The SyFy Channel, B-movies, TV movies, and obscure movies thread

[gillan1220]

I'll start this thread.

This is something I saw in Cinemax Asia around 2007-09. Basically Cinemax Asia would air those movies that showed on the SyFy Channel.

One thing I remember is Termination Point (2007). 



The summary of this film is that a scientist constructs a time-travel device but then it causes an apocalyptic event in the form of time-warp storms that threatens to engulf the entire planet. The U.S. government must find the scientist in order to undo this event. As this occurs, a plane mid-flight is hit by one of the time storm's lightnings and is sent to a black hole. Also, the time-warp storm threatens to disintegrate cities and living things once hit by the lightning.

As part of the trope Harsher In Hindsight, countless netizens have compared the plane scene in Termination Point as similar to MH370's disappearance in March 2014.

I am not sure if the TV series Manifest is based from this concept.

[lordroel]

Sept 8, 2020 6:15:48 GMT gillan1220 said:

I'll start this thread.

This is something I saw in Cinemax Asia around 2007-09. Basically Cinemax Asia would air those movies that showed on the SyFy Channel.

One thing I remember is Termination Point (2007). 



The summary of this film is that a scientist constructs a time-travel device but then it causes an apocalyptic event in the form of time-warp storms that threatens to engulf the entire planet. The U.S. government must find the scientist in order to undo this event. As this occurs, a plane mid-flight is hit by one of the time storm's lightnings and is sent to a black hole. Also, the time-warp storm threatens to disintegrate cities and living things once hit by the lightning.

As part of the trope Harsher In Hindsight, countless netizens have compared the plane scene in Termination Point as similar to MH370's disappearance in March 2014.

I am not sure if the TV series Manifest is based from this concept.

Reminds me of the movie Sound of Thunder.

[gillan1220]

Sept 8, 2020 6:23:42 GMT lordroel said:

Sept 8, 2020 6:15:48 GMT gillan1220 said:

I'll start this thread.

This is something I saw in Cinemax Asia around 2007-09. Basically Cinemax Asia would air those movies that showed on the SyFy Channel.

One thing I remember is Termination Point (2007). 



The summary of this film is that a scientist constructs a time-travel device but then it causes an apocalyptic event in the form of time-warp storms that threatens to engulf the entire planet. The U.S. government must find the scientist in order to undo this event. As this occurs, a plane mid-flight is hit by one of the time storm's lightnings and is sent to a black hole. Also, the time-warp storm threatens to disintegrate cities and living things once hit by the lightning.

As part of the trope Harsher In Hindsight, countless netizens have compared the plane scene in Termination Point as similar to MH370's disappearance in March 2014.

I am not sure if the TV series Manifest is based from this concept.

Reminds me of the movie Sound of Thunder.

Oh what is this movie about?

[lordroel]

Sept 8, 2020 6:26:01 GMT gillan1220 said:

Sept 8, 2020 6:23:42 GMT lordroel said:

Reminds me of the movie Sound of Thunder.

Oh what is this movie about?

A very bad movie about going back in time, stepping on a bug and the ripple ex-echtgenoot destroying the Universe as we know it: A Sound of Thunder (film)

[gillan1220]

Sept 8, 2020 6:40:39 GMT lordroel said:

Sept 8, 2020 6:26:01 GMT gillan1220 said:

Oh what is this movie about?

A very bad movie about going back in time, stepping on a bug and the ripple ex-echtgenoot destroying the Universe as we know it: A Sound of Thunder (film)

Oh the common representation of stepping a butterfly in prehistoric times. Typically used in time-traveling alternate history scenarios.

[lordroel]

I also like when there is a big movie like Battleship, SyFy Channel makes it low budget second cousin and twice removed going by the name American Warships.

They do this with every allien movie that comes out in the cinemas.

[gillan1220]

Sept 8, 2020 7:05:56 GMT lordroel said:

I also like when there is a big movie like Battleship, SyFy Channel makes it low budget second cousin and twice removed going by the name American Warships.

They do this with every allien movie that comes out in the cinemas.

Those films are from The Asylum, which already is notorious for producing mockbusters every time there is a major disaster, sci-fi, alien, creature, or superhero film. This is intended to dupe viewers into watching the mockbuster rather than the real title. Usually, grandmothers trying to give gifts to grandchildren fall prey to this marketing strategy. As usual, The Asylum has faced several lawsuits for titling their films close the title of a major release.

Here you can see the full list of B-Movies they have:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Asylum_films


And here's the trailer for American Warships.

 

[gillan1220]

Everyone is invited to share their thoughts or clips of SyFy Channel movies, other B-movies, Direct-to-DVD, Direct-to-TV, and obscure movies for this thread.

