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!