SargothFor this week's #FridayMovie, we are introducing a couple of new categories. I think I have managed to make them self-explanatory, in that you fully and without ambiguity know what to expect. So let's have at it
Notable flicks about cats
Everybody was kung fu fighting
The soundtrack made me do it
Just watch a normal movie for once
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We return with unrelenting spirit to the #FridayMovie tradition, with the following ambiguous yet straightforward options
OMG you haven't seen that one?
Classic hollywood
Noir noir
Bollywood bangers
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This week's #Fridaymovie poll is brought to you by anti-aliased alliterations aimed at amphibious amphitheaters
Glorious Ghibli
Salacious samurai
Cheese cavalcades
Friday feelgood
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To alleviate the rumors: last week's #FridayMovie was cancelled due to me re-enacting Midsommar, and this week's is cancelled for reasons stemming from the worrying words "computer won't start"
As consolation, I will give you that the most midsummer movie of all time is Melancholia (2011)
It also serves as an opposite to Armageddon (1998). All movies have an opposite, whether they warrant one or not. Figuring out which it is, is a fun and creative pastime for all ages
It returns! The #FridayMovie tradition, which asks you to pick on of four options that may or may not make sense, is now back on its eternal recurrence rotation
Oh hey I've heard about that one
Bollywood bangers
The soundtrack made me do it
Subtitles required
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Fear not, for the #FridayMovie poll returns. Whatever you might be thinking, whatever you might be up to, whatever nonsense the world might force you into - here are four options that you, personally, have 100% agency to pick
Samurai, hai
Everybody was kung fu fighting
OMG you haven't seen that one!?
Tumbleweed thumper
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Denizens of the ultraworld! It is time to pass judgment on which fate shall befall your humble announcer this week in the #FridayMovie poll. Choose wisely! Or better yet - choose evilly!
Cheese cavalcades
Notable flicks about cats
Noir noir
The soundtrack made me do it
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Explorers of the infinite multiverse! It is time to coalesce your infinite selves into one singular action - geographically situating the weekly #FridayMovie poll! Think carefully, lest the location spell DOOM for us all!
Paris (dimension 1)
Paris (dimension 2)
Hong Kong
Taipei
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I realized that it has been a while since I updated the list of previous winners, so I updated it. If you find yourself in want of an extremely selective list of movie recs for a rainy day, here is one
*This list is incomplete. You can help by adding to it
https://longersky.com/2025/01/16/a-semi-randomized-list-of-movies-to-maybe-watch-sometime/
Genderfluids, gendersolids and gendergasses! The time has come to put the heavy duty mining equipment aside and vote in this week's #FridayMovie poll, the outcome of which will determine the fate of one singular evening
OMG you haven't seen that one?!
Tumbleweed thumpers
Salacious samurai
Noir noir
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Hwaet! Hear ye, hear ye! Let it be known that the #FridayMovie poll is on, with alternatives shorter and more unpredictable than ever!
Old
New
Song
Goof
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Incongruous instantiations of the Nous! The eternal recurrence is recurring, and so here is this week's #FridayMovie poll. I present to you these four verbose verisimilar vermillion options
So that's where that sample is from
You really haven't seen that one? For realsies?
An egg boiled so hard the shoe leather seemed soft
Please watch something from this century for once
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Assorted elemental beings from the material plane! We have tabled this motion many a time, but the period of waiting is finally over! Thus, this #FridayMovie poll is all about picking a lucky number
10
47
50
79
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Aetheric arithmeticians! It is time to succumb to the temptation of becoming a number station! And so we enumerate this week's #FridayMovie poll options
5
12
39
123
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Harboring herbivore haberdashers! Hark now, and channel your immense powers of name recognition into picking one of the four options in this week's #FridayMovie poll. Heave ho!
Tilda Swinton
Elliot Page
Maggie Smith
Oscar Isaac
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Fellow wayfarers! I am in need of directions! And so I ask you to pick one of these directors for this week's #Fridaymovie shenanigans. Forward! No, the other forward!
