YMMV / Syfy Channel Original Movie

• Broken Base: Your enjoyment of the movies seems to hinge on whether or not you believe Syfy is in on the joke. If you think they are, and are deliberately making the movies So Bad, It's Good as an homage to the B-Movies of yesteryear, you can find them very entertaining. If you think they don't, and are trying to play them painfully straight, you'll probably just find them depressing.
• First Installment Wins: Not precisely the first, but while many of the later films are regarded as So Bad, It's Good at their best, many of the most fondly remembered movies the channel has hosted came from the 1990s and early 2000s. Either because they used a combination of practical effects with some CGI when needed like in Sabretooth or from very experienced filmmakers behind the effort such as Roger Corman helping to make Dinocroc.
• Narm: The only reason why people still tolerate Syfy films is because the horrible acting and terrible CGI will literally make you laugh your ass off.
• Narm Charm: Then again, some people like seeing gigantic crocodiles and sharks on television eating people and disregard the abysmal CGI.
• Retroactive Recognition: Triassic Attack had Emilia Clarke as the film's protagonist, Savannah. Yes, that Emilia Clarke.
• So Bad, It's Good: A few of 'em. A number of them seem to invoke this, and those that seem to embrace it are usually the more enjoyable ones.
• So Okay, It's Average: On a really, really good day they can achieve this. But considering that being really bad is part of their charm, this usually isn't a good thing.
• Special Effects Failure: It's gotten much worse over the years. Eventually, the creators will start hiring people right out of high school to do the CGI. If they haven't already. The practical effects they also use are not much better, if not outright worse, than the CGI.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Some of the actors actually do pull in decent performances for their roles. For example, Caved In: Prehistoric Terror has Chelan Simmons as a star, and she pulls in a decent performance as a surprisingly likeable and entertaining case of Bratty Teenage Daughter who actually becomes helpful. So does Angela Featherstone who plays the Action Mom of the film.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Once in a VERY long while, there will be a creature effect that actually looks presentable by made-for-tv standards. The wyvern CGI model and Frankenfish prop are examples of such. Some of the practical puppets used for the beetles in Caved In: Prehistoric Terror don't look too bad either.

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