, 2008 11:19 PM

119... but personally I believe that the Lord of the Rings films should count double. Not only for their loser value, but those little bastards were long.

Posted by: Lauralyn at December 23, 2008 11:36 PM

133... and how have you not seen Blazing Saddles??? the first 5 minutes of that movie are the most delightfully racists and astonishingly funny minutes in cinematic history. "dock that chink a days pay for nappin' on the job".

Posted by: MarcusArilius at December 23, 2008 11:37 PM

And, Optimus Rhyme, I'm a youngin' as well.

Posted by: Lauralyn at December 23, 2008 11:39 PM

85 - I guess I have some movie watching to do.

Posted by: Bort at December 23, 2008 11:42 PM

182...
I'm almost ashamed to admit that. But I'm known for having day long movie fests now and then... that's my excuse anyhow.

Posted by: Samantha at December 23, 2008 11:49 PM

128.

No matter the number it feels awkward. Like counting your LUVAAAAAHS.

Posted by: Sofía at December 23, 2008 11:54 PM

Dang! I saw the title of this comment diversion and I was about to come on here and brag that I hadn't been lurking around here since school finished for the break and a found my life again...

Then I got 116, not including partials. *sigh* I am lifeless.

Posted by: Kayanne at December 23, 2008 11:56 PM

68.. I feel somewhat disappointed in myself.

I could add another 15 or so if I include movies I got bored and gave up on halfway through (all Star Wars and all Indiana Jones, for starters).

Are there any bonus points for having spent 15 minutes filling out this quiz?? My score suggests I have a life, and yet I have a sneaking suspicion I could have spent this time sitting in the sunshine, or having sex with someone. Or both.

Posted by: Whiny Dancer at December 24, 2008 12:09 AM

110.

Here's a better list that you should put up or try:

http://plutor.org/filmaddict/

It's an easy checking system for IMDb's Top 250. Not the greatest list ever, but it'll do, and it's convenient.

I got something like 43-44% or so.

Posted by: Mick J at December 24, 2008 12:50 AM

131...

So I'm about normal right? Not completely housebound but still an impressive movie fan...

Right?

Posted by: Kelly at December 24, 2008 1:10 AM

72. I don't know if I need to turn in my reviewer's badge or what, but . . . 72.

Posted by: John Williams at December 24, 2008 1:21 AM

103.

Posted by: imk at December 24, 2008 1:26 AM

Yeah, I got 146. But I was counting movies like "Failure to Launch" where there really was no reason to reach that deep into my self-loathing for the sake of seeing the insultingly obvious ending.
Oh, and Nicole, I'd love to watch the final three episodes of Star Wars with you. I just had practice watching them with the neighbor's kids (age 7 and 5) while babysitting. The whole time they pretended they'd never seen them before so that I would explain every detail and answer every "why?" question to their secretly cruel and devious enjoyment. Maybe I'll get them back by showing them my bootleg of the Star Wars Christmas Special (starring Chewbacca and his family, and featuring Art Carney and Bea Arthur). Is that child abuse? Anyway, I believe you Nicole. I may be a sucker, but I believe you.

Posted by: mfg at December 24, 2008 1:29 AM

124

Though to be fair, many of them were one-time only events.

Posted by: Fredo at December 24, 2008 2:05 AM

92 . . . My having no life involves watching a lot of television, too, or my score would be higher . . .

Posted by: Elfrieda at December 24, 2008 2:48 AM

127 - whoa. Much more work to be done! My shame quotient needs to be raised (lowered?)...How can I still have not seen the epic cinema that is Joe Dirt?

Posted by: popejenn at December 24, 2008 3:53 AM

108. Not sure whether to be proud of that, since there's a lot of garbage among those points...

Posted by: Dr. Spaceman at December 24, 2008 4:04 AM

76 - there's a lot of shit on this list, I'm sad my count is that high.

Posted by: ariella at December 24, 2008 5:42 AM

194.
Christ.

Posted by: emotionalpedant at December 24, 2008 6:02 AM

124. I could probably add a few more if I counted movies I kinda saw. I suffered through about half of King Kong, and that's easily the length of a normal movie.

