"Official" DVDTalk Challenges Compendium
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But I’m on record as saying that they’ll always be a May MYOC, even if I have to start it. It’s awesome that you step in and offer to start them a lot shado, but I’m hopeful that we can get some new blood into starting them. Someone needs to keep these things humming when you, Chad, and the others are gone.
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Would hate to see you go Dx. Just posting the thread in April is pretty much all you need to do, as there really isn’t any ‘scoring’ or ‘rules’ to work or after or during the Challenge.
But I’m on record as saying that they’ll always be a May MYOC, even if I have to start it. It’s awesome that you step in and offer to start them a lot shado, but I’m hopeful that we can get some new blood into starting them. Someone needs to keep these things humming when you, Chad, and the others are gone.
But I’m on record as saying that they’ll always be a May MYOC, even if I have to start it. It’s awesome that you step in and offer to start them a lot shado, but I’m hopeful that we can get some new blood into starting them. Someone needs to keep these things humming when you, Chad, and the others are gone.
#1003
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Yeah, not happy that my old format for every list doesn’t work well with the new software. Most months I didn’t put too much effort into formatting my lists, but now I’m even less inclined to do so.
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Re: "Official" DVDTalk Challenges Compendium
I put my ratings symbols back in the Romance challenge - but it's somewhat of a pain as the system wants to keep the last size/color you used. I bold dates but if I don't do it with "Source" it'll bold everything in between automatically - even if I start with a single bolded line. I really, really, really, do not like the "improved" editor at all. It seems to take twice as long to do things as before. Just one of the common complaints I have with all the web based GUI crap. It takes 5-20 steps to do what you once did in a couple.
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We’re twinning again, I was just coming here to post that.
PMed Greg, but if he doesn’t respond in the next couple days how about you starting it Bob? It’s seriously only as much work as you make it. The prizeless Challenges here take the OP maybe 90 seconds of work for the entire month. Just cut and paste from the previous year, tweak the date, read the thread as you would normally for any input or tweaks, easy peasy.
PMed Greg, but if he doesn’t respond in the next couple days how about you starting it Bob? It’s seriously only as much work as you make it. The prizeless Challenges here take the OP maybe 90 seconds of work for the entire month. Just cut and paste from the previous year, tweak the date, read the thread as you would normally for any input or tweaks, easy peasy.
If Dimension X wants out I'll do the MYO challenge. It's a favorite and somewhat a no-brainer.
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OK... It's done... the 2020 May MYO challenge discussion thread has been started...
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#1009
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The way these challenge keep growing, it'll be the Jan 1st to Dec 31st Horror, Academy awards, make your own, romance, animation et. etc. Challenge"
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There's rumbling that the Oscars might move for 2021 so there might be a challenge-free month next year (and two challenges in the same month depending on what happens).
#1013
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True. And I do, but when challenges bleed over into other challenges for no reason at all, it gets annoying. The way it started with challenges having months was nice. Now you can be doing 2 separate challenges in the same month.
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That doesn't happen that often and you can always ignore the overlap (I almost always do). Unless I'm missing one there's the Comedy which overlaps the Holiday due to Thanksgiving, the Academy Awards which can overlap TV or Action depending on just when the awards show is scheduled and will always overlap the Romance one added this year, and the Historical which overlaps the MYO due to backing up to include the Memorial Day weekend. IIRC most of those overlaps started only a few years back and were generally agreed upon by the participants.
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That doesn't happen that often and you can always ignore the overlap (I almost always do). Unless I'm missing one there's the Comedy which overlaps the Holiday due to Thanksgiving, the Academy Awards which can overlap TV or Action depending on just when the awards show is scheduled and will always overlap the Romance one added this year, and the Historical which overlaps the MYO due to backing up to include the Memorial Day weekend. IIRC most of those overlaps started only a few years back and were generally agreed upon by the participants.
#1017
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Well the Oscars just got moved to April 25 which means the Oscar Challenge will run roughly March 27-April 25 (if we keep it at around 30 days). That means this challenge would overlap with the Drive-In/Cult Challenge.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
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Also, just wanted to add that I plan on hosting July and August as usual. Will be getting the Sci-Fi/Fantasy threads up fairly soon.
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I usually do both but neither is one of my heavier challenges. Mostly I’d be affected in that I’d have fewer opportunities for double credit.
Music/musicals/romance was launched on a trial basis this year, but it has a better chance of sticking around if the runway is clear of Oscars.
Music/musicals/romance was launched on a trial basis this year, but it has a better chance of sticking around if the runway is clear of Oscars.
#1020
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I too do both, but wouldn’t mind any overlap. It gives me more things to watch.
#1021
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I don't do the Academy Awards challenge as most of the nominees are movies I just don't care to watch or watch again. Won't affect me at all.
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I intend to host the Criterion Challenge next month. Since the checklist is more or less automatic for that one and there isn't much to do in the way of pre-challenge discussion, I figured I'd wait until the 15th to start the threads. That's the day they'll announce the November wave. I can start earlier, though, if anyone is adamant about it.
#1024
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There doesn't seem to have been a Criterion November announcement but I've gone ahead and created the Criterion Challenge list and discussion threads.
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I floated an idea in the Criterion discussion thread, and wanted to cross-post it here. I've been wondering of late whether maybe it would be worth considering revamping that challenge as a wider Boutique Distributor Challenge. Because we accept content that has been selected to stream on the Criterion Channel, that's more or less what it has become by default now anyway. A lot of the Channel content has been licensed from distributors such as Arrow Video; Cohen Film Collection; Kino Lorber; Milestone/Oscilloscope; Scream/Shout Factory; and the defunct Twilight Time, as well as the Sony Selects and Warner Archive Collection MOD programs. (If we voted now, I'd be against including Sony and Warner carte blanche because those are large enough to exceed the intended smaller scope of the challenge.)
I bring this up because as much as I love the Criterion Challenge, participation is easily the lowest of all the challenges. Always has been, and is damn near barely alive by now. Some of that has to do with the community itself disintegrating, but the Horror Challenge is alive and well so our fellow forum members do still remember their login credentials. I feel like there are a lot of forum participants who collect and watch all kinds of content that's eligible for the challenge as it already stands, but abstain because their perception is that if it isn't Bergman, Fellini, or Kurosawa that they're shut out. I hate that, because you could also be watching and talking about Anna Biller, Jackie Chan, MGM Musicals, or movies with scores by Quincy Jones. None of those themes come across from the words "Criterion Challenge".
I bring this up because as much as I love the Criterion Challenge, participation is easily the lowest of all the challenges. Always has been, and is damn near barely alive by now. Some of that has to do with the community itself disintegrating, but the Horror Challenge is alive and well so our fellow forum members do still remember their login credentials. I feel like there are a lot of forum participants who collect and watch all kinds of content that's eligible for the challenge as it already stands, but abstain because their perception is that if it isn't Bergman, Fellini, or Kurosawa that they're shut out. I hate that, because you could also be watching and talking about Anna Biller, Jackie Chan, MGM Musicals, or movies with scores by Quincy Jones. None of those themes come across from the words "Criterion Challenge".