Just curious, how often does everyone watch Chinese/Asian videos per week?

And do you feel guilty about doing so?

I suspect I devote way too much time to this insidious vice. I will only admit to, lately, an average of 5 movies a week with some variances.

5 signs you a movie video addiction:

1. You complain when it's _too_ sunny out and you have to close the curtains to watch a video during the day.
2. You hope it rains, so you don't feel guilty for staying inside.
3. Having the winter flu is a _good_ thing. Another reason to stay in bed with the remote control.
4. You have a credit card _solely_ for buying videos online.
5. You own Ashes of Time on VHS,VCD,LD and DVD.

Of course, none of the above bears any resemblance to yours truly. And if it does, a mere coincidence.

I literally have stacks of boxes of movies in the haven't-gotten-to-watch list, not to mention old-ones-worth-rewatching. Lately, I've been trying to watch my movies twice back to back. As they used to say in the old war movies, like using heavy artillery: once for effect and another for impact. Before, I'd speed from one movie to the next without letting the previous one register in my less than fully functioning memory and go on to the next one. Now, I find that, on second viewing, having recalibrated expectations I'm enjoying some movies more on the second go around. Of course, that can't be said in the case of a piece of junk like my recent viewing of Country Bumpkin In Style. I did feel a lot better about the Two Con Men films though.

Anyone else care to testify? Say, halleleullah!

My stack of videos to watch is growing into a huge mountain of DVDs. No matter how many I watch, there are more, since I don't stop buying 'em. Now that's a sign of addiction, but I never feel guilty about it.

I watch 1 per month.

Does not count TV broadcastings?

Well I used to watch about 4 a week. But I had a huge american list of havent yet seen titles so I started watching them. I probably have about 75 unseen US films in my to-see stack and about 50 Asian films, To top it off I have been ordering Classic Shaw Brothers stuff from Celestial. Watching those re-mastered classics is like seeing them for the first time as well.

I liked the one about closing the curtains, I do that all the time. Considering how much it rains here in the UK the sun always puts in an appearance when I have just popped a film in the player!

i watch around 1-3 films a week, hard to find any free time for me

I got school, work, and hang out with friends (in the theatre)... i don't reallky have a big pile has most of the movie i want to see i already seen them. Right now i have around 5 movie to be watch... man it hard to get more good movies when you seen a lot.

An average of one a night, plus a catch up of three or four on a weekend (occasionally three on a Saturday night when I'm feeling energetic, and get an early start)...what's that add up to? I've lost count...just as much as I've lost count of the amount of 1/2 finished reviews I've started then never finished for my long-lost website...

The fact that I ONLY watch Hong Kong & Thai movies these days (nothing from anywhere else, unless a decent Aussie film is released locally) should put it all into perspective!!!

Is it a hobby...an obsession...or a lifestyle? You be the judge...

White Dragon wrote:An average of one a night, plus a catch up of three or four on a weekend (occasionally three on a Saturday night when I'm feeling energetic, and get an early start)...what's that add up to? I've lost count...just as much as I've lost count of the amount of 1/2 finished reviews I've started then never finished for my long-lost website...

The fact that I ONLY watch Hong Kong & Thai movies these days (nothing from anywhere else, unless a decent Aussie film is released locally) should put it all into perspective!!!

Is it a hobby...an obsession...or a lifestyle? You be the judge...

I hear you.
That was like my schedule but I'm trying not to watch one a night anymore and force myself to write a blurb for the hkmdb. So, a new movie every other night only if I start a so-called review and the same movie two nights in a row. That's causing my 'to watch' piles to stack perilously high however.
My townhouse looks more like a warehouse.

Last year, I went to the movie theatres only once. I couldn't resist the Kill Bill hype. This year, I've seen Tae Guk Gi and Hero at the big screens, that's it. I have 'normal' DVDs from three Christmases back unopened. For me, it's HK and KR, almost exclusively. I did watch Les Tripletts de Beauville last week though, another gift. I think I felt a reproachful stare from my vcds.

Bizarrely, even though life has changed dramatically for me since the inception of my (currently) dormant site, I still have this wild idea of launching it somehow! John Charles, Brian Naas, and a slew of Asian cinemaphiles constantly badger me about it; if I hadn't have stepped up to management in my day job and found the best lady of my life in another country (with immigration & wedding plans in the offing), maybe it might have seen the light of a CRT display by now...

But back in my heyday (the early to mid-nineties) it was actually MORE insane!!! I was catching four new features out of HK a week on the big screen (at our late, lamented Chinese cinemas), trundling into Chinatown and walking out with armfuls of videos and laserdiscs, and STILL finding the time to crank out capsule reviews for Eastern Heroes, Hong Kong Superstars and a couple of others AND act as research consultant for local video distributor Chinatown Video PLUS squeeze in the odd dash of copywriting for a few overseas HK video distributors! I reckon back then, I was averaging double digit viewing figures on a weekly basis.