Posted by: James at December 24, 2008 6:43 AM

I suffered through about half of King Kong

Oh come on, halfway through means you saw a guy get his head sucked off and a giant gorilla fight three T-Rexes.

It can't be that bad.

Posted by: twig at December 24, 2008 7:20 AM

59. Is this good or bad? (I'm 36 years old)

Posted by: LZ at December 24, 2008 8:07 AM

107.

Mostly on DVD/VHS though, as movie audiences tend to me want to fire up a chainsaw and get my dismember on!

Posted by: Tarn at December 24, 2008 8:27 AM

Only 54. It doesn't mean I leave the house a lot. It just means I have better taste in what to watch :-)

Posted by: Chris at December 24, 2008 8:32 AM

only 74.

Posted by: adj at December 24, 2008 8:37 AM

126, wow. Between TBS and Netflix, I've seen some more of the shameful choices here.

Posted by: Sharon at December 24, 2008 8:55 AM

I...have no life. Fortunately I've come to terms with that long, long ago.

I have to sit down and honestly go through and tally up my score. It'll probably kill Pajiba.

Posted by: Green Lantern at December 24, 2008 9:01 AM

Only 67 for me. However, I've seen so many films not on this particular list - I'm sure I have my own version of no life.

Posted by: Cindy at December 24, 2008 9:45 AM

149....sheesh. And many of those are the ones I really shouldn't have bothered with (I blame a boyfriend who works away and extreme boredom)

Posted by: Lisa S at December 24, 2008 9:48 AM

137. Not for lack of trying.

Posted by: Melissa at December 24, 2008 10:26 AM

193 - but only the good ones. And the ones that I wish I hadn't seen. And the ones I don't remember seeing but know that I have. Ok, at least I don't OWN all of them.

Posted by: TylerDFC at December 24, 2008 10:56 AM

160. Apparently movies are my life...or watching them is.

Posted by: Luciana at December 24, 2008 11:07 AM

I'M BACK!!! You all thought I was gone for good, didn't you??? HAHAHAHA!!!! Got a new gig, a new place, and maybe a new man, but I'm still here!!

141, bitches!

Posted by: dammitjanet at December 24, 2008 11:09 AM

172. Whoa.

Posted by: Lake at December 24, 2008 11:29 AM

59
And some of these, I think context must count. If you watch it voluntarily as an adult, hmmm, but if you were in junior high when it first came out, then you're excused.

Posted by: cecilia at December 24, 2008 11:47 AM

139...I have A LOT of free time

Posted by: jmurae at December 24, 2008 11:50 AM

I don't have enough of a life to spend it taking this silly quiz. I play World of Warcraft, so of course I'm pretty much lifeless.

Posted by: Lucas at December 24, 2008 12:01 PM

137, but some of those I have seen a good part of the movie. also, you can give or take some that I either don't remember or thought that I saw and didn't. Not that anyone cares but for information gathering purposes i suppose.

Posted by: Handel at December 24, 2008 12:17 PM

139, only because most of those movies are older, my movie watching days have slowed as of late.

Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at December 24, 2008 12:30 PM

99.A sort of life I guess, although I might have blotted out the experience of seeing a goodly portion of the crap movies that were on the list.

Posted by: brite at December 24, 2008 3:32 PM

158... though I swear I have a life!

Posted by: Ambiepony at December 24, 2008 3:41 PM

137

Looking at that list, I realized that the nerdiest, geekiest of them are the ones I've seen. Repeatedly. Oi.

Posted by: Nadha at December 24, 2008 4:11 PM

92 - humf.

It'll do, I suppose.

Posted by: Jams at December 24, 2008 4:18 PM

92 - humf.

It'll do, I suppose.

Posted by: Jams at December 24, 2008 4:18 PM

101- I did this a few days ago, my score was this. I almost have a life by 7, but honestly I saw most of these movies when I had zero taste in movies. I just don't like sequels or horror movies or spoof movies all that much (aside from Spaceballs).

