(In the TV business, we call these "web exclusives!")
Say
what you will about 2-HEADED SHARK ATTACK, it passes the Bechdel test.
If
a sharknado really happened, Pat Robertson would somehow blame it on gay
sharks.
FUN FACT: Killing a shark with a chainsaw was first seen in 2009's MALIBU SHARK ATTACK.
CGI sharks can do things that would normally be impossible, like caring about the characters in SHARK NIGHT.
SHARKS IN VENICE was actually filmed in Bulgaria. But who's gonna see a movie called SHARKS IN BULGARIA?
The lead shark in SHARKS IN VENICE was played by Gary Busey.
Humans kills 30 - 70 sharks per year in worldwide fisheries, so it makes sense that GHOST SHARK wants revenge.
GHOST SHARK can appear wherever there's water, so I guess some nerd has written some GHOST SHARK/WATERWORLD fan fiction.
GHOST SHARK can appear wherever there's water, so I guess the only safe place is Dune. Arrakis. Desert Planet.
In ACE VENTURA, do
we ever find out why there was a great white shark being held in captivity?
It’s
as if the only reason there’s a shark tank in the room is to provide a comical
set-piece for Ace Ventura.
The makers of the TV-movie SHARK KILL would like you to know that OPEN WATER is a rip-off of their JAWS knock-off.
OPEN WATER was based on a true story where all the character die. And yet, there is a sequel.
Downer movie OPEN WATER doesn't rely on the standard ending of blowing up the shark. You can see why so many filmmakers stick to that formula.
A true JAWS rip-off, SWAMP SHARK features a small town that won't let a killer shark cancel their local event. "I'm not canceling Gator Fest!"
The closing credits of BAIT say that no sharks were harmed in the making of the movie. That's because all the sharks were CGI.
SAND SHARKS is another movie where the shark defies physics. You see this with Ghost Shark, Super Shark,
Avalanche Sharks. These movies
make Swamp Shark seem realistic.
Sand Sharks have been around since that Huey Lewis & the News video "If This Is It."
Sand-dwelling creatures were also the villains in the 1980 film BLOOD BEACH.
Odd that in these shark movies characters never mention the movie JAWS. Do they live in a world where JAWS was never released? Or no one saw it?
People forget that JAWS is a PG movie. The 70's were a different time.
JAWS 2 is the only JAWS film to be adapted as a children's coloring book.
The first JAWS featured complicated men going to sea to hunt a shark, but JAWS 2 is like "the cast of MEATBALLS goes sailing."
JAWS 3 is so bad it makes JAWS 2 look like JAWS 1.
JAWS 4 is so bad it makes JAWS 3 look like JAWS 2.
I don't want to sound like an imdb message board, but in MEGA SHARK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS, there's just NOT ENOUGH MEGA SHARK!!
I hope Sam Jackson's monologue in DEEP BLUE SEA is being used by high school drama students.
I hope Sam Jackson has a long life, but when he passes, I want DEEP BLUE SEA to be his clip at the Academy Awards.
In 1975 the New York Times called JAWS "a big-budget Roger Corman film." Since then Roger Corman's made a number of low-budget JAWS films.
Corman is responsible for: UP FROM THE DEPTHS
PIRANHA
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP
DINOSHARK
PIRANACONDA
SHARKTOPUS
SHARKTOPUS VS. PTEROCUDA
SHARKTOPUS VS. MERMANTULA
Sharks
have this reputation as an eating machine, but sharks eat about 2 percent of
their body weight each day, which is less than humans eat.
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Kevin Maher on the NERD GEEK DORK podcast episode about JAWS
You often have to wonder about people in shark and zombie movies, and whether there is any preexisting culture pertaining to their specific catastrophe -- and if so, why no one ever refers to it.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's like a Harry Turtledove speculative history tale where Peter Benchley was never born.
That's the brilliance of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. The characters talk about the movie NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
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