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Great post Astor!! +1!

Gotta give props where its due and you certainly deserve them for this. 

Here is the official poll for Movie Night, which by the way will be taking place on Friday August 16th.

There were so many nominations that I couldn't include them all, so if you don't see your nomination in here I'm sorry, but I had to prune the list a bit. I wanted to keep it under 20, but I had to expand it to 25 choices just because there were so many great movies nominated! I tried to weed out the ones that were too incompatible or unrelated to the book clubs theme, and did lot's of research to make sure that I included every choice that had some good connection with the book club focus and libertarianism in one way or another.

We will run this poll until Thursday, the day before Movie Night, and I am considering methods to narrow down the list further as voting goes along. If by Tues or Wed we see a clear top 5 favorites, or something like that, I will remove the rest and make a new poll to narrow down the favorite among those. If you guys have any suggestions for a better way to narrow the list down some, I'm all ears.

Anyway, please pick the movie you think would be best in line with our book clubs theme, and more importantly the movie that you think will foster the best discussions and debates about the ideals our book club was created to foster amongst the community. All in all, I think this experience has given us all a lot of movies to add to our "must watch" list! To all those who decided to watch a movie that they saw on this list or the nomination thread and thought it was worthy of discussion itself, I strongly urge you, in fact I beg you, PLEASE start a thread about that movie and encourage discussion about it. 

Quote from: inigo on August 05, 2013, 02:30 am

I wish it was as normal and accepted for people to wear a gun on their hip now as it was back in medieval days for people to wear a sword.

Guns are like condoms, better to have one and not need it than to need one and not have it.

Hey Inigo how is it that you only have 134 posts yet you are a Global Moderator and a first mate ?

Why do I get asked this so much? Is it so shocking that I help run this place?  I didn't make this account until I started working here. The first mate isn't a real position, but on this metaphorical pirate ship of a website, I am the First Mate. (consider the word "am" bold italicized and underlined) Now stop asking questions and "Respect my authoritah!" 

Well I suppose it is specifically the "drug" part of the freedom movement that brings most of us together, so I have no problems with a drug related movie, as long as it has some underlying message about the war on drugs, the legality of them, societies view vs the govt's view, etc etc.

Something that can somehow be tied into the topic of "freedom".

Why not do one this Friday and another on the 16th? Considering all the interest and all the great suggestions, why limit it to one night?

Because this is a book club not a movie club. 

We just happen to throw in a movie night every couple of books. After this movie we'll be getting started on the next reading selection.

Waking life

That is one of my favorite movies of all time, maybe even the top favorite of them all. I can watch it over and over and it always has the same wonderful effect on me that it did the very first time I saw it.

So we finally finished up "The Creature From Jekyll Island" and we've decided this would be a great time for our second Movie Night! To create some new interest in the book club, we are going to let you guys choose the movie! Use this thread to nominate whatever films you think should be included in a poll, and after we get enough nominations I'll put up a poll for everyone to vote on which movie we will watch for the 2nd official DPR's Book Club - Movie Night!

Remember the focus of the book club is "agorism, counter-economics, anarcho-capitalism, austrian economics, political philosophy, freedom issues and related topics." Please try to keep the nominations related to that general realm as much as possible. I know there aren't many movies that were written or made by people who share these ideas, so finding good ones can be a challenge. However I am confident that of all people the Silk Road community is up for that challenge.

Let the nominating begin!


P.S. - For those of you who are new to the book club, for our first movie night we watched "V for Vendetta", so don't bother nominating that as it won't be included in the poll. I thought it was best to clarify that since I'm sure it will be the first movie to come to mind for many of you.