Now, with no more Chinese cinemas, I'm solely reliant on DVD imports and, as they're cheap as chips out of HK and Thailand, I'm managing to break even on the new stuff as it's released...just. These days though, I try and stick with most of the cinema released product and avoid the DTV junk; I used to have a bit of a soft spot for the Cat III soft-porn trash, but now that I'm closer to 40 than 30 (and teetering on the brink of married life) it's all pretty much lost its lustre. Funny thing is, for me, no matter how middling some of the HK and Thai stuff is, I still prefer it to most any US product (which I find interminably vacuous these days) - the last US film I was goaded into seeing (SIGNS) I walked out of, and would have asked for my money back had I not been sitting in an advance screening with industry friends. In fact, the last film I saw in a cinema was ITCHY HEART while I was in Malaysia a short while back; the next time I see a movie in the cinemas, it will be when I'm back in Malaysia again soon...and it will most certainly be a Chinese film...probably KUNG FU HUSTLE, since that opens around the same time I'm back.

Who knows, once life's settled down a bit, maybe I might have another crack at the site...before the domain expires...

PS: Why would I feel guilty about doing something I enjoy doing? It's a hobby, and I love the particular forms of cinema I do - plus, it helps wile away the (spare/down) time until my next overseas trip, and will help kill additional time till my lady gets here. No guilt in doing something you enjoy...

It's almost all asian films I watch nowadays. Gave up completely on Hollywood movies around a year ago (well almost, still watch the occasional one). I watch a couple throu the week and usualy three or more at the weekend. Was just counting and i've got a backlog of twenty films to catch up on.

Well in the old days I used to watch all HK flix--probably at least 2 or 3 a week. I also used to stay at a friends house and watch HK flix all weekend. Then I discovered anime and I watched more of that than of HK films. I still bought them until I ran out of money. Now I just rent them (anime and HK flix) along with Japanese movies. So I pretty much watch anime every day of the month (thanks to on demand too), and watch 2 or 3 HK films each month. I hope to increase the live action stuff again to balance out. is that sad....?

I've been having a bit of a break recently, trying to catch up on other interests and give my brain a bit of a rest from movie watching - but still must get through 4 or 5 films a week minimum :p I used to aim for 1 a day and 4 or 5 at weekends, which meant my life was pretty much work, movie, sleep, repeat - and for quite a long time that was all good, but I think I finally OD'd and became quite jaded about what I was watching :p

Phew, was glad "re-watches" don't count in the survey, otherwise I'd shoot well past one per day. I admit to 4 or 5 new films per week as being my load, a mixture of HK, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese & anime. A different week means a different preference but I always end up back watching Hong Kong flix. Can't and don't want to cure this habit, but there was a "blip" when FIFA 2005 was released, LOL

So "Rewatches" do not count? Well than it´s about the same for me (about 4-10 new movies a week)

Well I watch a movie before I go to bed almost everyday! So, I re-watch my movies alot!

I usually watch 2 or 3 movies a week.

I usually watch maybe 2 a month. I would like to watch more. It is just the issue of finding the time. I watch several shows on regular broadcast tv on the weeknights (I love '24'). I have all these titles to watch and sometimes I don't feel like watching them because they have been sitting around in my VCD box for ages. Lately I got into a Milkyway kick until I put in my VCD of 'Longest Nite' and the subtitles were like this big, and I just couldn't read them and so I gave up. The night before I watched 'Hero never dies' and that also had really small subs but the ones for 'longest nite' were by far the smallest I have seen on a VCD.

I also watch a fair share of anime and it is just a matter of what I am in the mood for.

I think like most of us I really get a kick out of the collection aspect of being an HK film fan and anime fan. I was buying so much stuff and I have watched probably 15% of it. This year however I have drastically cut back my purchases.

7 each week, plus about 20 trailers

Do we get a result of you poll?

Pieter, you should be able to see the results at the top of the page.

For myself, if I was able, I'd change my vote down to 2-3. I've been losing valuable screening time trying to make screen captures for the db.
So, I end up doing a lot of 're-watches' instead of 'new watches'. Did I just coin term? The good news is, you're spared my film 'reviews'. That exercise is on temporary hiatus

We don't watch TV--the only reason we have a TV is watch DVDs. I turned on the news for a bit on July 7, but quickly realized that the coverage I could get on various internet sites was superior to anything on TV.

So--I watch about 5 per week. My wife, who is a fan of anything with Jackie Chan plus a lot of the 80s/90s Hong Kong fare plus classical post war Japanese movies, joins me for one or two a week.