I know I still haven’t gotten to many of the titles
requested the last time around. I’ll explain it all
below.
The complete list of everything that I plan to review
(or get others to review) is available here
for as long as my University of Albert account holds
up. (Dave will help me find a new home for it as
soon as I get him a public PGP key, but I digress.)
As you can see, many requested reviews haven’t been
done yet. Lately, I’ve been working 60 hour weeks,
so it’s hard to put together enough time to watch an
entire movie. I can, however, find 15 minutes here
and there to watch a couple of short films, so that’s
probably all I’ll manage to review through June. So,
I’m giving you a chance to select which short films
you want to see reviewed next. The options are:
| Title | Current Votes (when this article posted) |
Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wallace and Gromit | 2 | Need to rewatch all three shorts. |
| Superman: Diamond Anniversary Collection (the old Fleischer cartoons from the 1940s) |
1 | Need to watch all 17 shorts |
| Walt Disney Treasures: Walt’s Tomorrowland |
1 | Shipped from Amazon.ca today. |
| Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes of the Disney Studio |
0 | Need to watch |
| Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald: Vol. 1 |
0 | Need to watch almost all of them |
| Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett |
0 | Shipping from eBay retailer soon |
| Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland USA |
0 | Shipping from eBay retailer soon |
| Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Colour Vol. 1 |
0 | Need to watch almost all of them |
| Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Colour Vol. 2 |
0 | Need to watch almost all of them |
| Walt Disney Treasures: On The Front Lines |
0 | Shipping from Amazon.ca today |
| Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies | 0 | Unwatched |
I’ll check back before I start watching the next
batch to see what’s ahead in the voting.
Disneyland USA, Tomorrowland USA,
and Behind the Scenes in the Disney Studio
may not be a good fit for Bureau 42, and could likely
require the final creation of the documentary
category. The Davy Crockett set is almost
certainly not Bureau 42 material. The animated
collections all qualify as fantasy, so they’re fair
game.
Wallace & Gromit
subject says it all. Some animation from the same group people here might like is “Rex The Runt”. It’s damn odd, but damn funny as well. If I just _hear_ the term “Random Pavarotti Disease” I chuckle.
Everlasting battle for truth, and justice!
I’m partial to Superman, but I have no idea what Walt’s Tomorrow land is
exactly, so I’ll vote for that.
disney???
I could care less about disney and don’t see what it has to do with this site.
Re: disney???
I’m going to have to agree with this. Can’t in all honesty vote for any of the above. Just not SF enough. Though I do enjoy W&G.
Re: disney???
agreed… is there no scifi on tv this fall? what about the dead zone?
Re: disney???
I think the distinction is that I’ve always thought of
this site as both sci-fi and fantasy, which is why we’ve
covered Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter,
and other such material. The definition of fantasy that I
use is, essentially, that fantasy is any story in which
the writer chooses to take one or more of the rules of our
reality and change them to something else. This could be
by inclusion of magic, as in the earlier examples, or by
the assumption that animals are imbued with certain
humanistic qualities, which is where most superheroes and
Disney products come in.
If anyone’s interested, I tend to define science fiction
as stories which are based on new applications or
extrapolations of existing science. Wallace and
Gromit qualifies under both definitions; Gromit and
other animals are human enough for me to call them fantasy
creatures, while the technotrousers and the rocket qualify
as science fiction elements.
In any event, it looks like Wallace and Gromit is
way out ahead in the voting, so that’ll be the next
priority. I may be able to juggle next week’s schedule to
get me home an hour earlier than usual so I can start
getting into the fifth season of Babylon 5, the
last three seasons of The X-Files, and two
seasons each of Angel and Buffy the Vampire
Slayer at a rate of about one episode a night, with
more on Sundays.
I may also do the Superman review after
Wallace and Gromit. There doesn’t seem to be a
lot of interest in the Walt Disney Treasures reviews, so
those will be low priorities. The Tomorrowland
set contains five or six short features that I might
review individually if they fit. (With titles like “Our
Friend The Atom” there could be some accidental sci-fi in
there.)
Re: disney???
That’s a great English Professor defintion, but here’s a simpler one:
Sci-Fi: Takes place in future or has aliens or has laser blasters.
Fantasy: Takes place in past/mythical time or has swords/sorcery
As cool as W&G might be, just because there’s a talking dog doesn’t make it fantasy. By your definition, EVERY show is fantasy.
There’s got to be a million sci-fi or fantasy titles to review that are undebatably sci-fi or fatnasy.
Re: disney???
Gotcha. Real Genius and Goldfinger:
science fiction. Quantum Leap and
Frankenstein: not science fiction.
Re: disney???
Adding my ‘me too’
*gasp* It’s you!
Totally Wallce and Gromit.
W&G (nt)
text to take up space
Look! Up In The Sky! It’s A Series That Needs Reviewing!
Man, the original Fleicher Superman cartoons are such CLASSIC sci-fi works of art on SO many levels, they win my vote hands down and they should yours, too. These shorts have it all – the original definition of what Superman was to become as an American icon in the first five years of his existence as a character, brilliant (in all senses of the word) Art Deco animation, insight into American World War II save-the-world mentality…I could go on and on. See these shorts for yourself whether they get reviewed here or not. If you can’t wait for the DVD, go ahead and download the video-file-sharing program eMule, then download each of the Fleicher Superman shorts over the Internet and watch them yourself RIGHT NOW.
Then Again…
…maybe I should try downloading them myself via eMule before posting a link saying you can do that. Looks like the big video files on the page listed above have been removed, perhaps for copyright reasons? Another place that says you can “watch Superman cartoons right now” is LikeTelevision, but I haven’t paid the $12 fee to try this route…