like nascar = auto wrecks
Posted on 08/29/2009 8:12:59 PM PDT by parsifal
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
When the trailer hit for writer/director Jack Perez’s ‘Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus’, the Internet was a buzz with excitement and the hope that a true B-Movie had returned. Pitching two extinct goliaths of the oceans, the megalodon, a sixty feet long mega shark and a giant octopus, against each other sounded like a stroke of genius but the execution harks back to the very worst of the B-Movie era to produce a film that even Ed Wood would be ashamed of.
A low budget, B-Movie will never attract a big name star but they can bring in someone who you might have heard of. For ‘Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus’, writer/director Jack Perez has gone back to the 80s and hired a woman who was a teen sensation. With hits like ‘Shake your love’, ‘Only in my dreams’ and ‘Foolish Beat’, Debbie Gibson was the Britney Spears of her generation. Now, known as a more grown up Deborah Gibson she has turned her talents to acting but she need not have bothered. As Emma MacNeil, you are expected to believe that see is a marine scientist who can save the world from a giant shark and an octopus by pouring different coloured liquids into test tubes. With your Pop Princess on board, she is joined by other performers who shouldn’t have a space in the life raft. Vic Chao is awful as Dr. Seiji Shimada, the love interest for Gibson and Sean Lawlor is just as bad as her mentor Lamar Sanders. The worst of the bunch is Lorenzo Lamas, who just wants to be the new Steven Segal and he has the ponytail to prove it.
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Yes, I’ve seen cobra vs. python. Iraq War veteran werewolves. Beowulf, complete with Grecian architecture and doric columns. Beowulf vs. Werewolves.
Not like you can escape to the History Channel. They should start a new series, Ice Road Suckers, for all of us have watched waiting for a big rig to break the ice.
parsy, who thinks Ed Wood has had the last laugh
500 knots an hour is an acceleration, not a speed.
Whoa!
I’ve never seen so much action and excitement crammed into one trailer.
cough....
Was that an F-22 that got slapped out of the sky?
It was friggin horrible. It just took me a bit to catch on that I wasn’t watching NCIS and having like a flashback to the 70’s, although I am not admitting to any use of illegal substances back when I was a teenager.
parsy, who said like Whoa Dude! Where did that giant shark come from?
You gotta watch it. Call it penance or something.
parsy, who figures since this did not kill him, it made him stronger.
Ah, Red Dwarf. :)
But, they do keep a lot of Computer Enhanced Graphics guys employed. I did not see the credits, did they have a technical adviser on this film?
parsy, who remembers there was a technical adviser listed in the credits on the orgy scene in one of those Biblical epics
Oh I will!
Yep, if you like Godzilla vs. Some Other Giant Lizard type flick.
Couldn’t tell. The durn octopus slapped it down so fast. I think it was Japenese Defense Force plane. One of the reasons why we need the F-22 in addition to F-35’s, IMHO. Octupi would have too easy a time with the F-35’s as slow as they are.
parsy, who wouldn’t put it past the Chicoms to genetically alter octupi after seeing this flick
This one is a bit morbid for me, you understand.
Dunno. It has legs...
like nascar = auto wrecks
For me, nascar is like ballet. Just one of those things I could never get into. Can’t keep up with who is leading who. Bout like watching soccer. No fun, unless your kid is playing.
parsy, who likes football
You're right. They have the worst computer graphics.
maybe it was ‘500 don knotts’ an hour....
It was hug killer sharks all day today on scifi.
I imagine all day tomorrow it will be huge killer crocodiles.
Incredible, Mr Limpet...
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