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What will be number 3,000?

I’m coming up on a movie milestone:

The top of my Letterboxd profile as of today

Given that A) it’s spooky season, B) my default cinematic comfort food is MST3K, and C) I’m working on some anime-watching challenges, my money’s on my 3,000th film being from one of those three buckets.

It’s also a coin flip whether I blow past it by accident, or remember to intentionally choose #3,000.

And for good measure: I suppose it’s possible I won’t make it to 3,000 this year — or at all. In a Final Destination movie, just after watching my 2,999th film, I’d get knocked off a cliff by a bus, you’d see the number 3,000 on its rear license plate or something, and then it would land on my broken body at the bottom of the cliff and explode.

But barring unusual circumstances, I’m usually good for around 150 movies/year (although this has been a light year, movie-wise). It should happen.

If I had to pick right now, I’d shoot for viewing #8 of Birds of Prey. This month has really sucked so far, and that perfect film — also a family favorite — is always a delight.

10/17 update: I went with Night of the Creeps. It was great! That was almost three years to the day after #2,500 (Knock Off), so with metronome-like predictability I should be back with a post about #3,500 in late October of 2026.

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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is incredible

Dune (2021) became available on HBO Max on October 21 (at least here on the west coast), but we saved it for date night on October 23. Today, the 29th, marks my fifth viewing!

I screenshotted my Letterboxd profile to commemorate viewing no.5 and Dune‘s domination of my “Recent Activity” bar

This is also:

  • The first time I’ve watched the same film five times in one week, and within eight days of release
  • The fastest a movie has ever made it onto my GOAT nickels list (composed only of movies I rate 5/5 stars and have seen 5+ times)
  • The third time I’ve watched a movie five times in the same year, following Fellowship of the Ring in 2001 and Midsommar in 2019

Villeneuve has said that there’s no director’s cut: “The Director’s Cut is what people are watching in theatres right now. There will be no other cut.” But I’m crossing my fingers that the handful of short (2-5 minutes) featurettes on HBO Max hint at a feature-length making-of documentary, because I would fucking love to see some behind-the-scenes action.

For now, though, I’m looking forward to a sixth viewing. In a lifetime of movie-watching, across nearly 2,700 films, I count Dune among my all-time favorites.

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