Pretty simple question.

I'm 26 and started keeping film diaries a while ago. I've averaged just over 1000 movies a year apart from last year where I managed just 750. A decent % (20-40) can be down to rewatches (there are some films I watch several times a year). This year so far I've seen 171. I'm going to put a conservative guess of 6000 though I would imagine it's closer to 7000. (and yes, I have an active social life... mainly my movie watching is down to the fact that I don't sleep more than 4 hours a night and can watch during my work day).

Two words: A lot!

Didn't keep any record, I'm just sure that I forgot more movies than others (probably not participants of this forum) have ever seen.

I have absolutely no idea. I never tracked my movie watching in the past. I did last year and I am this year. I hit 100 movies already this year. Last year I watched 318 movies. Though I do tend to watch more TV Series then movies... I think I will be able to easily top last year's 318.

I remember seeing "Blackboard Jungle" first run at the Fox Theater in Redwood City. I've seen at least three movies a week in theaters ever since (until about four years ago), and literally hundreds every year on television. Then add in the ten to fifteen movies I saw every week I was in college (I have a doctorate and I way overachieved on units on every degree)... so say 160 movies a year from 1954 to 2005 = 8160 in theaters; say 200/year on TV, same timespan = 10,200; and say 375/year for college years (1967-1990... yeah, I overachieved and spent a lot of time in academia) = 8250. I suspect the DVDs/VHS tapes/filmfest/Jay Knowles & other filmfanatic buddies viewings I've done over the years offsets the repeated viewings I've had of a number of films, so 8160 + 10,200 + 8250 = 26,610... just an estimate. I still see (over the past five years) four to ten films each week on cable, and I haven't included those in the total for the past five years... say seven films per week for five years = 1820 more.

Say 28,500 different films, of all lengths, in many languages (yes, I've seen a number of Turkish knock offs, including Star Wars and the Wizard of Oz). I suspect that I've watched more films starring El Santo than everyone else here.... just a guess. That's fewer than 500 films each year, every year of my life. (But I don't recall any before Blackboard Jungle... but I know it was not my first film I saw -- it's the first film I still remember having gone to see. I remember the teenagers dancing in the aisles.)

Quoting VibroCount:

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college years (1967-1990... yeah, I overachieved and spent a lot of time in academia)

Now that's what I would call a long-term-student.
That makes my 17 semester at law school look like ...    17 semester at law school 

I really should start keeping track because I honestly have no idea. I know it's a slew because I've been a huge movie fan all of my life. I'm a child of the drive-in era, and I was fortunate enough to have parents that went to the drive-in about every weekend, and took us along to see whatever they were seeing.

No doubt it's somewhere in the thousands, for sure.

Quoting goblinsdoitall:

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Two words: A lot!

Copy the idea: Two words.... Too few! 

And still buying more than watching.
( Me: "I am Karsten. I am an DVD addict". Crowd: "Hello, Karsten"  )

1,487,342,427,234,770,123,675,898,108,000,345,
879,655,987,876,253,097,654,870,767,234,875,
986,835,987,666,543,981,098,871,098,592,956,
109,765,341,058,349,986,835,987,666,543,981,
098,871,098,592,956,770,123,675,898,108,000,
345,879,655,987,876,253,097,654,987,666,543,
981,098,871,098,592,956,770,123,675,898,427,
234,770,123,675,898,108,000,345,879,655,987,
876,253,543,981,098,871,098,592,956,770,123,
675,898,987,666,543,981,098,871,098,592,956,
770,123,770,123,675,898,108,000,345,879,543,
981,098,871,098,592,956,109,765,341,058,349,
986,835,987,666,543,981,098,871,098,592,956,
770,123,675,898,108,000,345,879,655,987,876,
253,097,654,987,666,543,981,098,871,098,592,
956,770,123,675,898,427,234,770,123,675,898,
108,000,345,879,655,987,876,253,543,981,098,
871,098,592,956,770,123,675,898,987,000

I might be off, one or two, let me recount.  Be right back!