Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Real Movie News ^ | August 30, 2009 | jamiekelwick

[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.

[gcraig]

It is an honor to recognize your interesting posts. You are ‘on’ tonight! lol

[mowowie]

No, There was no “hugging” of giant sharks I meant “huge”.
lol

[Lurker]

I was rooting for the octopus.

Lurker, who relishes his Saturday Night Cheezy SciFi...

[pctech]

Oh come on she wasn’t that bad. Go ahead and post the pic.

[parsifal]

There was one that was like “Tremors” but took place in Afghanistan. It was good. I also liked the Book of Animals or something like that. A Merlin movies.

Most of their stuff though is schlock IMHO.

parsy, who can enjoy schlock

[parsifal]

Thanks. I was wondering how NCIS was going to handle the critters. I’ll probably have weird dreams about this.

parsy, who is looking forward to the weird dreams

[Chances Are]

There was one that was like “Tremors” but took place in Afghanistan.

That must have been interesting!

CA....

[theFIRMbss]

>Go ahead and post the pic

Gibson looked like she was a glammed up Courtney Love. That's not a good look.

[parsifal]

Me too, most of the time. Kraken, Tentacles of the Deep is coming on. Maybe all these scary movies are a reflective expression of our collective unconscious that something was lurking in our society that is going to eat us alive.

parsy, who is pitching a softball

[theFIRMbss]

I'd like to point out
your thread's almost fifty posts
and nobody here

has called anyone
rude names or shouted or cursed
or invoked Hitler!

[parsifal]

It was. GI’s , Taliban, good Afghans, diamonds, caves, guns, monsters, monsters eating Blackhawk copters, Jihadists eaten alive by giant earthworms. Yes, this flick had everything.

parsy, who would prefer more vampires

[aegiscg47]

Actually, Dog Soldiers, about a squad of British soldiers on an exercise in what looks to be Scotland runs into a village of werewolves was pretty good. Sort of like Aliens with soldiers against creatures, but it was better than 95% of the stuff that's been on there.

[parsifal]

Maybe we have found the common bond between all Freepers? Schlocky sci fi movies is the thread that unites us.

parsy, who loved the big shark taking a bite out of the Golden Gate Bridge.

[parsifal]

Don’t laugh, but I liked that one so much I bought it on VHS.

parsy, who has watched it more than once

[Lurker]

Maybe all these scary movies are a reflective expression of our collective unconscious that something was lurking in our society that is going to eat us alive.

Yep. And guys like Parsy opened the gates for the barbarians in the name of 'fairness'.

Lurker, who thinks Parsy is like the teenage chick who is sure the Monster won't get her, even though she's been breaking the Rules since the first scene.....

[parsifal]

You wouldn’t happen to have any pics of Julie Strain as “Nurse Kevorkian” or maybe “Miss Kervorkian”? from the movie about Morty Fineman, king of exploitation flicks, called “The Independent” do you?

One of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

parsy, who still laughs at “R.F. Fineman”

[parsifal]

Yeah, but one chick always survives. Most of the time.

parsy, the fair and just

[theFIRMbss]

>Dog Soldiers, about a squad of British soldiers on an exercise in what looks to be Scotland runs into a village of werewolves was pretty good

Dog Soldiers is good. From the commentary track my impression was the Euro release might be better than our cut if you can get it.

[null and void]

That’s RACIST!

[Redcitizen]

The producers jumped the shark literally when that airliner got chomped.