Not trying to nitpick or anything, but this is my favorite typo in a long time.

Predator never gets old. Although the DNR is annoyingly waxy at times watching Predator in high definition with the Ultimate Hunter Edition was a revelation compared to the DVD, immersive vibrant colors and better detail. "The demon who makes trophies of men."

Next up is Predator 2...

Been revisiting the first 3 Spiderman movies in anticipation of watching the reboot. Just caught the new one today and it's pretty good! Can't really make up my mind about whether I prefer Andrew or Toby as Spidey - I think they both brought something extra special to their respective roles. I do prefer MJ over Gwen any day though

Up early this morning, watching the end of The Day the Earth Stood Still with the three recent Olive sci-fi Blu-rays - Project X, Colossus of New York and The Space Children - on deck.

Was kind of slow last night, only watched the episode of Lost In Space, but plan to watch The Time Tunnel and more sci fi tonight.

Apparently. I copied it over from last year but it wasn't something I planned on removing. On the other hand, it doesn't really add to anything.

I watched the wrong time machine/JFK assassination film last night. Right away I knew I had the wrong one but I figured, what the hell. Then Bruce Campbell showed up. I thought that even though nobody looked liked the characters they were portraying that it might still be good.

This was one of those DTV films where they shoehorn in a famous name for 15 seconds, just to get their name on the cover. He had no interaction with anyone in the story and you could have easily taken out all of his scenes and wouldn't have lost anything. It also would have helped because all of his scenes were shoehorned in at a couple spots and they were all out of place and ruined any pacing the film had.

I'm pretty sure Running Against Time is the one I really wanted.

I've seen something I thought somewhat impossible. A film from Asylum that's actually not bad!

Merlin and the War of the Dragons is about a young Merlin and his "coming of age". He defends the Normans from a Saxon warlord and a rogue wizard (a former co-student) who controls some fire-breathing dragons. Along the way he helps Uther Pendragon become king. It's a step up from a typical made-for-syfy film with a fair plot, mostly good acting, and very passable special effects. While at times they show the low budget it's not too often. It's almost as good as The Beastmaster which is in the same set.

I got the film in a "6 movie pack" from Echo Bridge that also has The Beastmaster (the film I purchased the pack to get), Beowulf (Christopher Lambert), DragonQuest (another from Asylum), Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao, and Midnight Chronicles (horrible film).

So far I've watched The Beastmaster, Merlin, and Midnight Chronicles.

Midnight Chronicles is more like what I expected from Merlin. It's so derivative that it's easily a lawsuit in the making for being a blantant LOTR ripoff. All of the character names sound like LOTR characters (Izradur - the "dark force" - really jumped out from the start). Elves, Orcs (who look almost identical to those in LOTR), a Strider/Aragorn clone, and a Frodo/Sam clone. Of course the Elves are on the side of good while the orcs are on the dark side. Just like in LOTR. Add to all that a worse than syfy script, acting, and effects and you have a waste of 100 minutes. If you purchase this set, be advised that this one is a stinker from the start. If you're like me you'll watch it at least once simply because you purchased it but boy was it a difficult watch.

Speaking as a nerd, that's how things go and how they all look 99.9% of the time.

With all these different sources using elves and orcs the same way, couldn't it be possible that these are somewhat based on fact? Ancient alien scholars believe that...

Very true but it'd be nice if someone would use Elves as they were perceived in Anglo-Saxon lore, more malevolent/mischevous type beings rather than the post-Tolkien benevolent/wise beings or the more ambivalent variety.
While they could *somewhat* make that connection with Elves, Orcs originated in the writings of Tolkien. While he took the name from the Old English word for "demon" his "Orc" is not the same creature. But that means the Ancient Alien "scholars" would have to actually research their suppositions, eh?

That type sounds more like leprechauns, minus the times they're helpful. Coast to Coast had an interview a few years back with a couple of English guys that claim leprechauns, fairies, gnomes and other related creatures are all real. They ran a business where they take people out on tours to try and see them. As absurd as the entire interview was, it was so crazy that I couldn't stop listening.

Looking through the rules, I noticed a past rule fell off. As a reminder, everything that airs on the SyFy channel, minus infomercials, count.

I'd also like to implement something new when it comes to counting entries. Seeing as there's many epic style sci-fi and fantasy films that have longer than average running times, such as LOTR, I'd like to change how those are counted.

In keeping with the line that 90 minutes of tv shows would count as a standard 90 minute film, if you watch a film that runs longer than 90 minutes, you're allowed to start adding to how much a film is worth as an entry.

To break it down:
112 minutes (1 hours 53 minutes) = 1.25 entries
135 minutes (2 hours 15 minutes = 1.5 entries
157 minutes (2 hours 37 minutes)= 1.75 entries
180 minutes (3 hours) = 2 entries

You don't need to be exact and some slight rounding of minutes is ok or you can break out your calculator* and find the exact count that a 137 minute movie would count as.

