Ash Ketchum

Thanks. I just like it to be spelled out anew for each Challenge.

davidh777

I was thinking about Milla Jovovich but hadn't come up with any more names to make a substantial post

shadokitty

Anyone know what they might start with for the challenge? Not positive yet, but I am thinking that I may start with The Time Tunnel.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I have a bunch of sci-fi shows I'd like to watch but they're stuff I want to watch with my family and they're gone for the challenge, which somewhat limits me to movies. For me, it's easier to get burned out trying to do a day of movies compared to tv. Then I find myself spending an hour or two doing something after a movie, while also being stumped on what I want to watch next. In turn, I get depressed that I wasted so much time trying to decide that if I had just picked something at random, I would have been almost done with it.

That's me in pretty much any challenge.

terrycloth

thats me every damn night before bed ill spend looking through either my dvd collection or my netflix que way to long that when i finally decide what to watch I fall asleep.


im starting my challenge off with a 24 hr challenge or as close to one as i can to knock out some movies before going back to work. Im gonna try to marathon the lotr movies and aliens

LJG765

This is me a lot of times too! I'll stare at my movies and go, I should watch this...nooo, I'll save that one. How about this? No, so and so wanted to watch that too, ok, how about this? Well...

And it'll be about an hour before I finally just pick one. I also feel guilty sometimes watching something I've already seen before when I have so many I haven't watched yet. So part of that time is convincing myself it's ok to watch my old favorite rather than something new.

But I think I've already decided what I'm watching first. I've read horrible reviews on it, but I picked up Witches of Oz not to long ago. I'm a huge Oz fan (I even just went to the Oz museum in Kansas two weeks ago) so I'm hoping I can find something redeemable in it.

BobO'Link

Doing a "double qualifier" by watching S1 of Ancient Aliens. It'll finish off the Historical Appreciation while starting the Sci-Fi/Fantasy. I've not seen any episodes yet and am hoping for lots of cheese!

Ash Ketchum

Hey, don't talk about our ancestors from the stars that way.

Darth Maher

Once again, I am going to TRY to partake in this challenge. Got lots of classic Star Trek, Doctor Who, The Prisoner episodes that I want to check out.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I'm doing that too but I'm dreading that it'll end up being the most boring thing in the world. It's been on for awhile, so maybe it's crazy enough to be fun.

lisadoris

I'm trying to finish Season 2 of Voyager in the next couple days so I can start S3 for the Challenge.

coyoteblue

I think I'm going to start off with Doctor Who: The Movie. I'm pretty sure I've only seen it once.

SterlingBen

Disease movies countable?

Warning Sign
Contagion
I Am Legend
The Crazies
Outbreak

?

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Did you check imdb.com to see if they had a sci-fi or fantasy tag? I always check there and then allmovie.com for genres. If I still think it might qualify, I'll search a few other places just to see if anyplace else labels them sci-fi or fantasy, like amazon, wikipedia, or just a google search of something like "The Crazies sci-fi" and see what kind of results I get. If I have to do anymore searching than that to try and qualify something, I figure I'm beginning to stretch things and then I'll find something more obvious to watch.

The first 3 have sci-fi tags at imdb. Outbreak has a sci-fi tag at allmovie. The Crazies(original), is listed as sci-fi at wikipedia but the remake is listed as horror. Since it's a remake, I'd say that's good enough to count as sci-fi.

BobO'Link

The "cheese" comment was a aimed at the learned experts (especially Erich von Däniken) in the program, *not* the ancestral star folk.

BobO'Link

I'm hoping the pseudoscience sections will be entertaining enough in spite of probably having seen most, if not all, of the episodes in various forms since von Däniken put forth his fabrications theories back in the 70s. It doesn't hurt that Paul Mavis gave it a fairly positive review here on DVD Talk. Based on the reviews of his I've read he and I tend to like the same programs so his review is somewhat encouraging towards the likeability of the series.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I checked out the episode summaries over at wikipedia and they do sound like they might be fun and completely unlike the few UFO shows I've caught on the Discovery Channel. I used to read UFO/Bigfoot/Loch Ness Monster type books from grade school through high school and remember reading Erich's book a few times. I remember being surprised finding that one book on Mothman after reading a few books that talked about him a bit.

Does anyone else remember commercials years ago when Time Life had their book series, Mysteries of the Unknown, which had UFOs and other related stuff? You got the first book, really cheap, or free but then every month, or whatever, they'd send you a new book? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4zBYh2PUyk

They released a book containing a bunch of the books in the series that's pretty good and cheap http://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Unkn...of+the+unknown I picked one up a few years ago and it was pretty good and covered a decent amount of topics.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Something Weird Video just let me know they want to be a sponsor. Once details are worked out, I'll list the additional prizes.

terrycloth

i broke down and started watching fringe season 1 since iv had em for awhile and have yet to watch.

im weak

NoirFan

I thought I'd post this list of Netflix Sci-fi Blu-ray rentals. Illustrating how sparse their collection of catalog titles is, here they all are, through the 70's*:

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

How have I never heard of Circle of Iron before?

Full Moon is having a 4th of July sale next week, giving out gift cards based on your order total. There's a bunch of qualifying titles for this challenge as well as the horror challenge, for anyone interested.

http://fullmoonhorror.com/2012/06/26...ee-gift-cards/

Ash Ketchum

If you ever see it, you'll be sorry you heard of it.

Greg MacGuffin

IMDb lists it as sci-fi, so I would say it counts without a wild card. It's definitely a horror flick, but it has enough sci-fi elements that it would not be out of place in this challenge.

SterlingBen

Yeah it was pretty meh. But a bit of alcohol smoothes the edges.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I'd say it's a good example of a wild card but if imdb lists it as sci-fi, it counts. I watched it a couple of horror challenges back and thought it was pretty good. If I knew it was that good, I wouldn't have let it sit unwatched on my shelf for almost a decade.