Keep track of what films you have seen?

[Nathan]

Is there any decent websites out there that allow you to keep track of what films you have seen? I want to do this just so I can keep a record, and see how many films I have actually seen in my life. Obviously nine times out of ten you will see a title of a film and instantly know whether you have seen it or not, but thats not the point.

I found one site
Keep track of what movies you have seen - iCheckMovies.com

"iCheckMovies helps you keep a personal list of movies you have seen and liked. We use your checks and favorites to recommend movies that suit your taste."

But I don't really like the website, and it doesn't have a great database of films to choose from. IMDB have got a "my movies" section but that isn't very good.

Any suggestions?

[icetorch]

All the films you have ever watched are listed on the IMDb - along with some others that you haven't watched yet.

The IMDb lets you set up a My Movies list to keep records about all the films you've seen and your notes or comments about them.

That's also often the best way to find a title if you can only remember something like the director, one or more of the people in it or even a few keywords or genres. They let you search for titles on all of those things.

If all you can remember is a vague description then a request on the Can You Name This Film? section of this forum can often help with discovering a title - unless it's one of those titles in the cinema in your head. Then it might take surgery to find out what it's called.

[wearysloth]

I've often thought about adding a "what I've seen feature"...it would access the master database for a list of titles then store your collection and ratings on your local machine...

would be a ways in the future but I'm thinking about it...

what would you expect it to do feature wise?

aveleyman.com
is my homepage

[didi-5]

I use a mix of IMDb, blog and spreadsheet. Not ideal!

[Honestman]

I have ended up just using spreadsheets.

[GoggleboxUK]

I use my memory, the one in my head not my PC.

I'm so 1986 sometimes.

[icetorch]

I use my memory, the one in my head not my PC.

The average human memory has been calculated to contain the equivalent of about 10GB of computer memory.

[GoggleboxUK]

The average human memory has been calculated to contain the equivalent of about 10GB of computer memory.

I don't save the whole film there, just the title.

[torinfan]

I don't save the whole film there, just the title.

That's what I do, too!

[smudge]

For just over a year now I have kept a manual notebook, which I semi-regularly transfer to a spreadsheet. This is particularly useful for keeping in touch with where I am with various TV series...

Smudge

[theuofc]

The average human memory has been calculated to contain the equivalent of about 10GB of computer memory.

I've heard it's possible to expand the number of brain cells, i.e. memory. I'm hoping that's true!

Hi, Icetorch.

Barbara

[Sgt Sunshine]

I have my infamous "list" of course........
Actually its a little more complex than that.....there's a main film list which is used in conjunction with....
(i) 50 Years of Oscar Winners List (1960-2010)
(ii) Hammer Horror Films (1965-1963...work in progress)
(iii) John Mills (1957-to start of career..worked out on initial JM purchase then working backwards through catalogue).....
(iv) Nastassja, Jennifer, Liv, Scarlett & Anna do have there own lists of course, but have been amalgamated into the main list to space them out a bit...
(v) Last but not least you wonderful people here have also populated the list with your suggestions.....
Cheers
Sgt S

Here's part of the list.....

[darrenburnfan]

I began keeping a Film Diary in a hard backed exercise book in 1957 when I was 10, listing all the films I went to see at which cinema and the date I went to see them. I kept this up until 1962 at the age of 15, when starting my job in the cinema industry as a trainee projectionist meant that I was a captive audience. However, I have kept records of all the films I ran and all the films I went to see occasionally at other cinemas up until 1981. I certainly remembered some of the films I went to see before 1957 and the cinemas I went to see them at, but wasn't sure of the actual dates. So I researched the dates using the microfilms of the local paper in the reference library. As I have not been to the cinema now for the past thirty years and will never go again, there are no records kept of films seen after 1981.

[Sgt Sunshine]

I began keeping a Film Diary in a hard backed exercise book in 1957 when I was 10, listing all the films I went to see at which cinema and the date I went to see them. I kept this up until 1962 at the age of 15, when starting my job in the cinema industry as a trainee projectionist meant that I was a captive audience. However, I have kept records of all the films I ran and all the films I went to see occasionally at other cinemas up until 1981. I certainly remembered some of the films I went to see before 1957 and the cinemas I went to see them at, but wasn't sure of the actual dates. So I researched the dates using the microfilms of the local paper in the reference library. As I have not been to the cinema now for the past thirty years and will never go again, there are no records kept of films seen after 1981.

