SargothSeeing 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
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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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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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Estranged Isfahanis! This week's #FridayMovie poll features four films from Iran, in the hopes that current events will transition into past tense sooner rather than later. But, we are still living in time, and so you can still affect the outcome by voting
Taste of cherry (1997)
The circle (2000)
Persepolis (2007)
A girl walks home alone at night (2014)
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Salutations, salacious snakecharmers! This week we celebrate not only the greenest day of the year, but also the fact that the #FridayMovie poll has reached its furthest and mostest point in the history of the universe (so far). And so: four options, one vote.
The cat and the canary (1939)
The court jester (1955)
Cat Ballou (1965)
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
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and the winner
whose title is very phonetic, and would not stand out if double featured with Buckaroo Banzai
is
Cat Ballou
whose title is very phonetic, and would not stand out if double featured with Buckaroo Banzai
is
Cat Ballou
this is a musical, mind, so you don't need to read lips as much as e geologically aware of them
old westerns are one third showing off what film technology can do, one third love poems to specific geographical regions, and two thirds unexamined ideological assumptions
which is to say the most important part of Wyoming is this Colorado mountain
I don't know the rules of square dancing, so an old lady showing up to club you senseless with a fully grown corn stalk could very well just be par for the course
"all right, the sun is going down, it's happening at this very instant, no time to lose, shoot the scene, shoot it"
hold up
an old tender of a run-down but somehow still running bar, named Cassidy
the references are stacking up tight this eve
an old tender of a run-down but somehow still running bar, named Cassidy
the references are stacking up tight this eve
is this the Princess Bride of westerns?
I mean
it's not not the Princess Bride of westerns
I mean
it's not not the Princess Bride of westerns
did Terry Pratchett get the name cut-me-own-throat Dibbler from Cat Ballou?
...I mean the timeline adds up and it's as good a hypothesis as any
...I mean the timeline adds up and it's as good a hypothesis as any
the credits tell me that the guy who exclaimed "a gunfight"'s real life name is reginald, and by george there has never been a more reginald looking man alive
nominative determinism is real, somehow
Will Deakin@sargoth truly the handbag for the gunfighting generation