LongSynopsis : In 1923 legendary film director Cecil B. DeMille finished the epic film The Ten Commandments. After filming was completed, he bulldozed the sets into the Guadalupe Sand Dunes of the central California coast. His reasons for doing so were very mysterious. This story gives an explanation as to why he did it. There was actually a legitimate Egyptian artifact amongst the props but they didn’t know which one was trapping the spirit of an Egyptian avenging god. Mysterious murders and accidents while making the film brings things back to the surface today and it starts all over again.
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ProductTypeName : DOWNLOADABLE_MOVIE
ReleaseDate : 2009-12-23
RunningTime : 90
ShortSynopsis : In 1923 legendary film director Cecil B. DeMille finished the epic film The Ten Commandments. After filming was completed, he bulldozed the sets into the Guadalupe Sand Dunes of the central California coast. His reasons for doing so were very mysterious. This story gives an explanation as to why he did it. There was actually a legitimate Egyptian artifact amongst the props but they didn’t know which one was trapping the spirit of an Egyptian avenging god. Mysterious murders and accidents while making the film brings things back to the surface today and it starts all over again.
Morena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin, yay! Um… wait…. that CGI is really terrible. Whoa, Egyptian curse! But the CGI is just TERRIBLE. And the sets are awful. And it’s all low-budget, but well-lit. That’s a bad, bad combo. Deliberately bad? I mean, honestly, this is soooo awful, why on earth would anyone make it this way unless it was on *purpose*?
This movie is frankly terrible beyond words. On the other hand, it’s chock full of cliches and Hollywood mythology and looks like it was excellent fun to make. This might be the sort of bad little gem that actors put on at parties to laugh over; it looks like something deliberately done for schlock effect.
I kind of like it. I know! It sucks. But… I still sort of like it anyways.
If there’s one thing that the Sci-Fi channel (now titled “SyFy Channel”) excels at, it is creating insanely bad made-for-TV movies. Sometimes the channel surprises us & the films are entertaining to watch, such as the miniseries Tin Man. Other times the films are bad, but have some sort of entertainment value to them. Then you have the films where it is just so bad that you just don’t know why they were made in the first place. Sands of Oblivion falls somewhere between completely unwatchable & sadistically entertaining in its badness.
When the famous director DeMille made The Ten Commandments (not the remake with Charleston Heston, but the 1930s original), he ordered the set to be buried forever in the sands it was filmed in. Years later an intrepid professor has decided to unearth DeMille’s hidden set, unaware that DeMille hid it in order to hide the evil it contains!
On a side note, I’d like to inform any watchers that DeMille burying the set of the original Ten Commandments is a true story- it is buried just off of Hollywood, where a group of preservationists are trying to keep it intact. It’s actually an interesting story & is one that you can find on google, if you are interested.
Now, with such an interesting & relatively new plot idea you would think that would help the movie out. You would also think that between that & a crew that does a decent acting job, the movie would be salvageable. No, not even an interesting plot idea or OK acting could save this movie from terminal boredom. The script is just poorly written. Not even the hot Adam Baldwin can save this film, although he does provide one of the only interesting enough characters in the film.
I am fully aware that the channel can & has done worse, but this is pretty much a waste of time to watch & a waste of money to purchase. If you are really insistent on watching this, rent it. Just don’t be surprised if you find yourself tuning out or stopping the movie entirely.
I rented this movie via Amazon download because I was looking for some entertainment since I was not tired enough to go to bed. The reviews of this movie were on average not bad. So, based upon the reviews I rented and watched the movie. Well, I did not think it was possible for a number of people to participate in a gag, but you got me in this case. I am not afraid to admit I was taken and accordingly I warn other potential viewers of this film that it maybe the worst movie I have ever seen. I cannot decide which was worse, the story or the acting. Either way, both contributed to this heap of nonsense that may have had some appeal to viewers who were seven years old or intellectually under that age. I have to assume that viewers who wrote a review were doing so in jest because I cannot believe any adult who is not institutionalized could rate this film above 1 star. I say this because I do not believe there is a rating less than that in the Amazon system. I am assuming that the reviews of this film were joking because otherwise, my beliefs about the standards of American society will not accept the alternative. This review might be insulting to some of those who actually rated this film above 1 star. I hope it is not and that your reviews have enabled you to get a good laugh at my expense. That’s OK. I can take a joke. I only hope that you were really joking.
