Re: How do YOU possibly watch all the movies you want?
You don't need to watch that many movies.
Watching one older and one newer movie every week helps you to keep up to date with what is going on these days, and what has happened in the past.
I watch a bit more than that, but I have a 95% accuracy rate. Which means I enjoy 95% of the movies I watch. Sometimes I also watch bad movies on purpose. Having this kind of accuracy rate saves time.
Things that help me a great deal in picking movies, and can help you as well:
1. Watch movies in genres you are interested in.
2. Rottentomatoes.com. I don't even bother reading reviews much anymore, just checking out the average grade, freshness and the overall consensus is enough.
3. Metacritic.com. For the same reasons as RT.
4. Imdb.com. Good for tracking how much movie fans enjoyed something, not that good for tracking mainstream reactions. Just checking out the grade is usually enough.
5. Yahoo.com/movies, just check the grade. Although unfortunately the movies section has lost a lot of popularity in the last couple of years, and it's not good for tracking current movies. But films used to get dozens of thousands of votes in the movies section, much like IMDB. Yahoo is more mainstream, less for movie fanatics than IMDB, so it's good for tracking how much mainstream audiences enjoy(d) something.
6. I find Oscars and other awards far less useful in finding quality, than the aforementioned sites.
7. Find critics you agree with. I may suggest James Berardinelli who is an even-headed, analytical critic who enjoys movies in all genres, commercial works and arthouse movies alike.
8. Google is your friend. Typing stuff like "best Korean films of the 00's" or "best european horror movies of the 80's", etc, pays off in spades. Pretty much any list you ever wanted to find, is out there, usually compiled by smart and devoted people. It's easy to find the good ones. I search a lot of the more obscure stuff this way - The method is useless for mainstream stuff.
You don't need to watch that many movies.
Watching one older and one newer movie every week helps you to keep up to date with what is going on these days, and what has happened in the past.
I watch a bit more than that, but I have a 95% accuracy rate. Which means I enjoy 95% of the movies I watch. Sometimes I also watch bad movies on purpose. Having this kind of accuracy rate saves time.
Things that help me a great deal in picking movies, and can help you as well:
1. Watch movies in genres you are interested in.
2. Rottentomatoes.com. I don't even bother reading reviews much anymore, just checking out the average grade, freshness and the overall consensus is enough.
3. Metacritic.com. For the same reasons as RT.
4. Imdb.com. Good for tracking how much movie fans enjoyed something, not that good for tracking mainstream reactions. Just checking out the grade is usually enough.
5. Yahoo.com/movies, just check the grade. Although unfortunately the movies section has lost a lot of popularity in the last couple of years, and it's not good for tracking current movies. But films used to get dozens of thousands of votes in the movies section, much like IMDB. Yahoo is more mainstream, less for movie fanatics than IMDB, so it's good for tracking how much mainstream audiences enjoy(d) something.
6. I find Oscars and other awards far less useful in finding quality, than the aforementioned sites.
7. Find critics you agree with. I may suggest James Berardinelli who is an even-headed, analytical critic who enjoys movies in all genres, commercial works and arthouse movies alike.
8. Google is your friend. Typing stuff like "best Korean films of the 00's" or "best european horror movies of the 80's", etc, pays off in spades. Pretty much any list you ever wanted to find, is out there, usually compiled by smart and devoted people. It's easy to find the good ones. I search a lot of the more obscure stuff this way - The method is useless for mainstream stuff.
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