# Why are most Sci-fi Chanel movies crap? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475 "2005-11-23T20:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/41 "2005-11-25T20:48:24Z")
What I like about the sci-fi channel is I can turn it on and read my book without missing anything.If I try that on Cinemax,say,I might miss a good monster or shower scene ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/42 "2005-11-25T23:39:43Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Simple incompetence is not adequate to explain it; they must have people rarely skilled at purposely making things shitty on the payroll. My god, what eloquence, man! I have uses for this quote daily. Where would you like the royalty check sent? -rainy Oh yeah, and right on the money in this situation too. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/43 "2005-11-25T23:55:59Z")
Pay it forward friend, pay it forward. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/44 "2005-11-26T03:30:17Z")
> [@priapus](#): > > What I like about the sci-fi channel is I can turn it on and read my book without missing anything. Of course, a lava lamp offers the same advantage. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/45 "2005-11-26T04:04:11Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What is the Sci-Fi Channel’s parent company? Does anybody know? NBC Universal. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/46 "2005-11-27T08:01:07Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > But not those godawful Sc-iFi Channel movies. Sweet lord, it’s hard to imagine how they managed to make stuff so bad. Simple incompetence is not adequate to explain it; they must have people rarely skilled at purposely making things shitty on the payroll. Hell, they’re not even making original crap. I watched some of “Manitcore” tonight while working and there’s was one scene that was a complete rip-off of the dropship crash in Aliens. But then again, an earlier film about a dragon had a number of scenes that reminded me a lot of Alien. Actually, I’m almost wondering anyone has tried to sue these people from plagerism. If I were James Cameron, I’d be tempted to sue the manticore people. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/47 "2005-11-27T11:56:26Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > A number of TV networks have gone away from what their names originally stated. Most of the films on AMC aren’t classics, you won’t really learn much from TLC, and Cartoon Network has started to show movies that aren’t animated. Not animated shows on Cartoon Network? Pray tell what are they? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/48 "2005-11-27T14:13:52Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Not animated shows on Cartoon Network? > > Pray tell what are they? They recently showed the 1989 Batman. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/49 "2005-11-27T14:46:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Sturgeon’s Law in action. 90% of Sci-Fi Original Movies are crap, because 90% of everything is crap. Interestingly, by its own definition, 90% of Sturgeon’s Law should be crap, which would seem to imply that only 9% of everything else is in fact crap. Conversely, Sturgeon’s Law only accounts for 90% of actual, physical crap, paradoxically leaving 10% of all fecal material in the category of non-crap. I’m no logician, but it seems like Sturgeon’s Law desperately needs to be amended by someone better versed in Set Theory. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/50 "2005-11-27T18:13:20Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > To me, it seems that the people who run the Sci-Fi channel don’t know much about sf/fantasy, and don’t care. They just want to turn out the cheapest, sleaziest, easiest product they can get away with. They have no pride in their product, and it shows. Heck, they sometimes show such science fiction classics as Cape Fear and Braveheart! Marc ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/51 "2005-11-27T18:45:33Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > Heck, they sometimes show such science fiction classics as Cape Fear and Braveheart! > > Marc You have to admit, Braveheart DOES belong in the “fiction” category. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/52 "2005-11-27T19:33:47Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > You have to admit, Braveheart DOES belong in the “fiction” category. Well, I’d rather watch Braveheart then “Anacoda vs. Boa vs. Raptors vs. giant insect” movie of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/53 "2005-11-27T21:37:59Z")
You know, I just thought of two more reasons why I like the Sci-Fi Channel: The huge-ass four-hour cut of David Lynch’s **Dune** (The Alan Smithee version). Maybe the 20 minute introduction wasn’t _totally_ necessary, at least not for fans, but I got into it. The extended version of **Army of Darkness**. I liked this version better than the Fistful of Boomstick cut in my DVD collection. It had the extended scenes _and_ the “Good . . . bad . . . I’m the guy with the gun.” quote, which was missing from the Boomstick cut. The only thing I can’t figure out is why they bleeped out the “Good Ash, bad Ash” dialogue. It’s not like anyone was going to mistake his name for anything else. :rolleyes: So yeah, I’ll put up with a lot. But man, Bruce Campbell will star in _anything_!! Get some standards, guy! You’re turning into the Bruce Willis of the Science Fiction world!! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/54 "2005-11-28T00:28:06Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > You know, I just thought of two more reasons why I like the Sci-Fi Channel: > > The huge-ass four-hour cut of David Lynch’s **Dune** (The Alan Smithee version). Maybe the 20 minute introduction wasn’t _totally_ necessary, at least not for fans, but I got into it. > > The extended version of **Army of Darkness**. I liked this version better than the Fistful of Boomstick cut in my DVD collection. It had the extended scenes _and_ the “Good . . . bad . . . I’m the guy with the gun.” quote, which was missing from the Boomstick cut. The only thing I can’t figure out is why they bleeped out the “Good Ash, bad Ash” dialogue. It’s not like anyone was going to mistake his name for anything else. :rolleyes: You know, I think we must have been seperated at birth or something because I feel exactly the same way. The intro to the Alan Smithee Dune is what got me interested in the series in the first place. And I taped the Sci-fi Army of Darkness because that is my favorite cut of them all. I’m sorry I bought the boomstick DVD now, because it sucks in comparison. Bootleg edition. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/55 "2005-11-28T00:29:29Z")
Sorry, that should have been “I’m sorry I have the “Bootleg” directors cut” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/56 "2005-11-28T02:36:13Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Not animated shows on Cartoon Network? > > Pray tell what are they? Cartoon Network has shown some live-action films this past month, including _Batman_, _Honey, I Shrunk the Kids_, and _The Goonies_. (They have also shown _Osmosis Jones_, _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_, and _Small Soldiers_, but these are live-action/animation mixes.) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475/57 "2005-11-28T03:34:33Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Well, I’d rather watch Braveheart then “Anacoda vs. Boa vs. Raptors vs. giant insect” movie of the week. You, sir, are not a true SF fan! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-sci-fi-chanel-movies-crap/332475.md?page=2)