Posted by: ph at December 24, 2008 4:25 PM

I was trying to find the highest score in here, looks like it's between 175-194. I have a couple of friends on facebook I saw that had scores of well into the 200s. Now that requires you to sit thru Scary Movies and a bunch of Star Wars and other movies with at least 4-5 sequels. AT some point you gotta realize that the formulaic plots and just being plain stupid and not funny doesn't entertain you as much as it used to.

Posted by: ph at December 24, 2008 5:45 PM

Yeah, I started this on Facebook. Well, I technically stole it from a friend and passed it onto the rest of the 'jibans. No idea how the list was generated, though. My only guess is that the lesser quality movies mean you have even less of a life?. And yeah, my score's 214. Soooo, I win?

Posted by: jM at December 24, 2008 5:46 PM

DUSTIN you haven't seen KingPin...WTF?!

Posted by: ph at December 24, 2008 5:47 PM

177.
I don't know what's sadder - that I spent all that time counting what movies I've seen, or the fact that I've seen Wolf Creek and Darkness Falls.

Posted by: Lisaaa. at December 24, 2008 9:36 PM

196

Posted by: Ken Hart at December 25, 2008 1:13 AM

120

I caught myself thinking, "I wish I'd seen those movies so I could get a higher score..."

There are some I'm proud of and some I'm really ashamed of.

Posted by: Keridwyn at December 25, 2008 2:20 AM

Ok, this is a weird list... I mean.. I own over 600 movies (and have seen at least 500 of them) and I only got to 204 on this list... wow, I just totally depressed myself. Christmas is supposed to be a happy time... now, I think I'm gonna go in the corner and eat a bunch of cookies and cry... I have no life.. 204 ...

someone go out with me? please... I know now that I have this list, I'm gonna have to see the ones I didn't... will someone either go out with me...or kill me... It makes no difference which... God I hate Christmas... thanks for another GREAT YEAR!... fuckers.

Posted by: Nico at December 25, 2008 2:28 AM

199! i almost won ^_^ in my defense, my mom used to work in a movie store and my brother and nearly all my friends worked at a movie theater so watching any movie that's ever existed was our only means of entertainment
i'm glad the ewok movies were on there, i kept thinking they were a crazy hallucination from my childhood.

Posted by: yeratomato at December 25, 2008 11:45 AM

I feel better now 3 other people have got a higher score than me.

Well, y'know..."better" isn't probably the right word. But there's relief. There's definitely relief.

Posted by: emotionalpedant at December 25, 2008 1:15 PM

141. And most of them I actually saw in this list and thought "I should see that one again!".

Posted by: MR at December 26, 2008 6:51 AM

109. What most surprised me is how many of these I own or have copies of that I have yet to watch.

Posted by: CptCrckpot at December 26, 2008 11:50 AM

It's as I've always suspected, I'm a wanna be Pajibite.

Everyone's gotta dream, eh?

Posted by: NeoCleo at December 26, 2008 2:04 PM

160.

Holy Shit.

How many hours of my life is that wasted? I kind of want to cry. I mean, seriously, I could have cured Hepatitis or something with all those hours.

Posted by: Jaci at December 26, 2008 2:34 PM

121. But I'm very late getting around to this so maybe that means I have a life after all.

Posted by: Lainie at December 26, 2008 4:50 PM

121. Damn I've seen a lot of shitty movies. And I've hardly seen anything in the theatres the last couple of years.

Posted by: hoorah at December 26, 2008 10:28 PM

176

Like Samantha I sometimes shut everything out for a day and watch 4-5 movies in a row....and I skipped a lot of classes in college to smoke bongs and watch movies...hey it happens.

Posted by: chidingo at December 27, 2008 9:20 PM

140.

Posted by: csb at December 27, 2008 11:33 PM

89 on this list. There weren't many more that I noticed though, thinking "Oh, I do want to see that sometime."

Posted by: Amanda at December 29, 2008 1:16 PM

A solid 161, not a big fan of rom-coms and horror genre

Posted by: EB III at December 30, 2008 9:26 AM

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