we already have the movie talk thread, but that’s for general discussion; i’m thinking it could be fun to have a different movie to watch each week, and then discuss in a thread.
i think the way it’d work is that every week on a certain day, a new movie would be chosen and announced on the forum, and streamed in a discord server for anyone interested. then, anyone who didn’t get to/didn’t want to watch on discord could watch any time during the remaining week, and everyone could post their thoughts and reactions.
would you be interested in joining? is a weekly schedule too quick? any other thoughts?
i’m not interested
i’d be interested in joining, and watching a group discord stream of the movie
i’d be interested in joining, and watching the movie myself during the week
i’d be interested in joining, but don’t want to choose one of the two above choices, for whatever reason
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while i’d be willing to, i don’t think i’m very qualified to run this club, so if anyone else would be interested, feel free to claim the role of organizing/hosting this!
This is a fun idea and I would be willing to join up (if timezones sync up conveniently).
I’m thinking these sort of group viewings probably work best with like B-movies than prestige dramas. If it’s important to pay attention and follow along it’s probably not gonna come across in a group setting unless like everyone is dead quiet.
i was imagining it would be like the game club, with anyone free to submit movies they think would fit; maybe we could alternate between more and less serious movies each week?
Oh yeah my favorite. Have you seen Tarkovsky’s two sci-fi films Solaris and or Stalker? Those two are fun and buy fun I mean deep Russian despair. I’m just trying to determine how deep of a cut before I find a movie that a lot of people on this forum hasn’t already seen.
I think Tarkovsky movies are cool. Mirror and The Sacrifice are my two favorites. As far as deep cuts go, the first cut is the deepest, as Sheryl Crow would say. That is to say, I have no idea, what that means. But I like deep cuts!
Any of the discord streaming movie clubs I’ve been a part of that are in any way successful just have everyone on mute and using the attached text chat channel sidebar instead.
voted “don’t want to choose” – for the reason that my timezone likely precludes me from joining but I don’t want that to be a factor in others not choosing that option
I voted for by myself because my schedule isnt great, but I think both options are good. It wouldnt be unreasonable to attempt to do both. Maybe the discord streaming aspect could be a monthly thing as opposed to weekly/bi-weekly to allow some time for folks to plan to be available?
I don’t see why it can’t be a mix of people being present and people watching alone if we just announce what we’re watching with a little lead time before watching. If the movie resonates then the discussion can overflow into this thread for those of us watching it together.
maybe once a month we could do an unmuted voice call stream of a goofier/funnier/b-er-movie-er/sillier/whateverer movie, and the other weeks of the month would be a muted group call stream of any type of movie?
(we’d still allow people to watch on their own for any week, of course)
Sometimes I’m very flexible with my time and sometimes I’m not at all so I can’t promise anything (especially considering time zones) but if I had the chance to hang in a discord and watch a movie with the ICF crowd I’d be down for sure.