"Tin Man"

[mapsedge]

Someday, the Sci-Fi channel will surprise me.  No, someday they'll shock me and produce an original movie that doesn't suck gallons of sewer water from the first frame. 

Plenty of nerve, but no heart and no brain.  A few yellow bricks short of a road.  A few munchkins short*.    Dialog a mauseating mix of modern corporate jargon  ("we were tasked with...") and archaic cliché ("I know not.")...often in the same sentence.**

Flying monkey tits...or whatever they were...puh-lease. 

Sci-Fi producers: STOP HIRING YOUR WRITERS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE NINTH GRADE.

* Double points for that one.  Hee.
** "Merlin" suffered from that, too.  It also suffered from Miranda Richardson, who was absent from "Tin Man", the mini-series' only saving grace.

Comments

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.. Bill, since I absolutely have trust in your opinion of what constitutes as crap, I'll run with it. I did check out their website... sort of like looking at a Myspace page of too much glam. Just more motivation to write my own version of the Oz stories, but sticking more with the what Baum meant. And if they're going to use "I know not who..." they could have at least made it proper. "I know not whom..." Yeah, ever since I read the reviews of Flash Gordon, and found out they offer WRESTLING for Gods sake, I'm glad I don't have sci-fi.