QT3 Movie Club 4.0

[sinnick]

Let the Movie Club start again!

Previously, on Movie Club

45. La Femme Nikita (1990) – roguefrog
46. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Aristophan
47. El Rey de la Montaña (2007) – Christien McCrawsky
48. Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995) – Athryn
49. Groundhog Day (1993) – Soma
50. The Thin Red Line (1998) – baren
51. Rififi (1955) – Charlatan
52. A Tale of Two Sisters (2004) – malkav11
53. Happy Accidents (2001) – snowcrash22
54. Dead Again (1991) – sinnick
55. The Trial (1962) – extarbags
56. Black Dynamite (2009) – Jasper Phillips
57. Hard Eight (1996) – Moggraider
58. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) – Omniscia
59. Twelve Monkeys (1995) – arakyd
60. Yin Shi Nan Nu (1994) (aka Eat Drink Man Woman) – Rimbo
61. The Quiet Earth (1985) – XtienMurawski
62. Carriers (2009) – TomChick
63. Infernal Affairs (2002) – Equis
64. Oasis (2002) – Kyle Wilson
65. Tromeo and Juliet (1996) – Talisker
66. Seven Samurai (1954) – russellmz00
67. Fresh (1994) – Tman
68. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) – Houngan
69. Trouble Every Day (2001) – Kelly Wand
70. American Splendor (2003) – Jon_Danger
71. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) – Jasper
72. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) – Drastic
73. Nine Queens (2000) – malkav11
74. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) – madkevin
75. Gangster No. 1 (2000) – BlueJackalope
76. Whisper of the Heart (1995) – Ben Sones
77. Out of the Past (1947) – Andrew Mayer
78. Jaws (1975) – Joe O’Malley
79. Night of the Hunter (1955) – madkevin
80. Becket (1964) – Gordon Cameron
81. The Three Musketeers (1973) – Rimbo
82. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) – Bullhajj
83. Wonder Boys (2000) – tromik
84. Swing Kids (1993) – Wholly Schmidt
85. Amistad (1997) – Hanzii
86. The Quiet Man (1952) – VegasRobb
87. After Life (1998) – Mordrak
88. A Midnight Clear (1992) – Bill Dungsroman
89. Sorcerer (1977) – TomChick

What is Movie Club?

Movie Club is a thing we do on QT3 where someone picks a movie and posts a thread about that movie, and then we all talk about that movie. It’s a nice way to see new movies or movies you haven’t seen in a long time, or just great movies that you want to talk about some more! To be a member of Movie Club, all you need to do is watch the movie and participate in one of the movie club threads.

How does it work?

We use a script called the MovieSelectron 5000™. Every two to four weeks, I’ll run the script to randomly choose the next movie picker. Seems like that is a reasonable schedule to try to stick to, based on previous threads.

The selected person will be notified via PM, as well as posted in this thread. Once notified, the selection should be posted as soon as is feasible – take enough time to put some thought into it, but don’t agonize about it for too long :)

Note: if your selection isn’t available via Netflix, don’t expect much discussion (OTOH, if it’s available for instant streaming, you’ll get a lot more takers).

There’s no set discussion period; once the next selection is posted, have at it, for as long as there’s interesting stuff to say. Revisiting older Movie Club selections is strongly encouraged and factors into your chances for getting to pick the next movie, so if you missed an earlier one, well, go watch it, and let us know what you think!

Movie discussion threads should be posted in the same manner as in previous weeks (see above threads for reference). Include IMDB, Netflix, and any other pertinent links in the initial post, along with whatever brief non-spoiler background/introduction you deem appropriate. A link back to the main Movie Club thread (this one) would be good too :)

Finally, as always, the two primary rules:

1) No Complaining About Picks
Even if someone picks Battlefield Earth. If you hate the movie and can’t stand to discuss it, take a pass until next time.

