Pete’s 2016 Media Diary

Another year another media diary in the books.  My year was much busier than years past, so I watched less content than any year before.  It makes me a little sad how little content I consumed, but when your life gets busier, I guess that’s a good thing.  This year marked my beginning Improv at The Second City along with writing and directing.  2016 is widely considered one of the worst years in recent memory, and while on macro level, the world is falling apart, on a micro level, my life is ticking up.  My goals for 2017 on a movie level is to see more in theaters, and write many more reviews.  The future looks bright, even if the human future looks bleak.  Focus on what you love, and for me, that’s movies.  Cheers!

JANUARY 

1/2/16- Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It

1/3/16- Kiss of Death

1/4/16- JOY

1/4/16- Big Trouble, Little China

1/5/16- Vanilla Sky

1/5/16- Sicario

1/7/16- Galaxy Quest

1/8/16- Tom Segura Stand-up 2012 (NETFLIX)

1/11/16- The Walk

1/12/16- A Most Violent Year

1/12/16-  Tom Segura Stand-up (2016) (NETFLIX)

1/14/16- Entourage the Movie

1/14/16- Varsity Blues

1/15/16- Downloaded

1/17/16- THE REVENANT

1/19/16- Dear Zachary

1/19/16- Ex Machina

1/20/16- Adult World

1/24/16- Batman (1989)

1/25/16- ANOMALISA

1/26/16- The Big One

1/27/16- Chi-Raq

1/30/16- The Naked Gun

3- Theater

21- At Home

FEBRUARY 

2/1/16- Inside Out

2/1/16- Naked Gun 2 1/2

2/2/16- THE BIG SHORT

2/2/16- Ted 2

2/4/16- Green Inferno

2/6/16- Mistress America

2/7/16- Bridge of Spies

2/8/16- HAIL CEASAR

2/10/16- Sinister 2

2/10/16- The Ladykillers

2/11/16- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

2/11/16- Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey

2/13/16- Tommy Boy

2/14/16- DEADPOOL

2/15/16- Black Sheep

2/17/16- Everest

2/18/16- ZOOLANDER 2

2/22/16- Love (TV)

2/24/16- Can’t Hardly Wait

4- Theater

14- At Home

1-TV Series

MARCH

3/1/16-3/27/16- Malcolm in the Middle Seasons 1-5 (TV)

3/2/16- Adult Beginners

3/2/16- The Night Before

3/2/16- Primal Fear

3/4/16- The Death of Superman Lives

3/10/16- Louie Season 5 (TV)

3/13/16- KNIGHT OF CUPS

3/14/16- 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

3/14/16- Finding Vivian Maier

3/15/16- Man of Steel

[su_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/4EvD7I3OQn0″]3/23/16- Batman Begins, Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin

3/24/16- Daddy’s Home

3/25/16- Daredevil Season 2 (TV)

3/28/16- Batkid Begins

3/29/16- Trailer Park Boys Season 10

3/31/16- BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

3-Theater

15- At Home

8- TV Series

APRIL

4/1/16- Bowfinger

 4/2/16- Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2

4/3/16- The Ranch Season 1 (TV)

4/4/16- Iverson

4/5/16- E.T.

4/6/16- Coming to America

4/7/16- Mountain Men

4/9/16- Baskets Season 1 (TV)

4/11/16- The Right Stuff

4/12/16- Togetherness Season 2

4/14/16- Star Wars The Force Awakens

4/15/16- Legend

4/18/16- Better Call Saul Season 1 (TV)

4/21/16- The Forest

4/22/16-4/29/16- Key and Peele Season 1-5

4/29/16- Behind the Mask: Batman Dead End Story

11-At Home

8-TV Series

MAY

5/1/16- Deep Web

5/3/16- Community Season 3 (TV)

5/4/16- Community Season 5 (TV)

5/5/16- KEANU 

5/5/16- The Puffy Chair

5/6/16- The Truman Show

5/6/16- Prescription Thugs

5/7/16- Requiem for the American Dream

5/8/16- CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR

5/9/16- Last Man on Earth Season 2 (TV)

5/10/16- South Park Season 19 (TV)

5/13/16- South Park Season 12 (TV)

5/15/16- South Park Season 13 (TV)

5/17/16- South Park Season 14 (TV)

