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.

  1. The nominator is the person who was previously nominator the longest ago.
  2. The nominator chooses two movies that haven’t been nominated before.
  3. Everybody else votes for which to watch. If the vote is tied, the nominator breaks the tie.
  4. In highly exceptional circumstances, the Benevolent Dictator For Life may declare a specific movie to 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.

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