Jeez, who comes up with the money to finance those crappy movies on SyFy? 'Grizzly Rage'? 'Frankenfish'? They had one on the other day called 'AvH' which was short for Alien vs Hunter, with the same premise as 'Alien vs Predator'! They had another one about a battle between a prehistoric shark and a giant octopus destroying the world, and the hero of the movie was Debbie Gibson. Sorry, Deborah Gibson. I read the info on them and they just look so terrible.
I find that I like the really campy SciFi movies like "DinoGator", Grade B actors and over the top plots, they remind me of the old school horror films like "It came from 2000 leagues under the Sea". They don't take themselve too seriously like modern horror dramas do. Final Destination and the Saw series are the worst imho.
I'm mad they changed it to SyFy and will no longer partake in their channel. I also call them "SeeFee" now.
Haven't seen any of the Final Destination movies, but I liked the first 2 Saw movies. I remember seeing 'DinoGator' listed on there before. On Saturday's they'll have those kind of movies listed all day long.
Those SciFi movies are hilarious, many are ripoffs of popular horror/sci-fi movies. I hate when I get one through NetFlix (due to me not researching it properly) I can usually tell by the time the credits start up.
Saw..."They have removed my eyes and stuck them in my bunghole, can I see my way out in time before the meat grinder gets me!!!!!!!!!!" And yeah, I wouldn't rent those SciFi productions, they are good for what they are but...not for renting... Snakehead...not frankenfish...
Oh man, lol, I'd completely forgotten about that movie. Dan Aykroyd's 2nd bomb after his first, 'Neighbors'.
I see those movies in the channel guide and keep going. The only thing I've watched on SciFi for the past several years probably is Scare Tactics. I love that show.
I like there shows but there movies are pretty bad. They always have a CGI something so I wonder if syfy owns its own CGI company. Some of the creatures are cool looking but just poorly used.
I love drinking by myself and watching those movies. I don't do it often, but when I do it's always fun.
The series on their network are good; probably because independent production companies are responsible for the content.
That is what makes them good Nabo, fountains of fake blood and characters saved by editing and impossible villians... I take it you were never a fan of the "B" roll Hollywood films with giant leaches?
Are you kidding? Is any film collection worth having without Caltiki: The Immortal Monster? Re-Animator? The Hammer films? But that's what I'm saying; these movies on Sci-Fi are so terrible and overly-reliant on CGI...what am I saying - ENTIRELY reliant on CGI! - that they don't even stand the "Le Bad" test. You know, that section of Blockbuster where they have the wonderfully bad ones? Maybe they don't have that anymore. They aren't even bad enough to be good.
and its not even remotely good CGI. although I was fond of "Supergator" I stood and applauded when they had a blond chick in a bikini with big boobs running through the jungle.
There's one on right now called 'I Am Omega'. A bad combo of the storylines from 'The Omega Man' with Charlton Heston and 'I Am Legend' with Will Smith.
both the movies you mention are based on a book called i am legend or something like that. so all 3 are presumably based on the book would be my assumption.
Yeah, the first two movies were more accurate to the book than the one on right now. This one mixes it up a bit. The zombies are caused by a virus that makes you a cannibal instead of a vampire, they're out 24/7, among other things. I read the book in high school. I can't remember the author's name, but it came out in the 50's. Pretty good sci-fi novel to base SyFy movies on.
they had one called "time shifters" or something I actually watched...about a vacation company that could send you back in time to kill prehistoric creatures etc and someone "stepped off the path" was pretty good Id give it 3 stars outta 5.
That one was fun, a Sound of Distant Thunder maybe? They had two "time" films, one fairly serious which is the one you are talking about and one that was Campy with a Dinosaur they called "Big Red".
I just remember I liked the premise... and the changes to the earth as the kept screwing up...and those Final baboon looking things creeped my way out.
Now that was Time Shifters. I will say CGI is a poor substitute for Ray Harryhausen style Stop Motion: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9y7JwUKhlY"]YouTube - the 7th voyage of Sinbad[/ame] But when it was what you have, it is what you have, Lon Cheney made do.
oh...its real... Sci Fi was the shiznit back in the 90s. I dont know what happened. Im not that much of a sci fi fan, but when I was a kid they had a lot of shows on there I used to watch that I loved. Especially Sightings. Stuff used to make me crap my pants. Now its just a channel, like TLC, A/E, Discovery, have become. Reality shows, game shows, off-topic content, all that have nothing to do with what the channel is supposed to be about. When they put WWE on there, that was the final nail in the coffin.