Rosselini
Coen (one or several)
Godard
Fellini
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Loquacious locations! Enable your geolocators and fire up your geoguesser turbines, for it is time to vote in the weekly #FridayMovie poll. The winner gets a geo!
Taipei
Budapest
New York
...SPAAACE!
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Magnificent monstrosities! We have the fortune and privilege of being able to choose the monster of this week in the #FridayMovie poll. Give it your best dramatic and/or cheesy scream!
Plants
Zombies
Ants (one or several)
Amoeba (one or several)
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Rumtumrugging rumtumtuggers! It has been a while since the #FridayMovie poll simply featured four unadorned titles, so this week we are doing just that. Think once, think twice, then vote hard!
Rebels of the neon god (1992)
La vie en rose (2007)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The grand Budapest hotel (2014)
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Seeing how it is spooktober, and that I haven't witnessed any movies with Bela Lugosi (except for Plan 9, which doesn't count), I figure - let's give the #FridayMovie pollsters the unmitigated power of deciding just which kind of first impression I'm gonna get. Spook choosily!
Dracula (1931)
White zombie (1932)
The black cat (1934)
Ninotchka (1939)
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Spooktober spooktinues! Seeing as how I haven't witnessed any Vincent Price movies, I thought it a prudent moment to allow the wise #FridayMovie voters the honor of deciding my first impression
House of wax (1953)
House on haunted hill (1959)
House of Usher (1960)
House of the long shadows (1983)
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It is a truth universally recognized that a week needs a monster. So does this one. Ergo, the #FridayMovie poll this week asks: which monster should grace us with its unmistakable presence?
Plants
Zombies
Spooky futuristic architecture
Birds
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I can feel the Halloween spirit grow inside me! And around me! And me! This week's #FridayMovie poll is all about spooky plants, who may or may not secretly be more spirited than they ought to be
The thing from another world (1951)
Invasion of the body snatchers (1956)
Attack of the mushroom people (1963)
Day of the triffids (1963)
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Gamers! Movie buffs! Curious fellas who like to see what this button does! Your wisdom is required. For this week's #FridayMovie, I have found four movies that are referenced - more or less explicitly - in video games. Thus, the question is: from which game shall we follow the not so subtly pointed finger?
Fallout New Vegas
Mass Effect
Red Dead Redemption 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
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Life events conspired to cancel the #FridayMovie poll this week
but, fear not dear viewer, this low-stakes ancient tradition will return next week, at full strength and with undiminished signal, so stay tuned and feed your friends
Heavenly bodies! Since I recently saw Angel's Egg, I got inspired to make a bewinged #FridayMovie poll. Thus, I present to you these four befeathered and bechoired options. Follow your divine inspiration and choose wisely
Heaven can wait (1943)
Der himmel über Berlin / Wings of desire (1987)
Fallen angels (1995)
Angel-A (2005)
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I dreamt I posted it, but didn't post it
aka
there is no #FridayMovie poll this week, and next week is sidetracked by me watching Princess Mononoke on the biggest screen in town
this seems like the way
a reminder that there will be no poll this week
but stay tuned, for the future is yet arriving, and we have an infinite amount of fridays ahead
but stay tuned, for the future is yet arriving, and we have an infinite amount of fridays ahead
Meows to the meow god! We rejoice as the #FridayMovie poll returns in full glory, wasting no time in shedding unimaginable amounts of floof on unsuspecting bystanders. And why would anyone suspect anything, seeing as how this lineup is all full of cats!
When the cat comes (1963)
That darn cat (1965)
The cat returns (2002)
Legend of the demon cat (2017)
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Toot that horn! It was suggested that this #FridayMovie be unicorn--themed, and lo! It is in fact unicorn-themed. So toot those horns, bang those drums and honk those stonks!
