Turkey Thursday - January 21 '21: CLOVERFIELD (Prime Video)

UPDATE 2: We're live right now in The Traxian Room (code: MONSTERS) with Godmonster of Indian Flats! As Traxians I'm thrilled as always to offer this free watch party for you all (through Vimeo, no subscription required!). Join us. won't you?

Now it's time to mine that sweet banjo dust.

UPDATE: We have a winner, Cloverfield! Now there's another movie I'm pretty sure no one has watched in a while.

And of course, for you Traxians, please join me at 3:30pm PT before the main event for a Traxian-only pre-show. It will either be Godmonster of Indian Flats or The Crater Lake Monster, in keeping with the night's "monster movie" theme. That pre-show will happen in The Traxian Room. Enter the code MONSTERS to join once we've gone live at 3:30 pm Pacific / 6:30pm Eastern.

Then at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm PT, we'll host a watch party of Cloverfield, as riffed by Mike, Kevin and Bill. I've also gotten a new system setup for making the sync for these even better that I'll be testing. Here's a link to that event.

See you there! 

Erik

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Original post below:

Hi Traxians! Erik here. 

If I hadn't already told you: welcome to 2021! We made it! (So far.)

Thanks to everyone who showed up last night for my Turkey Thursday presentation of Ready Player One. I had a lot of fun watching Julie and Jack beforehand with a bunch of our patrons, and comparing both movies' uses of virtual reality. Of course, nothing beats Gunting, but Julie and Jack has that special James Nguyen "magic."

Anyhoo, it's a new month, which means a new poll! I'd love your help choosing what to watch next Thursday on Scener. It doesn't look like much has changed regarding what's currently available, thankfully, although Amazon has removed every Twilight movie from Free with Prime. The nerve!

Please let me know what you'd like to get Sceners to watch next week (January 21st) using the handy poll below! Multiple choices are allowed. 

Since last night's show was through HBO Max, we'll prefer the other services for now. Please note: there are a few titles which are repeated due to streaming service overlap (mainly Marvel films), so if there is a service you'd rather go with, please select that one. I recommend Disney+ in most cases - mainly because it's available globally, so more people can join the Watch Party.

We'll have another Traxian pre-show as well, and the subject (either a short or feature) will be one that I think is somehow relevant to the winning Turkey. Feel free to leave a comment with any suggestions, too.

Thanks, and have a great weekend! 

Erik