Movie Night Voting Tabulation

Executive Summaries Go At the Top For Engagement

  • The survey was completed 12 times.
  • John Candy: I Like Me won with 6 votes in favour and none against
  • Our emergency backup movie is A Might Wind
  • All movies had at least 2 positive votes
  • Half of our movies received positive scores
  • Betsy’s Wedding was our most controversial option

Setup

Click here for setup code
setwd('~/Personal/MovieNight')
# setwd('~/Projects/MovieNight')
library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
library(AfterSl1p)
# devtools::load_all('~/Work/Projects/aftersl1p')
theme_set(theme_bw())

cols = c('#878787','#FDDBC7','#B2182B')
ranklevs = c('I would NOT come to watch this film',
          'I do not love this film but would still show up',
          'I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film')
make_rank = function(x){
    x = factor(x, levels = ranklevs)
    x = as.numeric(x) -2
    return(x)
}

Import and Clean Data

The voting data are available as a .csv file here.

Click here for data wrangling code
dat = read.csv('data/current_week.csv', stringsAsFactors = FALSE, header = FALSE)
datm = as.matrix(dat)

tdf = read.csv('data/current_movies.csv', row.names = 1, header = FALSE, 
               stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
titles = tdf[[1]]
titles
## [1] "Timestamp"    "Elemental"    "PainHustlers" "AwayWeGo"     "Argylle"     
## [6] "AMightyWind"  "BetsyWedding" "JohnCandyILM" "Killers"
names(titles) = c(rownames(tdf))
titles
##                             Timestamp              [Elemental (2023, 1:41)] 
##                           "Timestamp"                           "Elemental" 
##          [Pain Hustlers (2023, 2:05)]             [Away We Go (2009, 1:38)] 
##                        "PainHustlers"                            "AwayWeGo" 
##                [Argylle (2024, 2:19)]          [A Mighty Wind (2003, 1:32)] 
##                             "Argylle"                         "AMightyWind" 
##        [Betsy's Wedding (1990, 1:34)]  [John Candy: I Like Me (2025, 1:53)] 
##                        "BetsyWedding"                        "JohnCandyILM" 
##                [Killers (2010, 1:40)] 
##                             "Killers"
datm[datm %in% names(titles)] = titles[datm[datm %in% names(titles)]]
datm
##       V1                            
##  [1,] "Timestamp"                   
##  [2,] "2026/02/17 8:51:20 p.m. EST" 
##  [3,] "2026/02/18 6:12:17 a.m. EST" 
##  [4,] "2026/02/18 9:39:48 a.m. EST" 
##  [5,] "2026/02/18 3:04:21 p.m. EST" 
##  [6,] "2026/02/18 7:30:49 p.m. EST" 
##  [7,] "2026/02/22 2:29:50 p.m. EST" 
##  [8,] "2026/02/23 7:06:23 a.m. EST" 
##  [9,] "2026/02/23 12:43:11 p.m. EST"
## [10,] "2026/02/23 5:03:07 p.m. EST" 
## [11,] "2026/02/23 7:20:42 p.m. EST" 
## [12,] "2026/02/23 8:19:08 p.m. EST" 
## [13,] "2026/02/23 9:06:07 p.m. EST" 
##       V2                                               
##  [1,] "Elemental"                                      
##  [2,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [3,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [4,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [5,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [6,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [7,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [12,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [13,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##       V3                                               
##  [1,] "PainHustlers"                                   
##  [2,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [3,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [4,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [5,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [6,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [7,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [12,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [13,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##       V4                                               
##  [1,] "AwayWeGo"                                       
##  [2,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [3,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [4,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [5,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [6,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [7,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [12,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [13,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##       V5                                               
##  [1,] "Argylle"                                        
##  [2,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [3,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [4,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [5,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [6,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [7,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [12,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [13,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##       V6                                               
##  [1,] "AMightyWind"                                    
##  [2,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [3,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [4,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [5,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [6,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [7,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [12,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
## [13,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##       V7                                               
##  [1,] "BetsyWedding"                                   
##  [2,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [3,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [4,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [5,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [6,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [7,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [12,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
## [13,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##       V8                                               
##  [1,] "JohnCandyILM"                                   
##  [2,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [3,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [4,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [5,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [6,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [7,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
## [12,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [13,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##       V9                                               
##  [1,] "Killers"                                        
##  [2,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [3,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
##  [4,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [5,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [6,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [7,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
##  [8,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
##  [9,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [10,] "I do not love this film but would still show up"
## [11,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"         
## [12,] "I would NOT come to watch this film"            
## [13,] "I would REALLY LIKE to watch this film"
# rev_titles = gsub(' [','',names(titles), fixed = TRUE)
# rev_titles = gsub(']','',rev_titles, fixed = TRUE)
# names(rev_titles) = titles
# colnames(datm) = rev_titles[colnames(datm)]
colnames(datm) = datm[1,]
datm = datm[-1,]

dat = (datm
       %>% data.frame()
       %>% mutate(Timestamp = substr(Timestamp, 1, 18),
               Timestamp = ymd_hms(Timestamp)))

Tabulate the results

dat_num = (dat
           %>% select(-Timestamp)
           %>% mutate_all(make_rank))
results = sort(colSums(dat_num), decreasing = TRUE)
res_df = data.frame(results)
# rownames(res_df) = rev_titles[rownames(res_df)]
res_df
##              results
## JohnCandyILM       6
## AMightyWind        3
## BetsyWedding       2
## Killers            2
## AwayWeGo          -1
## Argylle           -1
## Elemental         -2
## PainHustlers      -2

Vampire Academy Wins!

John Candy: I Like Me wins with 6 points!

Pics or it didn’t happen

Click here for plotting code
brk_levs = c('I would NOT come\nto watch this film',
             'I do not love this film\nbut would still show up',
             'I would REALLY LIKE\nto watch this film')
dat_long = (dat
            %>% gather(Movies, Votes, -Timestamp)
            %>% mutate(Votes = factor(Votes, levels = ranklevs,
                                      labels = brk_levs),
                       Movies = factor(Movies, levels = names(results))))
#levels(dat_long$Movies) = rev_titles[levels(dat_long$Movies)]
plt = ggplot(dat_long, aes(x = Movies, fill = Votes)) +
    geom_bar(stat = 'count') +
    scale_fill_manual(values = cols, name = 'Vote Value') +
    ylab('Vote Count') +
    rotate_ticks() +
    theme(legend.text = element_text(margin = margin(t = 0.5,
                                                     b = 0.5,
                                                     unit = 'lines')))

png(filename = 'results/current_week.png', height = 480, width = 800)
plt +
    theme(axis.title = element_text(size = 20),
          axis.text.y = element_text(size = 15),
          axis.text.x = element_text(size = 15,
                                  angle = 90,
                                  hjust = 1,
                                  vjust = 0.5),
          legend.text = element_text(size = 15, margin = margin(t = 0.5,
                                                              b = 0.5,
                                                              unit = 'lines')),
          legend.title = element_text(size = 20))
          #legend.key = element_rect(colour = 'white', size = 10))
dev.off()
## png 
##   2

You can download a .png of the plot here.