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a quick poll
🕑 Added 2024-10-31 18:50:30 +0000 UTChey team!
we are getting near the end of the year, which and I have run into a snag on one of my silly media consumption projects: at least two movies from my film randomizer list are not viewable.
for anyone who doesn't remember, one of the goofy-ass projects I started this year - and that is tracked in the monthly quantifica updates - is a list of 42 (technically 43) films that I am trying to get through before the end of the year, which I select by hitting "shuffle" on Letterboxd.
and the issue is that a couple of those films - Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 and Demigod: The Legend Begins - are not available on any medium. they've come up on my random rolls several times, and each time I have failed to find them anywhere, and after spending a full afternoon trying to track down copies, I have determined it is not possible. Jonah is not on any English-language streaming service, and the only online copies I have found are in its original Swiss French with, if I'm lucky, subtitles in Italian or German. Demigod is simply not on any platform at all, not that I can find anyway. for anyone ready to recommend illegitimate sources, I have explored those quite thoroughly as well, and, no, neither film can be streamed or torrented even on pirate sites. Jonah can be purchased on DVD for $60, which is more than I'm willing to spend on a movie I've never seen, and Demigod isn't even available on disc that I can find!
so I have to decide how I want to handle unwatchable films, and I have decided to let you decide for me. do I
a) admit defeat and accept that the list will max out at 40/42 films
b) remove the films from the list, reducing it to 40
c) replace unwatchable films with new films to keep the number at 42
d) a secret fourth option
if you've got a minute, please vote!
-I
Comments
Lily Berry
FWIW: I can find both with English subs on a private tracker I have access to. I would be happy to grab them.
Sarah H
I'm in the camp of not fiddling with data. You set a target, you won't reach the target for reasons out of your control now, but the data are the data. You won't reach the initial objective and that's ok.
Ian Danskin
I'm not *struggling* to complete it, I'm slightly behind schedule but it's very doable. bumping it down to 40 would make it easier, but I didn't do this to go easy on myself!
Jonah Blankenbaker
Watch Paul Blart Twice
Hugi R
EDIT: Turns out it's on the Internet Archive with EN subtitles, just not the first minute https://archive.org/details/jonas-qui-aura-25-ans-en-lan-2000-1976-alain-tanner The Jonas one can be found in VHS for only 40$ XD More seriously, there's an EN subtitle you can download, after a quick look it seems like it's the correct movie. But it's probably easier to just pick 2 other movies.
Patrick Kennedy
I'd say it's reasonable to replace them! Unless you're struggling to complete it and would benefit from sticking to 40 films. For what it's worth I've made a request for both on TorrentDay but I don't have high hopes there! I'm not surprised Jonah wasn't there but a little surprised Demigod wasn't
Anders Theroux
For unwatchable movies, find an interesting video essay about them to watch instead?
Margarethe
I think if there are two more movies that could be interesting, why limit the list. Although, if it becomes too stressful or a chore, 40 movies are not bad!
