jts

...hate me...

• Jan 14, 2015

• #1

Welcome to GAF's Netflix Movie Club Week 1 discussion thread. The idea came from UFO, and was put together by GK86. Every week, we will nominate a movie in the Netflix Movie Club |OT| and discuss a different movie in a new weekly thread which will openly discuss the movie without spoiler tags. Genre changes every week. Visit the OT for details.

Genre of the week: Thriller
Movie of the week: Side Effects

Netflix page. Youtube trailer

Description: When a young wife's depression spirals out of control due to her husband's prison release, she turns to a new medication that alters her life forever.

Director - Steven Soderbergh

Cast:

Rooney Mara

Jude Law

Channing Tatum

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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Bacon

Member

• Jan 14, 2015

• #2

Bookmarked. Hoping to watch tonight when I get home.

 

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WarrenMax007

Member

• Jan 14, 2015

• #3

Will watch over the weekend.

 

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GifGafIsTheBestGaf

Member

• Jan 14, 2015

• #4

ha, i almost watch this last week but i wasnt convinced. gonna watch this today or over the weekend

 

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Chuck

Still without luck

• Jan 14, 2015

• #5

Man this stuff all happened pretty fast. Shouldn't we have a date or window to watch it posted so we know when the bulk of the discussion will happen?

 

jts

...hate me...

• Jan 14, 2015

• #6

Chuck said:

Man this stuff all happened pretty fast. Shouldn't we have a date or window to watch it posted so we know when the bulk of the discussion will happen?

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You mean like having a watching and reflecting period before the actual discussion? That, I don't know. I was guessing that a new movie comes up every Wednesday and that's that, as soon as you see it, you can start discussing it.

Most people will probably take at least 2-3 days to do that though, so the weekly thread should be relatively dead for the first couple of days I guess.

 

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GK86

Homeland Security Fail

• Jan 14, 2015

• #7

Long Johnson said:

You mean like having a watching and reflecting period before the actual discussion? That, I don't know. I was guessing that a new movie comes up every Wednesday and that's that, as soon as you see it, you can start discussing it.

Most people will probably take at least 2-3 days to do that though, so the weekly thread should be relatively dead for the first couple of days I guess.

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Which is why I was saying to take the wait and see approach.

 

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Tragicomedy

Member

• Jan 14, 2015

• #8

Yeah, we really don't need a weekly thread for this sort of thing. That will guarantee minimal participation and a fractured community posting in several different threads per week.

What makes a heck of a lot more sense would be to have a monthly thread, and stick to a central theme that ties the movies together. It could be something as simple as, "GAF Netflix Movie Club |January| Foreign Films" or whatever.

The idea of common thematic elements. Some simple suggestions (and I haven't cross-checked this against Netflix's inventory):
- Genres, e.g. documentaries, thrillers, science fiction, etc.
- Foreign language, e.g. all films in one language, or just in general
- Decades, e.g. 1950s, 1960s, etc.
- Similar storylines, e.g. bank heists, sports stories, political movements
- Same actor or director

This would still allow you to maintain a one film per week approach, but have the discussion center around each and how they compare and contrast to the other monthly nominees.

 

jts

...hate me...

• Jan 14, 2015

• #9

GK86 said:

Which is why I was saying to take the wait and see approach.

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Then I guess I'd be a hypocrite to say let's wait and see now? :/