EDIT: Looks like unless a bunch of people come out of the woodwork to object, we'll be watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest this coming Tuesday.
Well, I'd say that first movie meeting was a success! I had a lot of fun watching my all-time favorite movie with such a fine group of folks -- it was actually funnier for me than it has ever been before, so thanks to everyone who came! :)
A couple of things before I open up the floor for the next vote: Would anyone be averse to trying to do this weekly? My main concern was giving people enough turnaround time to acquire the movies legally, but that might be a problem no matter how much time we have, so does anyone object to trying to make this a weekly thing? Sometimes that won't be possible, especially if my work schedule conflicts with other events (I wouldn't want to make people choose between this and the D&D meetings for instance), but more meetings = more fun and more movies.
Secondly, since my fine fellow film watchers gave me a ton of suggestions after the movie concluded, I decided I don't want to just insert one new movie a week and stick with the four that weren't voted in. Instead, each time I'm going to blow up the list and randomly select five flicks from the master list I've saved. That way, everyone can keep suggesting movies, and there will be a decent shot they can end up on the voting block sooner rather than later.
Plus, blowing stuff up is just fun.
So, without further delay, the voting for the next meeting:
1. The Producers (1968): Max Bialystock is a down on his luck Broadway producer who romances wealthy elderly women to finance his plays. His new accountant, Leo Bloom, inadvertently provides Max with a moneymaking scheme -- to purposely make the worst play in history and profit by over-selling shares, with nobody the wiser because the play will close opening night. Offensive hilarity ensues. Directed by Mel Brooks, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975): Randle McMurphy is a criminal sent to a mental institution for evaluation. Bored with the rigid atmosphere of the institution, McMurphy loosens up the place in various ways and engages in a battle for control with Nurse Ratched, who rules the institution with an iron fist. Directed by Milos Forman, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): After the dawn of man all the way to mankind's journey into outer space, an American spaceship is bound for Jupiter after a mysterious alien artifact is discovered on the moon relaying signals to the gas planet. Astronauts Dr. David Bowman and Dr. Frank Poole wile away the time with their onboard computer, HAL 9000. But along the way, a number of errors pile up, and HAL decides to take some initiative in correcting those errors. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood.
4. Harvey (1950): Elwood P. Dowd's best friend is a six foot, three inch tall invisible rabbit named Harvey. Everyone in his family thinks he is either crazy or boozing, however. But even as they try to have Dowd committed to a sanatorium, bit by bit people see things from Dowd's point of view. Directed by Henry Koster, starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull.
5. The African Queen (1951): Boat captain Charlie Allnut warns brother and sister missionaries, Samuel and Rose Sayer, about the impending war between the British and the Germans in German East Africa in 1914. Unfortunately, the Germans soon storm the mission village and Samuel ends up dead afterward. Rose meets up with Charlie, and after Charlie mentions a German gunboat that patrols a lake down river, Rose convinces Charlie to take part in a plan in which they will torpedo the boat, even though the plan is near suicidal. Directed by John Huston, starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
