OV089 - 2014 in Review Part I - Viewing Stats and Worst Movies
The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
Release Date: 01/08/2015
The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
Recorded August 7, 2025: This week, Tiny and I review The Naked Gun in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, I talk about Happy Gilmore 2. We also discuss recent movie and TV news, screenings around Indianapolis, and more. Timestamps Show Start - 00:28 Screening in Indy - 08:13 News Before the Reviews - 12:00 Feature Review The Naked Gun (2025) - 32:21 Spoiler - 53:58 Exit Tiny - 1:00:55 Secondary Review Matt’s Mea Culpa - 1:02:24 Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) - 1:04:35 Closing the Ep - 1:31:30 Patreon Clip - 1:32:52 Related Links ...
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info_outlineHere’s part 1 of our 2-part review of 2014 in movies! In this episode, we share our viewing statistics, blog and podcast statistics and the worst movies we saw in 2014. We’ll be back with our Top Ten Movies of 2014 episode next week!
Find back episodes of the podcast at http://ovpodcast.com and let us know what you think of the movie by tweeting us: @ObsessiveViewer, @ObsessiveTiny, @IAmMikeWhite.
Runtime: 55:58
Direct Download Link:http://traffic.libsyn.com/obsessiveviewer/OV89-2014Worst.mp3
Timestamps
- Episode Start - 00:32
- Podcast and Blog 2014 Stats - 02:41
- Matt’s 2014 Stats - 05:10
- Mike’s 2014 Stats - 06:53
- Tiny’s 2014 Stats - 09:33
- Matt’s Notable Movies of the Year - 12:54
- Tiny’s Notable Movies of the Year - 15:45
- Our Worst Movies of the Year - 19:12
- Godzilla (Mike) - 19:45
- The Counselor (Tiny) - 21:15
- Annabelle (Matt) - 23:22
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I (Mike) - 25:39
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (Tiny) - 28:17
- Tusk (Matt) - 28:54
- Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas (Mike) - 34:03
- Blended (Tiny) - 36:59
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (Matt) - 37:18
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (Mike) - 38:32
- God’s Not Dead (Tiny) - 39:23
- As Above, So Below (Matt) - 40:11
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (Mike) - 43:48
- I, Frankenstein (Tiny) - 49:10
- God’s Not Dead (Matt) - 50:57
- My Dishonorable Mentions - 52:36
- Worst Transition Ever - 52:59
Show Notes
- Listen to Part II of our 2014 in Review episode Here!
- Matt’s 2014 Best & Worst Movies and Viewing Stats - I am really proud of this year’s wrap-up post. I made it a point to be as thorough with my stats as possible. Not only that, but since it was the first full year of Obsessive Viewer (the blog and the podcast), I included stats about OV at the bottom of my post.
- Mike’s Best & Worst Movies of 2014 - Here’s Mike’s write-up of his Best and Worst movies of 2014! I look forward to it every year.
- Tiny’s 2014 Cinematic Year in Review (365 Days, 366 Movies) - Tiny had an extremely impressive year in movie watching. Read about it.
- Matt’s God’s Not Dead Review - This was the most successful blog post on ObsessiveViewer.com in 2014, by a very large margin. I’m proud of it, the internet says I’m butt-hurt. You decide.
- Matt and Tiny on The Nerd’s Domain - In September, Tiny and I were invited to a screening of Jurassic Park by Nerd’s Domain’s Matt Quiett. After the movie we recorded a podcast.
- Matt’s Annabelle Review - Here’s my review of Annabelle, I really wasn’t crazy about it.
- OV83 - Interstellar (Guest: Robert Fekkes) - Here’s our full length episode review of Interstellar featuring our friend Robert.
- Matt’s Interstellar Review - Here’s my written review of Interstellar.
- OV58 - A Review of Blended - Here’s the podcast where we talked about Blended.
- OV72 - As Above/So Below - Here’s the episode where we bring up As Above, So Below in potpourri.
- Obsessive Viewer - Check out plenty of reviews of movies, TV shows and industry commentary at the blog that started it all.
- Obsessive Book Nerd - Our “sister site” where you can find book reviews and commentary on the evolving world of reading.
- The Secular Perspective - Check out Tiny’s side project podcast that explores the concepts of faith, religion and existence from the perspective of secular hosts.
- Mike’s Band: As Good As It Gets - Check out Mike’s band and download the “Something Old E.P.” for free!
- Loudlike Facebook Page - Like the band that gave us our theme song on Facebook!
- Loudlike “Mistakes We Must Make” EP on iTunes - Our theme song is “An Eclipse of Events.” Grab Loudlike’s EP and hear the full version of our theme.
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OV PODCAST IN 2014
Total Podcast Episodes in 2014 – 55 – (4.5 per month average)
- Full Episodes – 50 | (90.9% of total podcast eps)
- Bonus Episodes – 4 | (7.27% of total podcast eps)
- Special Episodes – 1 | (1.81% of total podcast eps)
- Movie Episodes – 35 | (63.63% of total podcast eps)
- TV Episodes – 14 | (25.45% of total podcast eps)
- Live Episodes – 6 | (10.9% of total podcast eps)
- Extended Potpourri – 7 | (12.72% of total podcast eps)
- Guest Episodes – 12 | (21.81% of total podcast eps)
Total 2014 Podcast Time: 83:35’48
In other words, we released enough audio to last 3.47 Days or 0.9% of the Year.
· Most Active Month (for Podcasting) – April – 7 eps | (12.7% of episodes released)
Least Active Month (for Podcasting) – January/September – 3 eps | (5.4% of episodes release)