Very interesting darrenburnfan........but why have you not been to the cinema since 1981......?
Cheers
Sgt S

[darrenburnfan]

Mainly due to health reasons. But also because I've seen extracts from the more modern films on television and I don't like the style of them at all and I wouldn't go from here to the end of the street to see some of the films they make today. I have a very old friend who works in an Odeon multiplex and he says that I'm not missing much, as the films they show there these days are dreadful. He says they are junk films for junk audiences and he agrees with me that we certainly had the best of the cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. But the films have changed beyond recognition since those days.

[Mortdecai]

These notebooks from Moleskine look very smart......

Film (Passions Journals) ~ Moleskine.co.uk



Quite pricey too.

[Sgt Sunshine]

These notebooks from Moleskine look very smart......

Film (Passions Journals) ~ Moleskine.co.uk


Quite pricey too.

Thanks Mort......they look just the ticket.......all the incriminating evidence in one handy notebook......

[Steve Crook]

Mainly due to health reasons. But also because I've seen extracts from the more modern films on television and I don't like the style of them at all and I wouldn't go from here to the end of the street to see some of the films they make today. I have a very old friend who works in an Odeon multiplex and he says that I'm not missing much, as the films they show there these days are dreadful. He says they are junk films for junk audiences and he agrees with me that we certainly had the best of the cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. But the films have changed beyond recognition since those days.

By you seeing any films in the cinema since 1981 you have missed seeing a lot of rubbish. But you've also missed seeing some very good films.

Mind you, the same could be said of the films of any era. There is a lot of rubbish and a few gems. We only remember the gems from that decade and tend to think that they were all that good

Steve

[darrenburnfan]

Here, pasted in off my Film Diary transcribed to CD, are the films I went to see in Stoke-on-Trent in 1958, at the age of eleven. A world of difference in those days to today...and only proper cinemas, no multiplexes.

ABC Empire, Monday, January 20th.
Harry Secombe; Adele Leigh and Alexander Knox in
DAVY (u)
Technirama and Technicolor
Also Rory Calhoun and Anne Francis in
THE HIRED GUN (u)
CinemaScope


Broadway, Thurs. January 30th.
Anna Neagle; George Baker; Sylvia Syms and Anthony Quayle in
NO TIME FOR TEARS (u)
CinemaScope and Eastman Colour.
also Jim Davis and Arleen Whelan in
THE BADGE OF MARSHAL BRENNAN (u)


Broadway, Monday, February 3rd.
Dirk Bogarde; Stanley Baker; Michael Craig and Barbara Murray in CAMPBELL’S KINGDOM (u)
Eastman Colour.
also William Russell and Adrienne Corri in
THE BIG CHANCE (u)


ABC Empire, Monday, February 17th.
Glenn Ford; Anne Francis and Gia Scala in
DON’T GO NEAR THE WATER (u)
CinemaScope and Metrocolor.
also Colleen Gray and Preston Foster in
DESTINATION 60,000 (u)


Broadway, Sunday, March 2nd.
Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in
AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD (u).
also Scott Brady and Rita Moreno in
DESERT PATROL (u)


ABC Empire, Monday, March 3rd.
Anna Neagle and Anthony Quayle in
THE MAN WHO WOULDN’T TALK (u)
also John Smith and Fay Spain in
THE CROOKED CIRCLE (u)


Broadway, Thursday, March 6th.
Lex Barker and Rita Moreno in
THE DEERSLAYER (u)
CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe.
also Walter Brennan and Marios Ross in
GOD IS MY PARTNER (u)
RegalScope


Broadway, Sunday, March 9th.
Jeff Chandler and Scott Brady in
YANKEE BUCCANEER (u)
Technicolor.
also Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie in
SON OF ALI BABA (u)
Technicolor



ABC Empire, Monday, March 17th.
Richard Todd; Anne Baxter and Herbert Lom in
CHASE A CROOKED SHADOW (u).
also David Brian and Marsha Hunt in
NO PLACE TO HIDE (u)
Eastman Color.


