Beginning Friday, November 24, we’ll be holding post-work (5-7pm) movie nights at Citizen Space. This BYOB, popcorn provided (just ordered this really cool old-fashioned popcorn machine), movie night will have a few geeky twists:
- The movies are a mystery until everyone gets there: could it be Brando in On The Waterfront? or Depp in CryBaby? a foreign film? a classic? a cult film? a new release? Basically, the algorithm for picking the movies depends on a crazy formula we came up with that combines Amazon recommendations with our Netflix pix.
- We will do our homework on the movie to provide interesting factoids and trivia…and also create ‘easter egg hunts’ throughout the film. Post film, we will have a short conversation about the film. Sort of like a book club, but with less reading and prizes.
Everyone should also bring $5-10 to throw in for ordering food – most likely pizza or something similarly simple to share. We will make sure there is plenty to go around.
We will also be posting summaries to the blog: of the movie and its insights. Any further suggestions on how to geekify movie watching are welcome!
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All over it. Would love to watch a classic w/ a group. I’m big on relational films. perhaps we could draft a series around key films and discuss them?
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/film/
cheers,
adrian
Sounds awesome.
Probably won’t make it to a screening day after thanksgiving, but would love to catch the next showing.
Is this going to be weekly?
Yep! It will be weekly…there will be some weeks here and there that we won’t have one (when we are away, pretty much), but otherwise…yep!
Adrian – love that idea…let’s chat!
missed yesterday’s – what was it? is there going to be one next week on December 1st?
Yesterday, we saw “On the Waterfront”. An amazing classic starring a young and scrappy Marlon Brando.
There will be one every Friday until mid-December, then starting again in January.
Sounds great. Do you always start strictly at 5pm? Thx
We try to…so everyone can get out afterwards…and our building locks at 5:30.
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