The Idea
- Watch and discuss movies together (kinda like a book club)
- "Crowd source" recommendations for not-entirely-new films (IE, older than a year or so, let's say)
- Aim for generally bettering or curating our film "diet"
How it will work (at least at first)
- 1 film a month
- First, a post to take nominations/suggestions
- Post any film you want to watch, or have heard good things about, or recommend to everyone else
- Second, a post to take votes on the nominations
- And then we watch and discuss the winner
First round will start next month (July)
Please share any thoughts/feedback, though we'll likely run this at least once first before making any changes, just to feel it out
Yea, great question. I'd guess that this is likely to be the biggest issue with the whole thing.
I personally don't think one person can source a particular film for everyone. I think crowd sourcing availability options is realistically the only way to go.
What we might find out though is that the current streaming system is actually a regression from the days of video rental shops. In the past, many of the films we'd want to watch would have been available at the local shop. Some might have required some hunting but nothing too serious. And esoteric ones would have been hard to find and required an academic library or something.
Now, if you have to sign up to a different streaming service and potentially VPN for every different film you want to watch, that may become prohibitive for many and would really be a step backward however convenient the internet is otherwise.
I'm hoping it's fine, and I'm also rather curious to see how it goes TBH.
I personally have found decent success in renting films off of Apple ITunes/TV. And I've also found a nearby old-school video rental with quite a good collection of DVDs and BlueRays. So I'll probably be leveraging those. But I don't know how available or desirable that is for many here or exactly what other options there are.
It will certainly be a conversation for every film we want to watch, I think.