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amezriAnyone who has the SciFi Channel needs to be watching Mammoth RIGHT NOW. Go. Turn on the TV. GO!
Vincent Ventresca is playing the biggest geek that ever did geek in the field of Paleontology. Summer is his teen daughter. And there are like MIB agents and it is all so fucking HYSTERICAL. The opening alone was worth the wait.
Seriously. If you like Mars Attacks! or Psycho Beach Party go. RUN. TV!!
spoilers below!
EdgedinBlue2: Summer is SANE.
Scifi1701D: YES! And 16!
Scifi1701D: And Vinny is a giant DORK
EdgedinBlue2: Even though she's 25
Scifi1701D: LOL yeah
EdgedinBlue2: Why are you so fond of this guy?
Scifi1701D: she's always looked young though
Scifi1701D: He was in Invisible Man way back when. So very cool
EdgedinBlue2: I recognize him from stuff but he was always kind of a prick
EdgedinBlue2: ahhhhhhhhh
Scifi1701D: nah, he was really awesome and snarky and cool in I-Man
Scifi1701D: yet another SciFi show that didn't stand a chance
EdgedinBlue2: heh
Scifi1701D: i'll have to upload an ep or two that I have *g8
Scifi1701D: after TE of course. lol
EdgedinBlue2: heh
Scifi1701D: i hope this comes out on DVD XD
Scifi1701D: okay, back to the tv. heh
EdgedinBlue2: heh
EdgedinBlue2: okay, the sound effects rock
Scifi1701D: I know! it's just horribly amusing
Scifi1701D: it's got every cliche known to scifi XD
EdgedinBlue2: the old people sex ahhhh
Scifi1701D: hahaha I KNOW
EdgedinBlue2: but the obligatory squishing of piggish teenage boy
Scifi1701D: YES! And Summer kicking him in the groin
Scifi1701D: because I totally expected her to do that anyway
EdgedinBlue2: but the wannabe boyfriend punching them with the boxing ring sound effects
Scifi1701D: YES!
Scifi1701D: okay, back to the TV!
EdgedinBlue2: heee
EdgedinBlue2: Can I be Frank with you?
Scifi1701D: this is soooo entertaining
Scifi1701D: and the flash cuts to his dad with the side panel with the word "Hero" and the arrow? XD
EdgedinBlue2: YES
EdgedinBlue2: I thought it was a commercial at first then Iw as like "no, this is still the morvie"
Scifi1701D: lol
EdgedinBlue2: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Scifi1701D: AWWW SQUIRREL!~
Scifi1701D: that's sad ;_;
Scifi1701D: ... that was so awesome
EdgedinBlue2: 'tws brilliant
And yeah, that was fun. I really, really enjoyed that. See, if all of SciFi's movies were this brilliantly corny? I'd probably like a lot more of them.
Plus, and article from SciFi Wire :
Ventresca Wild For Mammoth
Vincent Ventresca, who stars in the SCI FI Channel original movie Mammoth, told SCI FI Wire that he signed on to the project for two reasons: because of the opportunity to reunite with Tim Cox, who directed him in another SCI FI original, Larva, and because of Mammoth's wild and woolly story. "Tim Cox is why I said yes," Ventresca said in an interview. "He's this guy I met a while ago, who I did Larva with. We're friends, and [with] his energy ... I knew he'd pour everything into Mammoth, and I kind of like to do that, too. So I knew there'd be a really strong commitment from the director, and that's all it really takes [to interest me]."
Ventresca, who starred in the SCI FI original series The Invisible Man, added, "And then I just thought it was sort of funny. It's a story about a big elephant going and taking over a town and trying to kill a bunch of people. Sign me up!"
Mammoth is set in a small Louisiana town where a soul-sucking alien life form inhabits a partially frozen woolly mammoth at a local natural history museum. Ventresca plays Dr. Frank Abernathy, a paleontologist who must race to save the day before the mammoth extends its rampage beyond the city's limits. Tom Skerritt (Alien) co-stars as Abernathy's father, while Summer Glau (Serenity) is Abernathy's daughter.
"I didn't know it was going to have that cast," Ventresca said. "Tim sent me the script months before, and you never know who they're going to get for these parts. Tim kept calling me and saying, 'Hey, we got Summer,' and then, 'We got Tom Skerritt.' It was like, 'Wow.' Summer is amazing. Tom Skerritt is like Van Morrison to me; I loved him. He's got this really great part."
Ventresca, who recently shot a pilot for a proposed Fox series entitled Julie Reno: Bounty Hunter, added, "When I started out, I never looked at the big parts. I always looked at the little parts and I was like, 'God, if I could just get those little parts.' Tom played a cop in Harold and Maude, which is one of my favorite movies in the world. So, it was just ... it's really cool to be a fan of the people you work with, because it's not only the excitement of being on a set, having cameras and trying to figure out these scenes, but there's this sort of ... there's this ... you have kind of crushes on them because you know their work." Mammoth premieres April 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. —Ian Spelling
For those who missed it, they're rerunning it again in two hours (1am EST) and probably at other points in the next couple weeks.
Vincent Ventresca is playing the biggest geek that ever did geek in the field of Paleontology. Summer is his teen daughter. And there are like MIB agents and it is all so fucking HYSTERICAL. The opening alone was worth the wait.
