Sci-Fi's TinMan

[Celephais]

So Peam's thread prompted me to start one, anyone else see this mini-series? I watched the whole thing in one sitting a weekend ago and it was pretty good, I guess it was based on a comic, but they did a really good job of modernizing and still fitting into the basic storyline (for example what a "Tinman" is). As typical for any Sci-Fi channel special it had it's overly corny low production quality moments, but overall without a lot of expectations going into it it was enjoyable.

Having just seen wicked I seem to be inundated with all sorts of Oz references lately, it's cool to see all these re-envisions of the story.

[peam]

It was pretty, but the dialog, script, and acting were TERRIBLE, which is pretty much on par for anything Sci-Fi produces.

[Celephais]

It was pretty, but the dialog, script, and acting were TERRIBLE, which is pretty much on par for anything Sci-Fi produces.
I won't disagree that it was what I expected from Sci-Fi channel productions (short of some of the Dune mini-series which I loved), but I liked the story itself as a well conceived modernization.

The "Blackcoats" kind of pissed me off because they probably had those costumes in stock in bulk from some other movie, they were very cookiecutter "oppressive regime enforcers".

What the hell were they calling her father? I kept thinking they were looking for "a homo".

[Tsa`ah]

I didn't get to watch it, though it was on my list of "sounds interesting". I'll have to try and DL it along with Battlestar movie Razor.

[CrystalTears]

I'll have to try and DL it along with Battlestar movie Razor.
Which is WAY cool.

[weasel82]

Didn't meet my expectations by any means. Which is ashame. I thought it might have been good given the amount of buzz it was getting. (at least where I live)

Hated them calling Oz, the O-Z. Fuckin' made me want to smack them every time I heard that. Zooey performance was god-awful. I usually don't mind her acting, but this was just b-a-d. She felt very un-connected to everything.

The idea of toto made me laugh, not in a good way, Alan Cumming's character was weird, but it was an interesting difference and same with the Tinman, although I really still wished he was made of metal. LOVED the idea of that tin box he was found in though. How creepy and horrific of a device. Wow...

[Celephais]

Hated them calling Oz, the O-Z. Fuckin' made me want to smack them every time I heard that.
Yeah that was obnoxious... it was clever that they came up with another way to call it Oz, but I seriously doubt anyone living there would continue to call it "The O-Z" instead of just calling it "Oz".


The idea of toto made me laugh, not in a good way
Okay yeah that pissed me off too... such an awful awful stretch to connect the names on this one (Tinman had a strong connection that I liked them being able to call him Tinman, Toto was just terrible).

Despite all of these problems I still find myself chalking up the totallity of it to a positive. I guess I keep thinking "It could have been worse" because well... turn on sci-fi channel mid-day and you'll find some godawful dragon or mutated creature or cybervirus that made it into the real word movie. ... and I used to love the sci-fi channel as a kid so I need them to produce something good.

[Latrinsorm]

I wanted to see it but uh didn't.

Razor is like moving to Florida for 20 years then waking up in upstate New York after a blizzard and being reminded in the face how effing KICK ASS snow is.

Of course, it wasn't 20 years between the last Battlestar cliffhanger and Razor. It was more like 200.

[weasel82]

Yeah that was obnoxious... it was clever that they came up with another way to call it Oz, but I seriously doubt anyone living there would continue to call it "The O-Z" instead of just calling it "Oz".


Okay yeah that pissed me off too... such an awful awful stretch to connect the names on this one (Tinman had a strong connection that I liked them being able to call him Tinman, Toto was just terrible).

Despite all of these problems I still find myself chalking up the totallity of it to a positive. I guess I keep thinking "It could have been worse" because well... turn on sci-fi channel mid-day and you'll find some godawful dragon or mutated creature or cybervirus that made it into the real word movie. ... and I used to love the sci-fi channel as a kid so I need them to produce something good.

Hahaha...absolutely right! My father is a Sci-fi nut and I remember being at his House a year to two back and watching a movie entitled "Frankenfish"...oh dear god...

[Celephais]

Hahaha...absolutely right! My father is a Sci-fi nut and I remember being at his House a year to two back and watching a movie entitled "Frankenfish"...oh dear god...
This sunday morning I was up kinda early and we were snowed in so I was checking if anything good was on and I saw "Stan Lee's <something, I forget>" on Sci-Fi and thought "sweet! Sci-Fi movie just starting and it's got Stan Lee's stamp on it.

Holy shit was it a terrible choice... some guy got mutated into a snake thing because or radiation or something... downright terrible. It did have Cuba Gooding Jr. in it... which was just weird. I couldn't watch more than 20 minutes.

[Numbers]

It was all right. Not great. As others have said, the acting wasn't really that great. Zooey was horrible, which surprised me, since everything else I've seen her in (well, only two other things), she was all right. It almost looked like she felt she was too good to be there.

It could have been a lot better. I was hoping it would be on par with the Merlin or Alice mini-series that were on a long time ago (on NBC, I think), but no such luck.