Early voting looked to be a landslide towards our second place film, but the final two sets of votes pushed a less controversial film into the number one spot. Here’s how things went down: With a disappointing 10 points, I Married a Monster from Outer Space came in 8th. Four points higher with 14, Cocoon came in seventh. One point separated each of the next four films in the list with Twelve Monkeys taking sixth with 17 points, The Thing from Another World in fifth with 18, Things to Come just above with 19 for fourth place and Total Recall coming in third with 20 points. In the end, two points separated Forbidden Planet from Invasion of the Body Snatchers resulting in a narrow victory for the well regarded remake of the 1956 classic which earned 24 points to Planet‘s 22. Invasion of the Body Snatchers goes into my queue. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on May 16 (due to a backlog, I may not be able to get the review posted by that time).

Here’s the deal: every week, I will be calling for suggestions of films to be added to my Netflix queue. Each person makes one suggestion and one alternate (in case I have seen one of your suggestions). The next week, when I call for new suggestions, we begin a one-week voting period to select the film to be placed immediately into my Netflix queue to be reviewed the weekend after (because I’ll already have my Netflix queue selections for the coming weekend). Then, you’ll find out what I thought in my weekly Morning After feature on Monday morning.

Sometimes a genre gets stuck in the rotation and it makes for a rough viewing schedule. Starting this week, I’m going to be asking for suggestions that fit a specific genre so each week can be a bit spicy. The genre or event listed each week will be posted at the end of this post.

To help decide what to pick, here is a list of what I’ve seen (or at least that I have personally logged).

Full List of Films I’ve Seen (updated through 3/10/11; a small number of titles may be missing still)
Here’s what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):

1. Below, please provide your suggestions to add to my Netflix queue.
2. Next, please rate each of the following entries in order of preference. Item 1 will be most preferred, 2 next most preferred and so forth.

• Being There (1979)
• The Candidate (1972)
• Dave (1993)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• The Last Hurrah (1958)
• The Mouse That Roared (1959)
• One, Two, Three (1961)
• State of the Union (1948)

This Week’s Category: Literary Adaptations