Full Description of This Group

Got
that favorite film you’re passionate about recommending, or just
wish more people would see it?  Go ahead, discuss any
movie here!

Community Film Picks
(formerly zFilms) pod/Group is devoted to the open exchange of
opinions, views, and reviews about movies, current and past. 
(In theatres now, and on video/DVD. And now we have a
Television Board for any kind of TV show.)

The “Movies” lists in our
profiles are a GREAT source of recommendations, leads, suggestions,
ideas. Community Film Picks pod/Group offers more immediate
interaction, and more space for information about the
films. 

Cross-posts of film mentions and
reviews and comments from elsewhere in the Community are specifically
invited !!

Community Film Picks
(zFilms) pod/Group has two purposes: 

1. To enable more-informed
voting with film-viewing dollars so we can help change the
world, and

2. To help us all find better
films to watch and the ones to avoid.

1. VOTING INFORMEDLY WITH
FILM DOLLARS

Movies, films, the cinema are an
important part of most of our lives. Don’t you think that voting with
your film-viewing dollars is an important way to support/encourage
the changes you want to see in the world? Don’t you think you need
more information about movies, to vote intelligently?

Everyone is looking for ways to “go
green,” these days. Well, how about “going green” re
movies, in the sense of giving your money to those which promote your
values? Community Films Picks can serve as your “Green
Guide.” A uniquely Gaia Community-flavored compendium of
commentaries about movies.

Look up Megatrends
2010
in our Gaia Books section to find this quote:

Source: Megatrends
2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism, Page: 25

Contributed by: ~C4Chaos.
Patricia
Aburdene said

   Welcome to the Dawn of
Conscious Capitalism — a popular, decentralized, broad-based crusade to
heal the excesses of capitalism with transcendent human values. Every
day Conscious Capitalism wins new converts in the paneled boardrooms
of global business…. Equally important, the actions millions of us
take, “from the supermarket to the stock market,” are
drafting a more wholistic brand of free enterprise which will forever
outshine the Chicago School-and win someone somewhere a brand-new
Nobel Prize.

[[“the actions millions of us
take…..” That’s what this pod is about, for movies. Join us,
and contribute and enjoy!]]

We look forward to synergy. We look
forward to exerting pressure, however strong or weak, on those whose
decisions result in the films available for people to see.

In the television world, show ratings
are the equivalent of film-viewers’ dollars. Thus, we discuss TV
also.

We look forward to co-creating, with
you, our new world of movies.

2. FINDING GOOD STUFF TO
WATCH

The more we share, the more easily
each of us can find films for ourselves and our families to watch
which are enjoyable, entertaining, inspiring, uplifting,
consciousness-raising, and/or spiritually relevant. And we
can also make note of films we might want to skip!! 

We think that sharing
recommendations about films is worthy of at least equal attention to
sharing information about books or Green resources in general. We
hope you will join us, become active, and really USE the resource of
this pod/Group. Then you’ll go to the video store with ideas, not
just cruising the aisles, hoping. Then you’ll look at the film ads
with information, not just a few shreds of recos from friends or the
media.

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Note: we are not at this time able to
deal with the world of videos ordinary folks are producing and
posting everywhere on the web. Who wants to start or refer us to THAT
resource/pod? Community Films Picks Group is pretty much
restricting itself to “mass-media.”

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HERE ARE SOME TIPS FOR
POSTINGS:

YOU ARE NOT LIMITED TO BRIEF REVIEWS
OR COMMENTS. Feel free to analyze, compare, discuss, take off into
cultural and philosophical analyses.

INCLUDE A VIOLENCE RATING  It
would be fabulously helpful if you would include a “rating”
(your own description, or the standard one) of any film you mention,
ESPECIALLY with respect to violence. Some of us forgo many excellent
films because we just can’t hack all the violence.

ASSIGN A CATEGORY  It would also
be marvelously helpful if you mention the category of film: Action,
Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Musical, etc.

DON’T SPOIL THE PLOT  Hey, have
a heart and don’t give away the plot or special stuff for anyone who
hasn’t seen the movie yet.

CHECK OUT What Can You Do
in Community Film Picks pod/Group? on this
Board. (Now called Room.)

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OTHER GAIA
COMMUNITY DISCUSSION GROUPS ABOUT MOVIES AND FILMS

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FINDING
INFORMATION ABOUT MOVIES

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TIP FOR USING THIS GROUP

You’ll find Community Film
Picks much more useful if you add it to the list of
pods/Discussion Groups you receive Notifications of. In the column on the left of every page, under the “Me” heading, scroll down to and click on “Settings,”
then click on Discussion Groups. Give your desired email and select Daily Digest and whether you want a note, or the full text. Then you will receive in your
regular email either a notice of, or full text of, anything new
posted each day .

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So, join the fun, tell us all your
opinions and likes, suggest further improvements to this pod, and
let’s BE the change by behaving in new ways with respect to the
movies we pay to see and rent and the TV we watch!!!