I was clicking through netflix and I came across the following description for a movie called "Mammoth." Here it is: A defrosted 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth goes on a rampage after a meteor smashes into a town museum and revives the prehistoric creature. Federal agents must team up with museum curator Frank Abernathy (Vincent Ventresca) in an effort to control the beast. With his B-movie aficionado father (Tom Skerritt) pitching in, Abernathy must act fast in order to save the town. Summer Glau co-stars in this action-packed sci-fi adventure. Now, this is what you call your classic "sci fi channel" movie.
I don't want to completely knock the sci fi channel, because they're actually doing some decent stuff in the series department and even occasionally (I have to think just by pure chance) they'll even acquire a decent original movie to show like Dog Soldiers.
But for the most part, their "original" movies are all pretty much like this. All you have to do is read a description and you know that you're dealing with pure, utter, absolute ***. This thing above does what you should pretty much never do in any movie, but which you definitely shouldn't do in a science fiction film which is to *multiply your premises.* You've got a woolly mammoth that's apparently in sufficiently good state to be brought back to life in a "town museum" that in itself is pretty close to the edge of being as unlikely as anything possibly could be. So now we have to find a way to bring this thing back to life. Well, hmm? How to do it? Right how about if a METEOR crashes into the museum something which (that is, a meteor hitting a museum) has never happened in the history of the world. Because, as we all know, what has more proven life-restoring qualities than having a white hot rock crash into you at Mach 25? You might think that this is just a problem with this particular movie. But it isn't. The sci-fi channel seems to love exactly this kind of goofy premise-multiplication. Whoever is in charge of this endless string of movie turds almost seems to revel in stacking up absurdities higher and higher until the movies tumble down into heaps of chuckle-inducing inanity. Maybe that's the point. Maybe we're just supposed to laugh at these things that they set out to make things that are just "so bad that they're good." The trouble is, they're really just "so bad." I mean, I grew up on fifties monster movies, so I have nothing against up-dated versions of that kind of movie. It can be done competently. Dog Soldiers was a well-done modern werewolf movie. But what we get is just an endless stream of stuff like this.
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