After a digression into the world of Amazon Prime, we’re back onto Netflix Watch Parties this week. We plan to alternate between the two services for the time being. Assuming there’s enough interest, our next Netflix party will be scheduled for Saturday, July 25 at 10:15 PM.
As always, we’ll be looking for five movie screening nominations from people who plan to attend. After we get the minimum five nominations and likely attendees, we’ll put up a poll.
You can nominate something you nominated before, but not something we watched in a previous party: so no The Platform, April and the Extraordinary World, The Bad Batch, Skins [Pieles], Under the Skin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Enemy, A Ghost Story, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, Between Worlds, Buster’s Mal Heart, The Aerial [La Antena], or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Only films in Netflix’s U.S. catalog are eligible. We don’t have to watch a Canonically Weird movie together, but just for your convenience, we’re reasonably sure these are all the (previously unscreened by us) ones available on the service at the moment: Kung Fu Hustle (2004), The Lobster (2015), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), A Serious Man (2009), Sin City (2005), Swiss Army Man (2016), and The Wicker Man (1973). Feel free to nominate any of these, or ignore them in favor of other selections.
To join, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser, and the Netflix Party extension.
Make your nominations in the comments below.
Doesn’t count towards the totals, but I’ll throw out The Endless as one I’d be interested in screening.
I’ll second “The Endless”. It was one of the best movies from Fantasia three years ago.
Yes to Swiss Army Man, A Serious Man or The Wicker Man. Basically one of the “Man”s.
I’d like to nominate two:
Creep
He Never Died, featuring Henry Rollins (probably in a role where he tries to bite our faces off)
I’ll nominate “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” this time.
Was planning to nominate “The Humanity Bureau,” but it looks like we already missed that one. Oh Giles… what a shame.
Wait, it’s gone?!
OH, THE HUMANITY!! (bureau)
I would like to recommend “Maps to the Stars” (2014)
Changing the day we ask for nominations from Monday to Sunday worked wonders in getting early responses. Don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner. The weekly poll is up, with 8 weird movies to pick from.
Holy crap! I didn’t even realize it was Sunday.
I believe you had been planning not to work on Sundays.
I can schedule posts to publish automatically.