Talking bout all those bad movies got me tripping down memory lane. Tracey, you asked why we watch some of the bad junk. Well, in a word: fun! The old camp movies are so bad, so mind-numbingly devoid of acting, plot, and anything approaching production value, they're classics of camp that make you roar with laughter. That's why stuff like those old two-headed transplant and killer frog movies are hilarious. The problem, I think, wiht the moder SciFi Originals is that they aren't good enough to be enjoyed, and aren't cleverly bad enough to be enjoyed as camp. They're just crap. "Highlander" falls in that category, as to recent turkeys like Chubacabra, Gargoyles, etc. They're just plain awful. I think the old scifi turkeys at least look funny because of the cheesy clothing, hairstyles, and FX. The computer images used now are just bad, not funny.
So maybe it takes time. Maybe thirty years from now we'll all be laughing uproariously about "Highlander: The Source" as a classic gem of good camp. Maybe--but I doubt it! My watching wreally applies to the older movies that I watch as a kid, and had no choice, and which now are funny. I skip the vast majority of Scifi Originals, only watching a few here and there that look halfway decent, or maybe watching if i'm home sick or it's a cold wintry night. Other than that, I really can't imagine that all that many people watch their stuff. -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Since they keep doing this type of crap I can only assume that somebody > is watch nd somebody is buying and renting. I would love to talk > tothose of you who do what to find how wht about these "movies" is so > appealing. > > maidmarian_thepoet wrote: > > > > Let me know when SciFi makes it up to killer rabbits. We've had > > alligators, snakes, and every water critter known to man. I guess > > that they've made it to land now. > > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > , Martin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > But enough of beating a horse that was brought in dead. Let's > > butcher some fresh meat. "Grizzly Rage" is p tonight. Will it be > > "bear"-ly watchable? Will you grin and "bear" watching it? > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
