Just posting this before I’m off to bed, so more details and discussion tomorrow, but I was thinking a lot about this earlier today. Now that we’re all more or less stuck in our homes and doing social distancing and whatnot, how about an online film club? The idea is that we watch films together online and discuss them in real time and afterwards.
We’ll agree on some ground rules but I think it’d be good if we vote on films, maybe limited to what’s on Netflix as most people have that already?? Open to suggestions here. We’ll find a way of narrowing it down to a shortlist that will fit in a poll each time. And then we could maybe do live comments in a thread on here? I’ve tried Netflix party but 1) it’s a Chrome extension and some people don’t use Chrome, and 2) it really only works on a laptop. If we have a thread on here for comments and discussion, we can all watch the film on our tv sets or whatever, and keep our phones or laptops open for the other stuff. Seeing as I’m keen on doing live chat/comments during the film, I’m thinking to keep the film choices fairly light-hearted so that chatting along doesn’t take too much away from it.
What do you think?
Great idea, wr! I’m in! (* Not legally binding)
Idk, maybe, maybe not
I definitely don’t want to be a part of this but I want to click on a poll
OKAY so here is my suggestion on how to organise this thing. Please feel free to comment if you want to suggest any changes to the setup!
I post a Netflix category in this thread, and give a time frame for everyone to post their suggestions from that category. Once the deadline is reached, I make a poll from the suggested titles and we vote.
We all go on Netflix around the same time and watch the film.
For those of us who want to have a chat while watching the film, I’ll set up a DM thread to use while the film is running (everyone in the DM chat needs to have pressed play as close to the same time as possible).
After we’ve finished watching the film, I’ll set up a separate thread (on the boards, not DM) to discuss the film and anyone can join in.
Repeat like once or twice a week as long as everyone’s staying at home or we can be bothered? Should we decide on set days of the week for example, or just play it by ear? I think probably around 8pm is a good time for this kind of thing. Small children will be in bed, most people will have finished work, etc.
Our first film club will take place on the 1st of April, so I thought it fitting to kick it all off with a comedy.
Please click here, and suggest one or two titles from that list that you’d like to watch with the rest of us. PLEASE NOTE: There’s a fair bit of stand-up in there, but for this edition of the film club we will be considering fictional comedies only.
Deadline for suggestions is tomorrow, Monday evening, at 8pm UK time. I will then post a poll in here in which we vill vote for which film to watch on Tuesday evening, as well as instructions for live chat etc.
