My Plex End-of-Year Review (Part 1: Movies)

Published on: December 7, 2024 by Pacdude

I don’t use Spotify—my MP3 downloading habits have refused to die. Literally since the days of Napster, I’ve had a tried and true media collection—music, TV episodes and movies, streamed to all my devices with the magic of a NAS and Plex. My media server is not all the media I ingest, but it’s the media I’ve deemed necessary to own and to be able to access wherever and however I’d like. So since I don’t use Spotify, I don’t have a Spotify Wrapped. My Plex music is logged by last.fm (yeah they’re still a thing!) so between the Plex Watch History and Last.fm, I can wrap up the stuff I’ve made it a point to download and save and watch. This isn’t everything I’ve watched this year, but it’s interesting to see what I took the time to seek out and acquire.

Here’s Part 1: Movies. Let’s walk through some interesting patterns in my viewing habits this year:

I Fall Asleep to Stand-Up Comedy Specials

Specific ones, actually—John Mulaney’s and Greg Davies’ specials, mostly. I’ll go more into this in Part 2 for TV shows, but one of the tried and true methods to get myself to sleep is to be able to shut by brain off by listening to something that I know till and rote, and these stand-up specials I’ve seen so many times, my brain can focus on what’s being said, but not be stimulated enough by it that it keeps me up:

John Mulaney’s first three comedy specials are so fucking good. They’re so tightly constructed. Greg Davies is just a loud silly angry man and it makes me smile. These are my comfort stand-up specials.

I Don’t Think I Give Off Horror Movie Fan Vibes, But…

I hated scary movies growing up. Even Are You Afraid of the Dark? was too scary for me. In high school, my mom let me use her Blockbuster card to rent movies, when they had that “rent any two as much as you’d like for one monthly fee” thing, so I’d rent a movie for my little sister, and some weird movie for me. The first one I rented was a Japanese horror movie called Suicide Club. That’s a hell of a first fucking horror movie to watch. After that, I rented Blair Witch Project. And then, before you know it, I’m a horror movie fan. Here’s all the horror movies I’ve seen this year on Plex:

For The First Time

Once Again

Stand-Up So Good, I Saved Them

These stand up specials were so good, I knew I’d wanna watch them over and over again.

Comfort Films When I Needed Them Most

I was unemployed from July 1st to about September 15th. Here’s all the movies I watched at that time, outside of the aforementioned stand-up melatonin specials. Not all of them are movies I would consider comfort movies, but at a point that I felt pretty down in the dumps, props to these films for trying to perk me up.

Other Fun Patterns of Note

On June 2, I watched The Disaster Artist, a movie recreating the filming of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic, The Room. On June 3rd, I watched The Room. Speaking of cult classics, I watched Troll 2 once this year. Gotta get those numbers up.

On the night of my birthday, I fell asleep listening to Greg Davies: You Magnificent Beast.

I watched Titanic on April 13th. The Titanic sank April 15, 1912.

I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the first time this year. In contrast, I saw Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 twice this year alone.

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