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We could combine them all and do Religious Erotica (set during wartime).

I always mean to participate in the genre lists, but always end up getting caught up in the Decades because I lack the time and initial depth of field to do both. It's nice when there's synergy between the two lists, but I think the only time that's happened has been when the Musicals list bridged the gap between the 30s and 40s (this of course being the only genre project I submitted a list in).

I've got no real interest in erotica (though this would have been a good sidebar to the 70s). Religion is interesting, but I can't think of many films that explore religion/faith seriously since the 60s, and particularly not in the 80s. War has some overlap, with Come and See and a bunch of those belated Vietnam films, so that's my pick, unless someone has a good starting list of Religious films from the 80s!

If overlap's a plus, than surely Sci-fi would be best for the eighties.

Shrew wrote:Religion is interesting, but I can't think of many films that explore religion/faith seriously since the 60s, and particularly not in the 80s. War has some overlap, with Come and See and a bunch of those belated Vietnam films, so that's my pick, unless someone has a good starting list of Religious films from the 80s!

There's quite a bit and in fact my inevitable '80s list would have the same top two (though in reverse) as my religion list. Right now I've got a short list of 113, but that's excluding a lot of things that I am considering only culturally religious rather than some examination of religion or its culture.

Shrew wrote:We could combine them all and do Religious Erotica (set during wartime).

If anyone ever wants to make a movie like this, please go with the title "Nuns of Steel"

Shrew wrote:I've got no real interest in erotica (though this would have been a good sidebar to the 70s). Religion is interesting, but I can't think of many films that explore religion/faith seriously since the 60s, and particularly not in the 80s. War has some overlap, with Come and See and a bunch of those belated Vietnam films, so that's my pick, unless someone has a good starting list of Religious films from the 80s!

The Last Temptation of Christ and Wings of Desire are certainly a good place to start for '80s religious films.

Shrew wrote:We could combine them all and do Religious Erotica (set during wartime).

I always mean to participate in the genre lists, but always end up getting caught up in the Decades because I lack the time and initial depth of field to do both. It's nice when there's synergy between the two lists, but I think the only time that's happened has been when the Musicals list bridged the gap between the 30s and 40s (this of course being the only genre project I submitted a list in).

I've got no real interest in erotica (though this would have been a good sidebar to the 70s). Religion is interesting, but I can't think of many films that explore religion/faith seriously since the 60s, and particularly not in the 80s. War has some overlap, with Come and See and a bunch of those belated Vietnam films, so that's my pick, unless someone has a good starting list of Religious films from the 80s!

I'm easy, either way, though War is the one I'm most looking forward to it
Whenever we get around to it.

And, of course, Come and See is a huge favourite of mine
(as is the 'remake' / rip-off - which I saw about a year or two back)

The biggest problem with Religion for me is its potential to be 'all-encompassing'

My thought right now is to do War next, then Religion, then run off whatever's come up in the meantime- be that Erotica/Romance/Whatever or something different. I think Dom has a point about it being War's turn and it seems pretty doable, and I don't want to keep having these conversations for a while.

(I'm also admittedly prejudiced against both Erotica and Romance, as watching a million films from either sounds deadly boring to me.)

matrixschmatrix wrote:My thought right now is to do War next, then Religion, then run off whatever's come up in the meantime- be that Erotica/Romance/Whatever or something different.

I think that sounds like a good and fair idea!

That's cool.

Ok, unless I hear strong and compelling objections, that's the plan.

Any objections I might have are neither strong nor compelling nor objections.

The power of Christ compels you to pick religion. [/easy joke]

I don't know if Erotica would be a great choice after War and Religion - after all we'll have already just been through months of spraying body fluids and people screaming "Oh God!" in ecstasy!

Well, if people want to get Erotica out of the way, you could probably class the vast majority of pornography as 'documentary'...

Praise the Lord: my prayers have been answered! \:D/

Three cheers for war! I feel light a great wrong has finally be righted. All is correct with the world. (In Jimmy James voice) "War. Warrrrrr."

I was thinking more like The Goon Show: "War. Pronounced (high pitched trill) Waarrrrrrrrr!"

Or this.

...but not the Edwin Starr..."War!...what is it good for? Ab-so-lu-tely NUTHIN'!"

jindianajonz wrote:

Shrew wrote:We could combine them all and do Religious Erotica (set during wartime).

If anyone ever wants to make a movie like this, please go with the title "Nuns of Steel"

What's wrong with Nude Nuns With Big Guns?

"I'm not here to confess sins, I'm here to commit them" is too awesome to be wasted on that film

After war, religion & sex/romance, it might be nice to do a list of top film soundtracks of all time. Another possibility is to do top films by country (UK/commonwealth, France, Japan, Italy, Scandavian, Eastern European, US, German/Dutch, Spanish-speaking, rest of world.)

For me, I think a best films by country listing would be parallel to the existing lists, rather than replacing decades or genres. Goodness knows there are enough major genres left out there- we haven't even done science fiction yet.

I know back when Domino was running the list, we figured countries would come after we'd exhausted all the fruitful genres. Still seems like a good idea to me.

matrixschmatrix wrote:we haven't even done science fiction yet.

Or romance! *swoons*

Of course there will have to be a big debate over how to divvy up countries (ie. Canada w/ US? Canada w/ UK & Commonwealth? Canada by itself? Rest of world vs. by continent for countries without much output) first.