Black moon (1975)
The last unicorn (1982)
Legend (1985)
Unicorn store (2017)
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Liminal salutations! This week's #FridayMovie falls in the nebulous, ambiguous, polyvalent days between christmas and new year's. These are days defined by a diffuse blend of indeterminacy and a definite sense that things are definitely coming to an end. Thus, I present to you, four ways to end all years
On the beach (1959)
The day the earth caught fire (1961)
Fail safe (1964)
Silent running (1972)
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Prefigured futurities! Seeing how this is the first #FridayMovie poll of the year, we will follow tradition and vote for which mood will set the tone for the months to come. Therefore I present to you four mood pieces, each radically yet subtly distinct
All that heaven allows (1955)
The 400 blows (1959)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, (1975)
5 centimeters per second (2007)
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Waxed poetics! As this year is already over the moon in all categories, metaphorically speaking, I reckon this week's #FridayMovie poll should be all about our beloved lunar orb. And so, I present to you, these stellar options, which may or may not include hints of extraplanetary skullduggery
Capricorn one (1977)
Moonstruck (1987)
Interstellar (2014)
Fly me to the moon (2024)
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Stellar stochastics! Last week's poll was disturbed by the dual interference of network difficulties (it was literally DNS), sunspots (probably not DNS), and the fact that the result was a tie. Thus, for this week's #FridayMovie poll, we will redo the last one, albeit slightly remixed. Behold! The sky is full of stars!
Capricorn one (1977)
Moonstruck (1987)
Interstella 5555 (2003)
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Malleable marylebones! We are approaching the cool zone and somehow someone has already given us a residence permit. As such, we have all been given a (1) vote in this week's #FridayMovie poll. Choose, and shiver!
Westworld (1973)
Dark star (1974)
The taking of Pelham 123 (1974)
Cloud (2024)
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Fabulous phantasms! This week we take a detour on the #FridayMovie poll into the domain of prominent and unsubdued fashion icons of the recent past, with these four unparallelizable options:
Barbarella (1968)
Zardoz (1974)
Tank girl (1995)
Spice world (1997)
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Mycelial musicality! We continue our fashionable #FridayMovie detour by veering into the uncharted lands of 30s musicals. Choose which manner of centennial earworm will live on in me, and do it with impeccably choreographed style
42nd street (1933)
The gay divorcee (1934)
Top hat (1935)
Show boat (1936)
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Sensorious sentimentalists! We fought the law, and it is not altogether unfair to say that the law won, albeit barely. The winner of this week's #FridayMovie poll, however, is fair and just and emotionally well-regulated indeed
Rebel without a cause (1955)
12 angry men (1957)
Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid (1969)
Rebels of the neon god (1992)
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A fun part about this being a once a week thing is that each entry on the list happened at a specific time, and so when I read it I go
oh yeah, that movie was that week, when such and such happened
History truly is a process in the present
https://longersky.com/2025/01/16/a-semi-randomized-list-of-movies-to-maybe-watch-sometime/
Frolicking fromages! In order to make an omelet, you have to crack some eggs. And in order to decide the outcome of the #FridayMovie poll - the highest-stake election of any week - you have to vote for at least one of these potentially French titles. Bon mot!
Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)
Le samouraï (1967)
Vive l'amour (1994)
La vie en rose (2007)
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Canonical classicists! This week's #FridayMovie poll hones in on a particular time, exactly 87 years ago, for arbitrary reasons. Your vote, however, is not arbitrary, and so I ask you to choose with random precision
The cat and the canary (1939)
Dark victory (1939)
Gone with the wind (1939)
The wizard of Oz (1939)
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Fun fact: there is a 1939 release titled Fast and furious, which got the following review:
"Metro seems to be stretching an original idea to infinity–a suspicion which is practically confirmed by the plot of 'Fast and Furious.' It is a perfect specimen of unoriginal attenuation ... which results in a couple of murders, a couple of limp comedy situations and an interminable lot of chasing about leading nowhere."
The more things change,
Will Deakin@sargoth a homeopathic film franchise?
