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cheesesteak
04-23-2009, 07:17 AM
Has there ever been a good SciFi Original movie?

Does SciFi produce these movies or do they just acquire the broadcast rights to somebody else's failed projects?

My subconscious has probably blocked some from my mind, but the three worst SciFi Original movies I remember watching, in descending order of awfulness are:

1) War Of The Worlds 2
2) Mansquito
3) SS Doomtrooper

I'm pretty sure there have been some awful fantasy based movies but I don't usually watch those.
hanumang
04-23-2009, 12:43 PM
Has there ever been a good SciFi Original movie?

Well, the Painkiller Jane film - a back-door pilot, but still a Sci-Fi original - was alright. I wish the series had picked up from where that left.

<shrug>
Bai Shen
04-23-2009, 12:55 PM
AFAIK, they just pick up other people's failed pilots for cheap.
MikeMar
04-23-2009, 01:02 PM
The Tin Man, was pretty bad :D
Bai Shen
04-23-2009, 02:16 PM
The Tin Man, was pretty bad :D

I liked it. I thought it was an interesting take on the story.
MikeMar
04-23-2009, 02:17 PM
I liked it. I thought it was an interesting take on the story.

The first 1/2 or so was decent, then it got too cheesy for me
Bai Shen
04-23-2009, 02:42 PM
The first 1/2 or so was decent, then it got too cheesy for me

I don't really remember it that well. As I said, I mostly liked it for the new take on the old story.
jones07
04-23-2009, 03:33 PM
Has there ever been a good SciFi Original movie?

Does SciFi produce these movies or do they just acquire the broadcast rights to somebody else's failed projects?

My subconscious has probably blocked some from my mind, but the three worst SciFi Original movies I remember watching, in descending order of awfulness are:

1) War Of The Worlds 2
2) Mansquito
3) SS Doomtrooper


Please add Savage Planet to that list. Killer Space Bears........oh my god :(
Scifi channel has no shame when it comes to their movies.
retrodog
04-23-2009, 04:06 PM
I lost a lot of respect for them when they kept saying that Stargate SG1 was a Sci-Fi channel original. Uh, didn't that originally start on Showtime, or something like that?
gchance
04-23-2009, 04:19 PM
You guys didn't like Alien Apocalypse? The Man With the Screaming Brain? Bruce, guys. BRUCE! And don't forget, they did the last Re-Animator film.

Greg
gchance
04-23-2009, 04:20 PM
I lost a lot of respect for them when they kept saying that Stargate SG1 was a Sci-Fi channel original. Uh, didn't that originally start on Showtime, or something like that?

Sure, it started, but it ended a Sci-Fi original series, meaning, it was produced for and only aired on Sci-Fi.

Greg
UTV2TiVo
04-23-2009, 04:40 PM
Mansquito!

I almost watched that for the cheesy name alone. Luckily my TiVo had plenty better things to watch.

Sometimes I record SciFi original movies just to fast forward to the monster to see how bad it is.
sieglinde
04-23-2009, 06:03 PM
Years and years ago there was one about a kid who has a toy robot that turns large and protects him. The large robot was "played" by a car crushing robot they had at Big Truck shows. That one was nice.

Recently there was a fantasy one with a fire and ice dragon fighting. It was OK.
retrodog
04-23-2009, 07:12 PM
Sure, it started, but it ended a Sci-Fi original series, meaning, it was produced for and only aired on Sci-Fi.

Greg

Maybe your definition of the word "original" is a bit different from mine, Mr. Clinton.
Philosofy
04-23-2009, 08:05 PM
Has there ever been a good SciFi Original movie?

Does SciFi produce these movies or do they just acquire the broadcast rights to somebody else's failed projects?

My subconscious has probably blocked some from my mind, but the three worst SciFi Original movies I remember watching, in descending order of awfulness are:

1) War Of The Worlds 2
2) Mansquito
3) SS Doomtrooper

I'm pretty sure there have been some awful fantasy based movies but I don't usually watch those.

