We’ll get to last night’s issue with Violence Voyager in a moment, but first let’s get started on the nominations for June’s Weird Netflix Party (scheduled for Saturday, June 5, at 10:15 PM ET). We’ll take nominations for movies to screen in the comments until we reach at least five entries (from five different attendees), then put up a voting poll.
The Canonically Weird movies on Netflix that we haven’t yet screened yet are A Clockwork Orange (1971), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). Feel free to nominate any of these, or ignore them in favor of other selections. Since we’ve rolled over into a new year, we could technically decide to watch something we’ve seen before (if it’s still on the platform). For reference, the movies we’ve already screened are 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], The Endless, The Wicker Man (1973), Murder Party (2007), I Lost My Body (2019), I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018), Cadaver (2020), Being John Malkovich (1999), Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017), My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (2016), Freaks (2018), Five Elements Ninjas (1982), and Await Further Instructions (2018).
To participate, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser, and the TeleParty (formerly “Netflix Party”) extension.
Now, as to Violence Voyager, last night we decided at the last minute to swap it out for poll runner-up Come to Daddy because Voyager required everyone to have an add-on subscription to IMDb tv to create a watch party. When setting up the party last night we were blindsided by this restriction and didn’t have time to research the consequences. We now see that it requires no additional fee, but the viewer(s) will be subjected to ads. (Or everyone could agree to pay a rental fee for an ad-free experience, something I don’t think would fly well.) IMDb’s explanation of the service is here. The downshot is, we’d be willing to reschedule Violence Voyager, or other movies in this category, knowing that it’s going to be interrupted by ads, if the other attendees are cool with it. So let us know separately from your Netflix vote, and if just 4 people are willing to watch it with ads, we’ll make it June’s Amazon Prime Weird Watch Party.
So make your nominations for Netflix movies in the comments below, and also tell us your preference for watching Prime with ads.
My official nominee will be one I’m surprised you guys have overlooked, namely, Jiu Jitsu.
For now I’ll just express interest in the event by seconding “Jiu Jitsu”, but if I see another option before the poll, I’ll speak up.
And just to clarify: this would be June 5th, right? The next paragraph mentions May 8th.
Yes, June 5.
I didn’t realize Jiu Jitsu was on Netflix!
I’ll nominate Synchronic, from the fellows who did Resolution and The Endless.
Oh, and I have no problems with ads for Violence Voyager.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3118452/
I’d be willing to watch Violence Voyager with ads, but won’t be able to attend the June 5th Netflix viewing party.
I nominate Midsommar, It Follows, and I’ll throw in a +1 for Synchronic.
Midsommar and It Follows aren’t on Netflix, Caleb, but you can nominate them in 2 weeks when we go to Amazon Prime. (It Follows is another one with ads.)
I’m ok with ads for Violence Voyager.
And I’ll nominate Okja.
That’s it, I’ll get the poll ready soon. As for Violence Voyager, I think the thing to do is to add it to June’s Amazon Prime poll with a note saying that it comes with ads, then see if it beats out the non-ad options.