The Forum Decides: What Movie Should I Watch?
Eight months later, it's time for another exciting installment of The Forum Decides! And this time we're upgrading from TV show episode... TO MOVIE
An important ground rule: the movie needs to be currently legally available for rent or purchase as a digital download (or video streaming) in the United States. I don't have a Netflix subscription, so we're mainly looking at the iTunes Store's catalog (unless I coincidentally already own the movie I guess). This will also prevent anyone making me rent porn or something, so, bonus.
(UPDATE: Since people have been trying to suggest outside of iTunes, I'll further allow any free online streaming source where you can one hundred percent verify its legally available status and also I can play it on my Apple TV (so YouTube or Vimeo pretty much). Since this may widen the field a bit beyond iTunes' decency filters, I'll go ahead and say NO PORN.)
Beyond that, there's no restriction on what movie you suggest. It can be your favorite film of all time omg, or you can punish me for the sins of a past life with the worst movies imaginable (though be aware that I am a longtime MST3K fan and actually enjoy bad movies, so, you know, do your worst).
As before, the Law of the Orange Belt states that Jakey's vote counts for double in the event of a tie. I'll be accepting submissions in this thread until next Friday (9/7) at 12:00am PDT (your personal vote can be changed at any time before the cutoff), and will download/stream the winner that evening. I suspect I will live-forum-post along with the film as well, so you can all join in on the madness!
And heck, if anyone wants to join me in remote synchronized movie-watching, let me know and we'll figure out a good time to hit Play.
Rock the vote!
VOTES SO FAR:
Babies: 1
High Fidelity: 1
The Horror of Dracula: 1
Killer Condom: 1
Princess Mononoke: 1
Rubber: 3
Tommy: JAKEY
Tremors: 0
An important ground rule: the movie needs to be currently legally available for rent or purchase as a digital download (or video streaming) in the United States. I don't have a Netflix subscription, so we're mainly looking at the iTunes Store's catalog (unless I coincidentally already own the movie I guess). This will also prevent anyone making me rent porn or something, so, bonus.
(UPDATE: Since people have been trying to suggest outside of iTunes, I'll further allow any free online streaming source where you can one hundred percent verify its legally available status and also I can play it on my Apple TV (so YouTube or Vimeo pretty much). Since this may widen the field a bit beyond iTunes' decency filters, I'll go ahead and say NO PORN.)
Beyond that, there's no restriction on what movie you suggest. It can be your favorite film of all time omg, or you can punish me for the sins of a past life with the worst movies imaginable (though be aware that I am a longtime MST3K fan and actually enjoy bad movies, so, you know, do your worst).
As before, the Law of the Orange Belt states that Jakey's vote counts for double in the event of a tie. I'll be accepting submissions in this thread until next Friday (9/7) at 12:00am PDT (your personal vote can be changed at any time before the cutoff), and will download/stream the winner that evening. I suspect I will live-forum-post along with the film as well, so you can all join in on the madness!
And heck, if anyone wants to join me in remote synchronized movie-watching, let me know and we'll figure out a good time to hit Play.
Rock the vote!
VOTES SO FAR:
Babies: 1
High Fidelity: 1
The Horror of Dracula: 1
Killer Condom: 1
Princess Mononoke: 1
Rubber: 3
Tommy: JAKEY
Tremors: 0
Comments
I love them, they are wonderfully made and the casting is superb.
In order, they are:
The Horror of Dracula
Prince of Darkness
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
These are the main Christopher Lee ones and thereafter they start to get a bit silly. But these three are wonderful.
EDIT: If you do end up watching even just the first one, I will gladly do a live skype on it, they are that good.
It's like the 80's in the early 00's! And Jack Black is there!
Princess Mononoke
More submissions! And then people will have to start teaming up so it's not a million-way tie!
In fact, I'll just go ahead and say that you can change your vote at any time before the voting cutoff. This should allow for easier tie-breaking and movie-deciding alliances. But for now, have your say and make your case so that others might follow!
Seems like some arbitrary rules there.
Mononoke is okay because I own it.
Also,
I assume you mean 9/7?
they're very legit. that company put up 150 of their own goodbad movies on youtube for free for everyone.
Near as I can tell, the user "tromamovies" is not affiliated with the actual company.
In that case, Mononoke.
This is why I wanted to limit it to one source. No ambiguity.
Deadline date has been corrected to prevent temporal paradox.
Little does Jake know that I only implemented this Forum Rule to get him to come back and post again BWAHAHA
But seriously guys, Tommy is now ahead. Unless you all try to pool your resources and outvote Jake. As if that were even humanly possible!
EDIT: I've updated the rules to include confirmed legally available free films on YouTube and Vimeo (since I can play those on my Apple TV). I have, in fact, confirmed that the YouTube channel Scott linked is legit (I did all your research for you, YOU'RE WELCOME), so Killer Condom is in.
For the record, I friggin' love shitty Troma movies. But I'm not sure how anything could compete with Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown.
Nonetheless...I'll set my vote on Rubber (for now). Whatcha gonna do about it?
(For Rubber if you didn't notice.)
Last day for voting, people! I'll purchase/rent/stream the winner tomorrow night.
My current plan is to press Play on my remote control at 6:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, but if other folks want to join in, we can figure out a time that works best for everyone. I will be posting on the forum and probably also on Twitter as the movie plays out. See you all tonight!