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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Oh no. They were serious. The screen writer must have been a 5 year kid. “Then the shark jumps way up in the sky and he eats this airplane all up, and then he goes and eats a battleship, and then the shark hop on land and eats all the people in the city and then Frankenstein and him get in a fight. . .
parsy, who seriously wonders who could have written this POS with a straight face
Oh, I never thought of that. Of course, any megaladon worth his salt could jump two miles up. And, OUCH!, on the “turbot charged.” Only a very sick individual could have thought of that one.
parsy, who wishes it had been him
That's not nearly as frightening as the thought that a whole bunch of people had to think investing money in this flick was a good idea!
I mean a lone nutter is one thing, but a big bunch with money????
Yeah. Imagine reviewing the screen play.
Shot: Jumbo Jet in clouds, fade to closeup of cabin area. John Doe passenger looks out window and sees giant shark coming thru clouds.
Exterior View. Megalodon grabs jumbo jet in his jaws.
Now does anybody in the room like choke on this?
parsy, who would have done a double take
Anyone who has ever watched SciFi (now Syfy???) knows B movies are alive and well. They have the dumbest, worst made-for-TV movies you can ever imagine.
Nissei Index is still up, so Toyko survived. All is well in Asia.
parsy, who checked.
What the hey. We just had a shark jumping the shark.
oohhh!!! That was so bad it was good. I’m a fan of outrageous puns. Wonder where you fished out that one? =)
Sadly, that’s one of mine.
Sometimes it isn’t easy being in trapped in my mind...
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