This movie was produced by Starz Media, a cable channel conglomerate, not the Sci Fi channel, as stated elsewhere. In the “making of” video on the disk, the producer(?) says that their budget was the same dollar amount as C B DeMille’s 1923 Ten Commandments, not adjusted for inflation. Given the problems of a limited budget, Sands of Oblivion was well done. Granted, as another reviewer stated, the CGI backgrounds for the opening sequences prior to the title were pretty cheesy. But for the rest of the movie the cinematography, production, and the original plot line were all very good. The actors were competent to good, and the dialog was a lot more realistic than most made-for-cable movies that I’ve seen. It was nice to see George Kennedy is still acting; also, Morena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin from Firefly were great. All in all, it’s a fun monster movie and quite enjoyable. (And the right guy gets the girl in the end.)
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do not buy it , you will feel bored during the movie, all FX are badly made as a Z series
Morena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin, yay! Um… wait…. that CGI is really terrible. Whoa, Egyptian curse! But the CGI is just TERRIBLE. And the sets are awful. And it’s all low-budget, but well-lit. That’s a bad, bad combo. Deliberately bad? I mean, honestly, this is soooo awful, why on earth would anyone make it this way unless it was on *purpose*?
This movie is frankly terrible beyond words. On the other hand, it’s chock full of cliches and Hollywood mythology and looks like it was excellent fun to make. This might be the sort of bad little gem that actors put on at parties to laugh over; it looks like something deliberately done for schlock effect.
I kind of like it. I know! It sucks. But… I still sort of like it anyways.
If there’s one thing that the Sci-Fi channel (now titled “SyFy Channel”) excels at, it is creating insanely bad made-for-TV movies. Sometimes the channel surprises us & the films are entertaining to watch, such as the miniseries Tin Man. Other times the films are bad, but have some sort of entertainment value to them. Then you have the films where it is just so bad that you just don’t know why they were made in the first place. Sands of Oblivion falls somewhere between completely unwatchable & sadistically entertaining in its badness.
When the famous director DeMille made The Ten Commandments (not the remake with Charleston Heston, but the 1930s original), he ordered the set to be buried forever in the sands it was filmed in. Years later an intrepid professor has decided to unearth DeMille’s hidden set, unaware that DeMille hid it in order to hide the evil it contains!
On a side note, I’d like to inform any watchers that DeMille burying the set of the original Ten Commandments is a true story- it is buried just off of Hollywood, where a group of preservationists are trying to keep it intact. It’s actually an interesting story & is one that you can find on google, if you are interested.
Now, with such an interesting & relatively new plot idea you would think that would help the movie out. You would also think that between that & a crew that does a decent acting job, the movie would be salvageable. No, not even an interesting plot idea or OK acting could save this movie from terminal boredom. The script is just poorly written. Not even the hot Adam Baldwin can save this film, although he does provide one of the only interesting enough characters in the film.
I am fully aware that the channel can & has done worse, but this is pretty much a waste of time to watch & a waste of money to purchase. If you are really insistent on watching this, rent it. Just don’t be surprised if you find yourself tuning out or stopping the movie entirely.
I rented this movie via Amazon download because I was looking for some entertainment since I was not tired enough to go to bed. The reviews of this movie were on average not bad. So, based upon the reviews I rented and watched the movie. Well, I did not think it was possible for a number of people to participate in a gag, but you got me in this case. I am not afraid to admit I was taken and accordingly I warn other potential viewers of this film that it maybe the worst movie I have ever seen. I cannot decide which was worse, the story or the acting. Either way, both contributed to this heap of nonsense that may have had some appeal to viewers who were seven years old or intellectually under that age. I have to assume that viewers who wrote a review were doing so in jest because I cannot believe any adult who is not institutionalized could rate this film above 1 star. I say this because I do not believe there is a rating less than that in the Amazon system. I am assuming that the reviews of this film were joking because otherwise, my beliefs about the standards of American society will not accept the alternative. This review might be insulting to some of those who actually rated this film above 1 star. I hope it is not and that your reviews have enabled you to get a good laugh at my expense. That’s OK. I can take a joke. I only hope that you were really joking.
This movie was produced by Starz Media, a cable channel conglomerate, not the Sci Fi channel, as stated elsewhere. In the “making of” video on the disk, the producer(?) says that their budget was the same dollar amount as C B DeMille’s 1923 Ten Commandments, not adjusted for inflation. Given the problems of a limited budget, Sands of Oblivion was well done. Granted, as another reviewer stated, the CGI backgrounds for the opening sequences prior to the title were pretty cheesy. But for the rest of the movie the cinematography, production, and the original plot line were all very good. The actors were competent to good, and the dialog was a lot more realistic than most made-for-cable movies that I’ve seen. It was nice to see George Kennedy is still acting; also, Morena Baccarin and Adam Baldwin from Firefly were great. All in all, it’s a fun monster movie and quite enjoyable. (And the right guy gets the girl in the end.)