continue the polls?

[Henry88]

perhaps starting back up at the start of 2016?

[Henry88]

i take the sound of quite as a no.

[DannyBeane]

Again, I'm supportive but its a numbers thing. It'd probably just be you, klein and I and maybe the odd straggler that ventures into this sub forum which is a shame because the polls were fun and I discovered a lot of fun films through them

[Henry88]

with kong PR and godzilla king of the monsters on the way i think it would be a grea time to bring back the polls,so who's game?

[klen7]

I'm game if i have access to the films, but activity across the whole forum seems to have slowed down a bit, so I think our chances of success have slimmed even more :-/

[DannyBeane]

Yeah, its no fun when its only 2-3 people doing it. Facebook has really killed forums :/

[Henry88]

[lhb412]

Always ignored it before, but I'm down if we start back up.


- signed, a Facebook avoider (forums 4 life!)

[DannyBeane]

Also let's start from scratch so that way we have a bigger pool of movies to grab from, ie godzilla and gamers films are back on the table.

[klen7]

maybe we could do something that crosses over to other sections of the forum? like pick movies that already have a "spotlight" thread, that might encourage more activity... although it would limit the selection

[Henry88]

bring this back once again, pacific rim out in March and godzilla next year could be a good time to bring the polls back.

[Benjamin Haines]

[DannyBeane]

I can get behind something like this however, while I love MST3k I would hope to eventually expand beyond that series.

[lhb412]

Hmmmm... I might be down for this. I've got access to almost every single MST3K episode ever, after all.


But, you know, I never participated in the old polls and I'm kinda sad about that. I love the idea of having a regular or semi-regular movie club laser-focused on kaiju, and steering clear of the outrageously obscure. I actually have the germ of an idea about a 'kaiju movie klub' which would select a few (let's say three as baseline) movies each month that would be thematically connected and discussed together.

Here's an example: three American Godzilla films with Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1954), Godzilla (1998), and Godzilla (2014).

Maybe go all-out one month and do all the films from the year of the 'kaiju boom.'

Weigh the two stock footage showcases of All-Monsters Attack and Gamera Supermonster against one another.

The connections between the films could could be profound or small, serious and wanting further discussion or jokey.