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lowbudgetfun writes "NYTimes.com is reporting on the Sci-Fi channel's huge investment (28 films for $21 million) for original B movies. Includes quotes from B Movie hero, Bruce Campbell." I especially liked this line from the article: "Shot on budgets ranging from $1 million to $2 million, Sci Fi's movies are made in money-saving locales like Bulgaria, Romania and Missouri."
I know it's a crappy place to live, but comparing us to Bulgaria? Thats a little harsh.
It's the perfect place to shoot a remake of, "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
Great we can get new episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000
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Although Mansquito was awesome in its sheer stupity.
No, Mansquito was awesome due to the offalistic explosion of awfulness that inhabited the plot and burst out at random intervals.
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Watch out for the mansquitoes.
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Hello lowbudget ... although the article matybe is interesting (as for the news is) i kinda don't like attitude. What is the funny thing about bulgaria. I LIVE here and i am proud. I have net and probably win more money compared to our standards than you. What makes you think you are better than me.
I don't intend this to be flame ... but i feel outraged
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More fodder in the SciFi(TM) tradition. Bound to be plenty of scantily clad women dressed in leather, ken dolls with lots of firepower and very little to say, conspiracy theories about alien abductions, aliens taking over people's bodies, lots of slime, arcade game quality special effects, laughable technobabble, blood and gore. And to think that by not shelling out $60 (or more!) a month, I won't be seeing any of it!
P.S. Heard that this new Battlestar Galactica show was really good, but something about fuzzy robots, people wearing tight clothing and helmet-like hairstyles, and Lorne Green just stopped me from tuning in. That, and the thought of someone updating that stuff for the new millenium (the way they usually do) just made me wanna hurl.
Bulgaria and Romania is joining the European Union in a couple of years. We might consider to accept Missouri as well if you will behave and make some progress...
' I'm getting the poo from a 1 million Genetically modified monkeys on typewriters thrown at me with these movies '
But since it is Scifi Channel, you know it is good glowing digital poo!
' To this say I miss 'The Invisible Man' the series. I donno if they ran out of money or budget '
I can just hear it now: "Guess what? Yeah, they cancelled our project. It turns out that they were so cheap that a show with a guy who isn't there that you never see was too expensive for those skinflints. Hey! Do you think our pilot for "Inside the Black Hole" might go?"
Where were you when the voynix came?
Well, my idea is to combine two Steven Spielberg movies: dinosaurs attacking and killing humans (Jurassic Park) with aliens attacking and killing humans (War of the Worlds). See, there are these dinosaurs who have been hanging out in the Amazon and now they've gotten pissed off about the destruction of the rainforest and they're gonna take over. But just as they go on the rampage, alien robots come down from space, and they want to take over the planet too!
So the dinosaurs and aliens start fighting, but then decide that's pointless. They decide to settle their differences with a contest: a kill-a-thon. Whoever can kill more humans during 24 hrs. of carnage and rampage can rule the entire planet. Dinosaurs plus robots? It's like Spielberg, squared... minus his directing ability of course. There are two running body counts on the screen, one for dinosaurs and one for robots.
Title: "DINOSAURS VS. ROBOTS"
Budget: 2 million.
Plus, I already have a concept for the sequel: it's called "DINOSAURS VS. ROBOTS... VS. ZOMBIES!".
We didn't have enough Tremors movies.
They should have just hired the slashdot editors. They have proven before that they are capable of remaking articles for next to nothing.
I think they made a big mistake cancelling "Black Scorpion".. That was a great show... GSG
Could someone explain how they can make 28 movies at a cost of $1-2 million a piece for $21 million. They must have some impressive accountants or something.