SyFy

topic posted Sun, December 13, 2009 - 3:21 AM by  Hekate
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I'm just unbelievably disappointed in them. The name change...well, you try not to pre-judge, right? But it's just shite.

Today when I got home, Djin had the tv tuned to the last half hour or so of the SyFy Original Movie about ice twisters. It was such a blatant ripoff of Twister, it wasn't even funny. What *was* funny is that I'd tried to watch it before, and about 4 minutes into it I realized what a ripoff it was and changed it. Then today when I came in, it took 5 seconds to recognize it because the scene was another direct ripoff of Twister. And sadly, I've only seen Twister once, years ago, and wasn't really paying much attention to it. I just wanted to see the flying cow. Anyway, they plugged in some questionable technology and last minute saving of my the city I was born in, and it was over. I must say that I L O L d big time when the one guy died of hail. I mean, ever hear of running when the hailballs hit your damn head? dur? Instead it was like a scene from Godzilla or something, standing with his hands up over his face, screaming like a ninny. I'm glad you died, idiot.

Ok so after ice twister got over, it was a movie about colliders colliding or something. It was a mess of magical energy-producing colliders, terrorists, computery hacking, bad accents and vague locations. I should have stopped at the beginning when Marina Sirtis was trying to have a southern-bitch accent and half the rest of them couldn't decide which accent they were supposed to have. Then they were in france, then...um, don't remember. anyway. stupid. stupid stupid stupid.

stupid.

oh and a black hole. That's what happens when you turn off all the other colliders and they can't contain the bad colliders anymore.

The good news: The world did end, and with a bang, not a whimper. Whole damn planet exploded because dumbass listened to the faux-belle instead of his friend who he'd trusted for eons.

Urgh. Not even in the "greasy fried noodle" category. More like in the "mom put the stale off-brand cheezits into a used zip loc that I think used to hold grandpa's suppositories".

Bad.
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  • Re: SyFy

    Mon, December 14, 2009 - 3:36 PM
    Seems like they either produce certain crap (like "Alice") or simply buy the TV rights to a bunch of direct-to-video garbage (which, strangely enough, if you ever dare to set foot inside the entropic hell that is your local Blockbuster -- "Where Movies Go to Die" TM -- you'll see a bunch of these in the New Releases section).

    For every "Galactica," they pull 10 dozen turds from their ass, as if to say, "We were just kidding about wanting to broadcast quality programming."

    Anybody watch any of the latest "Stargate" incarnations? I swear, next season we're going to see "Stargate: The Inside of a Bum's Asshole."
    • Re: SyFy

      Mon, December 14, 2009 - 5:10 PM
      The fact that they're pushing a new movie out every week is probably a bad sign. They're forgetting the quantity/quality ratio thing, badly.

      A kind of funny ironic twist: I can recall when Harlan Ellison was on Sci-Fi Buzz as commentator, and he made some disparging remarks about the term, "Sci-Fi" and what a bunch of crap it led to. Makes me wonder what he thinks of this - disgust, or justification?

      This isn't the one, but it sort of covers the sentiment:
      harlanellison.com/buzz/bws003.htm

      Sorry it's in red, I don't know why they do that.
      • Re: SyFy

        Mon, December 14, 2009 - 10:55 PM
        Browsed the archives on that site, found this from him as well:

        harlanellison.com/buzz/bw175h.htm

        You haven't lived until you've seen him speak in person.
        • Re: SyFy

          Tue, December 15, 2009 - 3:31 AM
          Yeah, I remember seeing that one.
          I had a couple-year long obsession with Mr. Ellison. I'm mostly over it, but still love to read him.
          I got to talk to him on the phone once. For like 2 minutes on a crappy connection, but still...my brush greatness, or something like that.
          • Re: SyFy

            Tue, December 15, 2009 - 6:43 PM
            Has anybody seen Caprica yet though? I'm about halfway through the pilot on hulu. It's really interesting so far. I'm actually hooked, and not just pretending to be for the sake of a new tv experience--which is how I felt about BG half the time.
            • Re: SyFy

              Tue, December 15, 2009 - 11:26 PM
              ^heheh...
              • Re: SyFy

                Wed, December 16, 2009 - 10:09 PM
                Interesting production. Good production values, in fact. Good characters good acting...

                Story may be a little ponderous.

                But I'll be watching to see if it gets better or gets bogged down. But very nicely done.

                Just not sure yet if it's actually my cup of tea (Disclaimer: When it comes to TV sci-fi I'm partial to like Max Headroom and Cleopatra 2525. If I have to go to another dark world when I'm not in this one, I prefer some hotness and a playful tone.)


                • Re: SyFy

                  Thu, December 17, 2009 - 9:36 AM
                  so; the monchichi uberserious hero chick basically never takes off her shirt.

                  YAWN

                  "God will punish these kids for dancing black-people-style in a video game" jesus h fuckin' christ...
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                    Re: SyFy

                    Thu, December 17, 2009 - 10:10 AM
                    Yeah, I get it about overdark, Trixie. It's why I've all but given up on Joss Whedon.

                    Loki--her values are supposed to be deeply fucked up. The story is about the origin of the cylons, who in the new BG are fanatical monotheists, and sort of frenemies, and who in the original BG were just evil monster robots. This is the story about how they came to be quasi sympathetic evil monster humanoid robots (who are also fanatical monotheists). The whole salvation at any price thing is the whole motivating force for the new incarnation of the cylons. So they're doing mixed sympathies and messing with our identification from the outset, and in a really interesting way.

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