Movie Night
For years now I’ve been watching a movie in-person with friends every weekend that I’ve been able to. The movie selection system is perfect, crystalline, sacred, with no downsides or exploitable vulnerabilities.
- The nominator is the person who was previously nominator the longest ago.
- They choose two movies that haven’t been nominated before.
- Everybody else votes for which to watch. If the vote is a tie, the nominator breaks the vote.
- In highly exceptional circumstances, the Benevolent Dictator For Life may declare that a specific movie be watched, for example, if we’re all about to go watch a sequel in-theatre and some people need to get up to speed.
Here’s what we’ve watched so farThe alternative movies from some of
the early, legendary movie nights have been lost to time.
, together
with my ratings using almost the simplest possible system.And take
these ratings with a grain of salt, I like more of the movies that I
see than the average person.
I’ll add to this over time.
Sometimes the pair of nominations has a theme, often not.
| Nominator | Movie | Good? | Alternative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | |||
| Me | Airplane | ✓ | ? |
| David | Who Killed Captain Alex | ✓ | Samurai Cop |
| Sachin | City of God | ✓ | A Sun |
| Adrian | In the Mouth of Madness | ✓ | ? |
| Me | The Castle | ✓ | Mad Max (1979) |
| Sachin | Four Lions | ✓ | ? |
| Laura | Everything Everywhere All at Once | ✓ | Leon The Professional |
| 2023 | |||
| Adrian | Infernal Affairs | ✓ | Caligula |
| Tanya | After the Storm | ✓ | La Haine |
| Me | Layer Cake | ✓ | Molly’s Game |
| David | Libertarias | ✓ | Fateful Findings |
| Sachin | The Green Room | ✓ | Hacksaw Ridge |
| Laura | All Quiet on the Western Front | ✓ | The Menu |
| Adrian | Violent Cop | ✓ | Survive Style 5+ |
| Tanya | Sonatine | ✓ | Wings of Desire |
| Me | The Banshees of Inisherin | ✓ | Uncut Gems |
| David | Faya Dayi | ✗ | The Lobster |
| Sachin | The Machinist | ✓ | Nobody |
| Laura | The Death of Stalin | ✓ | Battle Royale |
| Marina | Ivan Vasiliovich Changes Profession | ✓ | Only Old Men are Going to Battle |
| Adrian | Tampopo | ✓ | Confessions |
| Tanya | The Man Who Sleeps | ✓ | Goodbye Dragon Inn |
| Me | Picnic at Hanging Rock | ½ | Wake in Fright |
| Sachin | Local Hero | ✗ | The Young Offenders |
| Laura | Harold and Maude | ✗ | Fried Green Tomatoes |
| Tanya | In the Mood for Love | ✓ | Repentance |
| Me | Last Night in Soho | ✓ | Shallow Grave |
| Sachin | Pig | ✓ | Look Who’s Back |
| Laura | Train to Busan | ✓ | Shiva Baby |
| Adrian | Django (1966) | ✓ | Fifty Shades of Grey |
| Tanya | Aftersun | ✓ | Theorema |
| David | The Battle of Algiers | ✓ | The Killer |
| Me | Army of the Dead | ✓ | Braindead |
| Sachin | Slothterhouse | ✗ | The Wicker Man |
| Laura | Midnight Run | ✓ | The Farewell |
| Adrian | Arabian Nights | ✓ | American Sniper |
| Tanya | Stroszek | ✓ | And Then We Danced |
| Me | M | ✓ | Arsenic and Old Lace |
| Sachin | Killing of a Sacred Deer | ✓ | Misery |
| David | Fateful Findings | ✓ | |
| 2024 | |||
| Matteo | Baby Driver | ✓ | The Room |
| Laura | Starter for 10 | ½ | Worth |
| Adrian | Deep Red | ✓ | Skinimarink |
| Me | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | ✓ | Synecdoche, New York |
| Tanya | The Master | ✓ | Ulysses’ Gaze |
| Sachin | Another Round | ✓ | Saltburn |
| Diktat | Dune Part 1 | ✓ | |
| Laura | The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | ✗ | One Life |
| David | Bacurau | ✗ | Victoria |
| Me | Seven Psychopaths | ✓ | Nine Queens |
| Tanya | Fantastic Mr Fox | ✓ | Meeting Gorbachev |
| Sachin | 13 Assassins | ✗ | Jacob’s Ladder |
| Adrian | Predator | ✓ | Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure |
| Laura | Raising Arizona | ✓ | Aliens |
| David | The Lobster | ✓ | Blue Velvet |
| Griff | The Little Death (2014) | ✓ | Threads (1984) |
| Ana | Fright Night (2011) | ✓ | Mediterraneo |
| Diktat | The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring | ✓ | |
| Adrian | Human Traffic | ✓ | Kes |
| Diktat | Mad Max: Fury Road | ✓ | |
| Tanya | Past Lives | ✓ | Love Streams |
| Me | Wake in Fright | ✓ | Saltburn |
| Sam | Godzilla Minus One | ✓ | |
| Sachin | Night at the Roxbury | ✗ | Starve Acre |
| Laura | Rabbit Proof Fence | ✗ | Blades of Glory |
| David | Dazed and Confused | ✓ | Superbad |
| Diktat | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | ✓ | |
| Me | Good Will Hunting | ✗ | Castaway |
| Tanya | Punch Drunk Love | ✓ | Chunking Express |
| Sachin | Poor Things | ✓ | Take Shelter |
| Laura | Promising Young Woman | ✗ | The Lighthouse |
| Me | Tremors | ✓ | Problemista |
| Tanya | Brother (1997) | ✓ | Columbus |
| Louise | Blink Twice | ✗ | Flightplan |
| 2025 | |||
| Sachin | The Inbetweeners 2 | ✗ | Harold and Kumar 2 |
| Christian | Wicked Little Letters | ✗ | Hot Fuzz |
| Laura | A Quiet Place: Day One | ✗ | What We Do in the Shadows |
| Me | Mulholland Drive | ✗ | Eraserhead |
| Sachin | Bone Tomahawk | ✓ | To Leslie |
| Laura | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | ✓ | The Taste of Things |
| Me | Romper Stomper | ✓ | Breaker Morant |
| Sachin | Quadrophenia | ✓ | Little Man |
| Laura | Master and Commander | ✓ | The Great Escape |
| Me | L.A. Confidential | ✓ | To Live and Die in L.A. |
| Sachin | Dogtooth | ✗ | Monkey Man |
| Laura | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | ✓ | Road to Perdition |
| Me | Heat | ✓ | Top Secret |
| Sachin | Ali G Indahouse | ✓ | Let’s Go To Prison |
| Laura | Juror #2 | ✓ | The Post |
| Me | Mandy | ½ | Red Rock West |
| Sachin | Conclave | ✓ | Spotlight |
| Laura | Heretic | ½ | Atomic Blonde |
| Me | Matchstick Men | ✓ | Ed Wood |
| Sachin | Crash (1996) | ✗ | Barbarian (2022) |
| Laura | Game Night | ✓ | Where the Crawdads Sing |
| Diktat | 28 Days Later | ✓ | |
| Me | Seven Samurai | ✓ | Rashomon |
| Diktat | The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | ✓ | |
| Sachin | Judas and the Black Messiah | ½ | Mishima |
| Laura | Anatomy of a Fall | ✓ | Quit Whenever I Want |
| Me | Heathers | ✓ | World’s Greatest Dad |
And so concluded the Abu Dhabi era of movie night.