FFCFC. Democracy at it's finest

It's 8 o' clock. The baby is in bed. "Let's watch a film" is uttered by your other half. The sweat beads on your forehead, "Oh no! She'll never agree to watch Die Hard!" But it doesn't have to end in bad feeling. You need...

Fair Film Choosing For Couples™

I'm a huge fan of gamification. I'm also a huge fan of fairness. So when an opportunity arises to combine the two, I find myself unable to resist. Me and my better half are both self confessed cinephiles and love nothing more than finishing up a hard day with a bottle of wine and a film. Sadly, on occasion the overlap in the Venn diagram of our preferred genre is smaller than we'd like, and we can find ourselves at loggerheads as to what to watch. We will critique each others choices until one of two things happen; 1) We realise it's nearly midnight and we go to bed having not watched a film, or 2) One of us will relent and watch the other's film while moaning about the "total lack of credible storyline" or sniping "you don't really believe you can take out a chopper with a police car do you?". And that's what led to the invention of FFCFC.

I guarantee these 10 simple rules will lead to a lifetime of happy evenings or your money back. Tweet this post

FFCFC Rules

1. Each member gets three choices
2. Choices do not have to be unique
3. Choices do not have to be a film. A choice can be episodes of a series but must equate to the average length of a film (90 to 120 mins)
4. Strictly no criticising of choice by the loser before, during, or after viewing of the choice
5. The winner must make the loser a commiseration beverage of the losers choice. Ingredients must be currently present in the dwelling or new choice must be made
6. If the choice has to be streamed and streaming is not available then the winner may pick one of their remaning two choices. If no other unique choice exists a new choice must be made within a five minute time frame or the win is null and void
7. Choices to be written on equally sized pieces of paper
8. Choices are folded in half, then in half again. No special folding
9. The member who first suggested watching a film flips a coin. The other member calls. Whoever loses the coin toss places the choices in the choosing vessel and mixes until happy. If you flip, but fail to catch the coin, you automatically lose the toss
10. The winner of the coin toss picks one choice from the choosing vessel whilst looking away

FFCFC led you to a great evening of democratic movie watching? Please share this post as repayment. If you have any suggestion as to how FFCFC could be improved, have noticed any loop holes in the rules, or would like to thank me for saving your relationship, tweet me or comment below.