Anyone else think SyFy is hilarious?

Irish Guitarist

I've seen a lot of trailers for films on SyFy and thought they looked terrible. I've always meant to watch one to see just how bad it was but never had the patience. That is until yesterday when I watched something called Fireball.

It was absolutely terrible. The acting was dire. The plot made no sense - A former American football player is arrested. A fire breaks out in his jail cell. Instead of being killed he gains the ability to set fire to things. The explanation for this is that he's on steroids. He then swears revenge on the world for some incoherent reason. The worst part of the film was the special effects. There's one scene in particular where they didn't have enough money to pay a stuntman to fall, so they just animated the scene (seemingly on a 1980s Amiga computer) instead.

Having said all that I thought it was hilarious. The special effects were so ludicrously bad that they were great. I kept meaning to stop watching it but I just got mesmerised by its awfulness.

Anyone else think some of these films are unintentionally funny?

Squaredude

sure how could you go wrong with such quality films such as:
Alien Vs Hunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLePMOi7Jiw

and:
Transmorphers

I recently saw an ad for one called Paradox:
"Homicide detective Sean Nault, a cop on a parallel Earth whose technology is powered exclusively by magic. Sean investigates a baffling series of murders committed by a means he's never seen before: science."
How could you not watch it!!:pac:

Kiith

Could be worse :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmt-EMqzgo

... it's hard to tell if that's a joke or not

allanb49

Need we mention Megashark vs Superoctopus

or Octoshark or Sharktopus.

omahaid

Wohoo - next Sunday night

syfy wrote:

10:00PM
Submerged
A mercenary is freed from jail and sent by submarine to free a captive group of American commandos - unaware the soldiers have been previously brainwashed into killing their rescuers. Action thriller, starring Steven Seagal, Vinnie Jones, Alison King and Nick Brimble

seamus

They're all bad science & soft porn.

The best combination.

humanji

I absolutely love syfy and it's films. Megashark Vs Giant Octopuss was on last night and I was laughing my ass off at/with it. And apparently a sequel to Transmorphers was on as well. It's all gold.

Mountjoy Mugger

People don't seem to appreciate art anymore.

Corkfeen

A favourite of mine, "More Hooch for the pooch" .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfROegSomiw

Conor108

SyFy's broadcasting can be narrowed down to 2 categories -

1) Sh*tty TV movies and dire series.

2) Stargate Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HyD3aKFTkA

00112984

I love films on SyFy! Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, DinoCroc vs. SuperGator etc. They're comedic gold. Real guilty pleasure of mine.

Adhamh

I'm not sure because the family switched service provider and we now have half as many channels, but wasn't SyFy that channel that once broadcast a programme called Mostly True Stories?

:pac:

At least give yourself a chance!

Paul16

I think they were showing Titanic 2 a couple of weeks ago.

L31mr0d

Yeah, they really fall into the "so bad it's good" category.

I actually watched all of "Beauty and the Beast" on SyFy. It was so... so bad, and the acting was so hammy that I was literally crying from laughing so hard during it.

This trailer actually makes it look semi decent. But, trust me, it's terribly good.

I'm sure the idea of Estella Warren running around in tight leather for the entire film is probably reason enough for most guys here to watch it anyway

Favorite quote: "Welcome to the Killing Zone, Beast!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7KwkSggMg

don ramo

Conor108 wrote: »

SyFy's broadcasting can be narrowed down to 2 categories -

1) Sh*tty TV movies and dire series.

2) Stargate Universe

plus eureka, haven, and sanctuary,:cool:

Elohim

don ramo wrote: »

plus eureka, haven, and sanctuary,:cool:

After hearing good things about Sanctuary I decided to give it a go and watched the first 2 eps. I thought it looked so cheap! very similar to all the other syfy movies mentioned earlier. How can this be in its third season and SGU might get shut down in two?!
I don't know how people can like the constant green screen especially when it's so obvious!

don ramo

Elohim wrote: »

After hearing good things about Sanctuary I decided to give it a go and watched the first 2 eps. I thought it looked so cheap! very similar to all the other syfy movies mentioned earlier. How can this be in its third season and SGU might get shut down in two?!
I don't know how people can like the constant green screen especially when it's so obvious!

