Topic: D&D Wraith of the Dragon God

Personally I preferred the girlfirend (or is it wife?) of the group's leader.
Posh totty. But not when she's undead and rotting.
To be honest I found the badness of this film somewhat entertaining. I'm just disapointed we didn't get to see anyone actually roll a 20-sided dice, or refer to their +2 mace.

"I'm just disapointed we didn't get to see anyone actually roll a 20-sided dice, or refer to their +2 mace."
That could have helped it. So could have some classic D&D monsters like Bugbears or something. They had some weird creatures, a Lich that looked like a guy with a cheap rubber mask from the shop at the mall, and a very poorly rendered CGI undead dragon.
If you are going to make a Campy B movie, have fun with it, don't try to take it seriously, and don't act like you expect an Oscar. This movie was missing the Fun factor for me.

It was a Sci-Fi original movie.

Thus, unless it was Mastodon, it:

1) would brim over with teh suckness.
2) take itself too seriously.

Mastodon, however, embraced its hilarity. An alien creature possessing and reanimating a Mastodon and turning it into an undead, flesh eating wrecking machine? AND Tom Skerrit larfing his arse off for thirty seconds of screen time for it? Teh win.

Have there ever been anything from The Sci Fi Channel - other than BSG - that was actually worth watching? The Mastodon thing - I think the guys at the Sci Fi Channel really need to stop smoking crack.

I like Stargate and Eureka myself. All there movies, suck. They need to watch Army of Darkness and take some notes.

Have there ever been anything from The Sci Fi Channel - other than BSG - that was actually worth watching? The Mastodon thing - I think the guys at the Sci Fi Channel really need to stop smoking crack.

Eureka. Doctor Who (but that's an import). Stargate Atlantis. FarScape. Invisible Man.

And the Sci-Fi "originals" are really cheap stuff that SF snags up that haven't even made the jump to video.

Have there ever been anything from The Sci Fi Channel - other than BSG - that was actually worth watching? The Mastodon thing - I think the guys at the Sci Fi Channel really need to stop smoking crack.

I rather liked MST3K. Though I think that started on a different channel and Sci-fi took it over. In fact, the D&D films (both of them) are of suitable quality to feature on that show.
I heard a tale that the reason the Sci-fi channel didn't pick up the Legends of the Rangers spin off from Babylon 5 is that they claimed 'no-one wants sci-fi set on space ships'.
Most of the films they broadcast in the UK are very much of the midday medicore movie matinee quality usually involving various natural disasters (thats earthquakes and volcanoes etc, not just the films themselves). And they are repeated often, D&D2 has been on three times in the last four days.

I love BSG but "Eureka" is too liberal for me. Farscape is my "stop-everything-and-watch" favorite. Was it a Sci Fi Channel original or an import? I think its an Aussie import but I'm not sure...

I know I border on lameness (and its not a Sci-FI Channel original) but I also liked Star Trek Enterprise too because of the MACO's (Marines on board the Enterprise) and the fact that the weapons actually looked like weapons instead of TV remotes. In one episode during a firefight in a loading dock an Enterprise Marine popped up a sniper scope recessed into the carbine frame, took out a badguy then the scope returned to its recess and the Marine returned to more CQB goodness. I thought it was a good show but from what I read hard core Trek turds didn't like it for many reasons one of which was the more military / more macho element to it than the pansy-ass, PC versions that preceded it. The green dancing girls were cool too as was that Vulcan chick in the grey Body Glove.

They also made those gripes about the other shows.

Unless it's select episodes with Shatner, Nimoy and Kelly, and even then, not ALL of the original TOS, a lot of people aren't happy.

Me, I was glad when Worf got to bludgeon, shoot and kill goram enemies on DS9.

The attack on the bridge of the station where Kira yanks a Klingon dagger out of her own side, then jams it into the turtle-head who stabbed her with it, was one of my favorite Trek moments.

I could even read Worf's mind at that point. "Wow, she's cute AND she can share!"

Ya but have the time DS9 played like a damned soap opera.

I found Enterprise entertaining for the same reason Sarge did. I've watched the others seasons and could care less about "continuity" errors in Enterprise, it was fun.

I really didn't mind the "soap opera" elements.

I mean, it was great to finally have some honest relationship issues and physical attraction after seven years of bland "Star Trek The No-sex Generation."

Plus, one episode had a wonderful "double butt shot" of Kira and Dax, their spandex covered, perfect heinies poking out from under a counter with O'Brien gazing on at double perfection.

Farscape wasn't a Sci-Fi original... I don't think. And I liked it a lot too. Claudi Black? Was that her name? The raven haired arse kicking goddess that had a small roll in the movie Pitch Black... she was hypnotic.

Yeah it was Claudia Black. She is also in a few of the later StarGate:SG1 episodes.

Claudia Black... mmm. My moment of Zen for today.

And Gigi Edgeley and Virginia Hey. The only non-hotties out of the Farscape girl cast were the old crone and Jool. Something about her... but Scorpio's psycho crab girlfriend... yowza.

I concur on Claudia Black and Gigi Edgley. Claudia was also in Pitch Black but, sadly, her part was over rather quickly.

Farscape wasn't a Sci-Fi original... I don't think. And I liked it a lot too. Claudi Black? Was that her name? The raven haired arse kicking goddess that had a small roll in the movie Pitch Black... she was hypnotic.

That's what I get for not reading every reply. George, is there an edit button?

I concur on Claudia Black and Gigi Edgley. Claudia was also in Pitch Black but, sadly, her part was over rather quickly.

But she had a really cool monster kill scene, at least. It's a shame, but then, little miss blond chickie "virtuous heroine" didn't survive that flick either.

I'm working on the edit issue...

I stopped watching Star Trek when Babylon 5 came out.