No, really, after the week we’ve had where every opportunist out there is trying to blame global warming for the Moore Oklahoma tornado, I’m not kidding. Sharknadoes are the new EF10. The brief description:
When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in the desert, nature’s deadliest killer rules water, land, and air.
This is actually a movie in production with a cast. I can’t tell yet if its an eco-thriller in the Day After Tomorrow genre or high camp of the Plan 9 From Outer Space genre. Whatever it is, the poster and DVD cover artwork says it all.
No word yet on whether James Hansen, Bill McKibben, Brad Johnson, and Joe Romm make cameo appearances.
It is really poor timing and in poor taste (as Senator Whitehouse tried and learned) on the part of the producers to make this film and highlight it at Cannes Film Festival.
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Sharknado?
Ohhhhhhhkaaaaaaaaaay
I’d go see it if the Sharknado hit a nuclear plant and became an Atomic Sharknado. Regular Sharknado? Eh, not really enough going on there for me. Make it an Atomic Sharknado, throw in a Tara Reid nude scene and I think you got something I’ll pay $10 to see. Regular Sharknado with no topless Tara isn’t even going to make my Netflix instant cue.
Another cheesy, direct-to-TV, SyFy “original” movie, perhaps? Invariably with a cast of unknowns or previous “semi-knowns” who are past their expiration date (eg, Tara Reid)
Over the weekend I watched a little of SyFy’s “Shark-topus” … a humongous shark with 50 ft tentacles that also walks onto the adjacent land to terrorize the sunbathers.
And then there is SyFy’s “Man-squito”.
SyFy has a knack for these amusing, tongue-in-cheek mashups of creatures.
Unless it contains long and explicit scenes of gay shark sex, it won’t meet the new Cannes standard.
Maybe they will have a carnival owner create a T-Rex by reconstituting it’s DNA from mosquitos preserved in amber, and then the T-Rex will eat the sharks, snatching them out of the sky like a bear eating salmon.
Save us T-Rex.
Godzilla vs The Sharknado
“Enough said!”
The FX Channel has a lot of great movies like that one, usually shown during afternoons to fill up programming time.
Mega Python vs Gatoroid was a classic.
http://www.syfy.com/monstermadness/
I would like to see Sharnado vs the Sharktopus.
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Now, be nice. Many of them aren’t “has-beens” but rather “I sure wish I was’es”. (Did I just invent a word?)
I like the made-for-SyFy movies at times. It’s where ’50’s B-movie movie plots go to get updated and become C-movie plots. Ever since “Mystery Science Theater 3000” went off the air there’s no better place to laugh at what is intended to terrify.
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Maybe someone will make “Monty Python vs Gatorade”?
They got that idea from Oz. Sharks have been invading water traps on a Qld golf course, fair dinkum, after floods there. Nasty ones too, known to kill humans.(Bull sharks) Hence the golf course has closed and is finding it hard to financially to clear them out, as it happened a few years ago too and obviously coming in from the sea somehow. Thank goodness they are not crocodiles! I believe one comes onto a Florida golf course? There are pics on YouTube or Gooogle, if you wish to check it out.
…for those puzzled by the “frickin’ laser beams” in reference to sharks, please see:
http://thinkingshift.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/coming-to-australia/
My Aussie friends tell me that this map is 100% on the money.