Hiatus ending soon

All right, true believers, I am getting ready to be back in business with this thing for 2010. I had some unexpected things come up caused me to take a break a little earlier than I expected, but I had been planning to regroup and figure out my gameplan to attack the 1980s anyway.

It's a big decade for sci-fi movies, and there is no way I can even remotely hope to be comprehensive without watching literally about a hundred movies. And that would take me almost all year. So for the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, I am limiting myself to watching about 30 to 40 movies per decade. This means I won't be able to see everything, but I should be able to get to the most interesting stuff that I haven't seen yet and also some of the classics I want to see again.

But! If you have any movies that are near and dear to your heart that you really want me to watch, this would be a good time to make suggestions. I can't promise I'll watch or write about all of them, but I will definitely research them all and see if I should add them to my list. Also, I am eliminating screenshots at least for the time being, since they make the whole process more time-consuming. If you really need the visual stimulus, let me know and I'll see if I can restore them at least partially.

Finally, just to prove that this is not some idle promise forged of best intentions and no follow-through, here is a partial list of entries I already have written that will be going up in the coming weeks, starting with the week of January 4.

-- DEMON SEED (1977), in which Julie Christie is impregnated by an evil computer
-- WIZARDS (1977), the animated sci-fi/fantasy flick with Nazi bad guys that got Ralph Bakshi the job of adapting THE LORD OF THE RINGS
-- BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978), the original mini-series starring Lorne Greene, Dirk Benedict, and Jane Seymour
-- THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978), in which elderly Gregory Peck plays Dr Josef Mengele (!) and gets into a fist fight with elderly Laurence Olivier (!!)
-- STALKER (1979), which has been requested by more than one person
-- THE LATHE OF HEAVEN (1979), the first made-for-TV sci-fi movie produced by American public television
-- FLASH GORDON (1980), a movie that is practically impossible to describe
-- THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981), which everyone except Americans will know by its original title of MAD MAX 2

And some additional surprises! So tell all your friends to come on by in the new year. And thanks for hanging around so long!