RM Movie Club: it ended

[Jorge]

The idea is to watch and discuss a different movie every two weeks, picked by a different RMer. This should lead to some cool discoveries and interesting discussions.

If you express interest, I'll put your name into a randomizer and we'll figure out some kind of schedule. When your turn comes, you pick the movie you want the club to watch and discuss. It should be a movie that's available to buy/rent/stream from an online platform. Hopefully something that's not super-duper-obscure so that RMers don't have such a hard time finding it.

I know we're all busy people so not everyone will be able to watch every movie. If we get at least 10 people involved, and at least half of those people watch the movie every time, this should lead to good discussion.

PICKING ORDER
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Kaius
@SkitchP
Simple Torture
durdencommatyler
Rangi Guy
E.H. Ruddock
Dev
VinylGuy
The Argonaut
BurtReynolds
ABNorman
Mecca
bada
theplatypus
lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda
wease

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i like this idea, but my concern is access to the selected movie

[Jorge]

I think that should be one of the things to be taken into consideration when picking each movie. We'll have a better chance of generating some discussion if it's a movie that can be accessed with relative ease. International posters might have a harder time with that but thankfully most everything can be found online, and non-American ISPs tend to be a lot more lax when it comes to torrenting and stuff. Unless you're Australian.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I think that should be one of the things to be taken into consideration when picking each movie. We'll have a better chance of generating some discussion if it's a movie that can be accessed with relative ease. International posters might have a harder time with that but thankfully most everything can be found online, and non-American ISPs tend to be a lot more lax when it comes to torrenting and stuff. Unless you're Australian.

my computer is slow

[Simple Torture]

I'd be into it, except don't make me pick a movie first. Also, I think 2 weeks is a good time frame--if we can all agree to watch it in the first 5 days, that leaves a good amount of time for discussion. And the person "up next" shouldn't be allowed to announce their pick early since it might undercut discussion of the current movie (if they do, they'll be exiled from movie club).

[Mecca]

my participation depends on whether jorge will be selecting Divorcing Jack or not

[BurtReynolds]

I'll do it, but every 2 weeks might be better.

[Jorge]

Two weeks sounds good. Yeah every week seems like too much.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

my first pick is the forbidden zone

[Jorge]

Wait, so Len, are you in? Mecca, are you in?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Wait, so Len, are you in? Mecca, are you in?

let me think about it, i'm definitely interested in theory

[Simple Torture]

If you select me to pick first, so help me God.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

If you select me to pick first, so help me God.

why are you so adamant about this?

[Simple Torture]

Picking first is going to be the worst. If you pick a bad movie, people are going to lose interest in the club right away. I can't take that pressure.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Picking first is going to be the worst. If you pick a bad movie, people are going to lose interest in the club right away. I can't take that pressure.

you're a well respected member of this community, so were that to occur i don't think anybody would hold that against you

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i'm out

[Simple Torture]

I'm trying to decide if I'll pick a movie I've seen or if I'll pick a movie I've never seen but want to.

[Jorge]

Trag, shut up. I'm accepting your application to join movie club but the other members of movie club are advised to disregard your movie club pick until your turn comes up.

[@SkitchP]

I would like to be a part of this.