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Anyone watch Sabretooth on SFC?

Started by John, November 20, 2002, 06:04:41 AM

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John

Not bad for a low budget direct to video killer animal movie, although the sabretooth CGI looked really cheesy. I have to wonder though, why do the scientists in all these movies pick the most dangerous species they can find to clone/enhance/crossbreed etc? Would Jurassic Park even have needed fences if they'd only recreated plant eaters?

Jim H

Because predators are more entertaining to watch then plant eaters.

Squishy

Wow, this was awful. Worse than usual for this kind of thing. Worse than "Empire of the Ants," that's how bad it is. When you're being whipped by a 70s Bert I. Gordon loaf, you're BAD.

It's written like a cross between a slasher flick and a disaster movie. A better writer would've given us a variation of "The Great White Hunter versus The Ultimate Predator;" instead, we get an unimaginative story mixing a bunch of horny teens, geeks, b***hy lady scientists and an evil millionaire businessman, all lining up to be eaten in the most predictable order.

And David Keith as the not-so-great White Hunter. Joy. He knows he's in a turd, and he's not afraid to convey that to the audience. Remember when this guy was hot? Now he's the poor man's Dale Midkiff.

I've seen good CGI and bad CGI, and the CGI in "Sabretooth" is easily the worst I've ever seen. Remember the low point of Ray Harryhausen's career? The fluffy, dead-eyed sabretooth, encased in plastic "ice," from "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger?" This movie has a fully-articulated puppet head that looks WORSE. The fact that even the CGI version seems arthritic--generally capable only of very shallow leaps and slow paw-batting--makes the decision to regularly give us a really good look at the stupid thing all the more perplexing.

John Rhys-Davies provides the movie's only highlights: a reproduction of the falling-down-fat-guy scene from "The Creeping Terror," and the sight of John Rhys-Davies getting sabreteeth driven into his eye sockets. (I haven't forgiven him for destroying the "Untouchables" TV series. Or for "The Lost World." Or for playing the Kingpin.)

It really, really sucks big chunks. Watch it!

MINOR SPOILER: The ending is not only 100% recycled (think "Sinbad...Eye" again, but lamer) with the usual cliches, but it's obviously incomplete: after the tragic couple, the b***hy lady scientist and the crazy self-sacrificing Black guy meet their pre-fab dooms, the cat receives a painful but blatantly non-lethal wound, the heroine reads the "Is it dead?" line, and the GWHunter makes the prerequisite mistake of hurling away his only weapon...and the movie ends. I guess I should be thankful it was shorter for the five minutes we would have suffered seeing the crappy effects of the wounded beast making a final attack.

Foywonder

I must concur fully with Mr. Squishy. SABRETOOTH was beyond awful!

ahab

Terrible movie, effects, cgi, pretty much everything sucked. At least at the theater i can get my money back. Who's going to repay me the 2 hrs of life wasted?




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Creepozoid

SABERTOOTH was good, all of the complaints here seem to be about the budget. Thought the CGI i this movie was better than RESIDENT EVIL; not saying much.

Chadzilla

Well I enjoyed it,  but I only half watched it (nature called, kid misbehaved, wife needed something).  My son and I had fun making fun of it (when the post coital girl starts walking through the dark woods, flashlight in hand, calling 'kitty, kitty' man were my eye rolling).

There were some nice little jokes in it, the nerdy girl getting wasted in a Deep Blue Sea speech moment, and so forth.  David Keith's thousand yard "My career has come to this." performance.

More fun than Octopus 1 or 2, or Crocodile 1 or 2, but not has fun as Spiders.

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Foywonder

"More fun than Octopus 1 or 2..."

That's like saying "More fun than a colonoscopy!"

Foywonder

Even great CGI couldn't save that script. It couldn't seem to decide if it wanted to be campy or serious. Balancing the two is a difficult task and this one failed on both accounts. And at times it almost felt at times like they were making it up as they went along. Even worse, you could pretty much replace the sabretooth tiger with a machete wielding maniac and it wouldn't have had that big an impact on the story. The fact that the effects were so poor only made it that much more laughable. Once again the producers of the PYTHON films fail miserably at the art of even making an enjoyable b-movie. You know a movie is bad when it makes BENEATH LOCH NESS look well made by comparison.

Flangepart

Ouch. Sound like a pain fest. Just right for the masochist in us all.

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John

>There were some nice little jokes in it,

Did you notice that most of the women were wearing T-shirts with little sayings on them? The assistant had one with something about extinction on it and one of the teenagers was wearing one that said Bad Kitty.