So based on the selections that were suggested it seemed like doing one exceptional movie versus a Hollywood turd was the popular look. So I’ve paired up the movies to be as themed as possible as a good versus godawful comparison.
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Jurassic Park versus Godzilla (1998)
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Jaws versus Deep Blue Sea
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Top Gun versus Pearl Harbor
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War Games versus Hackers
Also for time zone vote:
A for 9 pm est
B for 10 pm est
C for 11 pm est
Euro:
D for 2 pm est
E for 3 pm est
F for 4 pm est
Side note: I left Super Mario Bros in the Tartarus pit because seriously fuck that movie. Frailty was a good choice but couldn’t think of a proper dud to pair with. I also don’t want to do The Flash because the last thing I need is to have my eyes burn through my skull like when the nazis opened the ark of the covenant
Also because of frailty I think we need to have a Christian versus faux Christian theme if we can keep the movie club going forward again, in an attempt to continue generating appeal it would seem that a weekly duo might be better than a monthly theme. But as I said earlier I am a poor man’s AI trying to create the most interactivity for our humble community.
I remember watching Frailty around when it came out because a HS friend was obsessed with it, and it was good if my 20 year old memory is to be trusted.
That said, early 2000's movies about Christianity or with Christian themes are tricky because some (most?) of them in retrospect were trying to paint the Evangelical George W. Bush supporters of the day (who the Hollywood sort of the time considered a major threat to their socio-political supremacy) as a bunch of crazy weirdos.
So it's one of those things where you have to watch those films with the benefit of 20 years' hindsight of what the now obvious play was.