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@Birdleson, @Dennison, @PropertyOfALady, @Mrcoggins, @Thunderfinger, @Strog, @GoldenGun, @DarthDimi, @thelivingroyale, @patb, @RichardTheBruce, @vzok, @Murdock, @JamesBondKenya, @Some_Kind_Of_Hero, @Tuulia, @Agent_99 and @barryt007.
Including myself that makes 19 people.
Other folks that I think may be interested are @DaltonCraig007, @chrisisall, @Master_Dahark, , @CraigMooreOHMSS, @bondjames, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns, @ToTheRight and @Legionnaire, who I will try to reach through PM to ask more directly.
In the meantime, a few of us have made our list of five films and everyone else can follow suit when they are ready. I will stress again, make sure you order your list of 5 films such that #1 is the one you are most enthusiastic about all the way down to #5. I say this because it'll take a long time to get around to you after the first rotation occurs and if you're passionate about a particular movie it only makes sense to have it watched before others in your list.
I figure we'll take the next week to get all the members who want involved to finish their lists and prepare for the first scheduled film viewing. When all the lists are done I will take all the names of our members into a randomizer, order them and then edit my original post in this thread with a schedule listing the order of all the movies that we'll be watching alongside the name of the member who will be leading the discussions at every passing of two weeks.
It seems that members want to start with Memento first, a selection of @JamesBondKenya, so he will be our first in the order and the randomizer will order everyone from the second position onward. People can get a head start on finding Memento now, as the goal would be to kick things off the Monday after next, August 28th.
1. Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves 1968)
2. Kill List (Ben Wheatley 2011)
3. Thief (Michael Mann 1981)
4. Deliverance (John Boorman 1972)
5. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg 1999)
Ditto for myself. Great idea by the way, Brady!
I certainly didn't mean to suggest any more general discussion, news etc. for this thread, I understand your ideas for it, and that's plenty already. I just mentioned (probably shouldn't have) that it would be nice to have that sort of discussion places as well, I've always thought it's a pity we don't. However, I've always assumed that there isn't enough interest or a thread (or indeed several threads) would already exist (since forever). There are other sites that have various stuff we don't have here, so I just go elsewhere for that stuff, and news and discussions. I understand the focus here is specific - first everything Bond, of course, then other franchises, and plenty interest in action. This isn't a general movie forum, and the type of stuff that is here surely reflects the tastes and the interests here, and I understand that. I'm just sort of an outsider that has stubbornly stuck around for a few years - I won't be starting any threads myself. I'm obviously aware of the thread you linked, and have posted there occasionally, but often I feel like an alien there myself, so I don't even follow it most of the time. I recently briefly considered posting a trailer I liked there, but when I visited the thread and saw what was there I decided against it - figured folks wouldn't be interested anyway. But I mean I understand that, and I just try to navigate my way around.
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Lots of great films already suggested and some I've never heard of as well, which is also interesting. Getting to see whatever stuff is another thing entirely, but it'll be interesting to see how that goes.
Will try to make a top 5-list soon. I don't know which films to include, as there are (too) many that could make the top 5. To make it easier, I will try to do a top 5-list, based on the latest viewings of some of my all time favourites.
I will not have the opportunity to participate with every film, as I fear that there are titles mentioned that I won't have the chance to get, or stream. As we all know, titles on Netflix and other streaming services may vary from country to country, etc. I will however use this thread to find films I might want to watch on another occasion!
Me too. I'm trying to come up with films that: a) I think a majority haven't seen; b) are worth watching and could generate interesting discussion; and c) are commercial enough to be fairly widely available. That third one kind of clashes with the first one and has ruled out some cool possibilities—much as I think Possession (1981) is a film everyone should experience at least once. ;)
Like with DarthDimi and some others I have a loaded schedule ahead and can't promise to commit to every film (or know that I'll be able to find every film), but in these lists I'm already finding films I'm either already very fond of or have been meaning to get to (or hadn't been thinking about but that just sound interesting). @JamesBondKenya, I do believe you will get me to watch my first Bollywood film!
I'll have my list ready by lunchtime tomorrow - struggling to narrow it down to five films.
I honestly never expected this thread to pick up or garner so much participation, which is why I recommended five movies as the maximum number for members to have in their lists; I thought only ten of us would be involved and it'd be sensible to get through fifty or so films for the first rotation.
However, now that we have so many people joining on, it seems that asking each member to choose five movies feels extremely nonsensical and/or strange. That would mean, if everyone currently involved did their list, we'd have 150 films alone to watch in the future just from the first five rotations, and that seems too large a number for the immediate future of the group, given that it would take years to get through those first lists alone.