2) Be familiar with the movie (aka: The “WATCHED IT” decree)
One of the goals of the club is to have discussions with folks who are familiar with the movie. That means even if you’ve seen it, you should watch it again before posting.

For very popular movies that everyone have seen (which tend to generate more replies), we have a special term that you need to include to receive club credit for participating: WATCHED IT. Just those two words, in all caps. Read the thread to know whether you need to do that or not.

Finally finally finally, thanks again to Kareem to getting the whole Movie Club ball rolling in the first place, and to Talisker for creating the MovieSelectron. Onward!

[sinnick]

So I know the holidays are coming up, and people are busy, but I wanted to get this rolling before I forgot. I also figured that, like myself, people may have some down time between Christmas and New Years, so that might be an ideal time for a new movie to watch!

So for this first pick, what with the busy time of year and the movie club reboot, I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever is the lucky winner takes longer than a day or so to make his pick – although if it doesn’t that’s cool too.

And the next picker is:

pct %   poster             picked  participated
------  -----------------  ------  -------------------------------
12.17%  Moggraider                 2,7,8,15,19,20,22,23,25,26,27,28,29,30
 7.47%  sinnick                    27,28,29,30,31
 6.96%  Jasper Phillips            8,9,13,14,15,17,18,19,21,22,23,24,27,30
 6.40%  Tman               23      1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,26,27,29,30,31
 6.04%  baren                      29,30,31
 5.29%  malkav11           17      1,2,3,12,13,14,15,16,19,20,24,27,28,29,30,31
 5.29%  Soma                       24,27,28,29,30
 4.70%  XtienMurawski      29      14,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,30,31
 3.36%  Omniscia                   12,14,18,19,28,31
 3.25%  Drastic            18      1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,19,21,22,23,25,27,28,29
 2.52%  Talisker           25      9,10,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,26,27,31
 2.35%  mrbloo                     19,28,29
 2.35%  Kyle Wilson        26      1,3,4,6,9,11,13,15,18,19,20,21,25,27,28,29
 1.78%  Rimbo              9,30    1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,12,13,16,18,20,22,24,25,26,27,28,29,31
 1.72%  Pogue Mahone               1,9,12,19,24,29
 1.43%  jason                      25,26,28
 1.26%  Scourge                    1,2,3,4,6,11,13,27
 1.17%  Rywill                     12,31
 1.17%  KWhit                      1,31
 1.15%  RedHerb                    31
 1.15%  Charlatan                  31
 1.05%  tromik             7       11,28,31
 1.05%  frank austin               19,24,28
 1.01%  madkevin           11,16   1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,24,29,30
 0.84%  Jon Rowe           20      1,11,12,14,16,17,18,19,21,22,24,25,27
 0.82%  Jeff Fries                 1,4,9,13,16,24,25
 0.73%  EvilIdler                  1,29
 0.71%  Texas Arcane               29
 0.71%  Homunculus                 29
 0.63%  BlueJackalope      15      1,10,11,12,13,14,21,23,28
 0.57%  snowcrash22                1,2,10,11,13,14,15,17,18
 0.57%  TimElhajj                  1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,21
 0.44%  russellmz00        24      1,5,7,10,12,13,14,17,23,27
 0.44%  maxle                      28
 0.44%  drake113                   28
 0.44%  Xemu                       28
 0.44%  Supersport                 28
 0.44%  Strollen                   28
 0.44%  Raife                      28
 0.44%  J. Matthew Zoss            28
 0.44%  Funkman                    1,2,4,7,16,17,18
 0.38%  TomChick           1,28    2,3,12,15,17,21,24,25,27,29
 0.34%  MikeP                      2,6,14,23,24
 0.34%  Equis              27      2,7,24,28
 0.34%  Chris Nahr                 24,27
 0.29%  quatoria                   12,17,25
 0.29%  Sebmojo                    7,27
 0.29%  Eric P                     16,27
 0.27%  sinfony                    27
 0.27%  S├╢ren H├╢glund            27
 0.27%  Nawid A                    27
 0.27%  Munin                      27
 0.25%  Wisbechlad                 10,12,15,24
