NoirFan

Without spoiling the plot, as I haven't seen it yet, does Shutter Island fall under the fantasy category, or at least have fantasy elements? If it's borderline, like NOES, I'll just use a wildcard.

Greg MacGuffin

The plot hinges on a huge suspension of disbelief, but there are no fantasy elements involved.

shellebelle

There would also be The Land that Time Forgot and The People that Time Forgot. Both of those are my favorite books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They just did a remake of The Land that Time Forgot too that's on my unwatched list!

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

List thread is up and checklist is finalized. Removed some sci-fi items to include fantasy.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk/57...st-thread.html

NoirFan

Any self-respecting sci-fi buff ought to pick up a copy of this book. It's a truly exhaustive guide to every, and I mean every science fiction film made between 1895 and 1995, with loads of photos and a wonderfully dry sense of humor. Granted, it's 15 years out of date, but still an essential reference guide. I had a lot of fun reading about all of the films I watched last July.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I'd like to get the horror one but not at that price.

It also reminded me of this site, if you're looking for ideas
http://www.movieretriever.com/genre/19/Sci-Fi
http://www.movieretriever.com/genre/10/Fantasy

NoirFan

Just received my dirt-cheap blind-buy Blu-ray of Trick 'r Treat from DD, and I was wondering if it would be acceptable as a Wild Card. Surely it's, er, fantastical?

Trevor

I think that'd be a bit of a stretch, but like the effort.

I doubt you'll love it, so you could just wait till Halloween and that Challenge. It's decent, just not nearly as great as some of the praise it gets here, imho.

John Sinnott

I'm in this year. I've been wanting to do this challenge since it began, but things always popped up. They're popping up this year too, I'm going to be on vacation for a week and then going to the SF Silent Film festival (where I'll watch the restored Metropolis... I assume theatrical screenings are okay) so that's nearly half the month gone, so there's no way I'll get to 100. I've got a lot of unwatched SF that I've been dying to screen, and this gives me a good excuse.

Two questions: does SF/Fantasy anime count? Can one movie count as two 'slots' on the checklist? If I watch Metropolis, can I fill that in for "1920's", and "Silent movie"? (I assume that it doesn't or you could fill out half the list with a couple of well selected films, but I thought I'd ask.)

caligulathegod

Yeah, that's a great one. I also love the Horror one. Never got around to getting the Western one.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Anything that's sci-fi or fantasy counts, so you can count everything at your film festival as well.

On a side note, I'm doing an Animated August challenge, so that anime would count for that challenge, if you were interested.

NoirFan

What about For All Mankind? It's a documentary, but it does deal with space travel.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

It's tale of space travel is too realistic for this challenge. Dark Side of the Moon would be more appropriate for this challenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Si...documentary%29

I'd also consider science educational films and documentaries where the majority of the science presented ended up being wrong with what's currently known as being valid on a case by case basis.

caligulathegod

It's science fiction if you think that we didn't go to the moon. Otherwise it's good for the Historical Challenge.

dcrw6

I'll join in this year. I probably won't go crazy on it but I've been looking for an excuse to go through my Outer Limits boxset and there's a few other movies I haven't checked out yet so I'll probably at least get to all those.

NoirFan

Just goes to show you can't trust Donald Rumsfeld.

BlazinTy

Will Sci-Fi/Fantasy anime count as part of this challenge?

Gobear

Absolutely, animated SF/fantasy counts. There's even an animation category in the checklist.

I wondered, do serials from the 30s count as one movie?

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Those are calculated by running time, like TV shows.

Trevor

See post #1 for all the time/count rules.

WallyOPD

I decided I'll make this the summer of Babylon 5. I own everything but Lost Tales, so that should account for 67.5 total entries if I can get through the entire collection. Sprinkle in some additional movies and TV series and I'll see if I can crack 100 again.

Numes

My favorite TV show of all time

This may be a dumb comment, but I'm assuming you have the movie collection, too? Make sure and watch the pilot first. There is also a prequel movie, I would suggest not watching that until the point at which it originally aired. In fact, everything can be watched in broadcast order, FYI.

Also, depending on how serious you want to get, I would highly suggest reading the Lurker's Guide entry after each episode. Back when B5 originally aired, the writer/creater of B5 would get on newsgroups and comment on the episode for fans every week. Those are captured here as well as some analysis/questions/etc... It is all captured as it was originally written, so there are no spoilers.

Lurker's Guide

WallyOPD

Oh I've already seen it all before, and it's my favorite series of all time as well.

It's been several years since I've watched it though, and even longer since I watched Crusade and Legend of the Rangers, so I figure this would be a good opportunity to relive the magic.

Numes

Ahhh... ok. Well, it will be good information for someone else, perhaps.

It's been 2 years for me since I last watched the series. I still want to finish the Stargate shows, though, so I'm thinking next year will be time to watch B5 again.

Ash Ketchum

UNKNOWN WORLD (1951) is sort of a hollow earth film. This group of scientists burrow to the center of the earth in what is basically a submersible with one of those drill things in the front. Pretty good for a low-budget movie.

ATRAGON and GODZILLA VS. MEGALON deal with civilizations inside the earth, although maybe not a hollow earth.