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Loved this one! Can't wait to hear all your comments and talk more with you about this one! Wild ride for sure! Loved the Ending!

Please post your noms for the Wheel down below in the comments

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ames

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Wheel of Movie Wonder Spin #5

I loved this MOVIE! Thanks if this was your pick!!!!

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Bubba Fett

Unexpected but this one looks intriguing!

RFK Fan

I remember when this came out. Was cutting edge bizzare and you either loved or hated it. I loved it my GF hated it... Anything that took chances or was unique to me was always welcome. Terry Gilliam is a serious filmmaker but an acquired taste for some. Always brings striking visuals. Siskel and Ebert loved this movie as well I remember..

Jason Vulgamore

Josh, where to start: the paper (1994), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Project Almanac (2015), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)[ basically any Danny Kaye movie], Support Your Local Sheriff (1969), Logan Lucky (2017), The Game(1997) [I have the t-shirt for that one]. There are more, but I've taken up too much of your time already.

Big Willie Dickins

I nominate Bully (2001) Also I recommend a firm, wooden, back scratcher 😉

Carl Lyngholm

Presumably it's already on your spreadsheet list you posted a while back, but if not: Amadeus. Also: Paris, Texas.

Mario

Warcraft (2016)

JM63

Great choice! Who knew this cat was such a cinephile (David Lynch, Peter Weir)

william johnson

"Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day" with Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. Heart-warming Comedy.

Hold Down A

You guys have to tell me who's pick these are when you win!!!!!!

william johnson

"Outbreak" is Good, so why not "Contagion"? It has an all-star cast AND it mirrors creepily how the Real Covid-19 went down.

william johnson

Also, the recent BBC drama "Help" (2023), starring the lovely Jodie Comer. When Covid strikes, things go to H--L in an old folks home. Heart-breaking.

John Courtright

Having seen Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, I knew we could be in for quite a mind trip. One of my favorite scenes was the amazing choreographed paperwork scene which happened outside Kurtzman's office. It appeared to me to be filmed in one continuous shot. I loved how the workers would start watching old films when Kurtzman wasn’t looking, then would instantly jump back into action when the boss opened his door to check on them. Brilliant!

Shawn Goforth

Jonathan Pryce (Lowry) is one of my favorite stage actors ever. He originated the role of the Engineer in Cameron Mackintosh's Miss Saigon, for which he won a Tony for best actor, opposite Lea Salonga (Aladdin, Mulan). He was also nominated in the early 2000s for My Fair Lady, as one of the best Henry Higgins I've ever seen. He also got to play Juan Peron in Madonna's Evita. This is one of his earlier roles, but there is a hint at his voice talent during the closing shots.

Big Willie Dickins

Just my 2 cents, I think you're running the risk of compiling a very bloated list of thousands of movies, many of which are actually quite niche and don't have wider appeal. Another reaction channel instead selects members names out the hat and each member is allowed to have one currently active recommendation which you can then reference. It's slighter more admin but means members think more carefully about what movie they'd be most excited to see featured, and should keep the list of films tighter & brighter

JM63

You have a good point, Winston. I thought about this exact issue yesterday and I had a bit of a crazy brainstorm. I think the issue Ames is trying to address with the WoW is that some members feel frustrated because their favorite films have zero chance of ever winning a poll. With the wheel, at least they have SOME chance (even if it's a small one). Here's my suggestion: How about after each poll, each vote is converted into a "raffle ticket" (in other words, one spot on the wheel)? So to use the previous Sci-Fi poll as an example, The Thing would get 36 spots on the wheel, 2001: A Space Odyssey would get 28, Mad Max: Fury Road 27 spots, all the way down to Starman (6), Solaris (5), and Outland (5). (The total number of votes was 369.) Then Ames would do two wheel spins and watch the movies that were selected. In this system, the most popular films would have the highest chance of being picked (36/369, or abt 9.8% for The Thing), but even the films with the fewest votes would at least have a small chance of getting picked (5/369 or 1.36%). I think this system strikes a good balance because films are proportionately weighted by the entire membership's interest in them. But longshots still have a chance, so members can nominate the movies they really like instead of trying to guess what might win a poll. Every vote would be important because it would affect the probability of what film gets picked. It would also lead to a greater variety of movies than other reaction sites (which tend to do the same ones over again). And it would create more excitement. Many of us here are sports fans, and one of the great things about sports is the uncertainty of the outcome. Seeing an underdog or Cinderella win (esp when it's your team) is a great feeling. In this proportional lottery system, members could have a similar experience when their "team" (i.e. movie nomination) overcomes the odds to win.

Jim Finley

I just added it on the Google spreadsheet, but I'll put it in here too: The Hunt (2020) with Betty Gilpin and Hilary Swank. Absolutely dark comedy.

Toc

That was a FANTASTIC reaction. I know you have a backlog of edits, but this one is definitely worth editing down, people would be psyched to this on YouTube for sure (I've now seen this, Barbie, Dazed & Confused, Casablanca, Deer Hunter and Wild At Heart. Already worth the Patreon subscription!). (Plus.....I feel like I have an even better grasp on what movies to suggest now!) Thanks, yet again, Ames, LOVED it!!!!

James Rogers

Even though its late I just have to say how much I love the 'bring your daughter to work moment'. So effing dark.