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Something to whet one's appetite:

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Shout! Factory TV Presents‘The Perfect Danger 5’ Livestream Marathon
Saturday, June 27 on Twitch

Marathon Will Stream Every Episode of Danger 5 Alongside Watch Party with Series Creators

Too early to count unfortunately. The episodes can be streamed from Shout! Factory TV, if you feel like waiting for the Challenge proper.

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Originally Posted by LJG765 (Post 13763118)

I was talking about the check list with a friend last night, trying to find a few new ideas. We came up with a few. Please take a look and let me know yay or nay, please!

Romance as a new genre/type.

Steampunk (Ex: Anything based on Jules Verne like Journey to the Center of the Earth where it's 19th aesthetics with futuristic technology. Wild, Wild West would work)

Time travel to the past from the future, but that past is still our future right now (opposite of what we have now, kind of.) ex: Star Trek: First Contact. I may combine this one with the original one but open to suggestions if people are interested..

Watch a movie that has no weapon use (swords, lances, guns, ray gun, phaser)

David Warner to actors list.

I love these ideas, especially Romance as a genre! How about adding "Alternate History" as a genre?

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Originally Posted by LJG765 (Post 13763118)

These ideas all look like they would be good additions, especially the time travel one.

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Originally Posted by mrcellophane (Post 13763170)

I love these ideas, especially Romance as a genre! How about adding "Alternate History" as a genre?

Sounds good. Thanks for the idea!

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Originally Posted by orlmac (Post 13763761)

These ideas all look like they would be good additions, especially the time travel one.

Thanks!

Okay, I'm going to give people another night to comment/suggest and then rework the checklist with the new suggestions and put up the list thread tomorrow afternoon/evening. I'll post the link here, both in the opening post and one on its own. Start of the challenge is coming up quick!

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Originally Posted by coyoteblue (Post 13763136)

Something to whet one's appetite:

Too early to count unfortunately. The episodes can be streamed from Shout! Factory TV, if you feel like waiting for the Challenge proper.

Thanks for the tip. I discovered that Shout Factory is a 24 7 livestream channel. Right now they are doing Gerry Anderson

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List thread is up HERE.

Finalized checklist:

Spoiler:

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Does anyone have any suggestions for "Watch a film that takes place in the "past" but the year has not yet come?"

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Originally Posted by popcorn (Post 13764396)

Does anyone have any suggestions for "Watch a film that takes place in the "past" but the year has not yet come?"

Interstellar, I think would work (I don't remember if they say the year, but it's in the future that hasn't happened yet). Star Trek: First Contact is one.

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I’m thinking that I might try the checklist, but I will have to wait to put it on my list. I need a new laptop, as mine died a few weeks ago. I plan to order one when I get paid on the first.

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Originally Posted by popcorn (Post 13764396)

Does anyone have any suggestions for "Watch a film that takes place in the "past" but the year has not yet come?"

Lost in Space (1998) in which a future Wil Robinson travels "back" to 2058 and encounters the ship he and his family left in to build a Hypergate on Alpha Prime. But that's a somewhat smaller segment of the movie and the main characters do not time travel so I'd say it's a somewhat tenuous entry.

Interstellar has a similarly tenuous link to that checklist item with a short segment where one of the people makes a similar journey in part of the movie. But, like LJG, I don't recall if they mentioned the year.

The only one I know of that truly fits the description is Star Trek: First Contact as most of the movie takes place in the past of the main characters but their past is our future.

Every other time travel movie I've seen or am familiar with are either "current" (with current usually being the year the movie was made) people traveling either back or forward in time *or* future people traveling back to "current" time.

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Originally Posted by shadokitty (Post 13764412)

I’m thinking that I might try the checklist, but I will have to wait to put it on my list. I need a new laptop, as mine died a few weeks ago. I plan to order one when I get paid on the first.

No worries, even five entries on the checklist, gets you an extra entry into the prize drawing. I often wait towards the end to fill in some of my checklist that I'm missing. I don't plan on going through the checklists until the end of the challenge!

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Originally Posted by BobO'Link (Post 13764419)

Lost in Space (1998) in which a future Wil Robinson travels "back" to 2058 and encounters the ship he and his family left in to build a Hypergate on Alpha Prime. But that's a somewhat smaller segment of the movie and the main characters do not time travel so I'd say it's a somewhat tenuous entry.

Interstellar has a similarly tenuous link to that checklist item with a short segment where one of the people makes a similar journey in part of the movie.

The only one I know of that truly fits the description is Star Trek: First Contact as most of the movie takes place in the past of the main characters but their past is our future.

Every other time travel movie I've seen or am familiar with are either "current" (with current usually being the year the movie was made) people traveling either back or forward in time *or* future people traveling back to "current" time.

