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Sharknado 2: The Re-Sharkening!

Trekker4747

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Or whatever.

On in a few minutes on "SyFy" :rolleyes:

Let the terribleness begin!

Okay.... the first movie was bad, sure.

But this movie? Just 15 minutes in and it's absolutely terrible.
 
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Looks like it's called Sharknado 2: The Second One. They're making a third movie for 2015.

Yeah, I made-up my own sub-title as I didn't like theirs. ;)

God, this movie....

Ah, Tara Reid drugged-up, uncertain and confused. This feels a bit more like it.

How is it Ian Ziering looks better at 50 than Tara Reid looks at 38?
 
Looks like it's given her a bit of a career resurgence.

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh...... mayyybeeeeeeeeeeeee.


Anyway, this one is far, far worse than first one. Vastly worse.

And that's saying a lot since the first one is pretty damn bad.

The first one was pretty self-aware in what it was doing but the right amount of self-awareness that made it enjoyable.

This one is *very* self-aware, unfortuantely not the right kind of self-awareness to make it enjoyable as a bad movie because it's just trying way to damn hard.
 
The plot summary (more like a teaser summary) on Wikipedia is absolute gold:

A second 'Sharknado' strikes, this time in New York City.
Fin and his family are on a Boeing 747, flight 209, on the way to New York city. On the way, Fin sees sharks outside the plane. One lands on the plane wing and he begins to call out that something was on the wing, although when people look, they see nothing and quickly dismiss it, telling him to "calm down". He dismisses them as hallucinations. Then, the sharks attack. A shark crashes into an engine on the left wing and blows it up. As the plane flies through the storm, a shark flies into the passenger area and decapitates a steward. Another breaks through one of the windows of the cockpit, and eats the copilot's top half. The pilot tries to pull her back, but they are both dragged out. This leaves the plane without a pilot. Fin goes to pilot the plane, and April follows. She is swept out the door, and a police officer from earlier who had told to Fin to calm down, tries to save her, but is pushed to the wall by a serving cart. As he tries to drag her back in, he passes her a gun. She tries to shoot a shark, but it takes her hand. She enters shock. Fin lands the plane successfully.
The opening credits show as the sharknado song plays and sharksanity breaks loose.

Sharksanity.
 
Honestly, this was just what I was in the mood for tonight. And they had me with the opening take-off on "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet":

Ohmigod, there's a shark on the wing of the plane!

I was just disappointed that so much of the flick was confined to the Times Square area. I really wanted to to see the Flatiron Building or the West Village get caught in a sharknado!
 
I recorded it to watch today (maybe), but I'll never understand the success of the original Sharknado. It was really no better or worse or more entertaining than most of these movies. What I want is more Sharktopus! :rommie:
 
I recorded it to watch today (maybe), but I'll never understand the success of the original Sharknado. It was really no better or worse or more entertaining than most of these movies. What I want is more Sharktopus! :rommie:

You're in luck. Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda debuts Saturday night!
 
I saw Pyranahconda last week, which was so terrible that it was sort of fun. :confused:

These films are okay as entertainment, but I can't watch them too much as it just gets boring. Not fussed about Sharknado 2 really.
 
I'm 14 minutes into watching this and enjoying it immensely. So much so that I fear I may succumb to cheese poisoning. Or have a ham overdose. Either way, it's cool.
 
I liked that it was actually filmed in NYC, and not Vancouver or Bulgaria posing as NYC.

So where next? Vegas? Outer space?
 
^^ The second one is better, mainly because of all the cameos. I cracked up when I saw Robert Hayes in the cockpit. :rommie:

The movie itself was an incoherent mess-- which is normal for Asylum movies, but this was even moreso. It was just a random string of events. They don't even bother to try to explain how sharknadoes can exist, or where all the sharks come from, or why a shark caught up in a storm would care about attacking people or be able to control their flight. And the laws of physics? Who cares about the laws of physics? And who cares about making the Statue of Liberty's head the right size? And who cares about logic? "If those two tornadoes merge in downtown Manhattan, there will be untold devastation." Dude, one regular tornado in downtown Manhattan would cause untold devastation. :rommie: And I love how Fin gave an interview to the press and then was rushing frantically into the hospital by his wife's side. :rommie:

The cameos were funny, though. Wil Wheaton and Kelly Ripa, Robert Hayes as the pilot, Judd Hirsch as a cab driver, Downtown Julie Brown as a nurse-- I wonder if she reminisced with Kari Wuhrer. Actually, the regular cast was half character actor cameos. These Sciffy movies are becoming the Love Boat of the 21st Century. And I see those two talk show people advertised on MeTV all the time, so they're from a real show, and I'm assuming all the newscasters were real, too. I'm sure there were others that I didn't recognize.

And the movie did have its moments. The homage to "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet," the New York locations, the difficulty in finding weapons and supplies, the buzz-saw hand. Totally nuts.

I recorded it to watch today (maybe), but I'll never understand the success of the original Sharknado. It was really no better or worse or more entertaining than most of these movies. What I want is more Sharktopus! :rommie:

You're in luck. Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda debuts Saturday night!
Yes! That commercial was the best part of the movie. :bolian: :rommie:
 
The movie itself was an incoherent mess-- which is normal for Asylum movies, but this was even moreso. It was just a random string of events.

Yes, I think I read that in a review. The title of the article was Duh. ;)

They don't even bother to try to explain how sharknadoes can exist, or where all the sharks come from, or why a shark caught up in a storm would care about attacking people or be able to control their flight. And the laws of physics? Who cares about the laws of physics? And who cares about making the Statue of Liberty's head the right size? And who cares about logic? "If those two tornadoes merge in downtown Manhattan, there will be untold devastation." Dude, one regular tornado in downtown Manhattan would cause untold devastation. :rommie: And I love how Fin gave an interview to the press and then was rushing frantically into the hospital by his wife's side. :rommie:

You're expecting any kind of coherent plot or logical sense from an Asylum movie? Ever? What planet are you from? :wtf:

This is the whole POINT of Asylum stuff: It's not, and never was, supposed to make any kind of sense. It's always been just shitty acting and nonsensical (often ripped-off) plots. People love them for that!

B-movies (or in the Asylum's case, more like Z-movies) are an industry unto themselves. Some actors, like Tim Thomerson, make their entire careers from them. You can't ever expect stuff like this to be like real movies (i.e. ones with actual plots and good actors), because that undermines the whole premise. It's literally SUPPOSED to be bad!

As for Sharknado 2: Best scene in the entire film, no question, has got to be the 'home run': :guffaw:

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Although I'm a bit miffed that Kevin Millar's cameo didn't work out:

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