I never thought about week-long challenges. We can always give it a shot. It could go either way, and the shorter duration might help people stay focused, or it might not give people enough time to get into their grooves.

I'm still thinking that every month needs a challenge, and if you want to go there, the mini-challenges could be thrown into the mix too. So, maybe 1 challenge and 1 mini-challenge per month?


As for main challenges, we've got a few that have proven to be legit, and should be annual:

Jan: ???
Feb: Documentary?
Mar: Trash?
Apr: Black and White?
May: ???
Jun: ???
Jul: ???
Aug: ???
Sep: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Oct: October/Horror
Nov: Turkey
Dec: Xmas

Yeah, the Christmas challenge hasn't happened yet, but I already know it'll be good. It's vague enough that everyone can have something good to find in it. Sci-Fi/Fantasy doesn't have to be in September I don't think, and Black and White doesn't have to be in April.

Of course, I always forget when the Documentary Challenge goes, and the Trash Challenge is still up for debate if it's in March or not, or if we'll adopt the Monster Challenge.


I feel that holidays are always a good basis for some mini-challenges, if anyone decides to go that route. Shark week probably needs to happen, since there are just so damn many shitty shark movies!

I watch enough cartoons that I could have some fun with that. Runtime based could work, but I'm not so sure I'd find a lot of animated movies I'd like to watch. Depends on what kind of animation, I supposed. Stop-motion and cartoons would be my thing. I don't care for CGI/game-engine videos.

Yeah, or at least movies that consist heavily of animated scenes. And while "Kill Bill" has that whole scene where it's animated to retell what's-her-face killing the crime boss, I don't think that would be enough to count for the challenge (unless they only count those few minutes?), but a tv show like Son of Zorn, in which prominent characters happen to be animated... that ought to count.

Now, we just need a fitting month for it. Or week?

I'd love to watch more Bakshi type stuff. Fritz the Cat is awesome.

I think the Black and White challenge was a good one. There's plenty of material to keep that one going for years to come. April ain't set in stone if anyone's got a better time for it.

An animation challenge sounds like it ought to work. Hope to see some others get behind this idea. I'd hate to do these challenges all by myself...

I always figured it was more points for older movies because they're so hard to get through. They get a lot easier to watch as the years go on, so that was my guess. Runtime is a good default point system for most challenges, but I do like how some challenges score it differently. It's always a little different that way.

I kinda see them going hand-in-hand on this. Back in the day, when movies were new, they weren't as good. They were simple and by today's standards, they are pretty boring, since they don't convey much of a story. As the decades went on, they did a lot of technical innovations to make better films, and you got better stories. I know there are plenty of good B&W movies out there, but a lot of the old stuff is a turkey. Stuff like a train driving toward the audience, and that's the whole short film. Watch as the train drives straight at you! Will it come out of the screen and hit you!? No. It wont.

I think it should stay this way, but whoever hosts it can decide.

Runtime for the animation challenge sounds fine. I'd probably watch a lot more cartoons than animated movies, because I'm not sure I could think of many animated films on my own. Plus, I kinda hate that pixar stuff, so I need to find myself something raunchier. Mr Pickles, season 3, I'm waiting for you!

I see no issue with it. Black and white? Snow is white. Kinda fitting, I think.

Basically, there are challenges for any tag you can think of. I like the idea of challenges, but not when it's this overwhelming. Gotta keep it simple and more vague, since we've only got so few here, and the challenges need to be more accessible.

There might be a few in there that would be applicable to us. Stuff like "video nasty", but then again, that was already a great part of the trash challenge. The foreign challenges might work, but it's mostly good for a handful of countries, I think.

The actor/director/people challenges could be interesting. Take a classic horror icon like Cushing or Price and make a week or two out of binging their movies.

The alliteration is why I keep thinking about it, but I figure it could also be factored into when there's a full moon. There looks to be about a dozen of these occurrences a year, so it could spin off of that.