@Dagger IX1:

Haha, this isn't even close to my best year -- I watched a staggering 262 movies during my sophomore year of college. Everything came together for me that year: I took maybe two classes related to my major all year, so my interest in school was at an all-time low (except for my final quarter, that is); the classes I did take were super-easy general education classes; this was before I started watching anime again; it was a down year for reading, because school once again killed my desire to look at books; and I took a film class the last quarter of my freshman year that fueled my drive to watch a crapload of movies.

EDIT: I am sure this goes without saying, but I also did not have a job. This was the year before I started working at the school newspaper, so I still had assloads of free time.

Not to mention the Los Angeles County library system is perhaps the most wonderful thing I have ever seen in my life -- I have access to just about every movie any of county libraries has in stock, and I just have to pick them up at my local library, which is maybe a 10 minute walk from my home.

I still have the list from that year if anyone is even remotely interested in seeing it. Doubt I'll ever get close to that number again, haha. I'm thinking I will end up at about 100-130 by the end of the year. :)

...I-I-I can count on one or two hands the average number of movies I watch per year. o_o

@Shinmaru:

*just got back from school*

Cool. All of the movies on the class list were ones I had not seen, simply because I was never really raised in the whole sci-fi genre. My parents like war dramas and comedies (let you decide which likes which ^_^), so all of this is fresh and fun. I enjoy expanding out like this, since I'm sure the closest things I saw to sci-fi as a kid had to have been Digimon and Jurassic Park.

We watched the '78 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers today instead of the original. Totally freaked me out. Plus there was Dr. Spock. I liked Dr. Spock.

Watch THEM and The Thing sometime. They're definitive classics. *nodnodnod*

@Nehszriah:

Already seen:

-- A Trip to the Moon (pretty fun, and a definite silent classic)
-- Independence Day (not a huge fan, although I will admit it is fun in its own goofy way)
-- Alien (duh -- any decent horror fan has to have already seen it)
-- 2001: A Space Odyssey (I'm on the side that thinks it's brilliant)
-- I, Robot (enjoyed it for what it tried to do)
-- Blade Runner (science-fiction + film noir = a very happy Shinmaru)

Ah, The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of the true scifi classics. Why do people feel they need to remake a movie that was already perfect to begin with? Just because it's black & white and was released in 1951? With an attitude like that, classic cinema will die a horrible death buried under the weight of remakes.

@Shinmaru:

Let's see...

Trip to the Moon (French silent from 1905... I think. Doubt it's on DVD.)
THEM (awesome)
The Thing (original set in Alaska)

We're gonna watch in the following weeks Independence Day, (original) Andromeda Strain, Star Man, Destination Moon, Alien, 2001:Space Odessy, Colossus:The Forbin Project, "I, Robot", and Blade Runner. We've got a nice mix of past and present, thankfully. The teacher's epically fun.

Now to rush off to class. ^_^

@Nehszriah:

List away! I am always looking for great movies to watch. :) (Love the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by the way, although the tacked-on happy ending is lame. Hopefully the version you see is sans crappy happy ending. I like the remake with Donald Sutherland, too, though not as much.)

Haha, yes, Commie hating Aunt Bea got a few laughs out of me. And I was thinking the exact same thing when the father let the kid hang around with "Mr. Carpenter." ("No! It's fine! Take the kid out all day while I seduce his mother! I have no problem with it!")

I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still two weeks ago in my film class. I was amused at Aunt Bea blaming everything on Commies. ^_^ The movie was proof though that in the fifties, total strangers could babysit kids without the actual guardians being worried. The movie, to me, seemed pretty multi-cultural for the time in the showing of frightened Black spectators, as well as the international convention had a woman who looked kinda Indian in her dress. I think. I was loopy from having Mountain Dew after a week+ deficit. No matter what, it's a brilliant movie, in my opinion.

...and today we're gonna watch the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I've got a list of the sci-fi movies we're gonna watch, if you want some more classic awesome.

My teacher says that Keanu Reeves has two emotions: pointing to the right with his mouth open, then pointing to the left with his mouth open. I'm thinking the only reason he got the role is that he also has a funny name that begins with K. Bah.

Klaatu barada nikto, man.

*nudges the title* Hehe.

I can't imagine Reeves solving complex math problems. I really can't. The fact that he's saved the world still confuses me.