jmsmath

I'm in for this; however, as long as I have a job, I'll never get close to 100. I'll shoot for 30 as I'm scheduled to be out of town two weekends in July.

Going to make an effort to get through my Alien Quadrilogy which has been sitting on the shelf unwatched for over two years now.

Giles

since Farscape was mentioned in another thread, I should watch my R2 releases.

Travis McClain

You can do the following:
1) Quit your job.
2) Get portable video content (iPod, portable DVD player, netbook, etc.) for your out-of-town time.

Make sure you buy your portable player and content before step 1. And don't worry; you can go back to work on the first of August. I mean, in this economy, who's gonna fill your position in a month?

hindolio

i actually did a search on dvdtalk and found what i was looking for

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/8868120-post264.html

has the list of how it ended last year. this looks both fun and daunting

Trevor

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but all of Twilight Zone will count, right? Not just the obviously sci-fi themed episodes?

If Battlestar isn't released in time, I may do a TZ marathon instead.

Fist of Doom

allmovie.com lists it as sci-fi, so it counts according to the rules. Some episodes may be fantasy, but (imo) it would be too nitpicky to make someone judge each individual episode while they're doing a marathon.

Boogie76

I'm in for this. I have the month of July off, so it looks like it will be some a great time to get caught up on some anime and T.V. shows.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

There's also sci-fi movies and shows on hulu and at archive.org

Sci-Fi channel is doing a 4th of July marathon.

Might I also recommend this to be a good time to watch the original V mini-series and tv show due to the new series that's coming out this year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(2009_TV_series)

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Found this site just now and thought it'd help give some ideas
http://www.scifimoviepage.com/

brainee

I'll probably sign up for this, though my list will pitiful (especially with 2 weeks out of town in early July).

Here's a "is this movie ok?" question: what about "Repo! The Genetic Opera!"? I would've thought it was a no-brainer, being a story set in a dystopic future with many sci-fi technological plot elements. But sure enough, imdb and allmovie don't list it as sci-fi.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Going off of this review http://www.scifi.com/sfw/screen/sfw19803.html I'd say it counts.

caligulathegod

Looking forward to it. But after all that discussion last year, Fantasy gets a simple hand wave off? I said all I wanted to last year, but I'm probably going to include it on my list, regardless. No one is going to harsh my buzz. I want to have fun.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I just want to focus on sci-fi but as long as a fantasy movie has some fiction based technology, your fine. Something like a staff powered by souls instead of batteries would be science fiction.

I think you'd be able to find a way to fit in what's mostly a fantasy type movie the same way one could fit in The Dark Knight. It's mostly action but has some minor sci-fi elements.

Numes

Man, it seems like a year since the last Sci-Fi challenge. Oh wait...

Looking at last year's list, it looks like I had started re-watching Stargate SG-1. Right now I've started re-watching all the Star Trek TV series, so this was good timing for me. Good for the Sci-Fi challenge, bad for the Unwatched Movie Pile.

I'm going to try and get a few more movies in this year. I have a Star Wars fan edit that I have never watched either.

We'll have to see about the stats this year. I tried my hardest to come up with a "hands-free" approach to parsing the shows/movies in excel and various macros, but when everyone lists it a little different, it made for a lot of manual tweaking.

I believe either in last years thread, or in the Horror Movie Challenge, we discussed having people assigned for certain posts to compile stats. Depending on volunteers we could have everyone take 10 of the lists and compile them at the end of the challenge.

Numes

Some more thoughts here after doing a once-through of last year's discussion thread. I'm not even going to go anywhere near the commentary and fantasy discussions... except to say that I have a feeling that someday, somewhere, caligulathegod and I might actually agree on something

Someone suggested a double feature last year: Logan's Run and Soylent Green. I couldn't think of a better 70's sci-fi double feature than those two. Maybe add Omega Man if you want a triple feature.