5/18/16- The Invasion

5/19/16- HIGH-RISE

NEIGHBORS 2

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

5- Theater

6- At Home

7- TV Series

JUNE

 3rd Rock From the Sun (TV)

Harry Potter 1

Trojan War

Jake the Snake Documentary

Linsanity

Sheik Elway to Marino

6/13/16- Harry Potter 2

6/14/16- Bigger, Faster, Stronger

6/16/16- CONJURING 2

6/18/16- CENTRAL INTELLEGENCE 

6/27/16- Silicon Valley Season 2 (TV)

2-Theater

7- At Home

7- TV Series

JULY

7/2/16- Triple 9

7/3/16- Brothers Gimsby

7/4/16- THE PURGE ELECTION YEAR

7/8/16- My Friend Rockefeller

7/9/16- Fundamentals of Caring

7/10/16- The Burbs

7/14/16- Defending Your Life

7/18/16- The Green Room

7/24/16- STAR TREK BEYOND

2- Theater

7- At Home

AUGUST

8/6/16- SUICIDE SQUAD

8/15/16- Stranger Things (TV)

8/18/16- WAR DOGS

8/19/16- Midnight Special

8/22/16- Friday the 13th (1980)

8/29/16- DON’T THINK TWICE

8/31/16- The Night Of… (TV)

3- Theater

2-At Home

2- TV Series

 SEPTEMBER

9/1/16- Jeff Who Lives at Home

9/9/16- DON’T BREATH 

9/23/16- Poltergeist, Poltergeist 2, Poltergeist (2015)

9/27/16- Narcos Season 2 (TV)

9/27/16- Raiders! Documentary

1- Theater

5- At Home

1- TV Series

OCTOBER

Childs Play 1

Childs Play 2

Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4

Bob’s Burgers Season 1-4

10/13/16- Lords of Salem

10/14/16- A Nightmare on Elm Street

10/15/16- Amityville Horror

10/16/16- Friday the 13th part 1

10/17/16- Friday the 13th Part 2

10/18/16- I Know What You Did Last Summer

10/19/16- They Live

10/20/16- 31

10/20/16- Insidious

10/21/16- Halloween (Zombie version)

10/22/16- Friday the 13th (2009)

10/27/16- Nerve

10/28/16- The Nice Guys

1- Theater

18- At Home

4- TV Series

NOVEMBER

The Ranch Part 2 (TV)

DOCTOR STRANGE

11/10/16- Concussion

The Walking Dead Season 6 (TV)

11/14/16- Weiner

11/22/16- ARRIVAL

11/23/16- FANTASTIC BEASTS

11/25/16- Hell or High Water

11/25/16- Money Monster

11/26/16- NOCTURNAL ANIMALS 

11/27/16- Sausage Party

11/28/16- The Infiltrator

11/29/16- Joshy

4- Theater

7- At Home

2- TV Series

DECEMBER 

 12/5/16- ALLIED

12/10/16- Horace and Pete (TV)

12/11/16- Bad Santa

12/12/16- OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY

12/13/16- Die Hard

12/17/16- Santa Claus

12/17/16- Christmas Vacation

12/17/16- Elf

12/18/16- Demolition

12/23/16- Home Alone

12/24/16- It’s A Wonderful Life

12/24/16- Elf

12/25/16- PASSENGERS

12/25/16- Anomilisa

12/25/16- Creed

12/26/16- Ghostbusters (2016)

12/27/16- STAR WARS ROUGUE ONE 

12/27/16- Star Wars Episode 4

12/27/16- Star Wars Episode 5

12/27/16- Star War Episode 7

4- Theater

16- At Home

1- TV Series

Yearly Totals:

32: Theater

129: At Home

41: TV Series (plus I watched a lot of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Westworld, and more HBO shows than I remember).

Closing Thoughts:

For the first time ever, 2016 was a year that I felt like I watched more television than movies.  Television has been telling better and better stories, and there were some especially interesting shows this year.  This media diary also shows me that I need to go to the theater more in 2017.  All-in-all Arrival and Don’t Think Twice were two of my favorite movies I saw in the theaters.  I hope everyone had as good of a 2016 as the world would allow, and here’s to a hopeful and happy 2017!

About Peter Towe

A graduate of UMASS Boston, Pete now lives in Chicago where he does the movie thing. This mostly consists of watching copious amounts of movies and attempting to craft his own.

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