Sharknado (2013)

Atlantic Rim, lmao. Is it the same company that made Transmorphers?

Man, watching this.. I remember when American Pie came out and I couldn't imagine anyone hotter than Tara Reid and Shannon Elizabeth... Tara Reid really went to shit.

Azeth_sl said:

in case you don't want to watch the whole trailer, this about sums it up:

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Dude the trailer is awesomely bad and a must watch. No need to watch the movie. Funny shit.

Hammerhead shark off the top rope!

LMAO

this is probably the most awesomely bad film ever released by the asylum. it almost makes it look like they gave half a fuck about putting out an entertaining product. if released in the theater it would probably outgross The Lone Ranger

Maester Chuk_sl said:

this is probably the most awesomely bad film ever released by the asylum. it almost makes it look like they gave half a fuck about putting out an entertaining product. if released in the theater it would probably outgross The Lone Ranger

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Syfi channel used to have B movie Actors ,Directors ,Writers etc. However lately last few years to even call them a B movie made for cable is and insult to all B movies this is like porn bad acting, as well as writing , special effects etc lol.


Cheers.

the thing the big studios miss nowadays is that you dont need a big budget to ensure your film will do well. all you need is an interesting, original and/or hilarious concept. throw some mediocre actors in, spend a few bucks on special effects, but dont go crazy and recruit some decent writers to make a script and go shoot the damned thing and you will make a profit.

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but dont go crazy andrecruit some decent writersto make a script and go shoot the damned thing and you will make a profit.

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Well, I think it is pretty clear that the people giving out money to make movies have no idea how to judge writers. I am pretty sure that a random poster on this forum could do a better job writing a script for Sharknado than the actual writers did, let alone if we sampled actual writers.

Been linked 100s of times on these forums alright, but always worth laughing at...

Hollywood doesn't seem to promote on competence, in fact they seem to do the reverse.

And fuck....another 20 minutes gone.

Lol ive done those clips too many times, I go from there to prince and then to tim burton. I can resist at this point.

In regards to writers it should be super easy to find a good one. Just look through the app store and find the top downloaded authors that dont have last name of Meyers . Find one who is succesful yet not already established so you can get them while they're still hungry and not likely to buttfuck your budget. Then you tell them your premise and what you need to happen. Then let them go to work. Also do not fuck over your writer by bringing in a second writer hired by the studio to shit things up.

In case you missed this mates.

The encore showing of this masterpiece is on again Thursday.

heh i love b-films as long they know it and embrace the fact by making an interesting and original film. bad acting and bad fx dont really matter. their mockbuster films however, are total shit. not even worth watching because they are intended to defraud people

This was the worst movie I have ever seen. Worse than Phantoms. Worse than that Travolta shitfest I have blocked from my memory, hell even worse than Species.

I loved it! I laughed so hard at parts I almost shit myself. Truly an epic movie.

Let's not confuse B movies and Z movies. Sharknado is Z.

It's not really a question of quality of the end result, but more the nature of the object. A B movie is, historically, the second movie in a double-bill. From there, things are correlated: less money (aka time) to make it, so less star power and a greater reliance on formulas (aka genre). So exploitation in theaters implies production level implies nature of content. From this logic Z is derived: very low production value, reliance on shock/extremes, distribution in secondary or even tertiary circuits (drive-in, direct to video, cable). That being said, you can make terrible A movies (don't we see a number of those every year?) as well as brilliant Z movies (Sharknado apparently?) and as far as I am concerned, many of my favorite movies are japanese B movies from the '60s / '70s.

toxic avenger and class of nuke em high invented the z movie reference. gross out exploitive film with next to no budget. sharknado i wouldnt even put in the same category. for one it has a probably several million dollar budget and it has recognizable (albeit hasbeen) actors

Well... what is generally used as the origin of Z are Ed Wood's movies (the archetype being Plan 9 From Outer Space - 1959). It is debatable though because, as far as we know, Ed Wood was trying to make great movies with no money and the end results are more accidents due to his... let's say very own blend of optimism and naivete, instead of a conscious, deliberate process (as is the case with Trauma movies). Apparently the term C movie is also used for some cheap 'made for Cable' movies, but in the case of Sharknado, the over the top concept pushes it firmly into Z territory for me.

That makes me think I saw last week Hentai Kamen (that japanese super hero flick with the guy who uses panties as a mask - often very funny in its first half, but then it cools down) and that's also another interesting case of Z. Tiny production, over the top concept, but still a cast of TV actors who work a lot and a scenario based on a manga (so: licensing fees) and to make it even more odd: it made mad bank at the box office!