What is Movie Group you say? Great question! Learn more about it here.

Choosing

The foundation of a fun meetup is a good pair of movies.

Anyone can choose a movie pairing.

Right now Andrew is selecting who's up next, but that can change. If you've got an idea for a pairing, let us know. Every individual attendee (not just couples) should eventually get a chance to choose the movies.

Find movies with a connection.

This could mean the have a similar (or contrasting!) theme, style, genre, creators, cast members, plot, ideas, approach etc. Get creative!

You don't have to pick Oscar winners.

The best pairings aren't necessarily the best movies or your all-time favs, but the ones that make for good discussion and debate. For example, one of our best movie group discussions was about the pairing of MacGruber and Zoolander. If everyone loves and agrees about the movies, we'll probably have less to talk about it.

Choose movies you've already seen.

Ideally you've watched them recently, and you should feel free to rewatch if necessary. That movie you kinda enjoyed once on TV about 12 years ago (ahem, Andrew) might not actually be worth watching, on a repeat viewing.

Movies should be available to stream online.

If it has to be torrented or it's still in theaters, we should find an another option. Exceptions can be approved by the group, though!

Watching

Don't just watch — maximize your movie group enjoyment.

Watch both movies before the next meeting.

Even if you've seen them in the past, watch them again! Rule of thumb is if you haven't seen it within a month of the next meeting, you should watch it again.

Try not to talk about the movies.

This is a pretty soft rule. But it's nice to save the good stuff for when we meet up! Otherwise every sentence starts with, "I was talking to [someone] about this, but..."