Skiffy want to Bug us!

[Selena]

I just happened to see an add for an up-coming show on skiffy - Bugs - which is supposed to air on the 6th of September ... all I could think of was that my favorite show was cancelled that day and now skiffy are going to "bug" me with some pathetic 'new' show that has taken Farscape's place. So skiffy here it is from me ...

:critter:"Don't bug me, just give me back my FarScape":bballbat:

[DesertRat]

:mad: Nothing else to say.

[Tokeya]

Selena,

Do you mind of if I borrow that phrase and sent it to skiffy on a postcard? :devil:

[AnnieBW]

Someone call the Orkin man! There's a couple of cockroaches in the Sci-Fi Channel front office! :D

[Huh]

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/4972.htm


BUGGED OUT!

By LINDA STASI
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_Print _ReprintSeptember 5, 2003 -- 'BUGS," an original movie on the Sci Fi Channel, has gone where no man has gone before: They not only kill off the black guy first, they then kill off the black guy second!

Yes, "Bugs" breaks new ground all right — usually the black guy gets mauled to death by the creature from outer space, who then proceeds eat the Hispanic soldier, the tough lesbian space-ship crew member and finally the white guys. (But not if they're the leads.)

Usually the macho lead guy and the sexy female scientist are the only ones left to tell the tale.

In this flick, however, the giant bugs, who roam a new subway system in a city you've never heard of, kill off two black guys before they even get to the Hispanic guy, the tough white woman and the Hispanic soldier. (Well, not counting the subway car full of anonymous extras of all races, who get eaten by a swarm of giant insects.)

Talk about innovative! And you thought "Lexx," which introduced the discriminating Sci Fi viewer to life among gay monks from outer space, was daring.

But who needs space monsters when you can be mauled, eaten and otherwise disposed of by giant creatures on the good ol' Earth who've grown to enormous proportions after being exposed to radiation?

In this dog of a bug movie, the tough FBI guy (Antonio Sabato Jr.) is brought in to find out why the first man got eaten in the subway.

When the characters discover giant roach hairs in the remains, he calls in a sexy entomologist (Angie Everhart), a few SWAT commandos and the engineer (R.H. Thompson) who designed the new tunnel under the direction of a zillionaire evil developer (Karl Pruner).

While down in the tunnel, they get attacked by the 10-foot-by-6-foot creatures (or creatures roughly the size of a NYC waterbug), which you can hear coming from a mile away because they sound like a rampaging swarm of Rockettes. Luckily the sexy entomologist has the world's biggest tweezers with her, in order to do some serious dissecting underground.

Who is more evil? Is it the prehistoric bugs who come to life after lying dormant for 65 million years? Or is it the evil developer who cut corners and exposed the dormant bugs to run-off from the hydroelectric plant?

Do you care?

[vhsiv]

http://www.scifi.com/onair/scifipictures/images/scifipictures_description.gif
Before there was 'Bugs', there was:

'They Nest'
'Spiders'
'Spiders 2'
'Webs'
'Arachnid'
('Pythons') - I'm assuming that this one existed)
'Pythons 2'
'Boa'
'Threshold'
'Bug Buster'
'Deadly Swarm'
'Marabunta: Terror In Burline Pines' - (Ants)
'Mosquito'


Can anyone think of any more vermin-related titles that have been 'Skiffy Original Productions'?

Granted, there were -

'Shark Attack'
'Shark Attack 2'
'Shark Attack 3: Megalodon'
'Octopus'
'Octopus 2'
'Reptilicus'
'Reptilian'
'Crocodile'
'Crocodile 2: Death Roll'

But those were water-based predators - can anyone else think of more critters? Was there ever a Skiffy movie about chiggers or tapeworms?

[Edited to update the number of derivative films found since the first post.]
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[Tiriel]

Ahhh, good old Skiffy. How very typical. Take a mildly interesting movie (Mimicry), extract the only challenging plot-line (humans randomly introducing genetically engineered organisms in an uncontrolled environment), redo it for just over a Million bugs (sic) and call it "Original" (yeah, that's with an uppercase "O", 'cause it really doesn't classify for the definition of the real word :D).

Now that's the Skiffy we have come to hate and expect :D

Love and Peace and Oh Puh-leeeeaze!

Tiriel :bounce:

[Antrobus]

Bugger off Skiffy!:whip:

[Under A Dying Sun]

i don't understand why a newspaper would review such a piece of crap direct to video movie like this.

i don't get it. are they THAT bored?

[BillFrugge]

SciLi is a dren factory...

[kymom5613]

Yeah, yeah...It's rhetorical, but.....
Are ANY of us even MILDLY surprised????
I, for one, am not remotely phased by this latest mediocre attempt at entertainment by TPTB at sciffy...
More horror than science fiction, IMHO.....
Gimme back my intelligent series!!!! PLEASE?!?!?!? With ice cream on top?????

[AnnieBW]

I'm not surprised at the turn that An-TO-nio Sabato Jr's career has taken. I guess this is what happens to aging soap opera hunks.

Next on the Sci-Fi Channel: Vampire Mosquitoes from Planet X! Giant mutant mosquitoes invade the United States, carrying an incurable disease. They're finally killed by Antonio Sabato Jr with a bottle of hair gel and a case of Avon's Skin-So-Soft. :rollin:

- Annie

[blueassbitch]

Couldn't help myself....

[SabaceanBabe]

bab: :rollin:

Hmmmm. Maybe it's time for head-to-head reviews of old skiffy programming (Farscape) and new (Bugs) to be sent to GE/NBC execs...

[Selena]

blueassbitch - absolutely fantastic ... I love it! :rollin:

Tokeya sorry I haven't been on-line for a few days of course you can use it.

[vhsiv]

I've updated my list of vermin-related 'Sci Fi Original Movies' further up the page. Something tells me that you might be hard-pressed to find reviews for most of them, though allmovie.com does contribute 'rip-off' ratings, such as the one they offered for 'Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:271203)' (2002) :A very large shark has been terrorizing the workers trying to install an underwater cable of the coast of Mexico, so a resort security diver (John Borrowman) takes it upon himself to put a stop to the killing. However, a tooth he finds is identified by researcher Cat Stone (Jenny McShane) to be from not a shark, but a prehistoric megalodon, thought to be extinct for 24 million years. With a crew of victims -- er, sailors -- they set out to hunt the beast. But little do they know, the big shark attacking their boat and eating their crewmembers are the babies, and their mother is really, really big -- and angry.

Not to spoil it for anyone, but when the monster megalodon finally emerges in the last reel of this briskly paced, utterly predictable (seen Jaws, anyone) throwaway, you have to howl at its enormity. It gulps a life raft with seven people on it, making the limb-chewing killer whites in previous movies look like guppies. The special effects are so-so, but they get the idea across. The gratuitous nudity is hilariously gratuitous, the acting is arch, and the music is stolen so blatantly from you-know-what (da-duh, da-duh) that John Williams should get a commission. That said, it's not bad for a knowingly nutty B-movie

'Shark Attack 3: Megalodon' is a ripoff of: Jaws (1975) Sounds an awful lot like the 1998 tv-adaptation of Peter Benchley's 'Creature (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:162089)' (unfortunately penned by Rockne O'Bannon) but we can't lay blame for that one at Skiffy's feet - ABC paid for that one...
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