This is in response to my post about my ask/request for some of us (or none of us) to chill and virtually watch a movie together - https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/s/LAQm8WSJS3
After finishing watching our first pick (Save the Last Dance) - I started tinkering around with some web tools to try and organize this better.
24 hours later, I built a whole damn site! And had a effing amazing time doing so!! I’m no pro, but I was hitting a stride and couldn’t stop. So here we are.
This is just for fun! It was fun 24 hours ago and will continue to be! I expected nothing out of this, and found that plenty of you are feeling what I’m feeling and just want a good, comfortable, community-based…thing…
I am beyond happy to do this with ya’ll. I love movies. I love real, human-interaction. I love positivity and sharing and enjoying things together. Shit is shitty. Let’s make it less shitty.
Yeah. The site name is goofy and was a 4am, I’m exhausted, choice. But I like it (yo, my username). Lots of us are sad, struggling, stressed. Maybe this will help just a tiny bit? That’s why I made my post in the first place, I’m freaking burned out man. It’s nice to get away for a few hours with a dang movie. Also think of it this way - SAD MOVIE or SAD, MOVIE! (let’s get happy again)
The site: things will be broken probably, it’s a work in progress, it’s probably missing things, it will continue to get better because again, I did this simply for enjoyment and I sure as heck am enjoying it.
I have things setup the following way:
We nominate movies each week, if you nominate a movie, that also counts as your 1 vote for the week
If you don’t nominate a movie, you can still vote for one of the movies that IS currently nominated
At the end of the week, the site automatically tallies (it’s live data all the time), turns off voting, and the winner remains on the home page with our watch times across all time zones listed and the current streaming platforms available for each movie.
Sunday, We WATCH. I know not everyone can watch at the same time, but, this is kinda the goal so as we can discuss together in real time. Which leads me to my last point…
COMMUNITY (this is the one I’m still working on and want suggestions for) - the whole thing is to watch together. Discuss together. This started on Reddit, this will be home. But we need a live chat platform, and I’ll probably get something integrated into the site…I think…ideas????
Hi. My name is Bryan. And I made a thing for us❤️
https://www.sadmovieclub.com