They must have deliberately made this movie this bad. I don't expect much, if anything, from the Syfy B movie of the week, but, this is epically stupid. The CGI "bigfoot" looks like they, or someone else, intended to make some kind of monster gorilla movie.
shareYes all these Sci Fi monster movies are intentionally bad. It's called Camp. It's a style of movie.You'll have to look up what it means. I don't have time to explain.
shareThis wasn't camp. This was pure *beep* The old Batman shows were camp and thus funny as hell. This wasn't funny at all. It would have been funny if some of these has been actors were able to deliver this *beep* dialogue without sounding like they believed they were in a real movie.
shareYes, this was Camp. Duh.. Did you even watch it? How old are you anyway?
shareI disagree. They didn't play this up enough to be camp. I was looking for this to be a campy movie that I could enjoy on "bad movie night." Instead, it was sad, not fun.
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Do you really not understand the difference between "camp" and "actors mugging to the camera"? Simply put, the humor in camp comes from absurd and ridiculous plot/sets/effects/costumes/script/direction/ect. which is further augmented by the actors taking all this ludicrous claptrap %100 SERIOUSLY, and playing their roles pretending as if they expect to win a Oscar for their performance. That's where the humor and appeal in these movies lies, and everyone involved knows it. It's a very facetious, self-aware filmmaking style.
Sheesh, why am I even explaining this? You wanted the actors to grin and wink at you or something to let you know "see, this is funny, right?" Stick to Mystery Science Theater 3000 or anything with a laugh track, they'll tell you when the funny stuff happens, no sense of humor of your own required.
This just comes down to a difference of opinion about nuances of "camp." So some of us here disagree on this movie. So what? You're perfectly free to believe it is camp and love it for that. Just because others don't agree doesn't mean they have no understanding of camp at all. There are other movies we would ALL call camp.
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Camp or not, the movie is crap.
shareExcellently worded, Terminal. As you say, for one, actors; we're talking Barry Williams, Danny B, Sherilyn, Hessman? Am I the only one online old enough to remember these people and know, they are NOT actors. Effects? Yep, more craptacular SyFy CGI. plot/script...some of Williams speeches could have been given at the UN during an Agenda 21 hearing. And it had Alice Cooper...which for me makes it a winner regardless, but COME ON. Not everything camp is defined by Bruce Campbell's presence. And, yeah, also agree with you on MST3000, and to a lesser extent Rifftraxs.
shareNo, Sharktopus was camp. It was bad, but fun.
This isn't camp, this is just bad.
"Rock is dead! Long live Paper and Scissors!"
Eh, watched it while goofing off online. It's Asylum, who aren't known for quality movies. I don''t think it was camp, ie Adam West Batman, but I doubt anyone was working especially hard on making a quality movie.
shareIt's not camp, it's The Asylum. More of grade Z than anything else.
I'm just a guy that likes horror flicks.
The Asylum is pretty much camp.
That's why they had things like Barry Williams saying "I played ball in the house!" all seriously and whatnot.
Well, yes and no. That Thor movie they made was not camp, it was just bad.
I'm just a guy that likes horror flicks.
This is the same channel that gave us Firefly and Battlestar Galactica and Farscape.
They had to have meant this as camp, just like Rock Monster, and the one with the World War Two female bomber pilots battling the dinosaurs, and on and on and on...
Fox did Firefly. Every single Scifi channel made is pure crap.
Some of the shows are good, but the Tremors show wasn't that great. Neither was what little I saw of Stargate Universe. Warehouse 13 is pretty weak - not a bad concept but yeah it's like a bad Xfiles.
It's the channel that gives us wrestling. Not even guys dressed in sci fi get up to at least pretend it's sci fi related. How many reality shows do they make?
Just because sci fi has done a few good shows doesn't mean they aren't willing to make crap. This was not done ironically, it was done without any care other then to fill up the weekend lineup with something new and crappy.
Dude, it's a 30-50 foot tall Bigfoot (seems to change throughout the movie) whose primary method of attack is a field goal style kick, and his backups are biting peoples heads off and stomping. Seriously, the first time I saw ridiculously giant Bigfoot punt somebody into the horizon, I laughed for an inappropriate amount of time. I agree that the acting wasn't Adam West "Batman" level campy, and was actually quite bad, but the idea and image of this HUGE Bigfoot's main attack is getting a running start and kicking somebody off into the distance, or biting off alot of peoples heads, (and let's not forget the half-asleep crowd of 50 watching Alice Cooper get stomped to death), that is so stupid and insane, it's hilarious.
Any movie that's so *beep* retarded and deranged it's actually impressive is awesome by default. That's Dolemite's Law.
Because bigfoot isn't a monster gorilla?
shareSyFy movies are awesome if you watch them correctly. Have some friends over, add alcohol or "glaucoma medicine" and do your own MST3K treatment.
If you're watching expecting Jaws or Alien then you deserve to be disappointed.
Don't know that I'd call it camp, it's satire to me. I thought it was funny enough. Made fun of King Kong (Mount Rushmore = Empire State Building, among other things), environmentalists, polluters, PETA. Bigfoot biting heads off, not sure what connection that was making, maybe like pulling off Barbie heads, but it was mildly funny. Don't forget those 70's boy stars, "I played ball in the house..."
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