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pacaway 07-02-13 02:12 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
I noticed many are viewing Under the Dome this month. I was wondering just how many planned to watch it as part of the challenge? I have the first two episodes PVR'd and will likely view them pretty quick. Have those of you who have watched it found it to be good?

shadokitty 07-02-13 02:23 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by cliffl (Post 11751702)
I noticed many are viewing Under the Dome this month. I was wondering just how many planned to watch it as part of the challenge? I have the first two episodes PVR'd and will likely view them pretty quick. Have those of you who have watched it found it to be good?
While I don't have a DVR and haven't seen it yet, I have thought about it.

shadokitty 07-02-13 03:01 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Among watching various eligible content on tv today, I also completed the first disc of the Vehicle Voltron Colection as well.

Indy24LA 07-02-13 03:18 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by cliffl (Post 11751702)
I noticed many are viewing Under the Dome this month. I was wondering just how many planned to watch it as part of the challenge? I have the first two episodes PVR'd and will likely view them pretty quick. Have those of you who have watched it found it to be good?
I forgot about Under the Dome... glad to see Amazon Prime is streaming the episodes a couple days after their 1st run.

lisadoris 07-02-13 03:19 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
I think you're doing a fine job running the challenge shadokitty.

I'm finishing up the Alien Nation movies and they hold up surprisingly well. It's always fun to watch titles that take place in the "future" but are now in the past. Half the bad situations in the films could have been avoided if the writers realized how ubiquitous cell phones would be in the last 1990s early 2000s. The writers did foresee touch-screen computers so that was fun. It was a good show and had decent ratings, but it was on FOX so what can you do.

Travis McClain 07-02-13 03:24 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by mrcellophane (Post 11751527)
In fact, some of the reasons I connect with this film when I find other Bluth films to be better (An American Tale, The Land Before Time, The Secret of NIMH) are reasons you dislike it. The characters (with the exception of the orphaned girl) are reprehensible and mostly terrible (even the comic relief is pretty awful). As a goody two-shoes still convinced he was going to hell, the fact these characters made it to heaven was somehow reassuring.
That, I get. By the time I saw All Dogs Go to Heaven, we'd already pretty much fallen out with the church we'd attended since I was a kid and never got into another. My mom later dabbled in some here or there but rarely stayed with any of them. I haven't gone to a church service myself since my childhood. My growing indifference toward religion probably had something to do with my indifference toward All Dogs. "Oh, the despicable characters get to go to Heaven? Big deal. I don't even think I care whether I go anymore." That kind of thing. My faith has been in flux my whole life, so sometimes I still feel like I did then and sometimes I feel more like you described your reaction.

Originally Posted by BobO'Link (Post 11751638)
I hope my comment didn't come off as "pitching a fit". I really don't care one way or another.
Mea culpa: "Pitching a fit" was an unfair hyperbole on my part and I apologize for that to you and anyone else who thought that was directed at them.

Originally Posted by BobO'Link (Post 11751685)
I started to say "Wrong challenge" but did a double check at IMDB just in case...

I found Monty Python and the Holy Grail is labeled as: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy

Looks like it just might get a viewing by me this month! :D
Just so you know, it's also eligible in September for the Criterion Challenge (it had a LaserDisc release back in the day!), and of course the Comedy Challenge in November. You could therefore watch it every other month the rest of the year!

pacaway 07-02-13 03:43 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by lisadoris (Post 11751785)
It's always fun to watch titles that take place in the "future" but are now in the past. Half the bad situations in the films could have been avoided if the writers realized how ubiquitous cell phones would be in the last 1990s early 2000s. The writers did foresee touch-screen computers so that was fun. It was a good show and had decent ratings, but it was on FOX so what can you do.
Oooo! I think we have a new category for the check list!

