personally I thought Ice Age 2 was utter garbage - 4 though was fun.

I tried to take my niece to a midnight showing of the new Ice Age when it opened for her 10th birthday. Unfortunately, the film froze and skipped - twice - and we never even made it into the opening credits. Did see the Simpsons short - twice - and liked it.

As for me, I watched Waltz with Bashir yesterday, the third of my library DVD rentals. Here's what I wrote in my Letterboxd review. It's not much.

My review also includes a list of the matches it won and lost when I added it to my Flickchart, in case anyone wants to get a sense of my taste overall.

Re-watched Fire & Ice tonight. I had forgotten what a nice slice of 80's sword & sorcery it was. I should be hitting the 24 hour mark tomorrow. Another movie perhaps and then back to Tenchi Muyo! or maybe Hemo the Magnificent. Think I'll save Looney Tunes for the weekend.

I'm only up to 19 hours but last I checked, Ash was beating us all. He hit the 24 hour mark on day six.

Just over 8 hours so far

Finished disc 1 of Transformers Headmasters last night. Enjoying the show so far. Debating now between moving on to disc 2 right away, or taking a break and moving onto a different show for the time being.

I didn't get to watch yesterday-had surgery, but brought my laptop along and plan on watching a couple from the library while I'm stuck here. Thinking of watching Persepolis, Iron Giant or The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Might go with Persepolis because I've heard good things about it. We'll see. Achmed is shorter though and I'm not feeling up to a long film. I'll Have to check the times out out first.

^Hope your recovery goes well!

I've not seen the other 2 on your list but I rather liked The Iron Giant. I was surprised that, while being a "kids" film, it's *very* entertaining on an adult level. It also helped that in spite of "movie star" voices I didn't recognize a single one while watching. Maybe that's because I'm not very familiar with those star's voices. It's a pet peeve - I *hate* when a "movie star" does voice work where you recognize their voice. When I watch an animated film I do *not* want to recognize a voice *unless* that character also *looks* like the "star" doing the voice work. It also annoyed me (actually still does to a smaller degree) when a Saturday AM cartoon character would have a voice that *belonged* to another cartoon character. It would take me out of the film every time.

Like Peter Cullen voicing Venger on Dungeons and Dragons, when he was Optimus Prime?

I ended up watching Persepolis. I thought it was well done but very depressing. I should have figured going in that it might not be a good one to watch but I am glad I did. I don't know whether the girl in it was the most spoiled girl ever or just the most loved.

For character voices I don't mind if I recognize them. For me, it bugs me when I recognize the voice but can't place it. I have the same problem with faces. But I love going, hey, that guy's voice was the same as the one on that old show!

Thanks, Bob, so far so good. Doc says I can probably go home Sat as long as I keep going as good as I have been...though it is hard to type with the oxygen meter on one's finger!

I remember as a kid before I knew anything about the voice actors always thinking to myself, Wow, Cobra Commander sounds just like Starscream.

Finally got around to watching my first title with The Jungle Book (1967). A decent movie that was a little slow at first, but then picked up in the second and third acts. Disney has done better though, in my opinion

If anyone else has this Platinum Edition DVD, does the picture seem to swap every few seconds between slightly blurry and clear?

it's the songs that really make Jungle Book really enjoyable.

but the DVD also has one of the best Disney DVD commentary tracks featuring the actor that played Mogli.

Thanks for the heads up. Yeah - I noticed the additional disc of special features.

Had a question about counting something that's not animated. It's included as an extra on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection box set Vol. 2. It was written by Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng and features voice work by Mel Blanc. Except it's not a cartoon. It's a live-action short with monkeys acting everything out. (Blanc voices all the monkey characters. June Foray voices a couple of female geese characters.) It's called "Orange Blossoms for Violet" (1951).

Can I count it?

Watched The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926, I believe). It was interesting for about the first 10 minutes. I liked how they did the animation with those paper puppets. The story was pretty easy to follow-if you're familiar with Arabian Nights, it's one of the stories from it. I have to say that the music did put me to sleep twice and I don't think it was the meds as my mom had the same problem! It was just a little too monotonous.

Planning on watching the Iron Giant tonight. It's the last one I have with me, so hopefully I do get to go home tomorrow and have access to more.

Nope. If it's not animated or some sort of eligible documentary, it doesn't count.

Taking a break from full on animated cartoons to watch some stop motion animation tonight, Puppet Master.

I've been having fun watching some randomity: Tennessee Tuxedo, Peanuts specials, Gumby.

I forget, in the past have we approved puppet shows like the Kroftt Saturday morning shows and MST3K?

Puppetry is always good. They count.

In my effort to see all my unwatched home video Pixar titles, gave The Incredibles (2004) a viewing last night (finishing up this morning) - definitely a very enjoyable title.

Still to go: Wall-E, Cars, Cars 2. I may rewatch Monsters, Inc. since I only saw it in theatres a long time ago.

I recently watched Monsters, Inc myself and enjoyed it again. I forgot what a fun movie it was. I think the voices match the characters very well and loved the little girl. I still have to watch Cars 2, but Cars was one of the few Pixar films that took me a couple tries before I really enjoyed it. I liked Wall-E but not as much as other people. They put a lot of emotion into robots, I have to give them credit for that!

I tend to stick to the obvious animation with this challenge, but netflix finally sent a disc I had at the top that I wanted for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy challenge and realized that the last LOTR movie probably counts for CGI?

That has crazy amounts of it and counts.

Warning: Spoilers

I've been rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist and can only marvel at it. The way the story is crafted is brilliant. Early in the series, the brothers seem stuck in a "monster-of-the-week" format as they encounter alchemic oddities and severely misguided people. However, each of these stories either adds something to character development or the overall mythos of the world, which is different than a show such as Smallville where these episodes are often exercises in interesting, unconnected ideas.

The series also does a great job managing information, parsing out just each to keep an audience interested but never enough to completely understand everything. We know by the second episode that the brothers are searching for the philosopher's stone. However, the first part of the series is concerned with telling the audience what the stone is not. It takes the entire series to really grapple with the nature of the stone and the quest.

The characters are also great! Rewatching, I realized that a lot of minor characters are not as prominent as I remembered; they are just extremely compelling. One of my favorite characters is Roy Mustang who begins the series as the sarcastic manipulator of the main characters. However, as the series progresses we find out his own relationship with the stone and his depression after participating in questionable military conquests, which often doesn't mesh with our first impressions of him (his ridiculous "mini-skirt" speech is a favorite of the friend who introduced me to the series).

Sorry for the length of this post. The show really excited me! My poor friends have also gotten earfuls about the awesomeness of an anime they have never seen.