O.M.G.

[lagilman]

Innocently flipping channels, trying to take some time before going back and beating the website into shape, and I hear...

"This summer, the search for a cure...just made things worse."

So I pause, just long enough to hear further:

"Coming, from Sci-Fi. Mansquito."



Kill it! Kill it! Kill it before it airs!



(Sheeeesh, Sci-Fi! You could have bought any of a dozen Really Good Books to adapt, including mine, and instead you let some production company talk you into that? Bad channel, no biscuit!)

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Sci-Fi channel has erred so much *cough*Farscape*cough*, it's a wonder it hasn't already killed itself.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Personally, Farscape had already ended long before the plug was pulled. IMO, it ended with the shot of Scorpy walking up the steps as the command carrier blew up around him. Everything after that reminded me so much of a bad-acid-trip version of Galactica 1980 that I finally had to stop watching the show. It just got too painful after a while.

When you've got the kind of budget Sci Fi has, you can't afford to screw around with anything that doesn't pay for itself consistently or come in on the cheap. Look at the Peacekeeper Wars. No announcement was made on who was going to air that until it was virtually in the can, relieving Sci Fi of a bulk of the financial obligation to pay for the thing. (Need we say more than Black Scorpion? *shudder*)

Just about all of these "original" movies are incredibly cheaply-made, and it's a safe bet Sci Fi got the broadcast rights for cheap, too. Their biggest hit right now, BSG, is essentially a joint venture. They can't afford the entire bill. They may be owned by NBC, but they don't have NBC's finances.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. :-)

[atimson.livejournal.com]

Just about all of these "original" movies are incredibly cheaply-made,

Generally in the $1.4 to $1.8 million range.

and it's a safe bet Sci Fi got the broadcast rights for cheap, too.

$750k each.

(Numbers from a Wired article here (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/scifi.html?pg=2).)

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Bzzzzzzz thwap! aiieeeeee

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait, wait. Back that truck right up. Mansquito... as in, uh, Man + Mosquito?

That's got to be a joke. Please. In fact, as an inveterate non-TV watcher, I shall firmly declare it a joke and retreat back into my world where skeeters are not used as a bad Fly remake. Because in my reality...

Great, now I'm having visuals of that really bad 80's show... uh, Manimal? Thanks. Thanks a lot.

*cries*

In that case, don't look here:

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430334/
http://www.scifi.com/mansquito/

Re: In that case, don't look here:

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

*keeps crying*

heh.

[atimson.livejournal.com]

For a budget that's less than what the B5 pilot cost back in '93, the producers of those movies can't be overly picky about their scripts. :p

[barbara-ferrenz.livejournal.com]

I saw the ad. Looks like a Mimic rip-off. My favorite Sci Fi original is Sabretooth. Makes me laugh every time.

[ferragus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was watching a few minutes of that other POS that they made of "Earthsea" because I knew it was something I wouldn't mind turning off and I caught that promo and nearly gagged.

Did you see that they did manage to throw in some well endowed actress in her underwear as well as what appeared to be a lot of scenes lifted directly from The Fly and The Fly II.

*shakes his head in wonder*
Maybe it's just a phase.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

The promos alone are enough to make my eyes bleed. And I like bad movies!

[christymarx.livejournal.com]

Dear goddess, yes, we had the same reaction when we saw the promo the other night.

Somebody get out the giant bottle of Deet, please.

[vincam.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear.

[eilisflynn.livejournal.com]

Actually -- and this probably says something horrifying about
me -- the title and the commercial reminded me of the John
Goodman movie MATINEE, and the fictional movie they mention
in it, MANT. Yes, MANSQUITO is clearly in the same vein.

We chuckled and no, we have no plans to see MANSQUITO. But
we did like MATINEE.

Think of MANSQUITO as a salute to those 1950s horror/sci-fi flicks. And make a point by not watching it!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

(Sheeeesh, Sci-Fi! You could have bought any of a dozen Really Good Books to adapt, including mine, and instead you let some production company talk you into that? Bad channel, no biscuit!)

Oh, yes.

We could Swat it, yesssss we could....