Vote on the next countdown (Oct. 2023)

My argument for musicals is that it's the proper choice for the good of the forum. I'm trying to take my personal opinion out of it as I'm not a fan of musicals. If I were on the outside looking in and had nothing to do with it, I'd say obviously that forum needs a musicals list.

The former is based on an undefined term ("unseen") which may have many different possible definitions. The latter is a simple factual question: was it on a previous list, yes or no?

I don't understand this question. It seems to presume they're the same idea, but they're distinct. Just kind of similar.

To my mind/memory, "underseen" was first pitched as a way to stop the same films from showing up on every list, and to cut down on predictability, and then the criteria of "not on previous lists" was suggested as a way of achieving that without having to do something tricky like define "underseen."

But why? Because it's a film genre and we haven't done it yet?

Here's a list of genres and we haven't done half of them yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_g..._and_subgenres

And from that list if I and many were to rank them musicals would probably be near the bottom.

Preventing musicals from being the next countdown may very well be the single most important act a Mofo can do for the good of the forum.

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I see musicals as just a rib and a plot to push people's well defined boundaries. I just sung that while typing it.

'90s, then Musicals

As I was considering my vote earlier, I noticed a gang of young toughs following me, snapping their fingers and occasionally humming to themselves some song I didn’t catch. As I paused to question them they simply stated “Thursday send her regards.” Then danced away.
I’m voting musicals.

Musicals or Sci Fi and Fantasy are my recommendations.

We did a Sci Fi Countdown in 2017

It's too soon to repeat it, IMO.

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Oh, I didn't realize, it had already been done.

It is a time-period turn now. 90's / 80's / 70's - whatever.
When the poll will be started?

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Did Musicals win yet?

Yes let's get the new poll up so we can vote down musicals and add to its well deserved countdown poll losing streak.

We will all be dead by the time the next poll is up.

It was time-period turn last time, and we still did noir/neo-noir so I suppose it is overdue now.

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The Poll that never came.

By Robert Frost.

I thought we stopped alternating time period/ genre when we ran out of time periods.

Hey, we haven't done the 2020s yet.

I can get the poll up if we get something a little closer to a consensus. This is all pretty freeform right now. It would help if everybody could list their top 3-4 poll options (things you think should be voted on, not just things you like best, if there's a distinction) and once we have a good 9-10 of those I can do my best to figure out what to put on it.

Hope everyone's okay with me just making that judgment call, though, if only because the alternative is a vote about what to vote on and I think that's probably going a bit too far.

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