Sharktopus!

[thatguy]

Sharktopus!

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[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

One of our local Radio Personalities will be in Sharktopus. He did shameless on-air courting to get the role. He even did a bit. His tagline, "Damn you, Sharktopus"

Plus, it will be brought to you by those quality guys over at Roger Corman studios. How can it be bad.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Okay, it did air on SyFy, but it comes from the Roger Corman studios. It's been twenty years since I worked on a Corman project and it's good to know that the quality hasn't improved since I made Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2

Eric Roberts makes a shark octopus hybrid for the navy. He controls it via a laptop and some implants. Naturally, something goes wrong and the Sharktopus loses it's electronic chains. It's starts on a killing rampage and only Eric Roberts daughter and some hotshot diver are the world's only hope to stop this predator. Only hope in the film's worldview. The Navy does offer to come in but Eric Roberts is certain he can contain the beast. I wonder what happens to Eric Roberts in the film?

There are hours of achingly bad expository dialogue. The CGI is hysterical. Most of the shots are badly lit. Which is good because it makes it difficult to gauge how bad the actors are doing. They only have one song for the soundtrack. They are in Puerto Vallarta for most of the film but they don't make very good use of the location. Unfortunately for the production a storm must have occurred during the shooting because half the shots are bright and sunny, the other half are overcast and cloudy. Sometimes in the same scene. Fabulous.

After Eric Roberts, the only person in the cast I could name would be Ralph Garman who works on the radio station I listen to here in Los Angeles. Garman has a wonderful death scene. He also did the bumpers for the movie as it aired on Syfy. After Roberts and Garman it was d or f list actors. And you think with all the starlets in Hollywood they could get hotter actors and actresses in the movie. Especially when half the scenes take place on the beach with girls in bikinis. Maybe in the sequel.

All that being said, go see this film.

[Drunk Monk]

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[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Ha!

Now wasn't that a pain in the butt?

[Drunk Monk]

We'd expect no less from Mr. 47.5 lbs.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

That would be the pain in the front.

[King Bob]

I caught the last 30 minutes or so. I was entertained. It reminded me of some of the movies that used to show at the Quad

[Drunk Monk]

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