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That's too low budget even for me. But Google has lots of Strain pics... |
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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Hey I’m with ya! I watch Cheesy Sci fi movies.
I ain’t using “When sharks fly” as an expression any more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYRZ_-RXtk&NR=1
What did that rascal jump, about 20,000 feet up? Maybe if you’re doing 500 knots you get a little extra boost. . .
parsy, who says, “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the air. . . .
Actually, the “destroyer” alternated between some cheesy SFX [even by SyFy standards] and stock footage of an IOWA class battleship, with more cheesy effects having the guns fire from the forward position on the forward turrets. And Lamas looked like he was auditioning for the role of Mr. Barnaby in Laurel and Hardy’s “March of the Wooden Soldiers”.
Despite the piscatory title, a turkey of epic proportions.
That Shark ( they called it Sharkzilla LOL ) musta had a twin turbo to fly so high.
I’m still using when pigs fly as an expression.
This was a great film. had Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Janeanne Garofolo, Ron Howard, etc.
Also had one of the funniest lines I ever heard in a movie.
parsy, who has a DVD of it.
This one was a Megaladon that snatches airliners out of the atmosphere.
As bad as WarBirds.
Here’s a quick clip. But click on the Brian Krause one, and look at the Japanese” Truck. They could have at least painted over the U S Army numbers, decals, stars, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1prpjrZmb8
parsy, who wonders who was in charge of this
That jet was in the clouds. Maybe they should have renamed it, “Sharks on Planes”. . .
parsy, who says that was just friggin stupid.
Yes, it was a good movie. Sometimes scifi hits a good one.
parsy, who likes the Ginger Snaps movies, too
Tried to watch it, thinking it might possibly have been a purposeful hoot. Alas, not with syfy. So much potential, but such low creativity hobbling on high-tech crutches.
Smeg
I enjoyed the movie.
Oh well now please, of course she looks bad there. Couldn’t you post one from her sitting on the beach at the end of the movie? At least there she had her hair down.
In all fairness, given that the flight attendant was having people raise their seat backs to the fully up position, they probably were preparing for landing any may have only been at 10,000 ft, not cruising at 34,000 ft.
Like that makes a huge difference...
It was because his last meal was a school of Greenland Turbot.
wait for it.
Yes
(Ready?)
He was
Turbot charged...
See post #78.
sorry. sorry. sorry. sorry. sorry. sorry. sorry. sorry.
You missed a good game ...ahhh - football is back! ;-)
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