Ice Spiders
Added 9/10/2009
No problems (awesome deal)!!! Thank you Good movie for the people whom like spider science fiction!
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Epic Sci Fi movie
Added 9/4/2009
Man this is a great sci fi movie. In order to enjoy this movie you must love sci fi films, rediculous graphics, plot, and actors. If all this appeals to you you will love this movie.
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spiders = love
Added 8/10/2009
A while back I had read all the reviews on here of this movie called "Ice Spiders". It was one I was wanting to see, but not a high priority. 2 nights ago, I'm in the bedroom playing Puzzle Quest on my PS2 and at 9:30pm my husband yells to me, "Ice Spiders" is on channel 55 {Sci-Fi}. So I turn on my 1978 trusty-old Sears b/w t.v. and am in love with all the spiders I see. It really bugged me that these idiot people tricked the spiders so that they could kill them, the poor things :( And, at the end, when this big spider is locked-up being taken away, I said outloud 'that poor cute spider, why doesn't anyone save him?' O.k., so I missed most of the movie, but if the movie's anything like the last 30 minutes, well then it's a 5-star!!!!! I must get this movie and watch the whole thing. No matter the size, venomous or not, all spiders are sooo cute, I love them all!!!!
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"The Phone's Dead....This Is Totally Not Cool."
Added 11/11/2008
"Ice Spiders" is about giant government-spawned spiders versus the most annoying ski team in history. Essentially there's an evil government program to genetically engineer giant spiders for military purposes. You see, the government got a prehistoric arachnid from Afghanistan and spliced it with modern spiders to obtain their silk, which is bulletproof.
Vanessa Williams is Dr. April Sommers, a big-league expert on arachnid genetics, and is ignorant of the sinister overtones of the work at the lab. The male protagonist is Patrick Muldoon as Dan "Dash" Dashiell, a formerly great skier and now a has-been teaching a bunch of sniveling, elitist high school age skiers in preparation for the Olympics.
To say that Williams can't pull off the role of a brilliant scientist is a huge understatement, but she and Muldoon are actually the most likeable cast members. I was so ready for the spiders to eat all the teenagers, that every minute they were onscreen and uneaten was more and more agonizing (and made even more so by extremely "cool" dialogue like "that was some nice carvin' by you, man", and frequent use of words like "gnarly").
The box art is not representative of the film. The box shows gigantic spiders the size of an airplane hangar, but in the film the spiders are about the size of a golden retriever. The spiders are very poorly executed CGI and are about as realistic and scary of a science fiction creature as "Alf". The writing and acting are very amateurish, and the film is full of ridiculous situations that take away from the film. My favorite scene involves a school bus full of teenagers: it's completely ludicrous, yet entertaining. (The same theme was done much more skillfully with angry ravens in "Kaw".) Sadly some of the teens do survive the arachnid holocaust: hopefully, though, they will never be in another film.
I gave the film two stars, which is generous, because in spite of the cast, the film was sometimes quite entertaining, although in a way I suspect that the producers didn't intend. If you like "Mystery Science Theater 3000", you'll immediately see what I mean.
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Ice spiders
Added 6/19/2008
Giant spider movie? what is more creepy? This version is a made for SCI-FI Channel production so i guess you know what your gonna get. this movie would have been better if the siders were as big as the box art but alas they were only a fraction of that size. This is your typical goverment project developes big spiders for secret project gone wrong tale. it has it's momments and ultimately it's not horrible just not very original or for that matter scary, famous Producer Steven J Cannell ( The Rockford Files ...NBC ect..) even has a bit role in this! Attactive young cast but spiders are just goofy CGI, I love bug monster movies but this is just average PG stuff.
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Ice Spiders
Added 9/10/2009
No problems (awesome deal)!!! Thank you Good movie for the people whom like spider science fiction!
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Epic Sci Fi movie
Added 9/4/2009
Man this is a great sci fi movie. In order to enjoy this movie you must love sci fi films, rediculous graphics, plot, and actors. If all this appeals to you you will love this movie.
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spiders = love
Added 8/10/2009
A while back I had read all the reviews on here of this movie called "Ice Spiders". It was one I was wanting to see, but not a high priority. 2 nights ago, I'm in the bedroom playing Puzzle Quest on my PS2 and at 9:30pm my husband yells to me, "Ice Spiders" is on channel 55 {Sci-Fi}. So I turn on my 1978 trusty-old Sears b/w t.v. and am in love with all the spiders I see. It really bugged me that these idiot people tricked the spiders so that they could kill them, the poor things :( And, at the end, when this big spider is locked-up being taken away, I said outloud 'that poor cute spider, why doesn't anyone save him?' O.k., so I missed most of the movie, but if the movie's anything like the last 30 minutes, well then it's a 5-star!!!!! I must get this movie and watch the whole thing. No matter the size, venomous or not, all spiders are sooo cute, I love them all!!!!
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