Sharknado

[Drunk Monk]

This movie is TEAR-RHI-BULL. Oh man. Ouch. Couldn't even make it through to the end (but at least I got past the poster). It's one of those films that makes you angry because you keep thinking, dang, I could totally write something better than this. You all know my disdain for digital blood. This had digital rain, digital tornado and digital sharks. The funny thing is that here is this epic disaster hitting L.A., the sharknado, but it is shot when there really isn't any bad weather. You can clearly see blue sky and calm seas throughout the flick. They just superimpose some weak CGI storm effects and call it a storm day. The other thing is that they don't really bother to cordon off the streets or anything, so in the background, people are going about their daily business as the film's protagonist battle the sharknado.

So this is the film I thought up while watching this: imagine an apocalyptic event (sharknado, zombie attack, godzilla, whatev) where it's all just a hallucination of the protagonists - sort of Man of La Mancha vs. windmills, but set in modern day with a gaggle of Sancho Panzas under a folie-deux spell, following some schizophrenic into battle against the hallucinated evil and leaving chaos in their wake. If Sharknado was that, it would be awesome. Of course, I didn't make it to the end, so maybe it was.

No sword fights, but they were staging for a chainsaw fight. It surely sucked because who cares about a chainsaw fight with digital sharks and digital blood?

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

First, didn't you know not to watch this?

Second, get ready for Lavarantula. No, I'm not joking.

[Drunk Monk]

First, didn't you know not to watch this?

Well, no, obviously. :roll:

It was such a viral phenom that I just couldn't resist - just so I can say 'yea, i seen it'. Part 3 is in production already. Plus I needed something to clear my palette from all the Star Trek rerun and Kung Fu flick binging. It's like wasabi between shark sushi. Oh wait, that's a faulty analogy. But you know me, I luv B film and the grindhouse genre. It's an addiction, fallout from all those damn Kung Fu movies.

Actually, you might like Sharknado more that me. It's an L.A. thing, just like I like watching S.F. get destroyed.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Go go Godzilla.

I can't fault you for watching it. I have a pretty disreputable score card when it comes to choosing movies.

[Drunk Monk]

It's free on Netflix. Watch it. Watch it now. Share my pain.

We all have a pretty disreputable score card when it comes to movies. Heck, DOOM was built on that mutual disreputable score card.

If for no other reason, watch it to post about it here.

Cassandra Scerbo is really good in it.

SHARKNADO. Enough said!

[The Queen]

I saw Sharknado 2 -- in my defense, I was running a fever and sneezing and coughing and the meds made it difficult to read, so all I wanted to do was lay there, hold onto a puppy and suck on a throat lozenge, and the SyFy channel was background noise. I admit to laughing once. I expected it to be hideously awful and that's exactly what it was.

You have been warned.

[Drunk Monk]

How could you watch Sharknado 2 before watching Sharknado? Did it even make any sense at all?

The more I think about it, the more I like the film's title. It's all about that word - sharknado. I luv that way that rolls off your tongue. It reminds me of some absurdly fruity cocktail drink you might get at a tropical beach bar with a little umbrella in it. "I'll have two sharknados please, and an iced tea."

[Drunk Monk]

It was TEAR-RHI-BULL. But the next day, I was describing the finale scene to my cub, and we were laughing hysterically at the notion of it all. It's downright stupid in the viewing but really funny in the retelling.

[El Dingo]

I found it hilarious. Basically an Onion article, nay a "Weekly World News" story made into a movie. I am looking forward to the sequel.

[Drunk Monk]

I found it hilarious.

Really? But there was no scenes of defecation or dwarfs eating each others' scabs. :?