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I am more than 60 years old (less than 61). I recall seeing "Blackboard Jungle" at the Fox theater in Redwood City first run... watching the teenagers dancing in the aisles and on the seats when the opening credits were blasting Rock Around the Clock. Since then, I've watched as many as six films a week in movie theaters, and at the same time, ten movies a week in college classes (yes, I was a film major, graduating with my degree in English). Add kid time of seeing nearly every afternoon movie on local TV and having HBO & Showtime for more than 15 years now (& Starz & Encore & TCM & AMC, etc.). I rarely go to theaters any more, hating contemporary theater audiences (talking, cell phones and seat kicking in "Finding Neverland"? Really?), but with DirecTV and a two to five DVD & Blu-ray habit each week, let's average five movies per week since I was four. Two of those will be repeats, starting when I was 20. 16 years times 52 weeks times five = 4160. 40 years times 52 weeks times three = 6240. 10,400 or more... add on non-feature length stuff would double the total... so 20,000 movies and a lot more TV shows. Yeah, I'm in Leonard Maltin territory.

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Someone i knew back from my days of working in Oxfam was 39 and had seen 21,000 films. Was a rather fascinating fellow.

I don't think anyone ever called me fascinating... 
For the past month, in addition to my regular stuff, I have been collecting and watching many features starring William S. Hart... Hell's Hinges, The Square Deal Man, The Bargain, The Silent Man, Blue Blazes Rawden, etc. I'd seen one of his features decades ago, and many clips of his work in western film documentaries, but few of his films in total, and never as a singular piece of work. As I finish these, I intend to get some Tom Mix and other second-wave western stars' works, to compare the highly-moralistic, realistic western tone of Hart to the glittery romantic version put forth by the later, but more popular Mix and other 1920's western stars. I've been writing a column on western films for a rock and roll forum (another poster has one on comedy films... but nothing before the mid-1970s) and most write of Clint Eastwood and Sam Peckinpah as if they invented western filmmaking, ignoring John Ford, Howard Hawks, and other pre-1960's filmmakers... so I supply information about the foundations the later western filmmakers had to build on.
(the guy writing on comedy films had never seen anything by Buster Keaton)

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cvermeylen - They have meds to help OCD issues :D  way way too organized :LOL:

-Robert