Sometimes, it's better to leave things to fate.
Tonight, as winter blustered outside, Etienne and I were bored inside. There is only so much European football and junior/spengler cup hockey that can be consumed before something else really needs to happen, lest we lose our minds. We clearly weren't going out, and there wasn't anything on TV. No interest in board games or video games, movies became our only option, but neither of us knew what to watch. We have easily more than 300 movies of DVD and Blu-ray, but we weren't inspired by anything because there was too much choice.
So we left it up to the roll of the dice.
For Birthmas, I gave Etienne a couple of party games, including a game of dice with pictograms on them. The idea is to roll the dice and tell or create a story based on the pictogram. A die was cast, and the pictogram was a flashlight. We had a theme!
From there, I went about selecting 8 or 9 films based on the theme of the flashlight: the choices were dark or suspenseful or heavily featured the actual use of flashlights. At least one selection had to be a movie Etienne hadn't seen before (a lot of my collection fits that criteria), and one of the films was ruled out because it needed a Region two player, which was in the bedroom, so we whittled the choice down to Hot Fuzz, Dark City, and Cloverfield. Etienne hadn't seen either Dark City or Cloverfield, so check and check!
The movie choices aside, we've discovered a fantastic way to break the deadlock or find inspiration.
Pictogram dice...
...Wish you were here.
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