May '18
ok if enough people are interested this could be fun and maybe hopefully stimulate some TE activity, which i for one have been guilty of neglecting recently.
stole this from someone else, basically everyone involved chooses a film for someone else to watch within a timescale. who recs whom is decided randomly by a free online 'wheel of choice*' app (or something, i dont dallt the kids these days) ideally a film that person hasnt seen before, but you think theyd like. you can check here on TE from someones ratings what thier taste is, or which films they havent seen. or check imdb, letterboxd, etc etc
for this example names here taken randomly from front page of TE at time of typing (ie - please dont moan if i dint include you in the example. but please still join in.) right, heres goes
Znep, Messiah, Onyx, Ballz, Atomic & Marcus are all in roulette.
first spin is Onyx, next Ballz = Onyx would choose a film for Ballz to watch.
next Znep = Ballz would choose a film for znep to watch.
and so on and so forth until last person would rec first out. eg Marcus rec Onyx.
then we have a week to watch the film & give a little feedback to the person who recd here on TE, from a simple 'thats great' or 'fkin dire' or a longer comment on what you liked or didnt about your rec.
it could be cool to share your favourite films with others, influence, or just stick to horror as most of us love that genre.
totally open to timescales of watching as know some are busier than others. we could help with torrent/stream links, or stick to easily accessible movies, whatever. all suggestions welcome to improve this idea
any thoughts? apart from i shoulda added images to this massive boring block of text?
oh yeah * = the dude i stole this off rabb.its the wheelspin live so if folk want to verify the randomness of the wheel it all valid. its either fun to see who you get, or massive paranoia that the spins fixed.
who cares, i just like the idea of us lot recommending each other unseen gems, which is basically what we do, but this gives a bit more impetus to actually get around to watching them, and some interaction.
stole this from someone else, basically everyone involved chooses a film for someone else to watch within a timescale. who recs whom is decided randomly by a free online 'wheel of choice*' app (or something, i dont dallt the kids these days) ideally a film that person hasnt seen before, but you think theyd like. you can check here on TE from someones ratings what thier taste is, or which films they havent seen. or check imdb, letterboxd, etc etc
for this example names here taken randomly from front page of TE at time of typing (ie - please dont moan if i dint include you in the example. but please still join in.) right, heres goes
Znep, Messiah, Onyx, Ballz, Atomic & Marcus are all in roulette.
first spin is Onyx, next Ballz = Onyx would choose a film for Ballz to watch.
next Znep = Ballz would choose a film for znep to watch.
and so on and so forth until last person would rec first out. eg Marcus rec Onyx.
then we have a week to watch the film & give a little feedback to the person who recd here on TE, from a simple 'thats great' or 'fkin dire' or a longer comment on what you liked or didnt about your rec.
it could be cool to share your favourite films with others, influence, or just stick to horror as most of us love that genre.
totally open to timescales of watching as know some are busier than others. we could help with torrent/stream links, or stick to easily accessible movies, whatever. all suggestions welcome to improve this idea
any thoughts? apart from i shoulda added images to this massive boring block of text?
oh yeah * = the dude i stole this off rabb.its the wheelspin live so if folk want to verify the randomness of the wheel it all valid. its either fun to see who you get, or massive paranoia that the spins fixed.
who cares, i just like the idea of us lot recommending each other unseen gems, which is basically what we do, but this gives a bit more impetus to actually get around to watching them, and some interaction.
It's not my bio, but it'd be a good one.
When it comes to access to movies, I have Kodi on my computer and can download movies through it. I understand if not everyone wants to use Kodi because of the legal issues surrounding it and it's also not the easiest program to get up and running if you're new to it. However, I wouldn't mind taking movies off of there and putting them on Google Drive for someone if they can't find a movie rec'd to them. I've tried that with a few people on here now and it's worked so far.
It's not a be all, end all solution (couldn't find Mother's Day (1980) on there yesterday), but it might be useful at some point.