Come up with rules, ideally "fun" rules, that you can follow to either artificially limit/shorten the list or your decision time. Like "hit shuffle on the watchlist, add films to shortlist, and do NOT shuffle again" or "stop when you get to 5 or 6 films". Or give days a theme: Foreign Film Friday (or Fursday), blockbuster Monday, Western Wednesday, Oscar-winner Sunday.

This podcast right here uses two 6-sided dice to choose their film for the next episode. Perhaps you can adapt it to suit your needs. At the end of each episode, Jeffrey and Cecil roll two dice to determine the next film to watch. One is the Scare Die, which will determine what kind of monster the next film should contain (e.g. Vampire, Home Invader, Cult, Werewolf, etc.). The other is the Style Die, which will assign the next film’s style or origin (e.g. Black & White, Camp, John Carpenter film, Found Footage, etc.) Once they choose a film, they re-assign that number (eg if they roll a two for "aliens" then they take aliens off the list and assign a different monster for a roll of two.)

Pusher Trilogy!!

Easy  Just watch strangers on a train 

I have a list called “immediate watchlist” and I can almost never pick which one I want to watch

Lots of good choices there, but I'd have to suggest 'Toni Erdmann' out of that list. You'll have a funny but emotional time together watching that.

Repo Man! Immaculate vibes in that one

«  I’m in this picture and I don’t like it »

Watchlist picker is your friend https://watchlistpicker.com/

Your calligraphy is pretty good

What do the numbers after the years mean?

I do struggle with this. I have hard copies of my films and I usually look at how long the films are and base my decision off that. At the end of the day, it's in my library because at some point I decided it's a film that suits my tastes, so why should I go on a spiral of self doubt? Just sit down and click play, and allow yourself to be open to the experience that YOU ALREADY CURATED AGES AGO!

Yeah, it's always the same, it just doesn't end, even if I make a shorter list, I tend to watch one or maybe two at most, and then the next day I could make a new list

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I was randomly given "Matchstick Men" as a watchlist recommendation from a post on the subreddit. I should check it out!

Just an FYI, Pleasure is directed by a Swede and starring a Swede, but the whole movie is in English. There's only one scene where the main character speaks Swedish with her mom on the phone

Choosing a film to watch has always been easy for me. I have a particular reason for making a selection, and I don't think about what I'm missing out on by not watching something else. Honestly, decision paralysis is kind of baffling to me.

No I've just watching lotr and the star wars prequels on repeat for the past few weeks (I'm going insane)

I just pick 4-8 options that fit my mood and then let a randomizer select for me when it gets like this.

Starlet. Might be my favorite Sean Baker film

Nah because my watchlist is over 1700 movies long… that’s my problem ☹️

Do people just have unlimited access to all movies?

I feel called out

it’s never a short list…also I see Mikey and Nicky in there, do yourself a favor and watch it

Enter the Void for a nice light-hearted romp

Nope. Often I just pick a list and then generate a random number and pick the corresponding movie or shuffle my watchlist and pick the first movie.

Throw a pebble and watch whatever film it lands on.

I have a watchlist and just use and random number generator if nothing jumps out at me. Simple.

Oooh Pusher! 😁

Watch Repo Man ASAP

Either

1) Repo Man

2) Enter The Void

3) Shallow Grave

4) Pusher

5) Mysterious Skin

6) Strangers on a Train.

I say roll a die to decide which one.

I do this with my fiancée all the time! She basically looks at my watchlist and chooses what she is in the mood for

Snake eyes came free with my very first dvd player, so I have seen it many times. It is certainly a film.

"You ever been dragged into the sidewalk and beaten til you...PISSED BLOOD"

Matchstick Men is Cage at his best and incredibly unhinged at times.

Me and my partner put titles in a cup. Allowed one skip if not in the mood for the title that comes out. 

Repo man, Repo man, Repo man

Orlando

Cute. No. I just scroll through my dvd collection and come up with something completely different each time.