 0.25%  Hans Lauring               2,5,6,10,11,12
 0.21%  Machfive                   1,2,3,4,5
 0.21%  Gordon Cameron     10      8,11,12,16,24,26
 0.19%  Andrew Mayer       13      1,2,8,11,12,18,19,24
 0.17%  Nellie                     1,3,5,6
 0.15%  arakyd             31      28
 0.13%  forgeforsaken              1,2,3
 0.13%  John Merva                 3,9,11
 0.13%  Bahimiron                  2,19,21
 0.13%  Aristophan                 16,18,19
 0.10%  ahoythematey               25
 0.10%  Moore                      25
 0.08%  Mordrak            3       1,2,25
 0.08%  Hammet                     22,24
 0.08%  Bill                       16,24
 0.06%  ydejin                     24
 0.06%  souldaddy                  24
 0.06%  hong                       24
 0.06%  copet                      24
 0.06%  antifood                   24
 0.06%  GreasyPig                  24
 0.06%  Gabe Lewis                 24
 0.06%  CLWheeljack                24
 0.04%  roguefrog                  3,6
 0.04%  corsair                    9,12
 0.04%  Wholly Schmidt     6       1,2,3,5,7
 0.04%  Telefrog                   12,19
 0.04%  Tankero                    2,3
 0.04%  Malathor                   9,13
 0.04%  Joe O'Malley       12      4,8,10,11,22
 0.04%  JPR                        7,8
 0.04%  Houngan            22      2,8,9,11,16
 0.04%  Enidigm                    1,10
 0.04%  Dean                       1,5
 0.04%  Brendan                    2,19
 0.02%  z22                        12
 0.02%  triggercut                 22
 0.02%  tiohn                      18
 0.02%  tedington                  20
 0.02%  shift6                     4
 0.02%  rrmorton                   1
 0.02%  robsam                     15
 0.02%  rattasak                   19
 0.02%  prolix                     12
 0.02%  nixon66                    9
 0.02%  mystery                    4
 0.02%  metta                      1
 0.02%  krise madsen               8
 0.02%  krayzkrok                  7
 0.02%  graller                    2
 0.02%  extarbags                  16
 0.02%  davida                     1
 0.02%  dashingly                  7
 0.02%  awdougherty                2
 0.02%  Wallapuctus                12
 0.02%  Wader                      12
 0.02%  VegasRobb          4       11
 0.02%  Troy S Goodfellow          16
 0.02%  Tim James                  9
 0.02%  SwampIrish                 1
 0.02%  SteveS                     2
 0.02%  SergioBAM                  19
 0.02%  Ron Dulin                  21
 0.02%  Rock8man                   1
 0.02%  Robert Sharp               2
 0.02%  RickH                      6
 0.02%  Rasputin                   12
 0.02%  Quitch                     8
 0.02%  Preachy Preach             9
 0.02%  Mike Cathcart              1
 0.02%  MattKeil                   14
 0.02%  Mark Asher                 1
 0.02%  Marcus                     2
 0.02%  Kunikos                    2
 0.02%  Khelavaster                17
 0.02%  Kelly Wand         21      1,18
 0.02%  Kareem                     2
 0.02%  Kalle                      6
 0.02%  Justin Fletcher            9
 0.02%  John Sansker               22
 0.02%  Jerry Sizzler              12
 0.02%  JeffL                      16
 0.02%  Jasper             19
 0.02%  Jason Levine               16
 0.02%  Janster                    20
 0.02%  Hugin                      1
 0.02%  Hawkeye Fierce             12
 0.02%  Hanzii             5
 0.02%  Hanacker                   20
 0.02%  GregB                      14
 0.02%  DoomMunky                  19
 0.02%  Donald L.                  4
 0.02%  Desslock                   1
 0.02%  Dave47                     7
 0.02%  Dave Long                  22
 0.02%  Damien Neil                8
 0.02%  Cormac                     9
 0.02%  Coca Cola Zero             6
 0.02%  Chuck                      2
 0.02%  Chris                      12
 0.02%  Bullhajj           8
 0.02%  Bill Dungsroman    2       1
 0.02%  BennyProfane               4
 0.02%  Ben Sones          14      12
 0.02%  Athryn                     9
 0.02%  ArrowOfFortune             21
 0.02%  Arioch                     8
 0.02%  Anaxagoras                 1
 0.02%  Albert Woo                 3
 0.02%  AlanT                      9
 0.02%  Alan Au                    12
 0.02%  Acoustic Rob               8

