When some of my friends wanted to go see it, I tagged along so I watched it without having seen a trailer or anything. It's a wonderful, exciting film.

That's nice to hear! My aunt once ran into John de Lancie (Q) at a Star Trek convention and apparently he was really nice and charming.

Decided to take a personal day off of work tomorrow, so what better time to gorge on sci fi till I can't hold my eyes open any longer tonight

I would think so, but I honestly don't know. There has to be a lot of gay nerds who would love to see something like that. Recently, there's been an increase in books (particularly young adult) with gay superheroes as well as Marvel and DC bringing in some more mainstream LGBT characters. So it's not inconceivable that a Northstar film would have an audience. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if he's high profile enough to warrant a film. I mean it took Black Widow three (I think) film appearances before rumors of her own film were generated. It feels like there is a pantheon of superheroes that was settled on awhile ago, and if you aren't among those privileged few, no movie for you!

You and me both!

I watched that one a week or so ago. I loved it. Had no clue what it was about, but thoroughly enjoyed it enough to put it on my wishlist at Amazon.

Tarfrimmer and I went to see Pacific Rim after work today. Awesomely fun movie! Totally enjoyed it. And I'm not sure what Tarfrimmer followed it up with (she told me, but I promptly forgot) but I followed up that wonderful theatrical movie with a horrible horror movie rental for the horror category called Blood of Ghastly Horror. Only way to watch this gawd-awful movie from 1972 is with a beer in you. I am presently on my third and it hasn't helped the movie whatsoever.

Thanks. I'll look into it, then.


All the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films are quite fun. The first is possibly the weakest, and the third has the most one-liners and - perhaps - the strongest plot. The animated one, though, is really well done and has a great selection of extras. Weirdly, although the first three (almost) only include trailers, the fourth has NO trailers on the disc... doubly odd since at least one of the commentated extras references an early teaser trailer. Which one presumably then has to seek out elsewhere.

John de Lancie is definitely another one of the nicer ones, yes. (Although I've not met anyone yet who is less than polite, which pleases me greatly.) Every time I've seen him or heard about him, it's been in connection with his generosity to the younger fans - giving FREE signed pictures of his My Little Pony dragon character (or similar).

I seem to have run into a road block. I'm wide awake. I want to watch sci fi, but I have no clue what I want to watch.

All of the old-school Battlestar Galactica is on Netflix Instant!

Thanks for the tip.

I watched Run Lola Run (1998) tonight and even though IMDB lists it as sci-fi, I almost feel like I should use a wild card on it as I didn't see many (if any) sci-fi elements in it.

For anyone who saw Sharknado last week and enjoyed it, I saw on both my local news this morning, and the national news last night, a sequel is already in the works where it will be set in New York City.

Im not familiar with Run Lola Run, but if you want to use a wild card for it, feel free.

Sharknami?
Sharkicane?
Sharkphoon?
Sharkquake?
Sharkcano?
Sharkslide?
Sharkage-back-up?

I'm all out...

Apparently it got great ratings when it was aired last week. Enough so that it it is being rerun on SyFy tonight, with the best and worst tweets about the movie being shown during the movie.

I recorded it yesterday on the Space Channel in Canada, so I'll be watching it this weekend. But tonight is Primer night! 5th viewing! I think I might actually understand it tonight! Fingers crossed!

Just finished watching Godzilla vs Biollante, the last of the Godzilla Heisei movies that I had not seen. I bought the DVD when it came out last year, but just now got around to watching it. I have to say it was very enjoyable. I plan to watch Sharknado tonight when it is rerun myself, as I missed it last week.

When Shatner starts singing along with Avery Brooks...I nearly lost it.

I've decided to go for a theme for most of the rest of this challenge. Except if I find something good on tv I'd like to watch, I'll mainly be focusing on Japanese sci-fi. Watching stuff like Toho movies, Gamera, Ultraman, or Super Robot Red Baron.

I'm in the same mode and have seen a lot already, but I keep getting sidetracked by anime sci-fi, even though I can keep watching that next month.

There's some potentially weird, worrying (or over-thinking) overtones in I, Robot about race and prejudice. Clearly Will Smith's character is judgmental and prejudiced... but when it's explained it's reasonable and understandable. And at the end, when some of the robots are rounded up, there are obvious historical parallels... but, again, it's arguably a reasonable reaction. You have elements both of self-fulfilling prophecy and reasonable reaction when the 'servile underclass' comes to a point where it rises up in rebellion, but in however qualified a way, that's shown to be a problem. It made me wonder whether Mr Smith and Mr McBride were cast not because they are excellent actors, but because it would head off accusations of racism.

But, at the same time, it's "just" a warning against smart technology and the troublesome story of Mankind.

It's thought-provoking, at least! Also, the hideous and gobsmackingly blatant product placement - literally the first time the practice registered with me, when I saw it in the cinema on release - which utterly ruined any chance of my enjoying it when I first saw it. (Also the reason I took against Converse shoes for a while, which was neither fair nor rational..!) This time, though, while I was initially worried to discover that the awful Converse moment, the blatant FedEx moment and a couple of others happen in first dozen minutes, ultimately it seemed as if the placements had been deliberately shoe-horned in at the start to get it out of the way! Which pleased me a bit, and made the rest of it - Audi aside - actually watchable. Which was a good start...

Watching Independence Day, I feel sure I've seen two-thirds of it on TV at various points. I suspect it was just too long for me to be able to sit through at any time previously... this time, I was able to recognise Brent Spiner (who I keep forgetting was in it), and Adam Baldwin (who I never knew was in it). It's fairly basic plotwise (...a cold? Had he never read or seen War of the Worlds?), but overall it's well done. There are some nice asides and mild moments of humour, a bit too much gung-ho "Hooray for America, saving the world again," - particularly the 'the rest of the world reacts to Jeff Goldblum's plan montage - and far, far too many happy coincidences of the sort that always plague films, but even so...

Oh, and Batman (1966) is hilarious and brilliant. Again, I'd seen various clips on TV, but separately they seem awful and stupd. Strung together, you can much more clearly tell that everyone's definitely in on the joke, and that the shark repellant and bomb run are actually the comedy gold most fans think. The central plot - dehydrating the (not the)U.N. members - was about as absurd as it gets, but what bothered me more(!!) was the odd line-up: (from memory) US, UK, U.S.S.R., France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and... Nigeria?! Where's China? Or even Australia? Or anyone other than Nigeria?!

Amazon has it under Sci-Fi, too - and Amazon can be stingy about that label. I have it lined up (hopefully), so I'll weigh in more fully when (IF) I get to it, if no-one else has.

...how is "ANIME" a sidetrack from "Japanese"..?!


(I assume it's just the qualifier there of "counts next month," but still - jumped out at me!)