Seriously. If you like Mars Attacks! or Psycho Beach Party go. RUN. TV!!
spoilers below!
EdgedinBlue2: Summer is SANE.
Scifi1701D: YES! And 16!
Scifi1701D: And Vinny is a giant DORK
EdgedinBlue2: Even though she's 25
Scifi1701D: LOL yeah
EdgedinBlue2: Why are you so fond of this guy?
Scifi1701D: she's always looked young though
Scifi1701D: He was in Invisible Man way back when. So very cool
EdgedinBlue2: I recognize him from stuff but he was always kind of a prick
EdgedinBlue2: ahhhhhhhhh
Scifi1701D: nah, he was really awesome and snarky and cool in I-Man
Scifi1701D: yet another SciFi show that didn't stand a chance
EdgedinBlue2: heh
Scifi1701D: i'll have to upload an ep or two that I have *g8
Scifi1701D: after TE of course. lol
EdgedinBlue2: heh
Scifi1701D: i hope this comes out on DVD XD
Scifi1701D: okay, back to the tv. heh
EdgedinBlue2: heh
EdgedinBlue2: okay, the sound effects rock
Scifi1701D: I know! it's just horribly amusing
Scifi1701D: it's got every cliche known to scifi XD
EdgedinBlue2: the old people sex ahhhh
Scifi1701D: hahaha I KNOW
EdgedinBlue2: but the obligatory squishing of piggish teenage boy
Scifi1701D: YES! And Summer kicking him in the groin
Scifi1701D: because I totally expected her to do that anyway
EdgedinBlue2: but the wannabe boyfriend punching them with the boxing ring sound effects
Scifi1701D: YES!
Scifi1701D: okay, back to the TV!
EdgedinBlue2: heee
EdgedinBlue2: Can I be Frank with you?
Scifi1701D: this is soooo entertaining
Scifi1701D: and the flash cuts to his dad with the side panel with the word "Hero" and the arrow? XD
EdgedinBlue2: YES
EdgedinBlue2: I thought it was a commercial at first then Iw as like "no, this is still the morvie"
Scifi1701D: lol
EdgedinBlue2: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Scifi1701D: AWWW SQUIRREL!~
Scifi1701D: that's sad ;_;
Scifi1701D: ... that was so awesome
EdgedinBlue2: 'tws brilliant
And yeah, that was fun. I really, really enjoyed that. See, if all of SciFi's movies were this brilliantly corny? I'd probably like a lot more of them.
Plus, and article from SciFi Wire :
Ventresca Wild For Mammoth
Vincent Ventresca, who stars in the SCI FI Channel original movie Mammoth, told SCI FI Wire that he signed on to the project for two reasons: because of the opportunity to reunite with Tim Cox, who directed him in another SCI FI original, Larva, and because of Mammoth's wild and woolly story. "Tim Cox is why I said yes," Ventresca said in an interview. "He's this guy I met a while ago, who I did Larva with. We're friends, and [with] his energy ... I knew he'd pour everything into Mammoth, and I kind of like to do that, too. So I knew there'd be a really strong commitment from the director, and that's all it really takes [to interest me]."
Ventresca, who starred in the SCI FI original series The Invisible Man, added, "And then I just thought it was sort of funny. It's a story about a big elephant going and taking over a town and trying to kill a bunch of people. Sign me up!"
Mammoth is set in a small Louisiana town where a soul-sucking alien life form inhabits a partially frozen woolly mammoth at a local natural history museum. Ventresca plays Dr. Frank Abernathy, a paleontologist who must race to save the day before the mammoth extends its rampage beyond the city's limits. Tom Skerritt (Alien) co-stars as Abernathy's father, while Summer Glau (Serenity) is Abernathy's daughter.
"I didn't know it was going to have that cast," Ventresca said. "Tim sent me the script months before, and you never know who they're going to get for these parts. Tim kept calling me and saying, 'Hey, we got Summer,' and then, 'We got Tom Skerritt.' It was like, 'Wow.' Summer is amazing. Tom Skerritt is like Van Morrison to me; I loved him. He's got this really great part."
Ventresca, who recently shot a pilot for a proposed Fox series entitled Julie Reno: Bounty Hunter, added, "When I started out, I never looked at the big parts. I always looked at the little parts and I was like, 'God, if I could just get those little parts.' Tom played a cop in Harold and Maude, which is one of my favorite movies in the world. So, it was just ... it's really cool to be a fan of the people you work with, because it's not only the excitement of being on a set, having cameras and trying to figure out these scenes, but there's this sort of ... there's this ... you have kind of crushes on them because you know their work." Mammoth premieres April 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. —Ian Spelling
For those who missed it, they're rerunning it again in two hours (1am EST) and probably at other points in the next couple weeks.
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Date: 2006-04-23 02:25 am (UTC)This movie is so full of cheese. And awesome. It's also full of awesome.
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Date: 2006-04-23 02:06 am (UTC)and oh man! sexy!geek vinny?! and palentology?! why can i not seeee this?!
*vincent love*
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Date: 2006-04-23 02:25 am (UTC)If there is a torrent I will send you a copy!!