In the Ocean of the Night.

As long-time readers will be aware, I have had an ongoing issue with the Space channel showing non-genre content, like Jaws, for example - an excellent movie, well acted, certainly deserving of its 1976 People's Choice Award, but really, not a science fiction film by any stretch of the imagination. 

Sadly, new management hasn't brought change in this particular area: tonight, CTV's Sci-Fi Channel, the heir to Space, is showing a double feature: Ocean's 11 and Ocean's 12. 

I'm sorry, did I miss something in the plot breakdowns for these two movies? Does George Clooney perform one or both of the heists by telekinesis, or by walking through a wall?  (No, wait, that's The Men Who Stare At Goats, which might at least marginally qualify for the Sci-Fi channel, at least compared to the Ocean franchise.) 

The joke, if there is one, is that it would have been quite easy to do a triple feature of science fiction films featuring the principals: leaving goats out of it, we could have watched Mr. Clooney in Solaris or Gravity, Brad Pitt in Ad Astra or his brilliant Golden Globe-winning performance in 12 Monkeys, and Matt Damon in The Martian or Elysium.*   

Sigh ... okay, CTV?  I give up - if we absolutely have to do this, you know, I may actually prefer sharks.

- Sid

 

* Oh, heck, let's make a day out of it:  Julia Roberts in Flatliners - had to dig deep for that one; Casey Affleck in Light of My Life or Interstellar; Don Cheadle in Mission to Mars, Iron Man 2 or 3, or Captain America: Civil War; Elliot Gould in Capricorn 1- sorry, drawing a blank on Carl Reiner, but it's still a full schedule.