OV090 - 2014 in Review Part II - Best Movies of 2014
The Obsessive Viewer - Weekly Movie/TV Review & Discussion Podcast
Release Date: 01/15/2015
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info_outlineHere’s part 2 of our 2-part review of 2014 in movies! In this episode, we share our honorable mentions and the best movies we saw in 2014. We also share our excitement for 2015.
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Runtime: 1:33:42
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Timestamps
Intro - 00:35
Episode Start - 01:08
Our Honorable Mentions - 01:44
Our Top Ten Movies of 2014 - 08:35
Best Movies of 2014
Our Number 10s - 08:38
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Korengal, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Our Number 9s - 14:41
Snowpiercer. This is Where I Leave You, Gone Girl
Our Number 8s - 18:59
Interstellar, Nightcrawler, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Our Number 7s - 24:17
Birdman, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Nightcrawler
Our Number 6s - 28:30
Guardians of the Galaxy, Snowpiercer, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Our Number 5s - 32:40
Gone Girl, The Normal Heart, Men, Women & Children
Our Number 4s - 38:45
Chef, The Skeleton Twins
Our Number 3s - 47:51
Boyhood, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Theory of Everything
Our Number 2s - 59:02
Nightcrawler, Interstellar, Guardians of the Galaxy
Matt’s Interstellar Rant - 1:02:05
Our Number 1s - 1:12:47
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Mike) - 1:12:47
Guardians of the Galaxy (Tiny) - 1:16:03
Whiplash (Matt) - 1:18:39
Movies We Missed in 2014 - 1:23:53
Looking Toward 2015 - 1:26:43
Show Notes
- Listen to Part I 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 Tusk Review – Check out my written review of Tusk. I was not kind to Kevin Smith’s latest movie.
- OV88 – Bonus Ep – Friends Retrospective – We closed out 2014 with an episode where Mike and I spent over 3 hours discussing Friends, the thing that really solidified our friendship when we met in 2005.
- OV66 - Extended Potpourri - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Snowpiercer, I Origins and The Imposter – Here’s the episode where we talk about Snowpiercer.
- OV81 - Favorite Movie Dialogue, Horrible Bosses 2, Nightcrawler and Blue Ruin – Listen to us discuss Nightcrawler in this episode.
- OV49 - Captain America 2, 47 Ronin, Grand Budapest Hotel and The Returned – Find out Mike’s thoughts on The Grand Budapest Hotel on this episode of the podcast.
- 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.
- 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!
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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)