Sat Night SyFy Movie - MyMedia-Forum.com

**Homer Noodleman** · 12-19-09, 07:27 AM

We're currently watching a series of Craptastic movies that were made in the 50s. As I pointed out in the introduction to this forum, B-Movies got their start as the opening film of a double feature. In the 1950s they moved to the drive in, and later they migrated to cable in its infancy as programmers scrambled to fill their schedules.

I hold that in the 21st Century the SyFy Channel is the current mother-lode of Craptastic films.

I've long planned on starting this thread focusing on Saturday Night SyFy fiascoes. In fact, with Lost winding down I began to toy with the idea of approaching John with the idea of doing a B-Movie forum area. As I kicked that idea around John approached me with clayseason's idea of streaming video. Thus, and appropriately i suppose, like a monster made of spare body parts, the Craptastic Cinema forum was born.

Clay and I hope to eventually grow it into a forum that deals with more B-Movies than just the one's we stream. there is also a veritable wealth of Craptastic goodness being shown on cable, and i doubt i'm the only one that hunts them down (then again... ).

At any rate, with this post the hypothetical thread was supposed to start it all has sputtered into life. If nothing else I can finally say, 'It's alive!"

Tomorrow's SyFy Channel original (that is, their 9pm EST) movie is They Call Me Bruce. It gets a 41% at rotten Tomatoes, which is probably about 30 percentage points higher then the average SyFy original gets. The story is about some teens desecrating an old Chinese graveyard and awakening some sort of a Chinese Demon that terrorizes the town (damn PUNK teens). For some reason, perhaps because it is the title of the movie, they decide to get Bruce Campbell the actor (he plays himself in the film) to battle the monster.

Sounds like a winner to me!

I'll be back either during the airing, or sometime afterwards to post comments about it. Hopefully there will be other viewers of it who toss in their two cents worth about it in this thread.

time is a river · 12-19-09, 02:59 PM

I would be so into this, but the problem is that this is the season when my life goes kablooey. I am flying out of town tomorrow ((Sunday) I hope) and have all sorts of things to do, but I will try to get them done before 9 PM. How long does the movie run? Probably 2 hours with those pesky commercials they put in.

So after that I am going to the woods where I get internet (barely) but no TV. But I really hopes this keeps going until the middle of January when I get back.

Anyway, this will definitely help me with my new goal of seeing every sci fi movie ever made. (Sort of like birdwatching, but you do it indoors.)

**Homer Noodleman** · 12-19-09, 06:56 PM

I generally DVR the movie and watch it later in the night. Depending on the sub-genre, or how awful they are, I may only watch part of them or not watch them at all.

**Vitriol** · 12-20-09, 06:08 AM

My problem is that I'm usually busy on Saturday night.

**clayseason1** · 12-20-09, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Vitriol

My problem is that I'm usually busy on Saturday night.

Well, we're not watching together like the craptastic movie of the week. You could record it and watch later or like this week's feature -- I believe you have already seen it.

Unfortunately, I fell asleep during the movie. No reflection on the movie -- I was really tired from shopping. I'm mad at myself because I did enjoy the first part of the movie. Bruce was excellent!

merry slug · 12-20-09, 01:51 PM

My problem is they're often not even good bad.

LPU · 12-20-09, 01:52 PM

I don't know. We watched the end of Alien Apocalypse last night and

**clayseason1** · 12-20-09, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by merry slug

My problem is they're often not even good bad.

I think you have to view a bad movie through the lens of the ridiculous -- i.e. it's so bad you can't stop watching and laughing (you're not supposed to be laughing) -- if it hits that mark -- then it's a craptastic movie.

What I saw of "My name is Bruce", I enjoyed and I'll probably have to see if syfi is streaming it or when it's on again. So far this movie isn't bad -- it appears to be a good movie. Yeah, I'm laughing but I'm laughing at the parts I'm supposed to laugh at.

**Homer Noodleman** · 12-20-09, 06:14 PM

They Call Me Bruce was a well done and very entertaining movie. It was a good riff on B-Movies. Bruce Campbell making fun of his movie persona was really a hoot.

Thanks to FlopForward, I was more amused by the Chinese guy dressed up like a 19th Century coolie than I probably ordinarily would have been. I had mocked the Hong Kong crowd scenes because they did the same thing with a lot of the extras in the background. It was nice ot see Bruce sending up that sort of nonsense.

Next week is Saw. I'm not a big fan of Torture Porn so I won't be watching it. And yea... some of the SyFy Saturday night movies are so bad they just become tedious rather than Craptastic. I just turn them off when that happens.

**Homer Noodleman** · 01-02-10, 08:15 PM

Tonight's movie is The Midnight Meat Train which appears to be another slasher-type film so I doubt I'll watch it.

Next week is Category 6: Day of Destruction a geography challenged disaster flick which I'll be sure to rewatch.