[lordroel]

Sept 8, 2020 11:58:02 GMT gillan1220 said:

Everyone is invited to share their thoughts or clips of SyFy Channel movies, other B-movies, Direct-to-DVD, Direct-to-TV, and obscure movies for this thread.

Their movies mostly suck but the make dam good tv series when they want to.

[gillan1220]

Sept 8, 2020 12:35:40 GMT lordroel said:

Sept 8, 2020 11:58:02 GMT gillan1220 said:

Everyone is invited to share their thoughts or clips of SyFy Channel movies, other B-movies, Direct-to-DVD, Direct-to-TV, and obscure movies for this thread.

Their movies mostly suck but the make dam good tv series when they want to.

Yeah, I agree with that. Mostly when my dad and I watch B-movies on Cinemax Asia, we just watch it to have a good laugh and comment on how bad the script, acting, and special effects are.

However, there are some great B-movies (including big-cinema homages) and Direct-to-DVD/TV movies out there. Some exceptions include Ghost Ship, Ghost Voyage, Eight Legged Freaks, Spiders (2000), Evolution (2001), DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, Detonator (2003), and Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006).

I will be making separate posts for these in the future.

[stevep]

Sept 8, 2020 11:34:46 GMT gillan1220 said:

Sept 8, 2020 7:05:56 GMT lordroel said:

I also like when there is a big movie like Battleship, SyFy Channel makes it low budget second cousin and twice removed going by the name American Warships.

They do this with every allien movie that comes out in the cinemas.

Those films are from The Asylum, which already is notorious for producing mockbusters every time there is a major disaster, sci-fi, alien, creature, or superhero film. This is intended to dupe viewers into watching the mockbuster rather than the real title. Usually, grandmothers trying to give gifts to grandchildren fall prey to this marketing strategy. As usual, The Asylum has faced several lawsuits for titling their films close the title of a major release.

Here you can see the full list of B-Movies they have:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Asylum_films


And here's the trailer for American Warships.

 

  I suspect the quality is generally appalling but some of them sound positively hilarious.

[lordroel]

Sept 8, 2020 12:51:35 GMT gillan1220 said:

Sept 8, 2020 12:35:40 GMT lordroel said:

Their movies mostly suck but the make dam good tv series when they want to.

Yeah, I agree with that. Mostly when my dad and I watch B-movies on Cinemax Asia, we just watch it to have a good laugh and comment on how bad the script, acting, and special effects are.

However, there are some great B-movies (including big-cinema homages) and Direct-to-DVD/TV movies out there. Some exceptions include Ghost Ship, Ghost Voyage, Eight Legged Freaks, Spiders (2000), Evolution (2001), DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, Detonator (2003), and Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006).

I will be making separate posts for these in the future.

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America Is a movie that is about a virus that kills people, well we live in the movie Fatal Contact: Covid-19, but here Virginia is not under quarantine, still waiting upon a vaccine, no riots in the streets of New York but in other places and they have nothing to do with the virus we currently face.

[stevep]

Sept 8, 2020 14:50:47 GMT lordroel said:

Sept 8, 2020 12:51:35 GMT gillan1220 said:

Yeah, I agree with that. Mostly when my dad and I watch B-movies on Cinemax Asia, we just watch it to have a good laugh and comment on how bad the script, acting, and special effects are.

However, there are some great B-movies (including big-cinema homages) and Direct-to-DVD/TV movies out there. Some exceptions include Ghost Ship, Ghost Voyage, Eight Legged Freaks, Spiders (2000), Evolution (2001), DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, Detonator (2003), and Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006).

I will be making separate posts for these in the future.

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America Is a movie that is about a virus that kills people, well we live in the movie Fatal Contact: Covid-19, but here Virginia is not under quarantine, still waiting upon a vaccine, no riots in the streets of New York but in other places and they have nothing to do with the virus we currently face.

  That sounds more like SpanishSpy that Lordroel??  Unless there's another member who lives in Virginia.

[lordroel]

Sept 8, 2020 15:01:20 GMT stevep said:

Sept 8, 2020 14:50:47 GMT lordroel said:

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America Is a movie that is about a virus that kills people, well we live in the movie Fatal Contact: Covid-19, but here Virginia is not under quarantine, still waiting upon a vaccine, no riots in the streets of New York but in other places and they have nothing to do with the virus we currently face.

  That sounds more like SpanishSpy that Lordroel??  Unless there's another member who lives in Virginia.

Ment the Virginia of the movie compared to our Virginia.

[stevep]

Sept 8, 2020 15:08:14 GMT lordroel said:

Sept 8, 2020 15:01:20 GMT stevep said:

  That sounds more like SpanishSpy that Lordroel??  Unless there's another member who lives in Virginia.

Ment the Virginia of the movie compared to our Virginia.

  Ok thanks for qualifying.  I misunderstood the "here Virginia" bit.