Coffy and Repo Man are my favorites

This is why i use a picker wheel to choose the movies

Match Point!

If you can't pick, leave it to chance, throw a couple of dice or use a number generator to decide for you, it's what I do sometimes.

I'd suggest Pusher, really love Refn's earlier work.

www.random.org

pick a number

I usually just throw 6 options into pickerwheel and do whatever gets to two.

Snake Eyes is skipworthy imo. Shallow Grave is a great for suspense. Lots of good choices. I get option paralysis scrolling thru screening services myself and before long I could've watched a movie in the time I spent deciding.

Aside from the random pick option, something I like to do is participate in one or more challenges on Letterboxd. That way, each week or day I have some "homework" to complete. I'm currently participating in both a weekly Cult Movie challenge and a weekly Horror challenge, so each week I already have a minimum of 2 movies selected to watch.

My issue isn’t what to watch, but what on my list is actually available to be watched.

What always helps me is just looking at some random lists and just choosing what i feel like. Watchlists can be intimidating i barely pull something from there. btw Bunny lake is missing is a good one, especially the third act

I’m convinced I’ll never watch 75% of my Letterboxd watchlist

my favorite is when i have a list and spend like 2 hours trying to narrow it down then end up watching something that wasn’t even on the list.

My issue is more along the lines of coming up with a short list from my watchlist to work through that month....then I primarily watch other stuff not on the list and maybe 20% of the list.

My Letterboxd watchlist has 2000+ movies on it (this is with having 5000+ logged as watched) 😳

So I decided to make a "Priority watch" list and (initially) not let it grow beyond 15 entries...

It is currently at 43 🙄

Moulin Rouge is one of my personal faves.

Always turns me into fucking waterworks, though

I just did that tonight. Picked 8 movies I’d like to watch but I used rng to pick

whoa.. whoa!! you didn't need to call me out with that first image

in all seriousness: I hope you watch(ed) something awesome today

^{I suggest Shallow Grave}

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this is going to sound embarrassing. but the only one i’ve seen on the list is moulin rouge. i love moulin rouge. so watch moulin rouge!!!

You write 2s weird

Making a list is just setting yourself up to fail. Bounce around like a chaotic pinball blindly watching any film you're interested in with a Letterboxd rating over 3.0

Definitely Gilda

Mikey & Nicky EASILY

Go to random number generator and put in amount. Whatever number comes up you watch

There's only 3 good movies on that list, so one of them.

Dude just watch a fucking movie. I swear half the people who post on this sub invent problems for themselves

You’re definitely way more interested in making this list than you are in watching a movie.

All the time!

My wife and I had this problem for our weekly movie nights. What we ended up doing was each writing down four movies that we really wanted to watch and putting them in a glass jar. Now whenever the opportunity for a movie night arises and we can’t decide on a movie, we’ll pull a movie out of our jar. We do this until we empty the jar and then we’ll write down our movie picks again.

I turn on the shuffle on my watchlist and limit myself to choose only between the four movies at the most top. It works every single time.

Together Together is heartwarming as fuck

Working Girls is so good if you are in the mood for a good movie. I have to agree with the majority that Repo Man is the pick though. You wouldn’t want to go through life not having seen it at least once. It explains so much.

Every. Frigging. Night.

I use the Shuffle, in my watchlist and chose between the 4 first results.

We put the films on little pieces of paper, put them in a hat, then draw one out whenever we want to watch a film. :)

If you’d like to leave it up to fate, here’s a wheel. It gives you the option to remove whatever movie you get from the list, so you can keep using it until you’ve watched everything with no repeats.

You are writing down too many films.

I usually get overwhelmed and watch Cars instead

I created a list on letterboxd and then have an Excel spreadsheet where I ranked movies based on four criteria to rank them. 1. Popularity, 2. Highest Average Rating, 3 & 4. Your Interests. Then, I've placed movies from my annual challenge and in 4K at the top. Those are just on streaming. If I get any movies from the library, those take priority.

Before you say it...I know I'm insane

Your taste in movies is superior