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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Expensive Cameras in Checked Luggage | Main | AP Article About Me » September 22, 2006Friday Squid Blogging: "Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep"A SciFi Channel movie, premiering tomorrow night. Boy, does it look bad. Posted on September 22, 2006 at 2:07 PM • 16 Comments • View Blog Reactions To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. Yes Bruce, its bad. Let's try to raise the game a bit. Posted by: Not a Squid at September 22, 2006 3:43 PM The question isn't, "Is it bad?"... it's... "Is it bad enough to be entertaining anyway?" Posted by: Pat Cahalan at September 22, 2006 4:33 PM Not that I don't read them, but what's the reason behind the squid blogging? Some inside joke? Cephalapodophilia? Posted by: curious at September 22, 2006 5:47 PM I, for one, welcome our new bad-science-fiction-film overlords. Posted by: Quine at September 22, 2006 5:53 PM Regardless of topic, original Sci-Fi movies are always bad, and unfortunately, not bad enough to be entertaining. Good sleeping aide though. Posted by: Lars at September 22, 2006 5:55 PM "The Kraken Wakes" by John Wyndham comes to mind - no 'undersea treasure' in that though. Posted by: stuartd at September 22, 2006 6:09 PM I wonder sometimes... How can a channel that can fund and promote great series like the reincarnation of Battelstar Galactica do so poorly with movies? Was HBO this bad in the beginning? Posted by: Steven at September 25, 2006 12:09 AM Don't miss the point, these movies are intended to be bad! I'm reminded of a wired article I read some time ago. Posted by: Cole at September 25, 2006 12:33 AM @Cole Ah! Thanks. It is still sad that they want to produce low budget horror flicks. However, perhaps it isn't so bad. They could be producing low budget sci-fi flicks and then we'd be in real trouble. :) Posted by: Steven at September 25, 2006 10:28 AM Lars said: While mostly true, Painkiller Jane was not too bad (although the ending was a bit predictable), and Mammoth was actually very entertaining. It poked fun at a lot of other SciFi, and didn't take itself or the genre too seriously. Posted by: AndrewS at September 25, 2006 1:07 PM @Lars: Really? Perhaps you're just trolling, but I'll take the bait. Here's a few randomly selected original screenplay sci-fi movies. Maybe they're not all favourites of yours, but they share quite a few awards between them: Posted by: Roger at September 25, 2006 9:21 PM @Roger: When Lars said "original Sci-Fi movies", I think he meant original (i.e., made-for-cable, not recycled from theaters) movies produced by the Sci-Fi Channel, not sci-fi movies with original scripts. Posted by: j at September 26, 2006 5:37 AM There are notable exceptions (http://www.scifi.com/dune_2k/) and that one with Bruce Campbell was right up his alley, but mostly too bad to endure. Posted by: Matthew Gress at September 29, 2006 11:06 AM Post a comment
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