OV266 - 2018 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats
The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
Release Date: 01/10/2019
The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
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info_outline OV420 - Love Lies Bleeding (2024) & You'll Never Find Me (2024) - Guests: Brent Leuthold and Joe ShearerThe Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
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info_outline OV419 - Imaginary (2024) & Oscars 2024 Potpourri - Guests: Sam Watermeier and Joe ShearerThe Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
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info_outline OV418 - Dune: Part Two (2024) & Spaceman (2024)The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
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info_outline OV417 - Drive-Away Dolls (2024) & Monolith (2024) - Guests: Brent Leuthold and Joe ShearerThe Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast
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info_outlineHappy 2019 and welcome to The Obsessive Viewer’s 2018 Year in Review episode! It’s our annual episode where Tiny, Mike, and myself share our movie viewing stats for the year, our top ten favorite movies list, and otherwise just nerd out about our year in movies and life! So buckle in and prepare yourself for the episode we always looking forward to and enjoy!
Timestamps
- Show Start – 00:30
- Spotlight on Letterboxd - 02:50
- How Was Our Year - 06:43
Year in Review - Stats - 08:46
- Mike’s Viewing Stats - 09:44
- Tiny’s Viewing Stats - 14:45
- Matt’s Viewing Stats - 19:00
- Matt’s AMC A-List Stats - 25:05
- Letterboxd Stats - 34:32
- Movies We Missed in 2018 - 48:45
- Honorable Mentions - 53:12
- Fekkes’ Top Ten List - 1:02:46
- Kyrsten’s Top Ten List - 1:04:42
Year in Review - Our Top Tens - 1:05:52
- Our Lists - Numbers 10-6 - 1:06:14
- Our Lists - Numbers 5-1 - 1:58:30
Podcast Stats and 2019 Challenges
- The OV List Challenge 2019 - 02:58:40
- Mike’s Sign Off - 3:00:26
- Matt’s Additional Challenges in 2019 - 3:02:13
- Tiny’s 2019 Goals - 3:05:30
- Matt’s Worst/Disappointing 2018 Movies - 3:07:09
- Welcome New Listeners - 3:11:22
- 2018 PoDcAsT sTaTiStIcS!!!!! - 3:14:52
- Closing the Ep – 3:19:39
- Stinger: Mike’s Comic Dividers - 3:24:09
- Pre-Recorded Outro - 3:26:28
Our Lists
Matt's Top Ten List
- Eighth Grade - OV246
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - OV246
- Roma - OV265
- Avengers: Infinity War - OV239
- Hereditary
- The Tale - OV261
- Mission Impossible: Fallout
- A Quiet Place - OV238
- Blindspotting - OV263
- Blockers - OV243
Matt's Honorable Mentions
- Annihilation - OV242
- BlacKkKlansman - OV246
- Sorry to Bother You - OV243 & OV246
- Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse - OV262
- Upgrade
Mike’s Top Ten List
- Hereditary
- Eighth Grade - OV246
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - OV262
- Halloween - OV257
- Annihilation - OV242
- A Star is Born - OV259
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? - OV246
- Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Upgrade
- Avengers: Infinity War - OV239
Mike's Honorable Mentions
- BlacKkKlansman - OV246
- Black Panther - OV236
- A Quiet Place - OV238
- Searching - OV249
- Blockers - OV243
- Tag - OV240
Tiny’s Top Ten List
- Blindspotting - OV263
- Avengers: Infinity War - OV239
- Hereditary
- The Tale - OV261
- Sorry to Bother You - OV246
- BlacKkKlansman - OV246
- A Quiet Place - OV238
- Eighth Grade - OV246
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - OV246
- Hold the Dark - OV261
Tiny’s Honorable Mentions
- Incredibles 2 - OV246
- Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Deadpool 2 - OV240
- Black Panther - OV236
- Halloween - OV257
- Roma - OV265
- Dumplin’
- Operation Finale
Related Links
- Matt's Various 2019 Letterboxd Challenges
- Matt's Top 10 Movies of 2018 List on Letterboxd
- Tiny's Top 10 Movies of 2018 List on Letterboxd
- Mike's Top 10 Movies of 2018 List on Letterboxd
- Letterboxd’s 2018 Year In Review
- OV034 – 2013 Year in Review, Top Movies and Viewing Stats
- OV089 – 2014 in Review Part I – Viewing Stats and Worst Movies
- OV090 – 2014 in Review Part II – Best Movies of 2014
- OV148 – 2015 in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats
- OV199 – 2016 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats
- OV231 – 2017 Year in Review – Best and Worst Movies of the Year and Viewing Stats
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Episodes from 2018 for New Listeners
Get to Know the Hosts
- Matt, Mike, and Tiny - OV242 - Extended Potpourri (Sort Of) - Mike’s Parenting Stories, Movie Subscription Services, Movie Theater Anxiety, Annihilation, Terrifier, and More
- Matt and Tiny - OV237 - Pan’s Labyrinth (Patreon Selection) - The 2018 Oscars, Paddington, The Circle, and Alan Alda on ER
- Matt and Mike - OV247 - Letterboxd Potpourri - Slender Man, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Crazy Rich Asians, ET, 2001: A Space Odyssey in IMAX, AMC A-List, and Compiling Top 100 Lists
- Matt and Fekkes - OV264 - Bonus Ep - Aquaman, The American Meme, and Kevin Spacey’s Let Me Be Frank
- Matt and Kyrsten - OV246 - Movie Theater Potpourri - BlacKkKlansman, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You, Incredibles 2, and Isle of Dogs
Movie Review Eps
- OV239 - Avengers: Infinity War
- OV241 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- OV244 - Skyscraper
- OV256 - Bad Times at the El Royale
- OV260 - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- OV262 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- OV263 - Welcome to Marwen
- OV265 - Roma
Film Festival Eps
- OV251 - HIFF2018: Part I - The Bikes of Wrath
- OV252 - HIFF2018: Part II - Crime + Punishment
- OV253 - HIFF2018: Part III - The Samuel Project
- OV254 - HIFF2018: Part IV - Care to Laugh
More Links
- Obsessive Viewer - The homepage for all the things we do.
- Shocktober in Irvington - Our yearly event screening of short horror films from Indianapolis filmmakers to support the Irvington Historical Society
- Obsessive Viewer Presents: Anthology - Matt’s solo podcast exploring science fiction anthology storytelling in television’s first golden age starting with The Twilight Zone. iTunes - Google Play - Stitcher - Twitter
- Obsessive Viewer Presents: Tower Junkies - Our spinoff podcast dedicated to Stephen King’s magnum opus, The Dark Tower and related topics. iTunes - Google Play - Stitcher - Twitter
- 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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