Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante)

[Irish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsqFR5bh6Q

IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2724064/)

:P

[dreamdead]

Edited in the poll, Irish. Though this one likely only needs one poll option... :)

[Irish]

Edited in the poll, Irish. Though this one likely only needs one poll option... :)

Ha, thank you! I totally forgot about the poll*. I expect every vote to be a "Yay," of course.

* I mostly posted the thread as a joke because so many people were talking about this on twitter.

[Henry Gale]

Oh shoot. I accidentally posted my review for this in the Pacific Rim thread. Please refer to those thoughts that were meant to describe this masterstroke of tension and raw spectacle.

[Derek]

I love Tara Reid's career trajectory: Coen Brothers film --> Robert Altman film --> Uwe Boll film --> Sharknado. Where can it possibly go next??

[Skitch]

Nothing can ever describe this better than "a thing that exists".

[Raiders]

I watched this... and it was ever so glorious. God, I hope KF made sure to watch / DVR it. It has to be seen to be believed.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I can't believe I fucking forgot. My day is ruined. Unless they're rerunning it this weekend. Otherwise I'll have to try to find another way...

[Kurosawa Fan]

It doesn't air again until August 22nd. Son of a...

[amberlita]

Jesus. NBC Nightly News actually reported on this tonight.

[Irish]

Jesus. NBC Nightly News actually reported on this tonight.

SyFy is owned by NBCUniversal.

[amberlita]

SyFy is owned by NBCUniversal.

Brian Williams has more integrity than that!!!

[Irish]

Brian Williams has more integrity than that!!!

:D

[Henry Gale]

It doesn't air again until August 22nd. Son of a...

Fear not! SyFy's rerunning it in the States next week! (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/07/sharknado-will-return-next-thursday-on-syfy/)

Hahaha it's an ABC News story too.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Fear not! SyFy's rerunning it in the States next week! (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/07/sharknado-will-return-next-thursday-on-syfy/)

Hahaha it's an ABC News story too.

FUCK. YES.

[Ezee E]

This was all the talk during the week in California radio, beaches, etc... I don't know how that many people saw it if it was just on SyFy... But it's a huge hit apparently.

[eternity]

Too much shark, not enough nado.

[EyesWideOpen]

This was all the talk during the week in California radio, beaches, etc... I don't know how that many people saw it if it was just on SyFy... But it's a huge hit apparently.

People like watching crap. That's why Grown Ups 2 is #1 at the box office.

[D_Davis]

How is it that there is a Grown Ups 2, when I've never even heard of Grown Ups 1?

[EyesWideOpen]

How is it that there is a Grown Ups 2, when I've never even heard of Grown Ups 1?

Living in Seattle keeps you sheltered from the rest of the country's nonsense.

[Ivan Drago]

I do not have cable, otherwise I would've eaten this up.

I have to see this as soon as possible.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I did not like this. A couple inspired cartoon beats, but most just the usual Asylum mode of cynical, tedious, secondary filmmaking.

[Raiders]

I did not like this. A couple inspired cartoon beats, but most just the usual Asylum mode of cynical, tedious, secondary filmmaking.

Admittedly, this is only really worth it for the last 30 minutes when the film just takes one WTF beat after another, but I was rolling through those last minutes. Everyone else talks about the guy from 90210 leaping into a shark and chainsawing his way out, but I am focusing on that brilliant moment when a swimming pool EXPLODES. Epic stuff.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I thought the last 60 minutes was hysterical. The constant inconsistencies in weather, geography, and character location from shot to shot brought huge laughs, but what I found even more hilarious was the fact that, outside of the main group of five people, no one else seemed to care about what was going on. Old people swimming in the pool, mailman delivering packages in the background, cars driving by nonchalantly on the bridge as the school kids are being saved, etc. The indifference to the event of every background car/bystander was gold. And then of course there's the action in the last 30 minutes. Swimming pool/car explosions, picking off flying sharks with a handgun from a mile away, watching Steve Sanders pretend to drive a car, watching Aussie guy try to flick a shark off his leg like it was poo stuck to his shoe, slow-motion Tara Reid cart kick, chainsaw escape, etc.

A sequel will be awful because they'll try waaaay too hard, but the little things in this one went the extra mile and made it well worth watching.

[Spun Lepton]

A sequel will be awful because they'll try waaaay too hard, but the little things in this one went the extra mile and made it well worth watching.

The Asylum never tries. Their modus operandi is to simply not give a shit.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Admittedly, this is only really worth it for the last 30 minutes when the film just takes one WTF beat after another, but I was rolling through those last minutes. Everyone else talks about the guy from 90210 leaping into a shark and chainsawing his way out, but I am focusing on that brilliant moment when a swimming pool EXPLODES. Epic stuff.

I most liked the opening segment when the hurricane is suddenly, inexplicably there, and the master shots of the ocean look calm, shots through the window look like the ocean is two feet away, and sunlight is totally variable. The white balance in this film gave me a headache.

[TGM]

Too much shark, not enough nado.

Pretty much this, though I still thought it was pretty fun, even if there wasn't nearly enough flying sharks. However, when I watched this last night I also caught the last 10 minutes of Sharktopus. Now THERE'S a ridiculous movie! I kinda need to see that one in its entirety at some point. :P

[Winston*]

Pretty much this, though I still thought it was pretty fun, even if there wasn't nearly enough flying sharks. However, when I watched this last night I also caught the last 10 minutes of Sharktopus. Now THERE'S a ridiculous movie! I kinda need to see that one in its entirety at some point. :P


Sharktopus is a much funnier concept to me than Sharknado. I love the ridiculous way it moves outside of the water.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87zVkIXNI0

[Gizmo]

Dinoshark is a true masterpiece. I missed this one, will have to try and set it up to record.

[Morris Schæffer]

http://youtu.be/qVQDcKCINS

We have Ghost Shark also!

[Spun Lepton]

KOALACANO!
CRABALANCHE!!
HIPPOPOTAMUDSLIDE!!!
ALPACAPOCALYPSE!!!!

[Ezee E]

I'd be down for a Hippo Horror movie.

[Gizmo]

I'd be down for a Hippo Horror movie.


http://youtu.be/wlN_O9FmJPU

[Spun Lepton]

This was even worse than I was expecting. Wasn't it supposed to be funny? Or was the whole joke that the filmmakers didn't give a shit? I mean, they don't appear to give a shit about any of their output, so what makes it funny all of a sudden? And why the fuck call the movie Sharknado when the titular Sharknado doesn't even appear until an hour into it? Prior to that it's just another lame Asylum shark movie. Bleh.

2/10

[Dukefrukem]

I watched this. It's so hard to determine motive here.

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5wf1f8Nmt8