I also found this message which is more for my own amusement (the response is to a post that Mr. Peepers DVR died):
It's funny to read that now, because my DVR DID die last year. I lost a whole bunch of great stuff. Since then I have added an external 1 TB drive and have increased my DVR space by almost 8X (160 GB to 1160 GB.) It was truly a great moment in DVR history. The DVR recognized and formatted the drive and I went from 92% used to 12% used. The funny/sad thing is that I'm at 93% now.

Dimension X

I'm the opposite. I ended up watching mostly movies last year, and I'm going to try to watch more of my unwatched TV DVDs this time.

hindolio

dang i cant wait for this to start already lol. i havent watched anything sci-fi in anticipation of and to save up for this 2 weeks ago.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

bump since it's getting close

Trevor

Same here. I've been going alphabetically through my unwatched film binders, but have been skipping the sci-fi ones lately. Still undecided on if I'll crank out a bunch of films or do a Twilight Zone marathon or a Battlestar Galactica marathon.

Corey31

My second competition, just hope to beat my tally from the Oscar challenge.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Gabbo is coming.

Here's the checklist from last year:

Watch one film from every decade, starting with the 1890s.
--- 1900:
--- 1910:
--- 1920:
--- 1930:
--- 1940:
--- 1950:
--- 1960:
--- 1970:
--- 1980:
--- 1990:
--- 2000:

Watch films in at least two languages other than English.
--- First language:
--- Second language: -

--- Watch the MST3K version of a sci-fi film.
--- Watch a film and its remake.
--- Watch a film based on a video game.
--- Watch a film based on a novel.
--- Watch a film directed by Ed Wood.
--- Watch a film which won an Academy Award -- any category.
--- Watch a silent sci-fi film.
--- Watch a Criterion version sci-fi film.
--- Watch a film with commentary.
--- Watch a film and at least two sequels.
--- Watch a film that takes place on a holiday.
--- Watch a film that takes place in space.
--- Watch a film that takes place on or under the sea.
--- Watch an animated sci-fi film.
--- Watch a film with special effects by Ray Harryhausen
--- Watch a film directed by Roland Emmerich
--- Watch a film directed by Larry Buchanan

Watch a film for each rating:
--- G
--- PG
--- PG-13
--- R
--- NC-17
--- X
--- Unrated

Watch a film in each of the following sci-fi subgenres:
--- Alien invasion
--- Artificial intelligence
--- Cyborg
--- Post Apocalyptic
--- Dying Earth
--- Hollow earth
--- Cybernetic revolt
--- Immortality
--- Parallel universe
--- Mutants
--- Documentary
--- Musical
--- Spoof
--- Time travel
--- Spy-fi
--- Space opera

Watch a film starring:
--- Sigourney Weaver
--- Harrison Ford
--- Peter Cushing
--- Boris Karloff
--- Arnold Schwarzenegger
--- Will Smith
--- Jeff Goldblum
--- Patrick Stewart
--- Keanu Reeves
--- John Agar

For help with the first few decades, things that can easily be found online:
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
Metropolis (1926)

The 1930s and later shouldn't be too hard. For 1930, I'd recommend tracking down a copy of Just Imagine (1930), which is a look at how the year 1980 would be. I saw it on TCM awhile back.

hindolio

im a "________" challenge noob, so pardon my ignorance...

who is gabbo? and what is the checklist for? like an optional kinda thing for the sci-fi challenge?

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Checklist is optional.

As for Gabbo, all I can say is he's coming and he'll be here Wednesday.

Trevor

Yes, each of the various Challenges here on DVDTalk (the last few years at least) has an optional checklist. It is sort of like a Bingo Card, designed to give some variety to everyone's viewing, and to make an additional contest/race out of it.

Here is a thread if you want to explore some of the history of Challenges here at DVDtalk.

WallyOPD

I've been watching Star Trek:TNG and been getting ready to start DS9 when I hit it chronologically, but I unfortunately reached that point a week ago. I wanted to start DS9 at the beginning of the challenge so I stopped all of my Star Trek watching just prior to the TNG 2-parter Chain of Command. I'm really itching for Wednesday so I can knock that out along with Emissary. My company is also going to be laying some people off tomorrow, so I may have much more time for this challenge than I want.