{"id":62,"date":"2005-06-14T01:36:49","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T08:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=62"},"modified":"2005-06-14T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T17:09:24","slug":"siff-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/siff-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"SIFF Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jason\/files\/siff-tickets.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"194\" alt=\"My SIFF Tickets\" title=\"My SIFF Tickets\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nWell, <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/category\/movies\/siff\/\">SIFF<\/a> is over. It&#8217;s sad. My movie-watching will now return back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\">Netflix<\/a>. I realized that I really do like watching in the privacy of my own home (without tall people&#8217;s heads infront of me, the stink of popcorn, uncomfortable temperatures, etc.). Nonetheless, I&#8217;m totally glad I did SIFF and I intend to continue seeing SIFF movies as long as I live in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Secret Festival, I&#8217;m not sure whether I&#8217;ll do it again next year. I only liked one of the four movies. I think the philosophy behind choosing the movies wasn&#8217;t quite what I expected. Maybe that varies year-to-year &#8212; I can&#8217;t say. We&#8217;ll see what I impulsively decide next year.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the festival I kept some &#8220;statistics&#8221; on random things. To conclude my SIFF coverage for the year, I share:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total money spent on tickets:<strong><br \/>\n$137<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total time spent standing in line:<strong><br \/>\n155 minutes = 2 hours 35 minutes<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total movies seen:<strong><br \/>\n15<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Languages:<strong><br \/>\nCantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, English, Swedish, French<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies with subtitles:<strong><br \/>\n7<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies canceled:<strong><br \/>\n1<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies about movies:<strong><br \/>\n3<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Times the director was in the audience:<strong><br \/>\n4<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total voting points given:<strong><br \/>\n43<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Average points given:<strong><br \/>\n3.9<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Times the woman with orange\/red hair stood behind me:<strong><br \/>\n2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Times people left the audience in disgust:<strong><br \/>\n2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001041\/\">Maggie Cheung<\/a> in the cast:<strong><br \/>\n2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001528\/\">Don McKellar<\/a> in the cast:<strong><br \/>\n2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>My favorite movie:<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2005\/2047\/\"><i>2046<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>My favorite movie that wasn&#8217;t a <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/category\/movies\/wong-kar-wai\/\">Wong Kar-Wai<\/a> movie:<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2005\/review-mysterious-skin\/\"><i>Mysterious Skin<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>My favorite movie that stood a chance against a WKW movie (i.e. <i>2046<\/i>) and a movie by one of my favorite directors with one of my favorite actors (i.e. <i>Mysterious Skin<\/i>):<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2005\/review-clean\/\"><i>Clean<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>My favorite movie that didn&#8217;t stand a chance against the aforementioned movies because it was a comedy (and I&#8217;m not a big fan of comedy, but this movie was awesome anyway):<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2005\/review-ellie-parker\/\"><i>Ellie Parker<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fat people who blocked my view:<strong><br \/>\n2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies seen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/market\/Seattle\/EgyptianTheatre.htm\">Egyptian Theatre<\/a>:<strong><br \/>\n7<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies seen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/Market\/Seattle\/NeptuneTheatre.htm\">Neptune Theatre<\/a>:<strong><br \/>\n5<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Movies seen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/market\/Seattle\/HarvardExitTheatre.htm\">Harvard Exit Theatre<\/a>:<strong><br \/>\n3<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>My favorite theatre:<strong><br \/>\nThe Egyptian<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/li>\n<li>Movies I went to see alone:<strong><br \/>\n8<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, SIFF is over. It&#8217;s sad. My movie-watching will now return back to Netflix. I realized that I really do like watching in the privacy of my own home (without tall people&#8217;s heads infront of me, the stink of popcorn, uncomfortable temperatures, etc.). Nonetheless, I&#8217;m totally glad I did SIFF and I intend to continue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/siff-stats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SIFF Stats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}