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pinkleader
08 March 2008 @ 07:03 pm
bad movie, no popcorn!  
Dear SciFi Channel,

I admit I was interested when I saw the menu listing for a movie called Grendel showing. I wish I had read your IMDB entry before changing the channel. While I can forgive clown make-up on one of the women, and puffy sleeved princess dresses on the others, and I can forgive truly bad acting (because honestly SciFi, experience has taught me it's not your strong point), and I can forgive the invention of the crossbow by Beowolf... But what I can't forgive, what I could not get beyond that raised my blood pressure and made my eyes pop, was the use of cow-horns on helmets to distinguish Beowolf and his troops. There are many things we don't know about the past, but we are fairly certain that with all that is known that they didn't put freaking cow horns on their freaking helmets. argh!

Thank you for encouraging me to turn off the TV and pick up a book. I'm only glad I subjected myself no longer than 10 minutes.

No love,
me
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belfebe: Cat-Transformers[info]belfebe on March 9th, 2008 01:57 am (UTC)
Ohhh, nooooo!!!!!!!!!!! Not the cow horns! It's all over now!
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alchemist_9327[info]alchemist_9327 on March 9th, 2008 03:09 am (UTC)
In my humble opinion, this is the only good original movie that the Science Fiction Channel has produced to date.
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pinkleader[info]pinkleader on March 10th, 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)
True dat!
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Mistress Rhiannon[info]mistressrhi on March 10th, 2008 03:48 pm (UTC)
But wait! Didn't you try out the other one they had running this weekend, called "Ogre", about a bunch of teens who stumble on this Amish town forced to pay tribute to an ogre, and set in modern times???? I actually stopped by long enough to see the CGI ogre, who could have walked straight off the Cartoon Network, eat somebody and belch back up his lower leg.

Then I went on...
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pinkleader: monster[info]pinkleader on March 10th, 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)
No, but we did watch 10 minutes of something called "Gryphon" http://imdb.com/title/tt0494206/ with some evil wizard controlling a really poorly done CGI gryphon (which they blissfully kept at a distance...), and the prince of one kingdom was falling in love with the princess of the rival kingdom... oh, bad. Alan said "Thank You" when I changed the channel.
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alchemist_9327[info]alchemist_9327 on March 10th, 2008 07:48 pm (UTC)
You know, some of the Harryhausen films were of the corny B level stock, such as It Came From Beneath The Sea, and The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, but I would rather watch them, before I watch some of this bad CGI crap they have nowadays out. Maybe part of it is my age; I've always admired Harryhausen ... but it seems that in especially many recent cases, the old stop motion animation is far superior to CGI. Even if you go back to the 30's, Willie O'Brien's King Kong is superior to Peter Jackson's King Kong.

This doesn't even get into the fact that many times the problem is that there's too much CGI and not enough plot ...

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