The next picker:  Strollen

Strollen!

[Charlatan]

I demand a recount!

[Rimbo]

goddammit… you take the reins over from someone. REINS.

RIGHT:

WRONG:

ALSO WRONG:

NOT JUST WRONG BUT ALSO VERY SILLY:

[sinnick]

@Rimbo

goddammit… you take the reins over from someone. REINS.

DAMMIT!
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fixed ;)

[tomchick]

I am so glad to see this getting a re-boot. Now someone get Strollen in here!

-Tom

[sinnick]

I did PM him. [shrug]. Maybe we give him another day, after which I’ll roll again? It’s a busy time of year.

[sinnick]

All right, Strollen will have to go back into the hat for the next draw ;).

Our next movie picker is…

pct %   poster             picked  participated
------  -----------------  ------  -------------------------------
12.17%  Moggraider                 2,7,8,15,19,20,22,23,25,26,27,28,29,30
 7.47%  sinnick                    27,28,29,30,31
 6.96%  Jasper Phillips            8,9,13,14,15,17,18,19,21,22,23,24,27,30
 6.40%  Tman               23      1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,26,27,29,30,31
 6.04%  baren                      29,30,31
 5.29%  malkav11           17      1,2,3,12,13,14,15,16,19,20,24,27,28,29,30,31
 5.29%  Soma                       24,27,28,29,30
 4.70%  XtienMurawski      29      14,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,30,31
 3.36%  Omniscia                   12,14,18,19,28,31
 3.25%  Drastic            18      1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,19,21,22,23,25,27,28,29
 2.52%  Talisker           25      9,10,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,26,27,31
 2.35%  mrbloo                     19,28,29
 2.35%  Kyle Wilson        26      1,3,4,6,9,11,13,15,18,19,20,21,25,27,28,29
 1.78%  Rimbo              9,30    1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,12,13,16,18,20,22,24,25,26,27,28,29,31
 1.72%  Pogue Mahone               1,9,12,19,24,29
 1.43%  jason                      25,26,28
 1.26%  Scourge                    1,2,3,4,6,11,13,27
 1.17%  Rywill                     12,31
 1.17%  KWhit                      1,31
 1.15%  RedHerb                    31
 1.15%  Charlatan                  31
 1.05%  tromik             7       11,28,31
 1.05%  frank austin               19,24,28
 1.01%  madkevin           11,16   1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,24,29,30
 0.84%  Jon Rowe           20      1,11,12,14,16,17,18,19,21,22,24,25,27
 0.82%  Jeff Fries                 1,4,9,13,16,24,25
 0.73%  EvilIdler                  1,29
 0.71%  Texas Arcane               29
 0.71%  Homunculus                 29
 0.63%  BlueJackalope      15      1,10,11,12,13,14,21,23,28
 0.57%  snowcrash22                1,2,10,11,13,14,15,17,18
 0.57%  TimElhajj                  1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,21
 0.44%  russellmz00        24      1,5,7,10,12,13,14,17,23,27
 0.44%  maxle                      28
 0.44%  drake113                   28
 0.44%  Xemu                       28
 0.44%  Supersport                 28
 0.44%  Strollen                   28
 0.44%  Raife                      28
 0.44%  J. Matthew Zoss            28
 0.44%  Funkman                    1,2,4,7,16,17,18
 0.38%  TomChick           1,28    2,3,12,15,17,21,24,25,27,29
 0.34%  MikeP                      2,6,14,23,24
 0.34%  Equis              27      2,7,24,28
 0.34%  Chris Nahr                 24,27
 0.29%  quatoria                   12,17,25
 0.29%  Sebmojo                    7,27
 0.29%  Eric P                     16,27
 0.27%  sinfony                    27
 0.27%  Sören Höglund            27
 0.27%  Nawid A                    27
 0.27%  Munin                      27
 0.25%  Wisbechlad                 10,12,15,24
 0.25%  Hans Lauring               2,5,6,10,11,12
 0.21%  Machfive                   1,2,3,4,5
 0.21%  Gordon Cameron     10      8,11,12,16,24,26
 0.19%  Andrew Mayer       13      1,2,8,11,12,18,19,24
 0.17%  Nellie                     1,3,5,6
 0.15%  arakyd             31      28
