Sometimes SciFi Sucks
Speaking of sci-fi… I caught one of the SciFi Network’s original movies last night. If you missed The Core and Armageddon, you could catch a bad remake of both of them in Deep Core.
The SciFi Network has a tendency to create brilliant series and unspeakably horrible movies. I swear this masterpieceofcrap had cardboard sets.
My main pain, though, was watching Wil Wheaton humiliate himself. I’m a big fan of Big Willie– loved him on CSI and that other show, and I think he’s a brilliant writer, definitely want to get him on this show –but how did he read this script and think it’d be good for him?
They cast Wil in the Steve Buscemi role from Armageddon. Yeah. Picture Wil Wheaton as a roughneck oil-drilling explosives expert on a South-American drill site. Now picutre George W. Bush as the Nameless Warrior in Hero.
For the 20,000th time… Wil, please just stick to being a geek and come on this show where you’ll fit right in among the droids and the aliens.
February 10th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
They actually do it on purpose. It’s not like some weird happenstance, or that some of the people are just way better at their jobs. The guys in charge of the movies first started out by trying to find indie scifi movies that didn’t suck. There weren’t many, but they went with what they could find. And then it dawned on them that they could do movies just as bad and do it more cheaply than what they were paying for with the movies they were getting. So they did.
As it turns out, the really cheap really bad movies that the guys set out to make turned in just about the same ratings as the more expensive but still bad movies that they were paying other people for.
Maybe Wil was bored for a weekend. It can’t take longer than that to make one of those terrible movies. It’s the equivalent of working a temp job for the rest of us, I imagine. Or retail.
I need to add your show back to my queue. Since not having a job, I don’t listen to music podcasts anymore. But I miss High Orbit.