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Hey look, a Descent movie!

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:27 pm
by MD-2389
Well...close enough! ;)

http://www.scifi.com/descent/

Trailer makes it look like a cheap knockoff of "The Core" (which was a lame movie to begin with). Knowing Scifi, it'll suck ass. Serves 'em right for cancelling a perfectly good TV show just so they can fund crap like this.

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:44 pm
by Ferno
LOL, go Worf!

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:58 am
by Kyouryuu
With virtually no exceptions, Sci-Fi Original movies suck. At least in this one, it doesn't look like they are running through endless, perpetual forest the entire movie. The only Sci-Fi Original I liked was Anonymous Rex, perhaps not just because of my furryness, but also because it was very tongue-in-cheek and comedic. Compare that to say, the horror that was Alien Apocalypse, and the attempt as seriousness is laughable. We ain't laughing with the movie, we're laughing at it.

I think we know the real reason Sci-Fi canned Mystery Science Theater. The B-movies they mocked on that show are far superior to the supposed high-end movies Sci-Fi tries to foist on us.

An even greater mystery is how The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas can even remotely classify as science fiction...

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 3:49 pm
by dissent
Especially demonstrative of some of the poverty of their imagination in that they already did a cheap knock off of the movie "The Core", i.e. "Deep Core". Why don't they just go back through the long catalog of old good sf short stories and do those instead?

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:44 pm
by MD-2389
Because that would require effort?

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 7:24 pm
by DCrazy
OMG TEHY MADE TEH MATERIEL DEFENDER BLACK!!! OMGZ

I mean, uh, this looks like absolute crap.

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 10:14 pm
by Kyouryuu
They really should stick to simple sci-fi movies. For example, the old Twilight Zone isn't very advanced by today's standards at all, but it's the stories, the ironic outcomes, and the disguised political commentary that make it have eerie relevance even today. This is because the show was well-written. Too often, sci-fi places the visuals ahead of the story.

Some of the best sci-fi has nothing to do with robots, aliens, or genetic experiments. It's about the moral underneath the whole tale.

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 4:33 am
by Sirius
Curiously, Star Trek on odd occasion wasn't half bad at that.

The idea of a cheap knock-off of 'The Core' is frankly disturbing. How much worse can the physics get?

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:07 am
by dissent
ancient chinese proverb -

Be careful what you ask for. :shock:

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 4:35 pm
by Diedel
... you might get what you want ... ;)