Sharknadoes in the Pacific Northwest.

[bhskittykatt]

SyFy recently aired "Sharknado". I don't have cable but I'm sure it was hilarious. If it shows up on Netflix I am definitely watching it while drinking booze.

A local news station posted an article entitled "Sharknadoes -- COULD THEY HAPPEN HERE?!?" Just read it: http://www.komonews.com/weather/blog...215261611.html

(Also, the 7 best scenes from Sharknado:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...o-want-to-see/)

[lordlundar]

Ugh, just watching the commercial for it I could list at least a dozen things wrong with it. I mean, I like brain off stuff every so often as much as the next guy (like Pacific Rim) but this? This honestly made me think that the Zombie Apocalypse already occurred and nobody noticed.

[Zellie Crescent]

Charlie told me about a movie called "Surf nazis vs zombies", yeah I know.

[PepperElf]

"sharks in a tornado"?

Like snakes on a plane?


and now I understand the tumblr image I saw today... someone drew Sherlock (BBC) riding a shark with Watson trying to hold on to the tail. ... I was kinda ... until I saw this. heh

[mjr]

I'm honestly afraid my IQ is going to drop about 10 points just thinking about this so-called "movie".

There are several reasons why it's basically impossible (yes, I know it's sci-fi, but there are people who probably think, "Hey, this COULD happen...)

First off, let's assume either Great White sharks or Tiger Sharks. A full grown Great White weighs approximately 2,400 pounds, and is approximately 17 feet long (max). A Tiger shark weighs approximately 1,400 pounds, and gets between 10 and 14 feet long (max).

Assuming for a moment that a tornado can form over the ocean that is powerful enough to suck up that many sharks, the sharks would likely be dead within a very short period of time, due to flying debris. They would probably not attack people, either.

Even if the premise is that a hurricane sucked up sharks (and there's no evidence of this EVER happening), and the sharks staying aloft long enough to end up in a tornado, the sharks, I would assume, still would not survive long.

And as far as "blowing up" a tornado to dissipate it? Good luck with that. The tornado would have way too much energy to even be affected by a small-scale ordinance.

[lordlundar]

The major "really? you seriously expect me to accept this?" moment was the guy with a chainsaw doing a yelling leap, chainsaw leading, into the open mouth of a roaring (yes, roaring) great white the size of Jaws. All in slow motion.

Yeah, no. I feel just starting to watch it would do FAR more damage to brain cells than near alcohol poisoning.

[mjr]

The major "really? you seriously expect me to accept this?" moment was the guy with a chainsaw doing a yelling leap, chainsaw leading, into the open mouth of a roaring (yes, roaring) great white the size of Jaws. All in slow motion.

Yeah, no. I feel just starting to watch it would do FAR more damage to brain cells than near alcohol poisoning.

The shark in Jaws: The Revenge "roared" too...

[lordlundar]

The shark in Jaws: The Revenge "roared" too...

And I would like to point out that Jaws 4 was, without a doubt, the stupidest movie in the franchise.

And that does not make that shot in Sharknorado (god I almost vomit just typing that) any less absurd.

[mjr]

And I would like to point out that Jaws 4 was, without a doubt, the stupidest movie in the franchise.

And that does not make that shot in Sharknorado (god I almost vomit just typing that) any less absurd.

I'm not sure...Jaws 3 (a.k.a. Jaws 3D) was also pretty stupid...

Not a big fan of those movies, though. For some reason I watched them, however. the original Jaws gave me nightmares for weeks.

[lordlundar]

I'm not sure...Jaws 3 (a.k.a. Jaws 3D) was also pretty stupid...

Nope, Number 4 wins out. When the family quickly takes a jet 3000 miles away from the original location only to find out the shark beat them there.

Top that.

[mjr]

Nope, Number 4 wins out. When the family quickly takes a jet 3000 miles away from the original location only to find out the shark beat them there.

Top that.

Yeah, true...and the main female hero character feels an odd connection to the shark...yeah...

I gotta agree with you on that.

[Kara]

I thought Sharknado was great. It was a stupid concept, they disregarded all laws of nature and physics, and didn't pretend to be anything it wasn't. That is to say, a cheesy movie about sharks in a tornado. There are so many movies where scientific and factual inaccuracy just bug the hell out of me, but for some reason I really enjoyed this. I didn't mind that even if a tornado did pick up a bunch of sharks and dropped them over a city, the ones that hadn't died from not being able to breathe would have died on impact. I didn't mind that a guy jumped into a shark's mouth wielding a chainsaw and not only was swallowed whole and able to cut his way out of its stomach, somehow managed to not even scratch the woman who had already been swallowed whole by this same shark. And I didn't care at all that propane bombs would have no effect on tornadoes and that if you did create a powerful enough explosion to disperse a tornado, it would reform nearby, yet they did it anyway.

And yes, I'm looking forward to the sequel

[bhskittykatt]

I thought Sharknado was great. It was a stupid concept, they disregarded all laws of nature and physics, and didn't pretend to be anything it wasn't. That is to say, a cheesy movie about sharks in a tornado.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets amusement out of awful stupid campy movies. I will find some horrible Z-list movie on Netflix and laugh my ass off the whole way, and when I can find "Sharknado" somewhere where I can watch it (without paying money, though), then I will definitely watch it.

(I actually got into a big argument with Hubs over how he didn't like "Iron Sky". He watches Megashark films by Asylum, but could not get through watching what I consider to be one of the greatest horrible movies of all time? I'm going to make him watch that movie, dammit!)

[Sapphire Silk]

Not a big fan of those movies, though. For some reason I watched them, however. the original Jaws gave me nightmares for weeks.

The original book was a real suspense thriller, and the movie was meant to be as well. Then the Hollywood execs realized, "there's money in sharks," and it all went downhill from there.

I thought Sharknado was great. It was a stupid concept, they disregarded all laws of nature and physics, and didn't pretend to be anything it wasn't. That is to say, a cheesy movie about sharks in a tornado.

And yes, I'm looking forward to the sequel

I watched it last night with friends. You can't watch this movie alone and enjoy it; it's like Rocky Horror Picture Show in that way. You have to have someone with you to dissect all the bad plot elements and bad acting, so as to get something out of your time for watching this.

Our biggest debate was, "Did the writers, during their brainstorming session, ever get to a point where they looked around and said to one another, OK we've gone too far with this one?" and when did they get there if so?

Our consensus was they pretty much quit trying by the finale, and the actors quit trying well before that. It was some of the worst acting I've ever seen, but at least they got a paycheck out of it, so I suppose it must have been worth it since that collection of hacks and has beens won't be nominated for any Oscars or Emmys anytime soon.

Still . . . the scene of the girl falling from the chopper to be swallowed whole, then to emerge from the chainsawed shark with the "hero" was the best part of the movie . . . that and the nitrous in the Hummer. That was already built on the lot. That they didn't seem to pay for, even though the cast seemed to be the only ones for much of the movie who even noticed the sharknado.

My niece and I spent the commercial breaks brainstorming scenes for the sequel.

[Kara]

Yeah, Dana and I had a blast watching it. And she's not as big of a fan of terrible B-movies like I am. And there's lots of sequel buzz. Personally, I'd pay money to see any of these (especially Sharkcano, because that was the first sequel idea I thought of):

http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/6-sha...-need-to-exist