@sargoth it's gone a bit Dunkelsiegedorf instead
and the winner
which I know very little about, other than it being released in 1939
is
Dark victory
which I know very little about, other than it being released in 1939
is
Dark victory
Most credit screens are perfunctory, and you kinda glaze over them as you wait for the thing to start. Sometimes, tho
Tired: showing a person calling another person, thus having two persons on the phone
Wired: four persons on two phones, with creative audio editing ensuring viewers get the pertinent parts
Wired: four persons on two phones, with creative audio editing ensuring viewers get the pertinent parts
This is secretly a terrifying story of medical decline, made more terrifying by the fact that they let patients smoke at the hospital
Movie: this is a very emotionally heavy moment, where the circumstance of a happy celebration is contrasted with the sad tidings brought to bear. More so when you can see those very same celebrations in the background through the windows
Me: all of this is true and is secretly breaking my heart, but also: notice how the buttons on her dress are keenly visible in the black and white medium
This movie really is secretly breaking my heart
why did you do this to me (appreciative)
why did you do this to me (appreciative)
One of the reviews cited on wikipedia notes that this is a melodrama that openly manipulates your feels, but that you accept it since it is done so expertly
which is true
I am being emotionally manipulated in real time, and it is glorious
This also makes it difficult to get good stills, since all the emotion is conveyed through the subtle shifts in facial expressions and nudges of dramatic irony
Movement in movies, imagine that
Mister Dave@sargoth brought out the foreparasol for this one
Citizens of the universe! This week's #FridayMovie poll presents you with these four spectacular space extravaganzas, specifically selected to sound spuriously and speculatively scientific!
Airplane! (1980)
The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984)
Repo man (1984)
Galaxy quest (1999)
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and the winner
of the most voted on poll since this here thread began
is
The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension
of the most voted on poll since this here thread began
is
The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension
"Cap'n, did he just get out of the car on fire, paint a tunnel onto the mountain, get back into the car, and speed right on through the mountain, collapsing the tunnel behind him?"
"Pretty much, yeah"
"Pretty much, yeah"
Modern science is usually conceived of as taking place in clean, sterile laboratories, far away from the experience of common folks. In the 30s, however, you could set up you experimental interdimensional hypercar superlaser skunkworks in any affordable abandoned warehouse in the less reputable industrial district you wanted, and/or could afford on a minimum wage
Also, minimum wages were way higher back then, due to decades of inflation. You could afford to do madcap science on a single wage
Fun fact: in the times before computers and calculators, there used to be books that were nothing but tables and tables of trigonometry. If you needed to do a certain calculation, but didn't quite have the time to go through all the motions, you could look up the correct number and go from there
The oversized spineless book depicted here is not too far off from what such publications used to look like
I love how this movie has gone from 1) plausible-deniability area 51, to 2) a mental asylum of some description, to 3) New Jersey
'tis a good thing we got that initial text crawl, it might've been confusing otherwise
One of the enduring aims of this thread is that readers will somehow be left with less context about the movie than before they read it, and so I present to you
this movie came out seven years before Terminator 2
a feller could be forgiven for thinking that some Influences might have occurred (John Connor, yoyo/cyberdyne, etc
also: logging on
sleet01
Irenes (many)@sargoth oh, well, that answers everything
@ireneista we no longer have to live in wonderment and confusion
@sargoth strictly speaking we were only ever doing so by choice
DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab
Giflian
UnlikelyLass@sargoth BB has been my favorite movie for decades. It's not a *good* film, exactly, but it's definitely my favorite (I saw it in the theater).
I dearly wish they'd ever released a proper soundtrack.
@Unlikelylass if that's not a hearty recommendation doubling as an anticipation generator, I don't know what is
Mike Lynch@sargoth this is a tough one
@sargoth I have lost here.
Why for the love all of everything that is good don't people want a film with Harry Dean Stanton, The Circle Jerks as the nightclub band, and a soundtrack by Iggy Pop...