Why do I think people are responding to this thing by think "They made another one? 
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While I'm thinking "They made a first one?"
"While I'm thinking "They made a first one?
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Sharknado 2: The Re-Sharkening!
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Sharknado? More like Sharkicane.
The Re-Sharkening? How about Die Hard with Sharks?
I saw both movies back to back last night. They were stupid and I had a blast! I had to turn off that Megashark vs Giant Octopus movie but these ones had me for the full three hours because I just couldn't look away.
Bring on 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. That's all I have to say. I wouldn't worry about them getting worse. The good thing about this series is that they started at rock bottom.
The Re-Sharkening? How about Die Hard with Sharks?
I saw both movies back to back last night. They were stupid and I had a blast! I had to turn off that Megashark vs Giant Octopus movie but these ones had me for the full three hours because I just couldn't look away.
- Ian Ziering does indeed look great, just as good as he did in his 90210 days.
- They used a hummer but they didn't drive it through 3 feet of water. Missed opportunity.
- A lead named Fin? *groan!*
- Fin leaping into the shark's mouth with the chainsaw was awsome. I had to rewind and watch it again.
- "fin" at the end? *groan!*
- Apparently Ian Ziering took this job because he had a kid on the way and he and his wife decided that he needed the work.
- The Second One… Best opening to a movie ever. Sharks on a plane. And I have to say, this one had some pretty good puns and one-liners. Even stinkers have inspired moments.
- You guys covered some of the cameos and homages. Adding to the list, we had Jared the Subway sandwich guy, Billy Ray Cyrus as "Doc" and Daymond John from Shark Tank. They really went all out with these guest appearances. I guess someone gave them a budget. Any others? I almost missed Wil Wheaton's cameo. It was too "blink and you'll miss it." That woman screaming next to him was his real-life wife, btw. I figured she was before looking it up.
- Sharknado has become quite the phenomenon. There's even a song. A song!
- Tara Reid got top billing in the first one but they rectified that in the next one. She was probably the bigger name and draw but Ziering is the real star and the one who's on the rise as our latest breakout action hero.
- You know who was missing from the second movie? Cassandra Scerbo. You missed her too. Yes you did.
Bring on 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. That's all I have to say. I wouldn't worry about them getting worse. The good thing about this series is that they started at rock bottom.
The White House could work. Mayhem and destruction in the capitol as our hero, with the support of the President, sets out to stop more sharknadoes with his weapon of choice… a chainsaw. And throw in Air Force One.
Honestly, she was probably the "best" thing about the first movie though I agree Ziering can hold his own pretty well in the movie(s). Tara Reid isn't nearly enough, at all, to hold my interest in the "babe factor" in movies like this.
The only thing I didn't get in the first one was Scerbo's inexplicable interest in her boss which she shrugs off at the end and apparently hooks up with the son instead. It's also odd in that movie while in the parts-shop or whatever that was she suddenly shy and self-conscious about her thigh-scars when earlier in the movie she's walking around in a two-piece bikini giving he scars not a second thought. Which, really, considering the rest of her body is damn-near flawless her thigh scars are no big thing.
Or perhaps the hero IS the president. Jumps out from behind the Oval Office desk with a chainsaw...RRZZZZ!!!
That's odd. Megashark vs. Giant Octopus is one of my favorites-- second only to Sharktopus.
I finally figured it out, too. At first I thought it was the woman from Big Bang Theory.
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is a giant Sharknado full of intelligent Space Sharks!
I watched both of them last night after the attention they had been getting. I was hoping for some tongue-in-cheek humour and something with a sense of fun but they're just bad. The second one especially felt smug to me. I don't know why people have latched onto them because they aren't really any different from the other Asylum films I've seen.
Look at all that money that could have been used for, let's say, a nice Stargate TV film.
Sharknado is more fun.
