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You are all missing the point!!!

posted 15 years ago by Irishprincesscmd
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Yes, this is a sci-fi movie so it should have sciene and it should have fiction.
It has both. So what if only female mosquitos suck blood ... it's fiction. Fiction is the most important part without it it's just science and that wouldn't be very interesting. I've never seen this movie, but my brother loves it though. Remember, It's a sci-fi channel original movie, what do you expect?

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[–] Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 15 years ago

Remember, It's a sci-fi channel original movie

You're right. The bar isn't very high for that series.

Consider this:
Science Fiction (make that Classic Science-Fiction) allows a writer one departure from known science for the premise of the story. All else is supposed to follow logically from known science and from that one departure.

This, of course, is much too difficult for the writers and directors and producers of the Sci-Fi Channel [Extremely] Original Movies — which is why so many of their offerings get thoroughly shredded by viewers who know any science at all. As I've said before, the amount of real science in their science fiction isn't enough to make you blink if it were to fly in your eye.

By the way, their history — and Greek Mythology — is extremely lacking, as well.

My favorite examples are:
• Cyclops
— The Cyclops was a Greek legend but they set it in Rome.
— The CGI monster looked cartoonish.
— The writers' only knowledge of the Roman Emperor Tiberius was how to spell his name.
• Minotaur
— Again, they got the monster all wrong. It was supposed to have the body of a man and the head of a bull.
— They also got the victims' country wrong; they were supposed to be Greeks, not from some Northern country with a snowy climate.
— And the hero was Theseus, son of King Ægeus.
• Treasure of the Grand Canyon
— The Aztec culture and artifacts looked Mayan.
— The Aztec natives looked like Anglos wearing dark wigs and flip-flops.
— The leading character (the historian of the group) attributed an item to Pizarro instead of Cortéz. (Pizarro conquered the Incas in what is now Peru, not the Aztecs.)
— The monster was supposed to be a winged serpent. It looked like a man in a rubber lizard-with-wings suit.
I could go on.

That's why I keep saying to the writers, directors and producers:
I admire your ability to get paid for that.

[–] master_fercho 14 years ago

You gotta tell me, man, what did the minotaur look like?

[–] Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 14 years ago

I don't recall what their "Minotaur" looked like. I'd given up on the movie long before I got a good look at the monster — and I'm not going to go through it again.

For a more traditional view of the Minotaur, try any or all of these:
• Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur

• Wikipedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Minotaur

• Theoi
http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Minotauros.html

Since I know some of the traditional legends — and some real history — and some real science — I don't have much patience with the writers and directors and producers of these SyFy Channel [Extremely] Original Movies and their lack of respect for the intelligence of their audience.

To paraphrase Horatio Hornblower, why do they keep speaking when they have nothing to say?

[–] master_fercho 14 years ago

Tell me about it. The movie with the Hydra (I think it was called: Hydra) was so pathetic... Hercules Sword to defeat the Hydra... i think there's something wrong about this...

[–] Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 14 years ago

Either I missed having to sit through their (mis-)take on the Hydra legend — or else I succeeded in blocking it from my memory.

Wish me luck. I'm going to try to find that movie online to get you a description of their Minotaur.

I've said on many other threads about their movies:
The amount of real science in these Sci-Fi Channel [Extremely] Original Movies isn't enough to make you blink if it were to fly in your eye.

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All I can say to the writers, director(s) and producer(s) is:
I admire your ability to get paid for this.
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[–] dogsoldier_spoon-1 13 years ago

their minotaur is simply just a huge bull, if I'm not mistaken. I don't remember a lot of the film (though it was more entertaining than this one for example)