SciFi Saturday: get the bad habit.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 3 comments link this postThe Saturday night SciFi Channel movie has become a habit. I look forward to horrid acting, special effects, recycled music, predictable plots, and the comfort of knowing that all of this is coming, even in the opening moments.
It's great background noise for doing sketching on my bed, or maybe some embroidery or whatever other portable project I'm messing around with for that week. You don't have to be involved in the show to hate and love it at the same time!
Last week's keeper/thrower was Lake Placid 2, the shameful attempt at a sequel to the pretty good original, Lake Placid. Number two was as bad as I expected, a true delight.
SciFi movies are conducive to yelling things at the TV, like the classic "Oh, come on! That's so fake!" and "That screaming chick in the shorts is going to get eaten next" and so forth.
Will, a fellow blogger, has sadly fallen prey to the same habit, no doubt started by my encourgement to watch a zombie-type film a while back. And so, I invite all of you to do what Will and I do: report back as to how horrible horrible was and your favorite moments of grade B movie. Extol the non-virtues via comments below. The best-yet keeper-comment from last week was Will's reference to the film as "Lake Flaccid."
What's in store for tonight? Sightings: Heartland Ghost. The previews look decent. They always do. The promos are always good. For example, I look at the movies page and see the upcoming movies and think "hey, Ice Spiders might be good."
But I know better.
I might be a little hit-and-miss during tonight's showing, though with these films, "miss" doesn't miss much. I'll be saving myself a few text dimes and using the "real" way to chat, and catch the movie during "laundry breaks." But for the rest of you, there's no reason to deny yourself the agony of the SciFi Saturday night movie. A movie you don't have to Tivo because it will enter the SciFi stable and be shown at least 500 more times over the coming year.
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3 Comments:
Okay . . . we have "speaking in tongues," an omega sign and Beau Bridges - all in the first few minutes. We are off to a great start! And as for Brdiges . . . oh how the not-so-mighty have fallen.
By 
Will, at
5/5/07 20:10
oh... please tell me you've seen the Triangle - starring Eric Stoltz and Catherine Bell. That's a sci-fi must-see trilogy.
By 
Kendra, at
5/5/07 23:35
Juls, sat through another Sci Fi movie. All your neice could say was,'that's not scary!' Did you happen to see what was on before that. I had to have her cover her eyes on the one. Rose Red had some rather 'scary' parts not meant for 10 year olds to see.
By Jacqui, at
6/5/07 16:34
