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Just when you thought it was safe, Sharknado attacks your theater! Eeek!

samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
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Apparently going viral, Sharknado will now be shown on the big screen in 200 theaters nationwide, in a special midnight screening.

Here's the story from Houston:

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/tv/article/Social-media-sensation-Sharknado-leaps-from-TV-4698784.php?cmpid=entertainmenthcat

It's become a camp hit and we're destined for more assault upon our mental stability.

My (and my girlfriend's) opinion is that the movie wasn't a deliberately campy or spoof movie, but just a terribly bad attempt to make a thriller. I watched about 30-40 minutes of it, she could abide even less.

I enjoy deliberately campy movies (Amazon Women on the Moon) or unintentionally funny bad movies (Plan 9 from Outer Space) but a movie has to fit at least one of those categories. Whether intentionally campy or whether meant to be seriously scary, Sharknado is neither, just bad, but not "bad" enough to be funny-bad. As the article describes, it's "ridiculous" and that sadly isn't good/bad enough.

Anyway, the movie will make zillions for the SyFy channel and engender numerous clones. Sigh.
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  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
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    And now a shark seems to have tried to get into a coastal bar. A 5-ft shark was found at the entrance to a bar. Here's the story and pic:

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/02/5-foot-long-shark-found-at-door-sea-dog-pub-on-nantucket/?test=latestnews
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  • Pelagic KayakerPelagic Kayaker Posts: 1,503 Senior Member
    #3
    ...and you get on me for B.E.C?? ....sigh
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  • dlkdlk Posts: 419 Member
    #4
    It's already begun......"ghost shark" is their next travesty of logic.:roll:
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  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
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    dlk wrote: »
    It's already begun......"ghost shark" is their next travesty of logic.:roll:

    Of note, I saw that Mackenzie Rosman, formerly "Ruthie" (Rufie?) of the cloying 7th Heaven will star. Recently she's posed for Maxim, having blossomed into a fairly cute young gal.

    However, I can only hope she falls victim to Ghost Shark in the movie, a perfect reward.
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  • BigslugBigslug Posts: 9,877 Senior Member
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    samzhere wrote: »
    Anyway, the movie will make zillions for the SyFy channel and engender numerous clones. Sigh.

    Squidnami...I'm tellin' ya. It's gonna be HUGE!
    WWJMBD?

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  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,456 Senior Member
    #7
    Bigslug wrote: »
    Squidnami...I'm tellin' ya. It's gonna be HUGE!

    Wouldn't you prefer "Screw-Nami"? Oh wait, that's not SyFy.
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,122 Senior Member
    #8
    Sharknado is 10 times better than "Megalodon: the Monster Lives." A fake documentary SyFy, er, Discover, is trying to pass off as real during Shark Week. Horrible acting, horrible casting, horrible special effects, and a more horrible premise than Sharknado. And they try and pass it off as being true. Pitiful, just pitiful.
    Meh.
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  • KSU FirefighterKSU Firefighter Posts: 3,249 Senior Member
    #9
    breamfisher wrote: »
    Sharknado is 10 times better than "Megalodon: the Monster Lives." A fake documentary SyFy, er, Discover, is trying to pass off as real during Shark Week. Horrible acting, horrible casting, horrible special effects, and a more horrible premise than Sharknado. And they try and pass it off as being true. Pitiful, just pitiful.

    Right up there with the "Mermaid" special.
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,122 Senior Member
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    KSU Firefighter wrote: »
    Right up there with the "Mermaid" special.
    That was on Animal Planet. And Animal Planet did post a disclaimer. Discovery didn't.
    Meh.
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  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,456 Senior Member
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    breamfisher wrote: »
    That was on Animal Planet. And Animal Planet did post a disclaimer. Discovery didn't.


    Discovery posted the disclaimer at the end of the show. Really fast, just before the last scene. I had to pause and slow-mo the screen in order to actually read all the words. But, they did say it was fictional.
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  • AntonioAntonio Posts: 2,986 Senior Member
    #12
    Wasn't there a "Flying piranhas" movie in the early '80s that covered this same premise? Not saying that a semi-remake with better special effects could be discarded, but maybe the producers could have been a tad more original and instead made something new and refreshing like "Zombienado" or "Teen vampirenado" :p
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,122 Senior Member
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    You mean this?...
    None of the institutions or agencies that appear in the film are affiliated with it in any way, nor have approved its contents. Though certain events and characters in this film have been dramatized, sightings of "Submarine" continue to this day. Megalodon was a real shark. Legends of giant sharks persist all over the world. There is still debate about what they might be.

    That's really not a disclaimer. Animal Planet said that certain events were fictional and that whale beachings and "the bloop" were real in the mermaid documentary. Discovery tries to paint the Megalodon as a current possibility. I know a few shark biologists. They ain't open to that possibility. The only "debate" is among cryptozoologists.
    Meh.
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  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,456 Senior Member
    #14
    The show afterwards interviewed the Shark Scientist that was in the cage for the movie. The host asked him to describe Megaladon in one word and the scientist who played in the movie said, "Not Real".

    That's one word for you. Ha!
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,122 Senior Member
    #15
    Yeah, that dude... not even a real biologist. Actor. I love how he and the female biologist wore their wetsuits (and jackets?) on deck for what seemed to be hours on end with nary a drop of sweat. I didn't bother to watch the aftershow because I was pretty ticked. This is Shark Week. It should be better. An actual show on Megalodons with CGI would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better. And more truthful.

    Edited to add: sorry, but I'm kind of ticked at the crap that "educational" channels are peddling these days. And folks wonder why Americans are so uninformed. It's because they don't want to be!
    Meh.
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  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,456 Senior Member
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    I didn't make 10 min of the "After Show". It was even more stupid.
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,122 Senior Member
    #17
    Wait, that was possible?
    Meh.
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  • Big ChiefBig Chief Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #18
    The promo about Snuffy The Seal was cool.......

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnMgX7GiOA
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,122 Senior Member
    #19
    That was one of the best commercials I've ever seen.
    Meh.
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  • tennmiketennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member
    #20
    Shark Week is 'inhaling' vigorously this year. And the After Show show is unwatchable. The STUPID coming out of the After Show show is excruciatingly painful.
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  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    #21
    breamfisher wrote: »
    Edited to add: sorry, but I'm kind of ticked at the crap that "educational" channels are peddling these days. And folks wonder why Americans are so uninformed. It's because they don't want to be!

    I agree. Channels like Animal Planet, and fer pete's sake, even the damn Weather Channel are showing mocumentaries for increased profit.

    During 2000 and 2012 we were inundated by numerous "history" shows about the upcoming apocalypse, many featuring that tired ol' Nostradamus again. Now that the End Times have come and have not come, these same parasites are creating "creature features" galore.

    A good monster movie is fine. But saturating the normal nature channels with such drivel is really vile.
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