It coulda been a mystery movie - a real whoooodunnit!
Poor crows, they keep getting pegged as the bad guys. Owls could be the breakout stars!
And the OP has a faulty premise; SciFi channel movie were never good. 
I dunno, I thought Dune was pretty good when they did it as a miniseries. 
The Sci-Fi channel is a relatively new acquisition on cable over here. Less than 2 years old.
Sci-Fi original movies are even newer to us, as in we only started showing them about a month ago.
So far I haven’t been able to make it through one completely 
We’ve had MANTICORE and COBRA VS KOMODO so far. I couldn’t sit through either. Though it doesn’t help that they show them somewhere near midnight over here, so I’m ready for bed by then.
No, of course not. It’s just that I’m pretty sure both Eric Roberts and Corbin Bernsen pictured a different career path for themselves. In the '80s, Eric Roberts was in some pretty good movies, and Corbin Bersen was a featured actor in a hit tv show; they’ve both had pretty steady work, but not a lot of major parts since then.
Though I see that Roberts has a number of credits for upcoming movies, including The Dark Knight, so maybe he’s having a comeback. (I hadn’t heard about bad blood with his sister Julia Roberts.) And hey, he’s playing the Emperor Tiberius in an upcoming movie for the Sci-Fi Channel: Cyclops. Can’t wait.
Ooh, wait until they bring over the Nazi ones. Evil Nazi scientists create Super Nazi soldies, super Nazi dinosaurs, and I dunno what else. There are several.
These movies remind me of the cheezy Godzilla and other monster flicks coming out of Japan in the 50s and 60s. A new industry that really hasn’t figured out yet how to make decent movies – and maybe never will because their crap sells well enough as it is.
One thing I note about almost all of these movies is that they love to have lots of gory death. The creature(s) of the week are always pissed off/hungry, berserk, whatever. Dismemberment, disembowelling, and chomping is the order of the day. This afternoon it was “Savage Planet”, with mutant bears that looked just like grizzlies, on a distant world. One gal got her head swatted off as it it was a golf ball knocked from a tee. Another guy had his head squeezed between two paws, and one guy was siezed by two “bears” at the same time, and as he was being pulled apart he was pleading with the good guy to “Shoot me!” And the good guy got his foot yanked off, but it got regenerated with the stuff the scientific expedition had gone to this world to get in the first place.
As if “Raptor” and “Raptor Island” weren’t bad enough, they had to make “100 Million BC”. I’m starting to see a bad-dinosaur-movie cliche: dinosaurs are magically bulletproof. And not just assault-rifles either- the heaviest of machine guns, even a 30mm gatling cannon, are useless against those heavily armored terror lizards! Oh, and they’re supernaturally fast too. And multiton therapods can jump tens of meters in the air.
Well, sure. Just look at my storyboard.
[Displays crayon drawings of super cool dinosaurs battling X-Wing fighters]
I’ve been developing this story for almost three decades!
-Joe, 33
Now, if it was truly cool, you’d have had those dinosaurs FLYING the X-Wing fighters… and fighting the Borg
hmmm, Assimilated Dinos… (Band Name!)
You guys do realize that you’re just giving the sci fi channel new ideas?
Watch for Dino Starfighter in a month or two on Sci Fi.
I hope they hire Joe for a consultant, at least.