TheSacredTurf (Level 36)

@Ferg: Hopefully we get this thing up and running and it will last for a good while to come. Watch this space!

@Dylabaloo: I think things are a lot easier for this sort of thing now that we have Netflix in our part of the world. It's about time too!

@JoeyF: Thanks Joey. Sunday was only an idea, but weekdays would then be a better option if we could use the chat. I'll look into the IRC thing as well. Cheers!

@FinalDasa: I don't think we even thought the Screened chat was a possibility. That would be ideal, of course!

Ok, folks. Let's talk about movies. We used to have the glory days of The Screening Room, a forum where like-minded movie fans got together to watch a film, goof around in the chat and generally have a gay old time. However, for those of us in incompatible time zones it was more of a matter of caffeine and endurance to stay up for these things, great fun though they were.

In a noble attempt to resurrect the good times, Sparklykiss started up The Screening Room Withdrawl Group on a Sunday and good times were had by all. Me discovering the utter delight and charm of The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, among them. The problem was that in order to chat we had agreed to meet on the Screened Community chatroom on Steam. Not everyone is a Steam user, or wants to be. And, of course, real life got in the way. Work commitments, early mornings, being on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN WORLD AS EACH OTHER has its own set of problems.

After watching the surreal horror of Howard The Duck together, myself and the sublime Christina hatched a plan that the current state of affairs is simply unacceptable. We need ourselves a Screening Room. It's that simple. We need a regular hang-out where movie folks gather to watch a movie together and chat. This is site about movies and TV. It has a rich community of film lovers. I hope you agree that this would be a VERY GOOD THING to have.

So here is a proposal. Or rather, a series of proposals.

1: The Screening Room v2.0 meets together on a suitable day of the week. Sunday seems a likely canditate as most people won't have work or school on that day. The time would have to be suitable for everyone, regardless of time zone. Our suggestion is 8pm GMT (12pm PST, 3pm EST). Unfortunately, for our friends in Australia this would be 7am. Sorry!. Any other alternatives are welcome!

2: The movie (or even TV show) is available on streaming via Netflix or LOVEFiLM or is at least easily available to the majority of participants. The weirder, the better. Ideally, it would be something that none of us have seen before. In my experience, a really shitty movie is much more fun to watch communally than a bona-fide classic.

3: We need a service in which to chat. Out there somewhere there has to be a free, easy to use chatroom that doesn't require registration. Just turn up, pick a username and get chatting. Anyone out there have any ideas?

4: This thing needs to be a THING. Something with a name. My suggestion of "The Sunday Screening Room" is, well... crap. We need YOU to conjure up something better!

5: A proposal that PEOPLE ACTUALLY TURN UP THIS TIME. The Withdrawl Group was great, but the number of people on there could easily have been counted on the fingers on one hand. Not cool, people. Not cool. Of course, it goes without saying that this shouldn't just be open to Screened users, but all users across the whole Whiskey Media family of sites.

So, there it is. What do you think? Are you interested? Please throw in any thoughts or ideas below and let's make this happen!

My all-time crush has to be Mary Stuart Masterson in Some Kind Of Wonderful. I was smitten in 1987 and I'm still smitten to this day. Female drummers ROCK.

@mike20: That actually works! Thanks for that - I can start uploading again!

@VaultDweller13: OK, I changed it to the one by himself - I just thought it would be less confusing than having an image of two characters.

@VaultDweller13: Wouldn't this be better as he just appears by himself rather than the one with Lotus?

Please get this bug fixed soon, Top Men. It's quite an important one! I haven't been able to upload for nearly a week now! Please...?

I can't add images either! Boo. Using Firefox 6.0.1 with XP.

I can't get a copy of The Room anywhere without spending actual, proper money. It's not even listed on LoveFilm or iTunes here in the UK. Looks like I won't be taking part this week.... awwww. Sniff.

EDIT: Scratch that. Borrowed a copy from a friend. See you there. But let's have some more people this time! Support your Screened community!

This movie WILL tear your soul apart. One piss-poor frame at a time.

@JJWeatherman: Sorry about missing out on today - I got held back with work. Hopefully next week will be different!

@Christina: Boo! I hope you can make it! This is one Sunday when I won't be working so I'll be on time this week. Here's hoping you can too! (retail sucks, by the way - I want to be a normal person again!!!)

#2 to finish. As morbid as it is, I really enjoyed this one!

@Christina: I was wondering why there was no one else in the chat room! See you all next week!

@Fragonard: @damnitsted: @mehojevich: Followed!

@Christina: @Joe: For UK folks it will be 2:00am on Friday morning. It looks like it will may be impossible for many people to finish this quest if the final part can only be unlocked by accessing the chat at this time. Seems a bit unfair to the international Whiskey audience, who are possibly being excluded simply for belonging to a different time zone. Boo!

I really don't know which one intrigues me more...