"Highlander: The Source" didn't make the list???
pantherman007
04-23-2009, 09:47 PM
"Mammoth" for the win. I watched (a bit of) Mansquito, but nothing in the history of television made me reach for my remote faster than Mammoth...
jones07
04-23-2009, 10:11 PM
"Mammoth's" CGI was the worst I ever seen. It was like it was done by middle school students.
Roommate
04-24-2009, 05:50 AM
Tin Man was disappointing, but if we're counting miniseries, I thought The Lost Room was great and was hoping they would spin it into a series.
cheesesteak
04-24-2009, 07:46 AM
Tin Man was disappointing, but if we're counting miniseries, I thought The Lost Room was great and was hoping they would spin it into a series.
The Lost Room was really good. SciFi must have pirated some other channel's signal on the days it aired.

Did The Lost Room ever come out on dvd?
Bai Shen
04-24-2009, 09:15 AM
I still need to get around to watching Lost Room.

As for Mammoth, I just watched it for Summer. :)
cheesesteak
06-01-2009, 09:24 AM
I watched Rock Monster yesterday afternoon. Boy, that was bad. A modern day sword-in-the-stone story with a big rock monster.

I got through about a half hour of Book Of Beasts with Baltar as Merlin before I found something else to watch.
Alfer
06-01-2009, 09:30 AM
Only thing we watch on SciFi is "Ghost Hunters"...nothing else on the channel interests me.
FilmCritic3000
06-01-2009, 11:23 AM
I still need to get around to watching Lost Room.

As for Mammoth, I just watched it for Summer. :)

Re: Mammoth, same thing here.

The Lost Room is an excellent miniseries that would have made for a very compelling television series; that is, if the lack of braintrust at SCI FI/Syfy had any intelligence whatsoever.
Craigbob
06-01-2009, 12:22 PM
The Lost Room was pretty good. As was Dune and Children of Dune miniseries.

Besides that, nahh not a lot of good original movies.
unicorngoddess
06-01-2009, 12:22 PM
I did enjoy The Lost Room. That's about it.

Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Room-Mini-Peter-Krause/dp/B000MMMTD2/ref=pd_bxgy_d_img_a) has the whole mini-series available for $8.49.
Fl_Gulfer
06-01-2009, 01:21 PM
The Lost Room one of the best mini's of 21st century so far.
sieglinde
06-01-2009, 05:51 PM
I got bored during it.

I am gradually watching Hammer of Thor to see if the Vikings actually are the gods or become the gods. :)
LoadStar
06-01-2009, 06:04 PM
There are definitely two different classes of SciFi channel movies.

Most of them are where they get some B-level celebrity to headline the movie, then stuff the rest of the cast with people you never have heard of before (and never will again). They then go someplace dirt cheap (eastern Europe usually, or if they're feeling extravagant, Vancouver) and film the worst monster movie or disaster flick you can imagine.

The miniseries and such definitely don't fall into that category.
Bierboy
06-01-2009, 06:29 PM
Lost Room is on SciFi back to back to back (all three parts) next Tuesday, June 9 from 9-3 p.m. CDT.
lordargent
06-01-2009, 10:58 PM
Whatever happened to Riverworld.
Bai Shen
06-02-2009, 09:03 AM
I thought all the SciFi original movies were failed pilots? SciFi picks them up cheap and that's why they have so many to show.
tiassa
06-02-2009, 09:12 AM
Lost Room is on SciFi back to back to back (all three parts) next Tuesday, June 9 from 9-3 p.m. CDT.

Oh good, I missed the last episode when that was originally broadcast.
Anubys
06-02-2009, 03:51 PM
Whatever happened to Riverworld.

that's exactly what I was going to ask...it seemed to have promise...I recall some posts around here that it would/might turn into a series...

I'd like to know if that's true...
FilmCritic3000
06-02-2009, 04:03 PM
that's exactly what I was going to ask...it seemed to have promise...I recall some posts around here that it would/might turn into a series...

I'd like to know if that's true...

It is.

http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/riverworld-phantom-alice.php
Rob Helmerichs
06-02-2009, 04:18 PM
It is.

http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/riverworld-phantom-alice.php
Actually, it's being made into another backdoor pilot mini-series.