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.
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What should our next countdown be (Oct 23)?
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What's the difference between Underseen Films and Films Not On Previous Lists?
If it's on a list, how are we to presume it's been underseen?
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."
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My argument for musicals is that it's the proper choice for the good of the forum.
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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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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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.
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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.
I’m voting musicals.
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Musicals or Sci Fi and Fantasy are my recommendations.
It's too soon to repeat it, IMO.
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It is a time-period turn now. 90's / 80's / 70's - whatever.
When the poll will be started?
When the poll will be started?
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Yes let's get the new poll up so we can vote down musicals and add to its well deserved countdown poll losing streak.
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It is a time-period turn now. 90's / 80's / 70's - whatever.
When the poll will be started?
When the poll will be started?
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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.
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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