What am I saying I'll watch?

315 films sit on my watchlist against 746 watched. This page compares the shape of the queue to the shape of my actual viewing — by decade and by genre — and then looks at how long things have been waiting. Because the totals differ, every composition chart here is normalized to share within each set, not raw counts.

16 of 315 watchlist items couldn't be matched to TMDB metadata (mostly TV series and unreleased titles) and are excluded from the genre chart.

The watchlist has its own dating caveat. The first week of the account is a setup burst: 120 of the 315 entries were added between 24–31 July 2024, including 30 stamped 2024‑07‑24 — the same import-backfill date that dominates the watched list. Those late-July adds reflect bulk account setup, not paced queueing, so the aging view below is front-loaded by design; the post-August 2024 tail is the real signal.

By decade

Grouped bars: gold is the watchlist's decade mix, blue is what I've actually watched. Each set sums to 100% of its own films, so the question is shape, not volume.

A bar taller in gold than blue means that decade is over-represented in the queue relative to what I watch.

By genre

Same treatment using TMDB genres. A film with three genres counts once toward each, and each set's bars are a share of its own total genre tags. Sorted by watchlist share.

Genres a longer gold bar than blue are ones I queue more than I watch. Family and Adventure run the other way — heavily watched, lightly queued.

Aging

When watchlist items were added, by month. The first bar — all of July 2024, 120 films — is the account-setup burst; read it as "the queue I started with," not 120 paced decisions. The dashed line marks 2024‑07‑24, the 30-film import-backfill date shared with the watched list. From August 2024 on, the adds are sparse and naturally paced.

Stale watchlist

The 20 oldest items still queued, by date added. The whole top of this table is the 2024‑07‑24 import cluster — within it the order is alphabetical, not "most neglected," because those 30 share one synthetic date. The age below is days since added, as of today.

Days waiting is computed live against today's date, so the count climbs on its own — the entire point of an aging view.

What this page actually shows

The 315 films on my watchlist don't look much like the 746 I've watched — and the gaps say something real about how I queue versus how I behave.

Discovery: The 2020s are 27.7 percentage points over-represented in my watchlist (46.6%) versus my watched list (18.9%). The 2010s and 2000s are correspondingly under-queued — by 13.5 and 11.5 percentage points. This is mostly mechanical: I've already watched my way through the 2000s and 2010s, so what's left to queue is mostly current. Action: This isn't a taste signal I need to act on; it's structural. Worth noting only because it means the watchlist isn't representative of my taste — it's representative of "what I haven't gotten to yet," and skews recent by default.

Discovery: Drama (+5.6 pp), Thriller (+3.8 pp), and Crime (+2.4 pp) are over-represented in what I queue versus what I watch. Documentary is also up (+1.6 pp). Conversely, Adventure (−6.9 pp) and Family (−4.5 pp) are heavily under-queued relative to what I actually end up watching. Action: Genre is the more honest signal here — it shows me there's a gap between aspirational queueing (serious dramas, thrillers, crime) and revealed behavior (adventure, family, the lighter watches). The films I deliberately curate aren't always the films I sit down for. Worth knowing when scanning the watchlist on a Friday night: the queue is biased toward "I should watch this," not "I want to watch this."

Discovery: 120 of 315 watchlist items (38%) were added in a single week in late July 2024 when I joined Letterboxd. After that initial setup burst, the real aging signal becomes visible — items that have genuinely lingered. Action: The "stale watchlist" table is more meaningful for items added after the setup burst. Items still queued from the July 2024 backfill aren't really "neglected"; they're "imported and forgotten." Worth a pruning pass on that cohort specifically.

One limitation worth naming

16 of 315 watchlist items couldn't be matched to TMDB — almost all are TV series or unreleased titles. They're excluded from the genre breakdown, which means the genre percentages are over a denominator of 299, not 315. The decade chart is unaffected — decade comes from release year, not TMDB.