The first one was just on that line for a self-aware movie to know exactly what it is and still be "good", "good" at least on a level to enjoy a bad movie. Somehow the ridiculousness in it worked just enough to be "bad-movie entertaining." The tropes in play, the poor special effects the complete illogic of pretty much everything that happens (not everything I'm entirely convinced was intentional and happened because that's just how little the movie makers cared.)
And, damn, it flirted with that line.
The second one went past that line. It went into being that class-clown that knows he can get away with pretty much anything he wants because the teacher doesn't give a damn.
I mean, there's a LOT we have to accept for the first movie to work and it manages to somehow make it work because it doesn't seem to ask *too* much. I mean it "is" possible for a tornado to pick up aquatic life and deposit it on land. It happens all of the time, in fact. We just have to accept that this tornado picked up countless sharks, that they didn't "drown" in the air, and that they were very viscous and deadly when deposited on the ground. (And able to bite through the roof of SUVs.)
The second movie asks way too much, IMHO. And, really, the cameos were too much and, really, a radial saw prosthetic hand that was built in minutes? And she lost her hand literally hours earlier and doesn't seem too much the worse for ware for it? Ugghhhh.
And, damn, it flirted with that line.
The second one went past that line. It went into being that class-clown that knows he can get away with pretty much anything he wants because the teacher doesn't give a damn.
I mean, there's a LOT we have to accept for the first movie to work and it manages to somehow make it work because it doesn't seem to ask *too* much. I mean it "is" possible for a tornado to pick up aquatic life and deposit it on land. It happens all of the time, in fact. We just have to accept that this tornado picked up countless sharks, that they didn't "drown" in the air, and that they were very viscous and deadly when deposited on the ground. (And able to bite through the roof of SUVs.)
The second movie asks way too much, IMHO. And, really, the cameos were too much and, really, a radial saw prosthetic hand that was built in minutes? And she lost her hand literally hours earlier and doesn't seem too much the worse for ware for it? Ugghhhh.
My wife, son, and I finally watched Sharknado 2 last night.
Fantastic fun. Most all my thoughts have already been expressed. Great cameos, especially Al Roker and Matt Lauer taking this whole ridiculous thing seriously.
Tara Reid can't act to save her life, but she gets redemption points for the buzz-saw on the hand trick. And when he pulled her arm out of the shark's mouth and got her ring...holy crap we were laughing our asses off.
Most everyone looked great (exception goes to Vivica Fox...yikes).
Good fun, and I agree the next one should be in space.
Fantastic fun. Most all my thoughts have already been expressed. Great cameos, especially Al Roker and Matt Lauer taking this whole ridiculous thing seriously.
Tara Reid can't act to save her life, but she gets redemption points for the buzz-saw on the hand trick. And when he pulled her arm out of the shark's mouth and got her ring...holy crap we were laughing our asses off.
Most everyone looked great (exception goes to Vivica Fox...yikes).
Good fun, and I agree the next one should be in space.
ha! ha! Conan O'Brien stole my joke. Few years ago I made a TNG machinima episode in which crew plays beach volleyball with Riker's severed head and now I see his scene in "Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda" consist of that: Sharktopus kills him and people play beach volleyball with his severed head
Conan's cameo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3K-2Zy26QA
Conan's cameo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3K-2Zy26QA
Oooh, I like Slothcano. 
The third one airs tonight and it looks like they're in Washington DC.
They made Lavalantula, which airs on July 25th.So I wonder how long it'll be before these "cousins" show up on SyFy...
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Just started watching my DVR'ing of this.... I'm minutes into it. Ian Zerring is Tom Cruising.... Ugh. This is painful.
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Well, the hot bikini/bartender chick from the first one is in it, so there's that.
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Well, the hot bikini/bartender chick from the first one is in it, so there's that.
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^ That's good to hear. Gotta get around to watching this.
A 4th movie has been green-lit.
A 4th movie has been green-lit.
These paychecks must be pretty good for Ian Ziering.
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