MrTerrific 07-02-13 03:43 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Always happy for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy challenge. I've been on a Harry Potter marathon since yesterday. I feel that they get better with each installment (just started watching Order of the Phoenix). Although I felt that Prisoner of Azkaban could have been so much better with that cast.

davidh777 07-02-13 04:10 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by Indy24LA (Post 11751608)
I second your nomination to run the animation challenge! My problem is do I watch Heavy Metal now or wait till August?????
Originally Posted by shadokitty (Post 11751616)
Always a hard question when you have something that is eligible for two challenges. I've watched a lot of sci fi animation already myself.
When I have tweeners that I'm not dying to watch, I tend to save them for later in the month. Then if I think I have higher priorities, I can bump them to the next challenge. Totally depends on how much I have lined up for each one, though.

lisadoris 07-02-13 05:45 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by cliffl (Post 11751825)
Oooo! I think we have a new category for the check list!
It's already a category on the checklist (or at least the version of the checklist I copied when I created my list).

Dimension X 07-02-13 07:51 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by Cardsfan111 (Post 11751672)
Another vote of appreciation for the job you're doing, shadokitty. I believe I initiated the "counting method" discussion, but please know it wasn't meant to discourage you. I simply stated that I had just noticed the change and preferred the previous method for personal reasons. Not a big deal to me if folks like the easy method. It appears Dimension X objected to the claims that he (or anyone else) was pitching/throwing a fit over the issue. I went back and read the discussion again--I don't believe it's fair to say anyone went that far with it.

Hope you'll keep up the good work, shadokitty. Especially thankful you stepped up at a time when no one else was lined up to do it.
Thank you.
Originally Posted by Travis McClain (Post 11751794)
Mea culpa: "Pitching a fit" was an unfair hyperbole on my part and I apologize for that to you and anyone else who thought that was directed at them.
Thank you.

LJG765 07-02-13 10:41 PM
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@Shadokitty: Another vote for you doing a great job! I thought things were going pretty good and then I don't read the thread for a day and look where it is now! I am glad that you are doing the animation challenge, too. This one and that were my first two challenges last year and are my favorite categories!

I caught Earth VS the Flying Saucers yesterday to fill the Ray Harryhausen check. I don't think I've watched it before. It was ok. I thought the animation part was pretty good in places and others not so great. The differences were a bit jarring. Like the equipment on the back of the trucks wobbled and then you had great flying saucers...I bought a box set from Big Lots of his movies (I think there are 3 in it) and eventually I'll watch it all just for this challenge!

Watched another 3 episodes with Travis of ST:TOS. Two great moments: The "alien" dog from The Enemy Within and Kirk holding the giant penis in What are Little Girls Made Of?

Running tally: Running totals: 52 dead, 4 Spock "illogical"isms, 1 dead alien, 1 dead alien dog, 5 dead robots. 2 Kirk kisses an alien girl.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi 07-02-13 10:49 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by cliffl (Post 11751825)
Oooo! I think we have a new category for the check list!
I think that ones been there since the beginning.

The Story of Riki-Oh is a lot of fun and qualifies for that category.

pacaway 07-03-13 02:59 AM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by lisadoris (Post 11751994)
It's already a category on the checklist (or at least the version of the checklist I copied when I created my list).
D'oh! You are right! Sorry!

pacaway 07-03-13 03:03 AM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Thought I'd crack of a Ray Bradbury/Richard Matheson combo and watch The Martian Chronicles miniseries from 1979. Novel by RB. Teleplay by RM.

shadokitty 07-03-13 08:32 AM
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While I have no interest in the remake of Total Recall, my used copy of the 1990 version I ordered off of Amazon was just shipped out today.

mrcellophane 07-03-13 08:48 AM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
I've been watching Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and wanted to continue, but a piece of broken case got under the second disc and scratched it all to hell. :( It's so bad even my computer won't play it. Unfortunately, I purchased it quite some time ago from Deep Discount; this is why you always open and check things out when you get them!

shadokitty 07-03-13 08:48 AM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
AMC seems to be airing the Mummy movies this week as last night I watched the first Mummy, and tonight The Mummy Returns is also on AMC.

Travis McClain 07-03-13 09:38 AM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Monday night, I re-watched Ghostbusters II. From my Letterboxd diary:
Spoiler:
I was supposed to go to Iroquois Amphitheater for a free screening of <I>The Muppets Take Manhattan</I> but it was pretty stormy throughout the night so my friend and I elected to do an in-home movie night. She had never seen <I>Ghostbusters</I> until <a href=http://letterboxd.com/travissmcclain/film/ghostbusters/2/>we saw it</a> at Iroquois in June. We decided that the right Plan B was for her to finish off the Ghostbusters duology.

There is a palpable sense that <I>Ghosbusters II</I> was made because Sony wanted another blockbuster and the guys agreed to do it as long as they could make the movie for themselves. In the end, both sides got their way...and neither side really got what they wanted.

It's easy to imagine the cast and crew busting a gut at a lot of the different scenes in <I>Ghostbusters II</I>. Bill Murray almost feels like he's crashed their movie shoot and hijacked the camera just for the fun of it. His manic energy drives the movie and it's difficult to resist laughing at a lot of his quips (though I could have done without the xenophobic "You'll never get a green card with that attitude"). The camaraderie is the real appeal of this film and that stuff is enjoyable.

Where <I>Ghostbusters II</I> gets into trouble is really not until its final act. There's a sense of trying too hard to be an action movie blockbuster, plus the antagonism with the mayor's aid (Kurt Fuller) just feels like a generic rehash of what we saw in the first film between the boys and the EPA. Vigo isn't a particularly interesting character, though I have to say they did a great job with having him operate through the painting.

My friend laughed several times at the movie because she made the connection that <I>Ghostbusters II</I> was the basis for <I>Luigi's Mansion</I>. I've never played that game, but her description was enough to convince me that I really should play it at some point if only so that I can bask in the absurdity of a video game starring Luigi based on <I>Ghostbusters II</I>.

<I>Ghostbusters II</I> has a lousy reputation. I can't say that it's entirely undeserved - a lot of it is lazy or forced, etc. - but I do think it's more enjoyable than many have admitted. It set out to make me laugh and it accomplished that. In my world, that's a win.

<B><I>Ghostbusters II</I> was re-ranked on my Flickchart to #712/1517</B>

Ghostbusters II
-X- 1980 (1989)
-X- PG
-X- Horror
-X- Comedy

MrTerrific 07-03-13 09:55 AM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
I noticed that SterlingBen had watched the Kurt Russell / John Carpenter commentary on "The Thing". I agree completely with his assessment. Both Russell and Carpenter really seem to enjoy talking about the film and its making, which in turn makes it fun for those of us listening.

pacaway 07-03-13 10:45 AM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by MrTerrific (Post 11752642)
I noticed that SterlingBen had watched the Kurt Russell / John Carpenter commentary on "The Thing". I agree completely with his assessment. Both Russell and Carpenter really seem to enjoy talking about the film and its making, which in turn makes it fun for those of us listening.
Have you ever listened to Mel Brooks' commentary on Young Frankenstein? It's great fun because he spends so much time laughing at the jokes! You can tell he really loves that movie! I can't say it is overly informative, but it is very entertaining! In fact it's definitely one of those movies that you can watch back to back with the commentary because both are so good.

MrTerrific 07-03-13 12:20 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by cliffl (Post 11752754)
Have you ever listened to Mel Brooks' commentary on Young Frankenstein? It's great fun because he spends so much time laughing at the jokes! You can tell he really loves that movie! I can't say it is overly informative, but it is very entertaining! In fact it's definitely one of those movies that you can watch back to back with the commentary because both are so good.
I haven't, but now I will! I love that film!

shadokitty 07-03-13 12:56 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Sometime this challenge I plan to watch my copy of the original 1933 King Kong, as well as make a sizable dent in my MC Sci Fi collections.

lisadoris 07-03-13 02:19 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Originally Posted by shadokitty (Post 11752522)
While I have no interest in the remake of Total Recall, my used copy of the 1990 version I ordered off of Amazon was just shipped out today.
Great minds think alike...I just watched the Total Recall remake and it was not nearly as interesting or as much fun as the original. At least by watching both versions I can check off another item from the checklist.

Ash Ketchum 07-03-13 02:27 PM
Re: 6th Annual Sci Fi/Fantasy Challenge
 
Here's the theater where I saw the original TOTAL RECALL:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5545/9...4f09b4b6db.jpg

...in a picture I took sometime that week.


That theater, of course, is no longer there--replaced by a Toys R Us during the infamous Times Square "clean-up."


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