A very good year here at UltimateMovieRankings.com.

3,689,136 total views for the website in 2017 – down 45,136 views from 2016*

210 countries reached – up 9 countries from 2016

13,175 cities reached – down 361 cities compared to 2016

180 new UMR pages and 1,147 UMR trailer pages written in 2017

2.02 days between new UMR pages in 2017….our lowest ratio ever!

*  Twice for a total of 21 days our view counter stopped working and registered no views for those days.  Using an average daily visit count for the missing days….would put our 2017 view total at 3,831,936….and would have probably added in a few cities as well.

Top 15 UMR Viewed Pages of 2017

1. Marvel vs D.C. Movies  – 126,808 views
2. Pixar versus DreamWorks – 60,737 views
3. John Wayne Movies  – 41,465 views
4. Abbott & Costello Movies  – 36,088 views
5. Elvis Presley Movies – 35,472 views
6. Kurt Russell Amazing Facts – 35,188 views  *Most popular “new” page of 2017.
7. Bette Davis Movies – 34,210 views
8. Bruce Willis Movies – 33,443 views
9. Jerry Lewis Movies – 33,217 views
10. Black Hawk Down – 32,924 views
11. Spielberg vs Cameron –  32,066 views
12. Joan Crawford Movies – 31,852 views
13. Burt Reynolds Movies – 29,453 views
14. 1939 Movies – 28,755 views
15. Gregory Peck Movies – 28,643 views

If there is a best then there has to be a worst.  Our least viewed UMR movie page is David Bowie Movies….with only 431 views for the entire year.

Best Stats at UMR.com?  Easily the it is the comments received. So far we have received 27,720 comments.  In 2017, we got 8,666 comments.  Granted half were my responses, but that is 24 comments a day!

We have 4 New Members to Add to Our UMR Commenters Hall of Fame – This is based on quantity and quality.

Class of 2017

• bob cox – bob from USA not to be confused with Bob from Ireland
  
• Lupino – Has become our voice from Germany.
  
• Pierre – One of our main voices from France.
  
• Phil Simmons – Phil is our great explorer…..as he found and commented on many of our “forgotten” UMR pages.
  

Previous UMR Hall of Fame Classes

Class of 2016 – Bob, John, Dan, SteinHoF & Lyle

Class of 2015 – Chris, Helakoski, Kat94,&  Laurent

Class of 2014 – Bern1960, BryRog57, Flora, Søren & Steve L.

UMR In Memoriam 2017

Every year we lose lots of people….2017 was no exception.  We do not write a UMR page on every movie actor that passes away…..but if it is somebody we feel connected to ….it seems to make us feel better.  In 2017 that happened 7 times.

UMR Pages Written After The Celebrity Passed Away

John Hurt passed away on January 25th, 2017….Hurt was one of the great character actors.  Leaves behind so many great roles.

Bill Paxton passed away on February 25th, 2017.   This was one of the more stunning passing of 2017.  “Game over” …but some many great movies in his legacy.

Glenne Headley passed away on June 8th 2017.  Headley starred in a couple of my favorite movies….Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Fandango.

Adam West passed away on June 9th, 2017.  West will always be Bruce Wayne/Batman to me.  RIP.

Martin Landau passed away July 17, 2017.   Landau was one of the last living connections to 1959’s North by Northwest….which is one of my and my dad’s favorite movies.

John Heard  passed away July  21st, 2017.    Something about the dad from Home Alone passing really bothered me.

Sam Shepard passed away July 27th, 2017.  The play writer and actor will also be the General in Black Hawk Down in my mind.

UMR Pages Written Before The Celebrity Passed Away

Roger Moore passed away on May 23rd, 2017. Moore was “my” James Bond growing up.  Sad day when I had heard of his passing.

Jerry Lewis passed away on August 20th, 2017.  The famous funny man passed away just a few days short of Labor Day.  Growing up Labor Day and Jerry Lewis almost seemed like the same thing.  Sad sad day.

Some of the Other Actors/Actresses/Film  That Passed Away In 2017

1. Powers Booth – Tombstone, Red Dawn, Sin City
2. Glen Campbell – True Grit
3. Bernie Casey
4. Stephen Furst – Animal House’s Kent Dorfman
5. Robert Guillaume – The Lion King
6. Richard Hatch – Battlestar Galactica
7. Hugh Hefner – James Caan’s former roommate
8. John Hillerman
9. Rose Marie
10. Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
11. Erin Moran – Happy Days
12. Robert Osborne – TCM Legend
13. Tom Petty – Soundtracks….with She’s The One….being my favorite
14. Della Reese
15. Don Rickles – Kelly’s Heroes, Toy Story movies
16. Harry Dean Stanton

Finally….thanks to everybody that visited these pages and made 2017 a very successful year for us. Looking forward to an even better 2018.