Ice Spiders review

Ice Spiders (2007) starring Patrick Muldoon and Vanessa Williams

Another "Most Dangerous Night" on Sci Fi Saturday with this interesting movie. I can take a lot, and I am the most tolerant movie viewer around; but this movie pushed me over the edge.

Synopsis:
Bunch of rich kids head to the mountains to practice for the Olympics at an off season resort. The resort is staffed by stereotypical wise cracking ski slackers. Just happens that next door is an abandon military base that the government is growing enlarged spiders to harvest spider web to make armor. The six spiders get loose and proceed to kill everyone, including armed guards. Our ski school hero runs one over with a snow mobile and kills another with a mounted deer head. (I guess the army should have tried that attack first.) To make a long story short, our hero gets the spiders to follow him on to the snowboard ramp where the another slacker blows them up with a avalanche cannon...


I can almost image the pitch for this movie to the studio. It had to be something like:
Writer - "First think of the movie Ski School then add in 5, no make that 6, giant spiders."
Producer - "You mean giant like the size of a house? with armor?"
Writer - "No, giant like the size of a dog."
Producer - "Are they invulnerable?"
Writer - "No, they can shoot webs like Spider man though."
Producer - "I love it."


Best Line: "We are doing this to save lives, spider silk is strong as iron. Our military needs it."

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The oldest continuously-played Dungeons & Dragons character is believed to be a 237th level magic-user named Kirin Blade. Tom Darcy started his character in 1979, and has played the game every weekend since then for an estimated total of 22,500 hours.

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Manticore - Review by DeepSeven

Manticore – (2006) staring Robert Beltran and Heather Donahue

TiVo grabbed this movie for me off Sci-Fi channel last Saturday night. I must admit, it was not half bad. The story, premise, and visuals were all done very well. I had to watch it one and a half times to really “see” the movie. I really could not understand “why” in this movie. Why did the plot develop as it did?

Here is the skinny.

We start in Iraq during the current War on Terror. A group of Iraqis decide to awake the “twins” which are the two manticores that are turn to stone by looking at each other. They do this with the help of a magic amulet. The magic amulet also allows the one person who wears it not to be killed by the manticore. One of the followers changes his mind and breaks one of the statues during the awakening ritual. This means that now the one manticore can never be stopped because the only way to kill it is to turn it to stone by looking at it’s twin. Or so they thought… Actually it wipes out an entire city of locals, and then kills off the Army guys that come in to help. Eventually, they figure out the lore of the beast and turn it to stone with a mirror. Get it? It thinks that it is seeing the twin. However the mirror breaks and they end up using a video camera with the viewscreen turned around. Boo. I will take the mirror, but a video makes it think it is seeing it’s twin? Come on.

What I do not get is the WHY. Why did this Iraqi summon a mythical beast to kill mainly his own people? He says it was summoned to free the land of Babylon of the non-believers, however it seemed to kill indiscriminately. The only person who was safe is the person wearing the amulet. When the amulet broke, he got eaten. It really seemed like a waste of a storyline. I would rather it been awoke on accident. Maybe they should have not awoke it at all and saved the money on production…

BEST LINE: “Throw the grenade before the battery dies!”