ABC Empire, Sunday, March 23rd.
Stewart Granger and Grace Kelly in
GREEN FIRE (u)
CinemaScope and Eastmancolor.
also Wayne Morris and Elaine Riley in
TEXAS BAD MAN (u)


Alhambra, Monday, March 24th.
Cary Grant; Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren in
THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (u)
VistaVision and Technicolor
also full supporting programme.


Broadway, Thursday, March 27th.
Walt Disney presents Hal Stalmaster and Luana Patten in
JOHNNY TREMAIN (u)
Technicolor
also Walt Disney’s
BAMBI (u)
Technicolor


Broadway, Sunday, March 30th.
George Montgomery and Joan Vohs in
FORT TI (u)
Technicolor.
also Jon Hall and Susan Cabot in
ON THE ISLE OF SAMOA (u)


ABC Empire, Monday, March 31st.
Jack Webb and Virginia Gregg in

THE

D.I. (u).
also Ronald Colman and Vincent Price in
THE STORY OF MANKIND (u)
WarnerColor


Broadway, Monday, April 7th.
Barry Sullivan; Dennis O’Keefe and Mona Freeman in
DRAGOON WELLS MASSACRE (a)
CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe.
also John Payne and Mona Freeman in
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT (a)


ABC Empire, Wednesday, April 9th.
Alan Ladd and Dianne Foster in
THE DEEP SIX (u)
WarnerColor.
also Charles McGraw in
KILLER AT LARGE (u)


Focus, Saturday, April 12th.
Randolph Scott and Maureen O’Sullivan in
THE TALL T (u)
Technicolor.
also Jack Lemmon and Kathryn Grant in
OPERATION MAD BALL (u)


Broadway, Wednesday, April 16th.
Walt Disney presents Richard Todd and Joan Rice in
THE STORY OF ROBIN HOOD (u)
Technicolor.
also Walt Disney’s
LADY AND THE TRAMP (u)
CinemaScope and Technicolor


Focus, Thursday, April 17th.
Randolph Scott; Dorothy Malone and Peggie Castle in
TALL MAN RIDING (u)
WarnerColor.
also John Wayne and Lauren Bacall in
BLOOD ALLEY (u)
CinemaScope and WarnerColor


ABC Empire, Wednesday, April 30th.
Ian Carmichael; Terry Thomas and Janette Scott in
HAPPY IS THE BRIDE (u)
also Dale Robertson and Rossana Rory in
THE TALL TROUBLE (u)


ABC Empire, Monday, May 19th.
David Tomlinson and Peter Sellers in
UP THE CREEK! (u)
CinemaScope
Also John Bromfield and Colleen Gray in
FRONTIER GAMBLER (u)


ABC Empire, Monday, May 26th.
Tommy Steele and June Laverick in
THE DUKE WORE JEANS (u)
also Scott Brady and Phyllis Coates in
BLOOD ARROW (u)
RegalScope


ABC Empire, Monday, June 9th.
Lionel Jeffries; Terry Thomas and Joyce Grenfell in
BLUE MURDER AT ST. TRINIANS (u)
also Jim Davis and Arleen Whelan in
RAIDERS OF OLD CALIFORNIA (u)


Focus, Saturday, June 14th.
Anna Neagle; George Baker; Sylvia Syms and Anthony Quayle in .
NO TIME FOR TEARS (u)
CinemaScope and Eastman Colour
also The Bowery Boys in
CRASHING LAS VEGAS (u)


ABC Empire, Monday, June 23rd.
First Provincial Screening.
George Baker; Sylvia Syms; Peter Arne and Marius Goring in
THE MOONRAKER (u)
Technicolor
also James Craig; Barton MacLaine and Lita Milan in
NAKED IN THE SUN (u)
Eastman Color


Focus, Saturday, July 5th.
George Montgomery; Peter Graves and Marcia Henderson in
CANYON RIVER (u) .
CinemaScope and Technicolor.
also The Bowery Boys in
HOLD THAT HYPNOTIST (u)


