LJG765

BobO'Link

IIRC the original ending is a "bonus" item on the Theatrical cut releases (all of them - even the DVD and BR with all three versions).

LJG765

Just popped in Jonny Quest and within the first 5-8 minutes predicted cell phones with video calling! I don't think they copied from Star Trek either, since it was made 2 years before ST: TOS, season 1!

BobO'Link

I finally watched 9 last night. It was visually interesting but the story didn't hook me. It was OK, but somewhat confusing at times and mundane at others. Parts of the story seemed to be set up solely so specific events would happen and not by any logic - at least none that I saw/got. I read some reviews after watching it to see if there was something I missed and they were uniformly of the same opinion as mine - even Ebert's (not surprising as I tend to agree with his opinions). Supposedly it's a film for adults but I kept thinking my 8yo granddaughter might like it better than me.

I'd watch it again but it's not high on my rewatch list.

shadokitty

LJG765

I was hoping you'd like it more. Did you watch the short by any chance? You may enjoy that more. Glad you gave it a chance though!

Watched 5 episodes of Jonny Quest last night and the picture is really clear! I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it looked. Pretty sure episode Pursuit of the Po-Ho is why they have that warning on the back of the case about being intended for the collector and not suitable for children.

BobO'Link

No, I've not seen the short. That's one thing all the reviews had in common - praise for the short and a general wondering why it went wrong when expanded to movie length. I may look it up this month for the Animation challenge.
That episode's the primary reason for the "warning" as well as the reason many of us long-time fans were upset with the DVDs, where the non-PC dialog was edited out, and thrilled with the BR for finally putting it back where it belongs... although they curiously left it out of the subtitles when it was there on the DVDs where the dialog was cut... Oh well...

All of the end credits have been properly restored as well. The DVDs used the same end credit sequence for every episode. And both open sequences are back on their proper episodes. I forget the exact episode but they changed a bit a few episodes in.

LJG765

Well, I'll be interested to see what you think of that! I honestly enjoyed the movie though, maybe seeing the short first helped?

There's def. been quite a bit of racial stereotyping in these episodes that I've been watching. But, I agree, if you get rid of the racism and try to forget, you're doomed to repeat it. Use the medium to show how far we've come and why it was wrong.

LJG765

Well, that month went by fast! I wanted to thank everyone for participating!

This month we had (excluding myself) 30 participants! Only 2 of which did not fill out their watch list. Of those 30 people, we had someone watch 209 items! 5 people watched over 100 and there were several in the 80-90 range. Not too shabby!

Average amount of watches seems to be 65.5...pretty good for a group of 30!

Not including myself, 7 people worked on the checklist. There were 3 finishers, so congrats to orlmac, popcorn and tarfrimmer!

Until next year!

lisadoris

Thanks for hosting this wonderful challenge. I completely slacked this year but I still had fun.

Trevor

You’re too fast. You have to give people at least a week to finish up their lists!

BobO'Link

Thanks for hosting LJG!

I kind of slacked off a bit this year but I've done that with all of the challenges. They had started to take over (my OCD was coming out) and I decided it was time to end that before it got fully out of control.

Trevor

I think my OCD is always in control, I just try to direct it to useful places from time to time.

LJG765

Sorry! I'm hosting the Animation challenge and since I skipped prizes this year, decided to kind of wrap this one up a little sooner than usual!

I've been not participating as much either. I started a new job (well, not so new now!) about a year and a half ago and find I'm exhausted when I get home. But, I still try to participate because it gives me incentive to not just watch drivel on the TV when I do have energy! Just remember, even one watch usually counts as long as you number your list! lol! But anyway, it's good you realized what was happening! Challenges are supposed to be fun, not work!

popcorn

Three finishers! I was just slow to update my list.

This month did fly by quickly! Thanks for hosting it,

orlmac

Thanks for your work on this challenge LJG. It is much appreciated!

LJG765

Congrats! I'll update that post! I did do the stats pretty quickly...but in my defense, that was the first time I did them! Thought it might be a good closer to the challenge since there weren't prizes this year.