I have three movies queued up this friday afternoon.

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I realized that it has been a while since I updated the list of previous winners, so I updated it. If you find yourself in want of an extremely selective list of movie recs for a rainy day, here is one

*This list is incomplete. You can help by adding to it

https://longersky.com/2025/01/16/a-semi-randomized-list-of-movies-to-maybe-watch-sometime/

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Genderfluids, gendersolids and gendergasses! The time has come to put the heavy duty mining equipment aside and vote in this week's #FridayMovie poll, the outcome of which will determine the fate of one singular evening

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Hwaet! Hear ye, hear ye! Let it be known that the #FridayMovie poll is on, with alternatives shorter and more unpredictable than ever!

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Incongruous instantiations of the Nous! The eternal recurrence is recurring, and so here is this week's #FridayMovie poll. I present to you these four verbose verisimilar vermillion options

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Assorted elemental beings from the material plane! We have tabled this motion many a time, but the period of waiting is finally over! Thus, this #FridayMovie poll is all about picking a lucky number

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Aetheric arithmeticians! It is time to succumb to the temptation of becoming a number station! And so we enumerate this week's #FridayMovie poll options

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Harboring herbivore haberdashers! Hark now, and channel your immense powers of name recognition into picking one of the four options in this week's #FridayMovie poll. Heave ho!

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Fellow wayfarers! I am in need of directions! And so I ask you to pick one of these directors for this week's #Fridaymovie shenanigans. Forward! No, the other forward!

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Loquacious locations! Enable your geolocators and fire up your geoguesser turbines, for it is time to vote in the weekly #FridayMovie poll. The winner gets a geo!

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and the winner
with a smashing 100% of the vote, a rare thing in the life of this thread
is
Forbidden planet (1956)

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Magnificent monstrosities! We have the fortune and privilege of being able to choose the monster of this week in the #FridayMovie poll. Give it your best dramatic and/or cheesy scream!

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Rumtumrugging rumtumtuggers! It has been a while since the #FridayMovie poll simply featured four unadorned titles, so this week we are doing just that. Think once, think twice, then vote hard!

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Seeing how it is spooktober, and that I haven't witnessed any movies with Bela Lugosi (except for Plan 9, which doesn't count), I figure - let's give the #FridayMovie pollsters the unmitigated power of deciding just which kind of first impression I'm gonna get. Spook choosily!

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Spooktober spooktinues! Seeing as how I haven't witnessed any Vincent Price movies, I thought it a prudent moment to allow the wise #FridayMovie voters the honor of deciding my first impression

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It is a truth universally recognized that a week needs a monster. So does this one. Ergo, the #FridayMovie poll this week asks: which monster should grace us with its unmistakable presence?

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I can feel the Halloween spirit grow inside me! And around me! And me! This week's #FridayMovie poll is all about spooky plants, who may or may not secretly be more spirited than they ought to be

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Gamers! Movie buffs! Curious fellas who like to see what this button does! Your wisdom is required. For this week's #FridayMovie, I have found four movies that are referenced - more or less explicitly - in video games. Thus, the question is: from which game shall we follow the not so subtly pointed finger?

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and the losers
which some of you did correctly guess
are

The treasure of the Sierra Madre, which the New Vegas DLC Dead Money is based on,
The Evil dead, which is referenced in Mass Effect through the name Ashley Williams (more so since you shoot zombies five seconds after meeting her),
and
The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, whose long train robbing scene is painstakingly recreated somewhere in Red Dead Redemption 2

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and the winner
which is a non-subtle reference, in that an entire category of enemies are referred to as such in XCOM
is
The thin man (1934)

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I love how title screens gradually moved from being semi-legal documents to being the form we know them today. they moved from the publisher's info inside the book cover, to being the book cover itself