Bloodsuckers: Sci-Fi's latest original turd

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » 2005-08-02 10:19pm

Mr. Coffee wrote:
Nephtys wrote:Ooh! Sci-Fi's taking lessons from CSI and Law and Order.

Presenting this summer's X-TREME lineup on Sci-Fi!
At 6:00, Stargate: SG-1.
At 7:00, Stargate: Atlantis
At 8:00, Stargate: Vancouver
At 9:00, Stargate: Chulac Undercover
At 10:00, Andromeda 2: Ad nauseum.
I hear they're conspiring with Mike Judge to do "Beavis and Butthead Do Atlantis"....

The scary thing is, if Judge actually creates a 'Beavis and Butthead' series for Sci-Fi, the result might be more entertaining than the entire Sci-Fi lineup put together (minus 'Battlestar Galactica').

Darth Sephiroth · Post by **Darth Sephiroth** » 2005-08-03 08:10pm

Mr. Coffee wrote:
Nephtys wrote:Ooh! Sci-Fi's taking lessons from CSI and Law and Order.

Presenting this summer's X-TREME lineup on Sci-Fi!
At 6:00, Stargate: SG-1.
At 7:00, Stargate: Atlantis
At 8:00, Stargate: Vancouver
At 9:00, Stargate: Chulac Undercover
At 10:00, Andromeda 2: Ad nauseum.
I hear they're conspiring with Mike Judge to do "Beavis and Butthead Do Atlantis"....

You forgot them remaking Stargate: Infinity the only thing Stargate to be pure crap

Hot Hands Harry · Post by **Hot Hands Harry** » 2005-08-03 08:43pm

You forgot them remaking Stargate: Infinity the only thing Stargate to be pure crap

Don’t give them any ideas.

The strange thing is that sometimes I like to watch crappy movies and shows and make up my own version that would work. Most of the time they look nothing alike.

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-08-03 10:13pm

Patrick Degan wrote:
el blanco wrote:I don't think SciFi actually makes them. What the basic able channels actually do is buy the rights to some awful cheap B-movie that otherwise would have been a straight to video release. I think SciFi is owned by NBC (as is USA network and some other basic cable channels) so they may get a group discount on these horribly cheesy movies.
Nope —SciFi's owned by Viacom.

No, SciFi is owned by NBC Universal.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-08-03 11:24pm

Well, it appears that Scifi is going to best themselves this week with the soon to be classic...wait for it...Alien Train.

That's right, some aliens land on Earth in meteor, somehow get on a train, and eat people.

Darth Sephiroth · Post by **Darth Sephiroth** » 2005-08-04 12:42am

Does anyone think that there will ever be any hope for SciFi's Original Movies? I think the neoBSG miniseries was the last decent thing of that sort (TV Series' don't count)

gizmojumpjet · Post by **gizmojumpjet** » 2005-08-04 10:04am

Darth Sephiroth wrote:Does anyone think that there will ever be any hope for SciFi's Original Movies? I think the neoBSG miniseries was the last decent thing of that sort (TV Series' don't count)

Certainly. Just because they've made some crap doesn't mean they can't change. If people don't watch the crap and support the good stuff, they'll take note.

Some of their original programming has been quite well recieved. Sometime you gotta take the good with the bad, I suppose.

Erik von Nein · Post by **Erik von Nein** » 2005-08-05 12:02am

It's on again.

Oh, God this is awful. The first scene with anyone on it has fake ass jelly blood everywhere and a hick in space.

xerex · Post by **xerex** » 2005-08-05 06:34am

They canceled farscape for this?

They canceled Crusade for this?

why dont they just show reruns of babylon5, quantum leap and outer limits if they need to fill a few hours?

they could bring back some anime.

hell they could show cheesy b/w movies from the 50's and it'd be better.

gizmojumpjet · Post by **gizmojumpjet** » 2005-08-05 09:21am

Erik von Nein wrote:It's on again.

Oh, God this is awful. The first scene with anyone on it has fake ass jelly blood everywhere and a hick in space.

That was the only character I actually liked. His hat looked lived in, and I can appreciate a man who appreciates a good hat.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-08-05 10:01am

xerex wrote:They canceled farscape for this?

They canceled Crusade for this?

why dont they just show reruns of babylon5, quantum leap and outer limits if they need to fill a few hours?

they could bring back some anime.

hell they could show cheesy b/w movies from the 50's and it'd be better.

Sadly Sci Fi pretty much aired all that and more until about six years ago. Back then they had actual lineups and programmes worth watching, rather than just three shows and the occasional daytime marathon and after Midnight broadcast.

xerex · Post by **xerex** » 2005-08-05 07:17pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote: Sadly Sci Fi pretty much aired all that and more until about six years ago. Back then they had actual lineups and programmes worth watching, rather than just three shows and the occasional daytime marathon and after Midnight broadcast.

I know.....damn I think something like 10% of thier entire weeks programming is now Stargate. (and I prefered it when it was on Showtime) the NOx episode is still my fav.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2005-08-07 04:51am

Darth Sephiroth wrote:Does anyone think that there will ever be any hope for SciFi's Original Movies?

"Dog Soldiers" kicked massive amounts of ass. It has cool actions sequences, meanacing warewolves (though their heads could have been done better), great one-liners, and it is packed full of dark humour all over the place that fits seamlessly with the action and story.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-08-07 05:03am

Adrian Laguna wrote:
Darth Sephiroth wrote:Does anyone think that there will ever be any hope for SciFi's Original Movies?
"Dog Soldiers" kicked massive amounts of ass. It has cool actions sequences, meanacing warewolves (though their heads could have been done better), great one-liners, and it is packed full of dark humour all over the place that fits seamlessly with the action and story.

Gotta love Spoon, eh?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2005-08-07 04:12pm

Adrian Laguna wrote:
Darth Sephiroth wrote:Does anyone think that there will ever be any hope for SciFi's Original Movies?
"Dog Soldiers" kicked massive amounts of ass. It has cool actions sequences, meanacing warewolves (though their heads could have been done better), great one-liners, and it is packed full of dark humour all over the place that fits seamlessly with the action and story.

Uh, wasn't that a movie that Sci-Fi only got the rights to show. They didn't make it.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-08-07 04:25pm

Alyeska wrote:Something SciFi is forgetting is all this cheap shit has absolutely no value in syndication and DVDs. It might make profits at first, but then it nets them nothing long term.

Nonsense. They don't need long term syndication life when they can simply pump out more and more short-term cheap repeats over and over again over that period of time.

I'm pretty sure that's the execs' precise line of thinking.

LumiereNoir · Post by **LumiereNoir** » 2005-08-07 04:37pm

Wait, Sci-fi's movies aren't bad! Remember ........
Uh........ That one movie....... uh....
Nevermind... You know, if the network executive were reading this, you all would have just ushered the sci-fi apocalypse with such demons as "Stargate: Klingons".