Is there any interest in a weekly movie review thread?
So this is something I've been thinking about doing for the last couple weeks, but I've been super busy working on a project and haven't had too much time, and I didn't want to start something if I couldn't commit to it. Now that my project is almost finished I've got more time to both watch movies and talk about them with random internet strangers, which is why I'm here now asking about a weekly movie review thread.
I watch maybe two or three films a week, but often struggle to find anything worth watching. And so for all of you out there with the same problem, I'd like to start a discussion thread where users post a movie review on one film they've watched recently and children comments are free to discuss the review, the movie, or just ask questions in general about the movie.
Here are some questions I have about how this would function, and I'd like your opinion on them.
Is this something that users here actually want?
Like I said earlier, I feel like this could be a helpful tool for people wanting to watch a few things but not knowing what to watch, but there are plenty of reviews and things like that out there, and this might not be something that users here want.
What should be included in the review?
To me what immediately comes to mind is a very imdb style review (with no spoilers) that comments on directing, acting, set, camera angles, etc. Maybe giving it a rating out of 10? How long should it be? I don't read a whole out of reviews though so I'm not 100% sure the best way to go about this.
How often should we have a discussion thread?
I'm thinking a weekly thread would be nice, probably on Monday for two reasons. First, it allows anybody who's busy over the week day but has some time off on the weekend for films and writing reviews to write one, and secondly, it means we can call it Movie Monday, which sounds better then Movie Tuesday :p
Any other questions or things that need to be discussed for this to work well?
Could it be something like a movie club? Where each post includes a review of a movie and a preview of the next movie so participants can watch the film ahead of time and participate immediately as the post is made.
It might be more practical to post movies that are widely available on YouTube/Amazon/Apple etc. to make it more convenient for people.
YES!
It's always such a pain to find a good movie would be great to get recommendations and a place to discuss it.
I think it would be cool if the potential movies are broader then just what's in the cinema, that's pretty dependant on where you are and if you can afford to go to the movies every week.
For the review I would love just a simple thumbs up or down followed by an explanation/justification -personally I don't like knowing very much about a film before seeing it.
Definitely go for it. There's another user that is doing a weekly review of horror movies. I think I've read all of them so far (or I have intended to).
I love the idea of Movie Monday, it'll be cool to have more going on in this group :)
Imo beyond it having to be at least somewhat substantial (like not just a single sentence saying "it good") and spoiler rules, I think it'd be best to leave it up to the people participating. There's a lot of different things that people can value in a movie and there's an entire art to constructing reviews so putting what others write into a box is restricting it to a certain subset of people for little benefit.
Like personally the kinds of reviews that nsz mentions a preference for ("just a simple thumbs up or down followed by an explanation/justification -personally I don't like knowing very much about a film before seeing it") wouldn't be of any interest, but there's no reason they can't coexist with other things depending on what the writer wants. As for the spoiler issue, since iirc we don't have anything to hide spoilers in comments, maybe requiring submitters to link to a pastebin when they want to write about spoilers is the way to go?