So, I thought I could offer a correction to members who've done lists (which is 8 of us) and those who are still trying to come up with lists in light of the change to the participant pool that this thread has had in the past days. I feel like the only way to go forward with the group and film recommendations now is to ask all those who've made lists and who are currently trying to make them to select just one movie each that they want to share with the group. That way the first rotation of movies will only be thirty films long instead of five times that size doing it the previous way. I know it'll be even harder for interested people to go from thinking about five movies to selecting just one, but I think people could understand and/or agree why it's now illogical to make such big lists. With everyone selecting just one film that means that the movies that the other members picked in their lists (the remaining four from each) are available to be picked by other members, so that we can have a good range of films open to us. I know that a lot of the films already taken in those lists are those that would be selected anyway, so it makes no sense to cancel them out.
How do people feel about this change to the plan? Of everyone selecting just one movie they want to share instead of making a list of five? With around 30 films at the start of this journey that would put this first rotation of movies past a year in length of watching and discussion, and it seems ridiculous to go any farther than that with so many people on board. I know so many of us adore films and it's hard to pick just one to lead discussions on when our time comes, but I see no other way to approach this hurdle at this point.
If people do agree with this change of mine, of those who have made their lists already, including @JamesBondKenya, @PropertyOfALady, @RichardTheBruce, @Strog @GoldenGun, @thelivingroyale and @LeonardPine, I would ask them to select just one film from their lists that they would like to share, while letting the other movies go with the chance of them being selected by other members.
If I had to pick from my list I think I'd still settle on The Maltese Falcon despite my interest in sharing others, for how fundamental a movie it is to the medium and its own native genre. High Noon, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now and The American would all be open for selection by others in light of this, which I hope they would be for the discussions they could ignite.
Since yesterday we've had @LeonardPine and @Torgeirtrap join as steady or mostly regular members, while @Agent007391, @Shark_0f_Largo, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns, @ToTheRight, @bigladiesman, @mattjoes, @ClarkDevlin, @bondjames and @CraigMooreOHMSS are all members who are only able to commit off and on but who still want to be involved at some point.
Of the members above I welcome @Torgeirtrap to offer his film selection, but of the other members who are only unofficially or infrequently planning to be involved, I will give them the choice of whether or not they want to choose a film to add to the group or if they simply want to let other members choose the films for them to watch week to week. I know that @bondjames doesn't want to make a selection and is willing to go by what others want to watch, and I realize that other members who are signing on for tentative participation may want to do the same and just go with the flow of what others are suggesting for the first rotation of films.
In some ways it would be beneficial if not every member picked a film if they didn't want to, as that would lower the already gigantic amount to a more reasonable level. With everyone who is officially involved we'd have about 20 films in the schedule if everyone picked one each, and just 5 more members making a selection would give us a number that would last us around one full year, which would be a nice round number. That being said I only want those who aren't interested in suggesting a film to take this action, and those who want to be involved should feel welcome to no matter the final number we end up with.
I know this was a long post and I apologize for that, but I'm trying to get some thoughts in order to figure out a way for the group to adapt to the changes that've come in participation to make the creation of a final list of films more reasonable for all involved. As always, please address any concerns or feedback from the above information that you have in a post here and I'll get to answering it the best I can. The goal is to make this group flexible for members and their schedules and needs, so feedback and suggestions will go a long way towards realizing that end.
A little seen film that blew me away when I first saw it.
Great choice. Low budget gem.
Perhaps the other choice I had in mind, the lesser known but nonetheless interesting noir The Detective (1968) would be a better selection? It has interesting content relevant to our times, represented an interesting film style and pushed the Hayes Code of its day in what story it told. But more than that, I don't think many here have seen it, as I've discussed it before on the forum and found some seasoned noir fans who'd yet experienced it. What do people think?
(If anyone else is having trouble selecting a movie for the group, feel free to address your quagmire here as I have to receive some possible assistance or feedback)
From those five, I've picked:
Dark Blue World (Jan Sverák, 2001)
That name sounds Czech or Slovak, am I correct?
Yes! It's a Czech film about Czechoslovakian pilots flying for the RAF in the Battle of Britain. Deserves to be much better known IMHO.
No, to be honest, I think it might work just as good. For whatever reason, the film that each person chooses, will be an important film, or a film which is just a really good movie experience (or both!).
I'm having trouble choosing that one film. Unfortunately, I think I'll have to end up with a somewhat well-known title no matter what. Had a look through my movie collection, and couldn't find a lesser known title to compete for the #1 spot. Am I allowed to choose a well-known title?