Imagine Greater is the mantra on SciFi channel, well let me tell

you what. With all the intelligent, well written, bordering on educational scifi from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and beyond, SciFi prefers to peddle bullshit programs about people living in the backwoods with dental work that would scare off the bravest orthodontist who slice and dice unfortunate city folk. The crap they pass off as entertainment could only be aimed at the most brain dead of us all, the most easily "entertained", or people who just put the television to hear it speak.

Most of what I have seen on this channel should have been made for under $100,000 if that and I cannot for the life of me understand, that with all the classic scifi movies from the past out therevthey would continue to peddle this crap and call it entertainment.

I imagined greater, and all I got was this crappy commercial ridden b movie scifi satire.

That's fucking art there!

MANSQUITO, THAT'S WHAT! It doesn't get more awesome than that in my book.

The idea was that people would suggest titles for SyFy movies for the channel to make.

No thought of coming up with a plot, or actually writing a script. Just invent a stupid fricking title and use that as the theme for the movie.

You missed the stinking, horrible "Black Storm" with Stephen Baldwin tonight. I managed to watch about thirty seconds before I changed over to something else. Who on earth thinks that man can act? At least the title was better than "Manquito" but it should have been reserved for whatever hurricane hits the Gulf this summer instead of for a movie with no plot and no actors.

I just lost a few minutes of my life reading your idiotic post

can I have them back?

you ever hear of a little invention called the remote control?

use it to turn the channel

get it.

Now some SF is good but Sturgeon's Law still applies, just like it does to everything else..

It's actually pretty good, probably better than the movie was..

Of course you still have to have read the book to really have a clue what's going on..

..."monsters" that a 7 week old kitten would laugh at....effects that look like they were made by "Mr. Johnson's graphics class 101"
...and the sound....Jesus Christ!...the sound is like some piece-of-shit synthesizer that they picked up in a pawn shop for 45 bucks.

other than all that..not bad. :)

Hook it to a computer and you have a pretty damn good synthesizer..

:)

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I have felt the same. With all the great scifi and fantasy book in print, the crap they the scifi channel put out is ludicrous.

Can't beat 'em.

Because the Electric Universe theory doesn't make the current SyFy programing look like Carl Sagan's Cosmos by comparison.

along with shows like Battlestar Galactica. I enjoy Eureka because it is classic goldenage of Science Fiction stories made for a modern audience. I also enjoy Warehouse 13.

Merlin, no so much.

And I simply don't watch their string of snakes on a plane rip offs.

killer cattle break free from their haul cars and invade the diner cars.

This is the most ROFL hilariously bad thing I've read in a loooong time..

The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis..

http://www.rdrop.com/~hutch/argon

Andre Norton has written some of the best books about scifi fantasy ever put out there. And when you see all the crappy movies, that come from Hollywood you wonder what mentality is behind them. The movies that came out in the 50's while a little camp were better written than the stuff they show today.

of Battlestar Gallactica comes to mind and the spin off of Caprica. But I have to agree their Saturday original movies are worse than some of the crap made before the sixties. Also, If you think the 50's to 80's were so great, I have a whole collection of really cheaply made Sci-Fi movies that I keep around for laughs because they are so unintentionally funny. Oh, they call themselves SyFy now.

based on the Warhammer universe. Either the fantasy or Sci-Fi worlds I think would be cool. Lots of darkness in both, really, and they could talk about current problems using that world. Kind of int he way the OST did in the sixties.

I think that are making a WH40K movie, though. Heard that before, haven't seen it yet.

Most of the movies made about fantasy just suck. Conan was the only one I can think of that did it right, before LOTRs, that is. I hope they do the Hobbit was well as these two.

Michael Morcock's books would be a killer as well.

but they can't afford much so to help pay for it, they churn out cheap to make dreck in bunches.

I mean between the various Stargates, BSG, Eureka, Warehouse 13, and Sanctuary series we've gotten, I can deal with a few Supergators and Dinocrocs.

Not to mention Tin Man, Riverworld (times 2), and a few other nice miniseries.

Compared to Rodger Corman flicks, Sci-Fi Channel movies look like Steven Spielberg did them.

FWIW, James Cameron got his start working on a Corman film.

I saw a tutorial on Adobe After Effects, widely used in the movie industry, and the 'sample' was from a Sci-Fi Channel movie featuring a knights and dragon. The timeline that they're given to crank that stuff out is incredibly short, and IMO, what they're able to do, given the time, is impressive.

In the After Effects project manager, certain parts are marked, finished, needs works, urgent, etc. There was a LOT of "needs works" footage left on the finished project!

As for Rodger Corman, back in the day, consider you had to go to the MOVIES to see them! A woman I know remembers when, as a child, she HOUNDED her mom to take her to see THIS:

Just like Apple.

Granted, even then it was catch-as-catch-can.

A year ago I started noticing that it was running advertisements for a booty call website at 4:00 in the afternoon, during a showing of Pirates of the Caribbean. Someone (probably Zucker) really fucked it up over there.