And more brain cells die....

[wraithfodder]

Yes, I'm actually sitting here watching what will no doubt be a gawdawful movie - ICE SPIDERS - on SciFi. When you're ten minutes into hte film and someone says "it's gnarly", you know you're not watching Emmy material. Plus these scifi flicks usually star people who once were stars, sort of, on TV (well, fortunately, Stephen Baldwin isn't in this one).  The hero is an ex-skier down on his luck now teaching skiing (typical hard luck scifi tale). None of the teenagers can speak without saying gnarly, shred or other skiing lingo. They'll all die horribly. Okay, half of them will.

Filmed in Europe no doubt (film those ski movies before there are no snowy mountains left due to global warming!) so that's the only plus to the flick. Meanwhile, giant CGI spiders are roaming the ski resort picking off people. You know, it's 15 minutes into the film and that B&W flick with teenagers waking up the petrified spider found in the local cave with evil rock 'n' roll music is looking pretty good right now. Biggest problem with these flicks is you don't care who dies. If it wasn't for the location scenary, lack of alternate programming, laziness, I'd change the channel. Okay, the remote is ten inches away. Some stupid skier just crashed in a pile of screaming glory so I'm waiting for the spider to suck him dry. I'm soooo bad.

Big mistake of the day: cracking open the dark chocolate cranberry bar, which I suddenly discovered is not the Bog Berry nuts-cranberries in dark chocolate bar, but a bar filled with cranberry filling. I can't nurse this for a week. I must consume it all this weekend or else it will just ooze and leak cranberry filling. Ah, the sacrifices one must make.

In the good and bad of TV: watched a very good C-SPAN Q&A with the CDC about the TB guy. CDC doc lady was sharp - government guy questioning her wasn't. And then there's the Paris Hilton bruhaha. Aieee....

Have accumulated all my not-yet-finished Stargate Atlantis fanfiction and I have, um, er, over a dozen stories in progress not yet finished. I really should. Really.

Just two more weeks and the gates are toast for a while (I suspect Skiffy will be stupid and not repeat any SGA episodes while we get constant repeats of SG1, which isn't bad, but I think I"ve seen 'em all three dozen times over). But, new DR WHOs, new EUREKAs, and USA is bringing back 4400, which I rather like.

Did Paul McGilian's LOCH NESS ever air on Skiffy? Was it so bad I missed it?? And David Nykl should be done filming Beast from Bottomless Lake or something like that -check his blog (I've got him on links). Sounds pretty bad, but he's the star! He won't torn in half like in his last Skiffy flick.

Comments

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I saw the ads for Ice Spiders during SGA last night. Every time I think Skiffy has hit rock bottom with their Saturday night movies, they prove me wrong.

I once watched a truly craptastic movie called Screamers solely because Peter Weller was in it. It was an odd experience. I found myself rooting for the screamers because they were so cute and the humans they were slaughtering were so very stupid.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh, Skiffy has done FAR worse than Ice Spiders, believe me.

But in most of their movies, yes, you cheer on for the people to get killed by the critters.

[xfkirsten.livejournal.com]

LMAO! My mom and I saw the ads for that one last night and absolutely burst out laughing. Rock bottom, to be sure!

[vecturist.livejournal.com]

I think the bes way to watch the really bad horror flicks is with a buch of people and take bets as the movie opens as to the order the characters will get killed off (usually somewhat predictable) and make up drinking games.

From what I've seen, David NyKl's film seems to plays it smart and tries for the camp value, rather than playing it straight (it reminds me of The Life Aquatic). Speaking of Pterodactyl, I noticed that one of the other actors was hosting one of the new reality shows on CBS. Is that a step up?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yup, some films must be seen with a group, so you can gleefully shred it :)

Heck, David Nykl in a lead role sounds good to me so I'm assuming he survives the flick, unlike in Pteradactyl (one of Skiffy's better efforts, actually).

Paul McGillion in Loch Ness

[les342.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about that movie myself. I just checked the Internet Movie Database. In the listing it says 2007 and someone posted on the message board at the bottom of the page winter of 2007. I don't know how accurate it is, but that's what it says there.

I usually avoid Scifi Channel movies like the plague, but Paul McGillion is in it, as well as Don S. Davis according to the IMDB. With both of them in it, I'll have to see if I can suffer through it. I'm an obsessed fangirl, so I'll probably manage. Heck, if you can watch Ice Spiders, I can sit through Loch Ness. *g*

Re: Paul McGillion in Loch Ness

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Actually, I only made it halfway through ICE SPIDERS. They weren't killing off people quick or good enough so I changed the channel ;)

But if LOCH NESS appears, maybe I'll just record it and then speedsearch to his parts :):)

Re: Paul McGillion in Loch Ness

[les342.livejournal.com]

Good idea. I think I'll do the same. I imagine watching that would probably be about as painful as watching the Lifetime network moive that I suffered through just because Colin Ferguson was in it, barely. He had a tiny role. I don't even remember what the movie was supposed to be about, only that it was bad, very bad.