BadMovieClub

Bad Wine
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Apple and Cheese
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The Happening paused on the opening screen
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Laptop with TweetDeck installed and running
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This is how my night of BadMovieClub started, a seemingly silly idea to have a lot of people on the internet watch a bad film all at the same time and comment on it via twitter. Only thing being, its not a silly idea, its an addictive idea, very addictive. I don't think i watched much of the beginning of the film as I was following the ridiculous amount of posts people were making. That combined with the general lunacy of the films plot was a heady mix.

So 30 minutes into the film, the experiment in mass watching isn't going so great. I'm quite enjoying it but there are one or two hundred too many people tweetering away, updates are coming in at around 30 every 15 seconds or so, too many to keep up. But there are a few little gems of the tweet world every now and again so it keeps some of my attention.

I soon realised that the trick is not to read what everyone is saying, as i'd be spending more time reading a lot of inane crap rather than watching the film. So, just glancing back and too, getting into a nice rhythm with it, picking up the odd funny comment by people, it definitely added to the experience. It kind of led to a confirmation that most people are pretty much the same (in a good way, rather than a bland way), I'd see something on the screen, think about how odd it was or something weird that i'd infered from it or think something just plain silly (like where's Ferris when Alan Ruck appears) and bam, i'd refresh twitter and see other people posting the exact same though. Uniformity can be comforting and nice.

The whole thing was really rather fun, watching a film with a group of dislocated strangers, doesn't sound like it would be, but it was.

Theres another showing at midnight with Phil Jupitus as the celebrity host, don't think I can manage two viewings in one night. No matter how delectable Zooey Deschanel is.


Incase you're wondering what the hell all this is, check out :

http://www.twitter.com/glinner
or
http://www.badmovieclub.co.uk