Three hunters are walking through the field with their quarry thrown over their backs.  One states, "I love hunting, the kill.  Makes you feel top of the food chain."  At this point a huge pterodactyl swoops out of the sky and bites one of the men in half and kills the other two.  A college professor on a field trip with a few members of his class, including, of course, the ubiquitous buxom blondes that always trip while running from danger are attacked and lost several of their classmates.  A small band of American army special forces are in the woods capturing a terrorist end up saving the college group when they attacked by the terrorists and by a dozen or so pterodactyls.

On this blog, I've torn up the SciFi Channel for their total ineptness presenting us with a movie that is worth watching.  (See Alien Apocalypse and Alien Express.)  Previous movies were presented with very poor special effects. This movie was well worth watching.

We are so used to seeing aliens on the big screen with full high-quality surround sound, multi-million dollar budgets and paying $7, that we forget that an alien movie we see for free, designed for the small TV screen, a couple of 6" built-in speakers, and a budget of a couple hundred thousand, just won't have the same quality of effects.

At no point in history has there ever been pterodactyls that looked life-like.  Pterodactyls, and most dinosaurs in general, are poorly rendered in movies, with the exception of the Jurassic Park series.  But even in those movies, pterodactyls looked wrong.  So I was able to watch this movie without the expectation of well designed dinosaur birds.  I expected the effects to be bad, and am happily surprised that they aren't actually horrible.  A few scenes are hokey and cheesy, but only a few.

I expect real pterodactyls to be far more bat-like, than are ever put forth in movies.  That would make them believable, and very hard to animate.  In this movie, we find out that they are a lot like spiders and bees, in that they collect food and put it with the eggs, so that the babies will have something to eat when they hatch.  This is why the pterodactyls are attacking the people and dropping them in the nest full of eggs and newborns.

I spoke too soon.  Looks like SciFi ran out of budget for the last 30 minutes.  The worst effects scene?  A guy crossing a rope hand over hand.  I mean, how expensive is that to film?

Similar to the premise of Battlestar Galactica and several other movies, man created robots to make out lives easier.  The robots gain sentience and decide that all of mankind has to die, so a great war breaks out to wipe mankind from the earth.  On the last day of the war, a human form android, model Omega Doom, gets a bullet in the brain pan that scrambles it's program.  The droid can no longer recall it's directives to destroy mankind.  In the distance, someone dropped the bomb that casts the world into nuclear winter.

With no more humans to kill, the robots start to battling amongst themselves, clan vs. clan.  Omega Doom stumbles into a neighborhood where two clans are in search of a weapons cache.  Rumor has it that the humans are gathering forces to come kill all of the robots, and the advanced weapons will be far better suited to defense, and the eradication of the final numbers of humans, and the other clans.

This is a pretty good movie to put on while you are cleaning house, or taking a nap, or basically anything that doesn't require you actually watching the TV screen.  It has the occasional interesting point that you can look up and glance at the screen to enjoy the scene.  One character worth watching is the robot that is kicking around the other robot head as a soccer ball.  The whole character is enjoyable, along with that of the soccer ball.

Laundry.  I was doing laundry.

The story of Susanna is told flashing back and forth between thoughts and times, in order for the view to appreciate the fractured thoughts going on through her mind.  Susanna attempts suicide with a bottle of aspirin followed with a bottle of vodka and later explains that she had a headache.

The attempt ended her up in a mental institution trying to put her mind back together.  She meets and befriends several other patients each who make an impression on her.  How much of their problems will she take into herself?

It's a very long, drawn out movie, and I found it very difficult to sit through.  But then again, I'm much more of a blow things up type person.  It's defiantly a movie you have to sit and watch because a lot of the story is told visually instead of through dialog.

When I first saw the commercial for the SciFi Original Movie, Alien Express, I was intrigued by how they were going to write aliens onto a train.  Did the aliens attack the train?  Was the train carrying an alien egg or something and it hatch?  How in the world, err, universe, did an alien get on a train?

Alright, so, I'm OK with it.  A car waiting at a railroad crossing gets hit by a large meteorite when the train was approaching.  The train screeches to a fast halt to help.  As often happens with meteorites which turns out to be an alien egg, it hatches.  The baby alien goes to hide in the train eating a conductor on the way.  Baby aliens come out of eggs with full spiky teeth and an appetite and pregnant.

This alien is one bad dude, err, gal.  A hyperactive, super-fast, cloaking alien that spits green pasty acid and has a nervous disorder and bad disposition is on a presidential campaign train eating everyone, starting with the presidential candidate.  The alien was born pregnant and laid eggs within the dead bodies, so now there is the mother and 3 babies to contend with.

The alien eats the conductors on this high-speed train and the safety "dead man's switch" doesn't engage, so it's running along the same track at 75 miles an hour with a freight train ahead going 35.  Not only do you have 4 mean, hungry aliens, but you have a runaway train with 58 minutes left

Oops.  More eggs, more baby aliens.  Oh and more bad news.  ("Gina, I think you've used up all your bad news for the day.")  The freight train ahead is hauling nuclear waste!!  I had to laugh out loud.  Oops, more eggs hatching.  Makes for a really rough day fighting something that is born pregnant and has a 5 minute gestation period.

The tide turns when they realize the aliens have methane blood, which is flammable.

As I've said before, SciFi does some really lousy "SciFi Original Movies" IF you expect them to be serious.  While some of them are pretty good movies, with a noticeable lack of budget, some of them are just bad.  The special effects in this movie are along the lines of the original Godzilla movie and the plot is half really bad, and half almost satirical.

While I expected to see the little hint at the last scene that everything isn't over, I didn't expect to see another half-dozen meteors heading to earth.

Sad.  Really Sad.  See it with popcorn and tequila wouldn't hurt.