michael shanks
This sounds like it's going to be really awful but why is Shanks doing this film?
I hope it's good.
Blain: If you loose yourself here, you're entering a world of hurt.
Also noticed JR Bourne the guy who played Martouf in SG-1 is also going to be in the film.
To answer your question probably a quick payday for Shanks and he is probably in a role that he will be familiar with from Stargate.
I'm watching because of MS, he's so pretty
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Dr. Wilson: I am not on any anti-depressants, I'm on speed!
why Shanks doing this? who caree why Shannen Doherty who is legend and superstar do this movie!
shareI thought this was Shanks' best Sci-Fi Channel movie outing. It also makes me wonder if he's fulfilling a contract with Sci-Fi.
shareI just saw this movie. You may be right about his fulfilling a contract. Either that or he lost a bet; drew the short straw; perhaps blackmail.
Shanks does make this one of Sci-Fi Channel's better offerings. However, that bar isn't very high.
Once again, the writers for the Sci-Fi Channel Original Movies got so original that they made a complete mish-mosh of the Aztecs and their culture and mythology.
• Half the "artifacts" looked more Mayan then Aztec; especially that stone "Key".
• If they can't hire extras even near the right racial group, at minimum they could have sprung for some body paint for the people they did hire. I've not seen such pale natives in decades! — Especially for desert-dwellers. And flip-flops? Are they serious?
• I'd always thought that one of the purposes of CGI was to give movie-makers a range of monsters above and beyond the man-in-the-rubber-suit level. Their version of Quetzelcoatl was a joke! He was a feathered serpent, not some lizard-man with bat-wings!
• Human sacrifice? That, too, was Mayan, NOT Aztec!
• And the dagger that Thain's (Shank's character) father attributed to Pizzaro? Pizzaro conquered the Incas. Cortés conquered the Aztecs.
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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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Wow, I actually just learned something while hanging out on this board! You sure know your Aztec history, and I consider myself enlightened :-)
I really wasn't all that surprised that the movie was pretty cheesy, and for the greater part I didn't care... mostly because I was only watching it for Michael :-) But that flying dragon-person-thingy really was pushing the limits of cheesy... and was it really killing people by vomiting on them? On second thought though, that might have been... um, some other bodily fluids ;-)
But, seriously, I hadn't realised that they got so many of the facts wrong! I thought the flipflops were funny, but all those other details... That's just bad research, really. And there'll always be people out there who will pick up on those mistakes -- maybe they should have asked you for some help, Frumious_Bandersnatch_46!!
Kind of you to say so, vividDreams.
I surprised myself at how much I remembered about the ancient peoples of the New World after so many, many years out of school. I may have been inspired (make that "spurred") to remember it correctly when I saw that they'd got so much of it just plain wrong.
Yes. Most "Sci-Fi Channel Original Movies" are far and away too Original for my taste. I've found most of them to be at the quelle fromage level of cheesiness. But someone else in the household likes them; so I just sit through them - then I come to these boards to vent.
Did you like Michael looking at all the lit torches in the cave and saying, "We may be the first humans to set foot here in hundreds of years!"? How he managed to say that with a straight face, I'll never know. That had to be the funniest bit in the movie - until I saw the natives wearing flip-flops.
And how about Shannen Doherty's outfit getting skimpier and skimpier as the movie progressed? Most inappropriate for a lady of her station in that era.
was it really killing people by vomiting on them?I'd thought that the low-budget Quetzelcoatl-substitute was supposed to be spraying venom on its victims, like a spitting cobra.
All the evidence I've gathered - over more years of watching television than I care to admit to - tends to indicate that (American) television wants it fast and they want it cheap. They don't care about art; they don't care about wit; and they certainly don't care about historical accuracy.
I can hear the writers at their story meeting now:
Do we have Quetzelcoatl attack before or after General Grant rescues Marie Antoinette and Helen of Troy from the Spanish Inquisition?
- And when do you want to bring in the kangaroos? By the way, the songwriter is almost finished with their song, "Send in the 'Roos".
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