I'll keep an eye out on people's checklists and see if there are other movies that crop up. This item can easily be in place for just one challenge if there aren't enough movies to sustain it. Though...I feel like the older one doesn't have that many movies to support it either...or I did think about making those 2 one entry so you could chose which one to do.

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I started the new Dr Who during MYOC and have continued. I’ pm looking forward to it “counting” again. :dance:

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Sunday seems like a good day to watch sci fi on Shout Factory TV. It’s a Super Sentai day. I just finished watching an episode of Gaoranger , which was the Japanese version of Power Rangers: Wild Force.

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One more day until the challenge starts! Hope everyone is getting ready! :)

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Originally Posted by LJG765 (Post 13764825)

One more day until the challenge starts! Hope everyone is getting ready! :)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...XLktIK4XAaU6-Q

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Originally Posted by LJG765 (Post 13764825)

One more day until the challenge starts! Hope everyone is getting ready! :)

I’ve been tempted to watch some just to whet my appetite. And I already am watching sci fi documentaries for the current challenge.

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Originally Posted by LJG765 (Post 13764825)

One more day until the challenge starts! Hope everyone is getting ready! :)

Surely you jest... I was ready the day the list thread went up. Heck... I was ready the day *this* thread went up. I've been ready since at least January. I'm considering starting tonight (yes, I know it won't count) and came *this close* to starting this past weekend. :D

Thanks to my oldest granddaughter I have 3 new titles arriving in the next few days. She wanted to watch Maze Runner and asked if I had it. Of course I do... I think it's in a box in the garage, but might be in a tote inside, and I have no idea which box. But wait... it's a DVD and in looking up how much for a BR I discovered there are 3 movies in the series (I thought it ended after the first). So... I find "good" used BR/DVD copies of each film for a song and promptly ordered them.

But the one I'm most excited about is the pre-order I have for the Criterion release of George Pal's The War of the Worlds. It's a looooong time top 10 film favorite that I've wanted on BR since I started purchasing discs in that format.

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I think this is going to be my very first year that I join this Challenge. I don't think I participated in years past.

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Originally Posted by BobO'Link (Post 13764935)

HA! Well feel free to get a head start, I'd even let you list them unnumbered if you'd like, but it wouldn't count on the checklist!

Maze Runner, like Hunger Games and Divergent, is based on young adult book series. Must have been popular enough to get the rest of the books made. I do remember at least the sequel when it was out in the theaters, though I've only seen the first. You'll have to share how you enjoy them.

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Originally Posted by shadokitty (Post 13764869)

I’ve been tempted to watch some just to whet my appetite. And I already am watching sci fi documentaries for the current challenge.

I know you like to jump around! Like I said to BobO'LInk, feel free to list them unnumbered if you'd like (that's open to anyone), but it won't count for the checklist. :)

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Originally Posted by LorenzoL (Post 13765000)

I think this is going to be my very first year that I join this Challenge. I don't think I participated in years past.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy and get a lot of watches done! I'd love any feedback on the checklist if you decide to try it this challenge. Also, as a note, just in case you didn't see it, there are 4 ways of earning an entry into the prize drawing this year. Rules are in the first post of the thread.

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Originally Posted by LJG765 (Post 13765112)

Maze Runner, like Hunger Games and Divergent, is based on young adult book series. Must have been popular enough to get the rest of the books made. I do remember at least the sequel when it was out in the theaters, though I've only seen the first. You'll have to share how you enjoy them.

I think she'll like the movies better than me. She's 13 (turns 14 mid-December) and the target audience. I think she and some of her friends have been talking about this one. There's one friend she talks to almost all day who'll ask her about movies. My granddaughter will tell her "I think my Pa has a copy.", come and ask, and I almost always do which surprises her friend. :lol:

I figure the Maze Runner trilogy will run out of steam after that first movie - much like the others you mentioned. I mostly enjoyed the first movie in each of those but the sequels all felt rather derivative (well... in all fairness, so do the main movies, just not quite as much as the sequels). I guess for younger readers/viewers they feel more fresh as they don't have decades of seeing/reading different, often much better, versions of those stories. At least she's not asked to watch Eragon.

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I forget the exact date, but last night while watching BBC America, I saw a commercial for a space week, where there will be a whole week of sci fi movies.

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I have a question on the checklist. For the category Unrated films (post MPAA), would this include movies on Netflix rated TV-14 and TV-MA?

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Originally Posted by orlmac (Post 13765353)

I have a question on the checklist. For the category Unrated films (post MPAA), would this include movies on Netflix rated TV-14 and TV-MA?

I'm thinking that they were made for TV, right? I would say as long as they are actual movies and don't contain a movie rating, then yes, that would count for Unrated Films.

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That's what I thought, thanks!

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As a subscriber to AT&Ts Unlimited Plan, I get HBO Max for free. And there is a lot of sci fi and fantasy on there. One movie I am looking forward to watching is Godzilla: King Of The Monsters.