Well, at least he has the decency to be surprised about it.

Law of probabilities. Make enough movies and one of them is bound to be watchable. Eventually. This makes what? One in 6 years?

People. It's called "Rock Monster".
Break? Give me one.

If it had Bruce Campbell, MAYBE.

Are we sure this isn't actually broadcasting on Lifetime?

Huh. Now if only they went back to making Sci-Fi movies that don't suck.

IS this a two hour movie? B/c I've seen lots of scenes of rock vs sword fighting in the commercial, and hope the movie didn't blow it's load on the every third commercial shown commercial they play on Sci-Fi.

@Plague: They don't have time for plot synopsises so they have to take care of it in the title.
"So what's it called?"
"Rock Monster"
"And what's it about?"
SMACK

It is a start. But, 'pretty decent' is a long way to go to being 'good'.

That's not a rock!

It's a ROOOOOOOOOCK MONSTER!!

I'm not breaking my streak of never watching a sci-fi original Saturday night horror film-thingy just because Variety says so. have you ever read Variety?

"Rock Monster"... give me a break.

And SciFi? STOP BUTCHERING DOCTOR WHO WITH YOUR F@#KING HORRIBLE EDITING and show the last 10 minutes of the Runaway Bride this time.

I think that the SciFi channel comes up with movie titles by having words and bits of words written on pieces of paper and collected in two buckets. They draw one piece of paper from each bucket, and bam! Instant movie title.

Man+Squito
Ice+Spiders
Rock+Monster

But for a twist of fate we might have seen "Rock Spiders" and "Icesquito".

@nekussa: I heard that "Man Monster" was supposed to be pretty good.

The commercials look lame. "Send the Rock Monster back to the Earth." I'd rather send it back to the Moon. Yeah, that's it! The movie should have been called Moon Rock Monster. "Send that Mothafuckin Rock monster back to the Moon! Back to the moon. Back to mooooooon." I'm gonna be a rap star one day.

One day while home sick, I decided to watch 2 movies on the SciFi channel because both were about werewolves AND starred Lance Henriksen. I had an epiphany about SciFi's movies - I think they reproducing the cheap, cheesy horror and science fiction movies from the 50s and 60s, the kind I used to watch as a kid on Son of Svengoolie. Once I started seeing them in this light, they became much more entertaining and almost nostalgia-inducing.

Didn't Galaxy Quest cover this?

@Marcus:

Beat me to it.

@eris404:

I've tried to watch them with that mindset, but most are still really charmless.

Now I have a partially mangled B-52s song stuck in my head.

Rock Monsta! Oooooooo!

I'll wait for the sequel: Rock Lobster!

@Ryan H: QFT!

The best Sci-Fi channel movies:

Terminal Invasion, with Mr. Bruce Campbell.
and
Decoys. Believe it. Even the Wall Street Journal liked it.

SciFi Channel's movies take themselves too seriously to be funny on their own. They'd be hilarious done up by MST3K, though.

In my more tolerant days, I riffed on them with my friends in college while waiting patiently for a boom-mike to dip into the shot.

@kcquestor: "Now I have a partially mangled B-52s song stuck in my head."

Oh good, so it's not just me...
After reading the blurb on the main page, I started whistling it and couldn't stop. Now it's just playing on repeat inside of my head.

It wasn't horrible. Finally watched it last night.

Actually, the best part of it had to be the Jaws speech, what felt like word for word (at least the beginning), delivered by who I always see in his role in Millennium, even tho I can't remember what it was.

BTW, my wife agrees. The chick sidekick with the guns was the best part of the show.