well the CGI technology has improved greatly, and the show is more about accepting the premise of the story and it shows in the ratings,

the show wouldnt work without so much CGI, it allows a whole world to be created in the confines of one stage, i have seen much worse CGI on shows that have far superior budgets, lost couldnt even do a proper CGI submarine, inside the mothership in V looks terrible, even clash of the titans with a $125million dollar bidget had worse CGI than sanctuary,

i always find with large scale CGI that you have to have a good story that will allow the viewer to overlook the obvious CGI failures, and sanctuary has achieved that, more so in season 3 which has been its strongest season yet,

also santuary is a fantasy adventire series that is actually a fantasy adventure series, wharas SGU is only now kicking into gear, i have always loved stargate for it adventure and comedic elements both which have been missing in universe, and it has showed in the ratings, but the last 3 or 4 episodes the writers have incorporated more of the classic stargate elements into universe and i believe the ratings will adjust according when it returns,

weird also that both eureka and haven outperform SGU and sanctuary,

Elohim

I might watch another few episodes but I generally find it hard to stay with something if I don't like the way it's shot.

The story line comes across a bit like something from Dark Angel, someone going out investigating mutants and stuff. I was disappointed that the pilot didn't really make me want to put on the third episode straight away. I'm hoping the story evolves a bit past isolated "track down this guy and capture him" kind of episodes.
Mainly giving it a chance because Carter's in it, I can forgive the accent Haven't seen eureka or haven.

I agree with you on Clash of the titans, I came out of the cinema laughing at how bad that looked, definitely worst big budget cgi I've ever seen.

don ramo

Elohim wrote: »

I might watch another few episodes but I generally find it hard to stay with something if I don't like the way it's shot.

The story line comes across a bit like something from Dark Angel, someone going out investigating mutants and stuff. I was disappointed that the pilot didn't really make me want to put on the third episode straight away. I'm hoping the story evolves a bit past isolated "track down this guy and capture him" kind of episodes.
Mainly giving it a chance because Carter's in it, I can forgive the accent Haven't seen eureka or haven.

I agree with you on Clash of the titans, I came out of the cinema laughing at how bad that looked, definitely worst big budget cgi I've ever seen.

its worth giving it the chance season 1 wasnt great by any means, but near the end it picked up, season 2 was fairly decent, and season 3 has taken it to another level again, there really making the story work now that they got a 20 ep order,


i hope you like it,

eureka is a very light campy show, i enjoy it more as a filler than anything else, id normally let it back up, haven i was actually surprised with, a town full of people with special abilities, and an FBI agent trying the find her mother who helped out most of the town years earlier when the people with abilities went through some kind of troubled period, based on the steven king novel the colorado kid,

Conor108

And.................SGU is cancelled

RVD420

The Asylum are responsible for a lot of these "mockbusters" that Syfy are fond of showing. Their imdb page makes for a good read. Their formula seems to consist of "find out what upcoming blockbusters are on the horizon and churn out any old garbage with a similar name".

One hungover Sunday, I came across this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaHvM9KVpcw

Time travelling dinosaurs, Iron Man rip off, dragons, a rip off of the Kraken....this film has it all......the great Sherlock Holmes!

Mr E

I was watching TV a few weeks ago, and caught a random episode of Sanctuary (an early episode from season 3). I liked what I saw, so I started watching the whole show from the beginning. I just finished the mid-season finale that aired on Friday, and have watched all 35 episodes in the last 3 weeks. The whole show has been a revelation to me.

If you let how it is shot put you off the show, you're cutting yourself off from a well-realised and well acted show that gets better with every season. They have crafted a brilliant sci-fi show from an admittedly hokey premise. I remember starting the webisodes a few years ago (which pre-dated season 1) and I didn't really like it, so I stopped watching. My mistake.

Its great to watch a show with three dimensional, and complex but unpredictable characters (especially Druitt and Tesla).

The season 1 & 2 finales, the season 2 & 3 openers, a handful of brilliant season 2 episodes, and most of season 3 have been some of the best TV I've seen all year, and the mid-season finale that just aired ended with a seriously holy s**t cliffhanger.

Don't judge it based on the green screen sets .... just get stuck in and enjoy it. Its worth it.

sonic85

Corkfeen wrote: »

A favourite of mine, "More Hooch for the pooch" .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfROegSomiw

one word - brilliant! they showed bruce lees movies a while ago aswell