I'm doing this as if you're someone that's trying to get to the magic number of 100, you'll be able to watch what you want and not have to put away your LOTR/Star Wars/Aliens films because they're too long, to then pull out a bunch of cheap and short films from the 50s.

If you watch a film that's less than 90 minutes, it still counts as 1 entry. I haven't gotten that anal yet.

Since the challenge already officially started, I'll call it optional but if there's no mass revolt, it will show up next year as an official rule. If it's a crazy idea, tell me now but I know I've skipped watching longer movies in the past when I had a goal of trying to get a high count in these challenges and I know I'm not the only one.

* The formula is x/90 where x is the number of minutes of the movie. We use Base 90 in this challenge.

I just watched Battleship at the theater and I have to say that I enjoyed it very much. The rating of 6.2 on IMDB is not bad but the reviews were terrible and I don't know why. I'm guessing that the reviewers didn't actually watch the movie, it had a lot of special effects but having seen many special effects movies I would not burden it with that description. Although many scenes were very cliche that is true of most movies and I felt the actors rose above it. I felt that it was in the tradition of Independence Day (in a good way) with actors that of course were not as good as those in Independence Day.

Good to know, this might come in handy!

I like this idea, but it gets a bit hard to do when you do your counting list without numbering with decimals. Mine looks like this with the new numbering:

6/30/12
1.75 Witches of Oz (164 min)=1.75
3. Battle Royale (122 min)-1.25
3.25 6/30 Jack and the Beanstalk (1902, an Edison film)(~15 mins)=.25
3.75 Special Unit 2: The Wraps (1 hour show)=.5
4.75 It Came From Beneath the Sea
5.75 Gamera Vs Guiron

7/1/12
6.75 Return to Oz

where you include the tv shows and shorts in the numbering list rather than waiting until you have a full entry, otherwise it gets really confusing of what you've counted and what you haven't. On my actual tally sheet, I've only taken advantage of the first one I've watched as that was almost 3 hours. Haven't decided if I'll keep on counting that one or start counting them all that way.

I like this idea, just not sure how I'd go about keeping track of the extra time.

Mister Peepers: Do you have a preference on how we keep track of them?

Perhaps we should consider simplifying like the Action/Adventure Challenge did:

Everything counts as one

It would be an issue if you don't like decimals. Thinking on it a little more, if I continued on with it, I'd keep it strictly optional. Personally, I'm not even going to bother with it unless I'm hitting something that's around 2 hours.

Maybe I just have to much time on my hands, thinking about rules like this. If nobody finds it at all useful, I'll drop it for next year but there's no harm in letting it ride out the rest of the challenge since it's completely optional.

Personally, I'd rather not have numbered lists before going that route. I don't agree that watching a 2 hour movie should count the same as watching a commercial for a movie.

Another cameo - Sigourney Weaver as one of Wiliam Baldwin's hallucinatory conquests in Flatliners?

Funny enough I am not being totally factious. I've never seen the show because of the uber-hype and the long delays. I knew one day I'd just watch the whole series. Now is that time.

Over complicating it with the decimal places for long movies IMO. Also changing the rules mid-challenge seems a bit flighty.

Tonight for my sci fi, I finished side A of Disc1 of The Time Tunnel with End of the World, the episode about Halley's Comet.

I wouldn't say it's mid-challenge for another 14 days or so

Point taken.The SyFy rule will still stand since it was supposed to be there in the first place.

watched Nightbreed and LOTR fotr extended cut

gonna get to see the cabal cut of nightbreed in auguest so been in the mood to rewatch it and imdb lists it as fantasy so that made me pleased

Finished watching Immortals. It was... Ok. Visually it was like a weekend-long threesome with blonde twin gymnasts but narratively it was like dryly beating off to Elle magazine, sitting on the toilet seat while your girlfriend keeps banging on the door trying to get in and put on her makeup.

I may be over thinking this but what does "giant critters" mean? Any extra large animal? I'm watching a version of Journey to the Center of the Earth and it has giant dinosaur fish things. Would that count or does it have to be some particular type of critter?

Ones that normally aren't giant sized. Your dinosaur fish are standard size, so they wouldn't count. Food of the Gods is full of giant critters, if that helps.

Just as an FYI.

I solved the html table with a bunch of spaces above it problem. If you are formating your html, every hard return is turned into a space or html break above the table. One way to fix it is to remove all the hard returns from your html, making it a mess and more difficult to edit, but at least it'll look right.

The other way is to use the wysiwyg editor and delete all the breaks above the table. Even though the option is in the User CP settings, I could never get the wysiwyg editor to work. Maybe it's not enabled for the site.