Mr Worf, Keith once suggested taking all of the money being pumped into these craptastical Siffy movies and using it to revive "The Outer Limits", focusing on better stories and shorter airtimes. Makes sense to me, now as then.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:10:09 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Take the SyFy Movie Test--how many have you seen? Usually you can tell by the name. If the title has a name that "sounds like" a well known film then that is the cheap made for tv movie. I don't know if the guy made them only for syfy or if he has been creating them and syfy has been buying them because they are available and cheap. What they need is quality and not quantity. They could air old scifi shows that were pretty good that go back to the 60s and still do ok. Which would be much better than showing D level movies. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Keith Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: I can't really ascertain how many were made specifically for SyFy, and how many they purchase from other sources. But at any rate, you're right. But if you haven't seen "Dog Soldiers", please do give it a look. Though as I said, SyFy inexplicably shows that worthy film at the worst viewing times, typically late night, really early, when almost no one is home watching horror movies! I remember because that happened in the last month or so. One Saturday I'm getting ready to hit the gym, then to go to a pancake brunch and run errands with my wife. I idly turn on the telly, and there, at 9 am, is "Dog soldiers!" Why are they showing this good horror flick at a time when most people are out?" I wondered. I then checked the guide, figuring that if this flick is on during doldrum times, they *had* to be showing some great stuff in the more watched hours that day. What were they showing? A block of their evil mutant monsters movies. It was either killer fish (like "Snakehead Terror"), deadly snakes (like "Boa"), or man eating sharks ("Sharks in Venice"). i was flabbergasted. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:38:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Take the SyFy Movie Test--how many have you seen? I have never wasted my time watching an entire film that was made for syfy. As soon as I see the special effects it is pretty much over for me. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Keith Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: Yep. So how many of those gawd awful movies have you seen? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:18:09 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Take the SyFy Movie Test--how many have you seen? That's what we get when they approve movies by a man that believes "cheaper is better." On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Keith Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: http://www.syfy.com/movies/?__source=Syfy_Global_Nav Really, really pissed off at SyFy for showing "Ghost Hunters" all Halloween day (see previous rant), I decided to look into the list of potential movies they could have aired instead. So I surfed on over to their site, clicked on "Movies", and was taken to the list of their vaunted "Originals". (odd title, since not all were produced original by/for SyFy). I was appalled to see how much *crap* is on the list. Honestly, on first reading, i could only find one good flick: "Dog Soldiers". Missing from the list are moderately entertaining flicks for a cold Saturday, like "Gingersnaps", "Alien Lockdown", etc. But even were those included, this list is appallingly bad. More frightening is how many I've tried to watch, though none to completion. My general overview of all? Bad plot, horrible acting, cheap production values, laughably unbelievable CGI--in other words, true SyFy "Originals". :( -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: It works the way you want. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen2:102009