 0.13%  forgeforsaken              1,2,3
 0.13%  John Merva                 3,9,11
 0.13%  Bahimiron                  2,19,21
 0.13%  Aristophan                 16,18,19
 0.10%  ahoythematey               25
 0.10%  Moore                      25
 0.08%  Mordrak            3       1,2,25
 0.08%  Hammet                     22,24
 0.08%  Bill                       16,24
 0.06%  ydejin                     24
 0.06%  souldaddy                  24
 0.06%  hong                       24
 0.06%  copet                      24
 0.06%  antifood                   24
 0.06%  GreasyPig                  24
 0.06%  Gabe Lewis                 24
 0.06%  CLWheeljack                24
 0.04%  roguefrog                  3,6
 0.04%  corsair                    9,12
 0.04%  Wholly Schmidt     6       1,2,3,5,7
 0.04%  Telefrog                   12,19
 0.04%  Tankero                    2,3
 0.04%  Malathor                   9,13
 0.04%  Joe O'Malley       12      4,8,10,11,22
 0.04%  JPR                        7,8
 0.04%  Houngan            22      2,8,9,11,16
 0.04%  Enidigm                    1,10
 0.04%  Dean                       1,5
 0.04%  Brendan                    2,19
 0.02%  z22                        12
 0.02%  triggercut                 22
 0.02%  tiohn                      18
 0.02%  tedington                  20
 0.02%  shift6                     4
 0.02%  rrmorton                   1
 0.02%  robsam                     15
 0.02%  rattasak                   19
 0.02%  prolix                     12
 0.02%  nixon66                    9
 0.02%  mystery                    4
 0.02%  metta                      1
 0.02%  krise madsen               8
 0.02%  krayzkrok                  7
 0.02%  graller                    2
 0.02%  extarbags                  16
 0.02%  davida                     1
 0.02%  dashingly                  7
 0.02%  awdougherty                2
 0.02%  Wallapuctus                12
 0.02%  Wader                      12
 0.02%  VegasRobb          4       11
 0.02%  Troy S Goodfellow          16
 0.02%  Tim James                  9
 0.02%  SwampIrish                 1
 0.02%  SteveS                     2
 0.02%  SergioBAM                  19
 0.02%  Ron Dulin                  21
 0.02%  Rock8man                   1
 0.02%  Robert Sharp               2
 0.02%  RickH                      6
 0.02%  Rasputin                   12
 0.02%  Quitch                     8
 0.02%  Preachy Preach             9
 0.02%  Mike Cathcart              1
 0.02%  MattKeil                   14
 0.02%  Mark Asher                 1
 0.02%  Marcus                     2
 0.02%  Kunikos                    2
 0.02%  Khelavaster                17
 0.02%  Kelly Wand         21      1,18
 0.02%  Kareem                     2
 0.02%  Kalle                      6
 0.02%  Justin Fletcher            9
 0.02%  John Sansker               22
 0.02%  Jerry Sizzler              12
 0.02%  JeffL                      16
 0.02%  Jasper             19      
 0.02%  Jason Levine               16
 0.02%  Janster                    20
 0.02%  Hugin                      1
 0.02%  Hawkeye Fierce             12
 0.02%  Hanzii             5       
 0.02%  Hanacker                   20
 0.02%  GregB                      14
 0.02%  DoomMunky                  19
 0.02%  Donald L.                  4
 0.02%  Desslock                   1
 0.02%  Dave47                     7
 0.02%  Dave Long                  22
 0.02%  Damien Neil                8
 0.02%  Cormac                     9
 0.02%  Coca Cola Zero             6
 0.02%  Chuck                      2
 0.02%  Chris                      12
 0.02%  Bullhajj           8       
 0.02%  Bill Dungsroman    2       1
 0.02%  BennyProfane               4
 0.02%  Ben Sones          14      12
 0.02%  Athryn                     9
 0.02%  ArrowOfFortune             21
 0.02%  Arioch                     8
 0.02%  Anaxagoras                 1
 0.02%  Albert Woo                 3
 0.02%  AlanT                      9
 0.02%  Alan Au                    12
 0.02%  Acoustic Rob               8

