Yeah, but he specifically mentioned the trilogy.

Question: Since you are a mod in this forum, we'll never have to request our list threads to be stickied, ever again, right?

Wifey working until midnight, so I'm finally free to watch something besides Lost.

Starting with one of my all-time favorites films, Tremors. Call it a guilty pleasure if you must, but it's a perfect combination of action, comedy, and scares; with the story type/genre being my overall favorite: what if monsters (or superheroes or aliens) showed up in our reality.

Opened the BD for the first time, and the picture is gorgeous. It's like I'm watching Tremors for the first time.

Tried to watch it with Elise, as she wants to "grow up" and watch scary movies; but she got too scared and left me.

After this when I have a couple hours of being truly alone, I'll dig something out truly sick and twisted that the wifey won't like.

Just saw Pacific Rim and loved every second of it. Definitely the best film of the year for me. Del Toro used 3D like a master with some amazing effects, and Charlie Day and Burn Gorham brought the comic relief. Giant robots fighting kaiju--what's not to love?

I watched Fahrenheit 451 this afternoon. It's been 30 years or more since I've seen the film. I was totally surprised that the TV sets used in the film are *all* WS and flat screen types that differed only slightly from what's in use today. Some frames used "standard" control types/configurations for the era but with a WS image. It seemed so natural that I didn't notice the screen type until half way through the film. Everyone *still* had a rooftop antenna and those that did not were suspected of hiding books. Keep in mind this is a film from 1966.

Which should probably be never spoken of again.

I love Tremors; it's totally not a guilty pleasure! I would classify the rest of the films and the television series as a guilty pleasure (and one that I gladly imbibe). Of course, I will never forget when one of my friends mentioned that I owned all the films while we were attending our 18th Century British Literature class, and some of my classmates were perplexed that I was unapologetic. My response: I love Jane Austen and I also love Burt Gummer.

One of my absolute favorites too! Nothing to be guilty about at all! I felt guilty watching it during the B-Movie challenge because it is so great! I often tell people that it is a flawless movie. It makes no mistakes and allows no plot holes. Anything that would expose a plot hole, like explaining the origin of the monsters, they avoid by just not explaining it. Now, I don't want anyone ruining it for me by pointing out plot holes! If I haven't found them in the 20ish times I've seen it, I don't want to know about them now! I will probably NOT read any replies to this, in fact!

Can I get a ruling on The Shining please?

I always say "How can you not love Gun-Totin' Reba?!". I wish she'd have been in some of the sequels. UZI4U

Tremors is great! When it was released I thought it looked like pure dreck/schlock and refused to see it for years. Once I finally broke down and watched it I found a quite fun film. Love Reba and Michael Gross in this film! I even enjoy the sequels. When my son discovered them in my collection I thought I'd get some grief but was surprised to find he, too, likes the series!

So... just *what* do you consider "truly sick and twisted?"

Well, IMDB, doesnt list fantasy as a genre, but I'd be willing to allow it as a wild card if you like.

Hang on, horror is a subgenre tick on the checklist, and it's definitely a subset of fantasy (The Shining's about a haunted hotel, after all). So is horror verboten?

Here's my 2 cents worth.

Horror is verboten if it doesn't also have Sci-Fi or Fantasy as a genre. Horror doesn't automatically connotate "fantasy" in spite of frequent fantastical occurrences. There are *many* cases of documented hauntings.

There are *lots* of Sci-Fi films that are also Horror:

Alien
Aliens
Day of the Triffids
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Blob
The Thing with Two Heads
Predator
The Creeping Flesh
Frankenstein
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Species
Tremors
The Thing from Another World

And many, many more. Horror as a checklist subset is as valid as the Comedy one (also lots of examples). I'd save The Shining for October.

OK, fair enough.

Well, the issue is that it is on my PVR and I don't want to keep it there that long.

Does Tron 2 qualify? I have not watched it yet and this would be a good chance to do so if it does. Otherwise, Wall-E for this check mark!

I've been away for a few days for a short vacation. I did manage to get in a viewing of Fanny och Alexander. This was my first Bergman. It may also be my last. I struggled through the 3 hours (interesting note: Swedish has many words that are similar to the English-more than I realized!) but I think I want most of that back...

It took over an hour and a half to get to the "fantasy" part. I kept on checking the back to see if this was the movie I really wanted to watch-I did not have access to the 'net at the time. I think it was interesting to see the family set up, but I almost wish it was set up as two movies, rather than one long one. It would make more since to me that way. The movie did pick up after the half way mark. Though, I was distinctly unimpressed with Alexander's character. Also, why is this called Fanny and Alexander when Fanny had about 10 lines in 3 hours? And most of those were one word answers?