Focus, Saturday, July 12th.
Elvis Presley; Lizbeth Scott; Wendell Corey and Dolores Hart in
LOVING YOU (u)
VistaVision and Technicolor
also Alan Freed and Little Richard in
MR. ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (u)


Focus, Saturday, July 26th.
Barry Sullivan; Dennis O’Keefe and Mona Freeman in
DRAGOON WELLS MASSACRE (a)
CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe.
also John Payne and Mona Freeman in
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT (a)


Focus, Thursday, July 31st.
Johnny Sheffield as Bomba the Jungle Boy in
THE KILLER LEOPARD (u)
also The Bowery Boys in
JAIL BUSTERS (u)


ABC Empire, Monday August 4th.
Gordon Scott and Betta St John in
TARZAN AND THE LOST SAFARI (u)
CinemaScope and Technicolor
also Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark in
THE LAW AND JAKE WADE (u)
CinemaScope and Metrocolor


Focus, Monday, August 11th.
Tony Martin and Vera Ellen in
LET’S BE HAPPY (u)
CinemaScope and Technicolor
also The Bowery Boys in
HOT SHOTS (u)


ABC Empire, Tuesday, August 12th.
Walt Disney presents
Fess Parker; Dorothy Maguire and Tommy Kirk in
OLD YELLER (u)
Technicolor
also Dennis O’Keefe and Kathleen Ryan in
SAIL INTO DANGER (u)


Focus, Thursday, August 14th.
Victor Mature and Karen Steele in
THE SHARKFIGHTERS (u)
CinemaScope and Technicolor
also Tony Martin and Peggy Castle in
FRONTIER SCOUT (u)
Color by De Luxe


Focus, Thursday, August 28th.
Ian Carmichael; Terry Thomas and Sharon Acker in
LUCKY JIM (u)
also Ben Cooper; Jim Davis and Anna Maria Alberghetti in
DUEL AT APACHE WELLS (u)
Naturama


ABC Empire, Monday, September 1st.
Walt Disney presents
Fess Parker; Jeff York and Kathleen Crowley in
WESTWARD HO, THE WAGONS! (u)
CinemaScope and Technicolor
also Walt Disney’s remarkable True-Life Fantasy
The Story of PERRI (u)
Technicolor


Focus, Thursday, September 4th.
Dale Robertson; John Lund and Linda Darnell in
DAKOTA INCIDENT (u)
Trucolor
also John Bromfield; Victor Jory and Lon Chaney Jr in
CALYPSO (u)
Trucolor


Focus, Thursday, September 11th.

Joel McCrea and Barbara Hale in
THE OKLAHOMAN (u)
CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe
also The Bowery Boys in
FIGHTING TROUBLE (u)


Focus, Saturday, September 20th.
Hugh Marlowe and Nancy Gates in
WORLD WITHOUT END (a)
CinemaScope and Technicolor.
also The Bowery Boys in
SPY CHASERS (u)


ABC Empire, Saturday, September 27th.
Frankie Vaughan; Jeremy Spenser; Jackie Lane and Jean Dawnay in WONDERFUL THINGS (u)
also Steve Cochran and Dianne Brewster in
QUANTRILL’S RAIDERS (u)
CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe


ABC Empire, Saturday, October 18th.
William Hartnell; Bob Monkhouse and Shirley Eaton in
CARRY ON SERGEANT (u)
also Glen Mason and Lee Patterson in
MAN WITH A GUN (u)
plus Life in the air with the R.A.F. in
THE SKY IS OURS (U)
Technicolor


ABC Empire, Sunday, October 26th.
Alan Ladd; David Ladd and Olivia de Havilland in
THE PROUD REBEL (u)
Technicolor
Also Dean Jones and Joan O’Brien in
HANDLE WITH CARE (u)

[darrenburnfan]

By you seeing any films in the cinema since 1981 you have missed seeing a lot of rubbish. But you've also missed seeing some very good films.

Mind you, the same could be said of the films of any era. There is a lot of rubbish and a few gems. We only remember the gems from that decade and tend to think that they were all that good

Steve

Quite true, Steve, there were junk films in all eras. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, even the lowliest of second features made on a very low budget, especially British ones, were better than and had more talent at work in them, than many a very expensive feature film made today.