The next picker:  Omniscia

Omniscia!

[AndrewMyers]

Yay! :)

[Bahimiron]

No chance of a reboot on those percentages?

[AndrewMyers]

@Bahimiron

No chance of a reboot on those percentages?

After two or three picks, it’ll be very largely rebooted anyway – it weighs the most recent threads much more heavily than older ones.

Of course, sinnick can do whatever he wants with the weightings, etc, as it’s his script now :)

[Omniscia]

If anyone has any special requests, my Paypal address is available upon… er, request.

This month we will be watching a very special Lorenzo Lamas film, Deep Evil, in which our hero heads to Alaska to battle a killer alie–wait, this isn’t the Bad Movie Club?

The real choice will be posted later.

[Bahimiron]

The Bad Movie Club also needs a reboot.

[Omniscia]

Damn it, they don’t have any Eric Rohmer films available on Watch Instantly.

Anyway, this month we will really be watching Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, a haunting fever-dream of a film that is at once beautiful and vaguely nightmarish, and often rapturous. It’s all helped along by a Mellotron-heavy score that also features the music of Zamfir.

[madkevin]

Ooooooh, great pick! I haven’t seen it in years, and it’ll give me an excuse to rent the Criterion version.

[sinnick]

Excellent!

[Soma]

I got a bit peeved by the whole percentage thing. Look at Moggraider, based on all the criteria favouring consistent and new people, he got a 12.17% chance of being able to pick the next movie, well above the next person, which is sinnick at 7.49%. But then, probability being what it is, Omniscia with 3.36% actually is the winner.

It just seems to me Moggraider ‘deserves’ to be the next picker, it shouldn’t be left to probability. I would rather see a score rather than a percentage, whoever got the highest score would be the next picker.

Just to clarify, my beef is with the black box that is MovieSelectron 5000™, not with any individuals.

[Tman]

I think the MovieSelectron 5000 is a good balance between giving precedence to the people who participate, but still leaving that random factor in so that new people don’t feel like they have to wait a year. However, I do like the “–watched it–” requirement because so much of the banter in the thread is around things that are not the movie and I always felt like people were cheating when they commented in the thread - but was apparent they didn’t watch it.

[VSys114]

Sorry if I missed it, but where in the first post does it say what exactly the Movie Club does? Might be nice to add.

[sinnick]

@VSys114

Sorry if I missed it, but where in the first post does it say what exactly the Movie Club does? Might be nice to add.

Added!