Well, one more off my to see list!

I did also rent The Fly; both the Vincent Price and the newer one. It was a two-fer. I need both Price and Jeff Goldblum for the checklist, but I'm not sure if I want to watch both. Hmm, maybe I'll watch the Goldblum one for commentary if there is any. That would knock off two with one film...

That's signature material there!
I agree, not explaining the graboid origins help keep it free of errors. And I think I'm close to 20 viewings myself, possibly my most viewed film. That gives me an idea for a thread....
I know I have stuff in my collection but was having a hard time thinking of or finding anything specific outside of straight horror titles. I buy more horror than anything, many of them of the Saw or sleazier varieties, partly due to my buying addiction more than a pure love of those sub genres.

Per the other current conversation in this thread, I felt guilty watching something that was 'just' horror as a genre, so I stopped some Spanish mess called Satan's Blood a few minutes in and switched over to some DC comic book stuff instead. I'm still on the bonus features only of the BD of Crisis on Two Earths, currently enjoying the 1975 Wonder Woman pilot.

Just now beginning the 1986 film. I just watched it for the first time in the last year, and the BD I ordered of it just came in the mail today.

I put in the 1958 version. It's not too bad. It's played very serious and doesn't "feel" like a bad b-movie. Probably because it takes almost an hour to even see a bit of "The Fly." And you really can't go wrong with Vincent Price.

I saw that the version I rented does have a commentary, so I may watch the 1986 version with that on, maybe tomorrow.

I've decided to join the masses and have cracked open Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It's only sat on my shelf since 2004! I watched some episodes back in grade 9 when it was on TV. I'm sure the hot girls were part of the reason, but I did not recall that. Good cheesy fun, alright. Funny how we are expected to believe that they were no longer familiar with Ancient Greece 500 years from now even though for us that was over 2000 years ago! Anyway, I can tell that for this series it's probably best not to think about those things and just enjoy the one-liners and space battle action. On to episode 2 (or 3, I guess it is.) Oooo! Planet of the Slave Girls! I like it already!

Decisions, decisions. Try to locate Empire Strikes Back, or Resident Evil, or Alien. Coin flip time I guess.

You have a three sided coin?

For me both Spidey's were both origin stories which followed the same trajectory: bit by spider, poor Uncle Ben, romance the girl, fight with villain with whom the hero has a personal relationship. The new version would have been better served to skip the origin story all together and go directly to Spidey vs. Lizard with short flashbacks to dad's relationship to Parker and Connors. I have a feeling I'm going to like the next Spidey film for precisely that reason. I also enjoyed Spider-Man 2 more than I enjoyed Rami's first or third outing.

Both Burton and Nolan's stories were visually dark but I find Burton's version to be more lighthearted mostly due to Nicholson's comical over-the-top performance and the upbeat Prince music. Nolan's version contains the origin story (which we don't see in the earlier versions) so it's something new and we learn more about Bruce Wayne - Keaton made a fine Batman but he was a boring Bruce Wayne.


Yeah you called it: the film was charming for 30 minutes and then it just didn't retain my interest. I don't remember Sword in the Stone so I can't compare the two. coyoteblue is right, the ending was completely inappropriate for the story but Disney loves their "everyone lives happily ever after" endings so I couldn't expect the film to end any differently.

Day Watch was a fascinating Russian sci-fi film. The description on imdb and Amazon are not actually accurate in terms of the film's plot but if you're looking for a supernatural good vs evil story with subtitles, this one isn't bad.

Watched Barbarella for the first time as well. I can see why this film is a cult classic but to me it was just strange. I spent most of the time laughing, shaking my head, and thinking WTF am I watching.

Was going to see Pacific Rim and watch The Martian Chronicles miniseries today (I've read the book multiple times but never seen it) but I need some laughter today so think I'll watch Tremors instead. I LOVE that film and it would count for giant critters on the checklist wouldn't it?

That's pretty much the reaction we had to BARBARELLA when it came out. Granted, though, that I was 15 or 16 at the time and the sight of a semi-nude Jane Fonda did wonders for my appreciation of the film. I loved the music and bought the soundtrack LP. I saw it again on the big screen about a decade later, not long after STAR WARS had come out, and I really loved it, simply for its sheer imagination and the kind of baroque qualities that were in short supply in the STAR WARS era. I liked the rest of the cast, too: Ugo Tognazzi, David Hemmings, Milo O'Shea, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg...