In trying to avoid cluttering the Main Page with all one subject, even one so close to my heart as movies and shows, I post a lot of my movie reviews in it's own category and not on the Main Page.  Some of the more recent movies posted are:

Mafia! -- September 3
Omega Doom -- August 27
Girl, Interrupted -- August 14
Top Secret! -- July 11

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?

A defendant in a lawsuit involving large sums of money was talking to his lawyer.

"If I lose this case, I'll be ruined."

"It's in the judge's hands now," said the lawyer.

"Would it help if I sent the judge a box of cigars?"

"Oh no! This judge is a stickler or ethical behavior. A stunt like that would prejudice him against you. He might even hold you in contempt of court. In fact, you shouldn't even smile at the judge."

Within the course of time, the judge rendered a decision in favor of the  defendant. As the defendant left the courthouse, he said to his lawyer, "Thanks for  the tip about the cigars. It worked!"

"I'm sure we would have lost the case if you'd sent them."

"But, I did send them."

"What? You did?" said the lawyer, incredulously.

"Yes. That's how we won the case."

"I don't understand," said the lawyer.

"It's easy. I sent the cigars to the judge, but enclosed the plaintiff's business card." 

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.

Three handsome male dogs are walking down the street when they see a beautiful, enticing, female Poodle. The three male dogs fall all over themselves in an effort to be the one to reach her first, but end up arriving in front of her at the same time. The males are speechless before her beauty, slobbering on themselves and hoping for just a glance from her in return.

Aware of her charms and her obvious effect on the three suitors, she decides to be kind and tells them, “The first one who can use the words 'liver' and 'cheese' together in an imaginative, intelligent sentence can go out with me.”

The sturdy, muscular black Lab speaks up quickly and says “I love liver and cheese.”

“Oh, how childish,” said the Poodle. “That shows no imagination or intelligence whatsoever.”

She turned to the tall, shiny Golden Retriever and said “How well can you do?”

“Ummmm...I HATE liver and cheese,” blurts the Golden Retriever.

“My, my,” said the Poodle. “I guess it’s hopeless. That’s just as dumb as the Lab’s sentence.”

She then turns to the last of the three dogs and says, “How about you, little guy?”

The last of the three, tiny in stature but big in finesse, is a chihuahua. He gives her a smile, a sly wink, turns to the Golden Retriever and the Lab and says...

“Liver alone. Cheese mine.”