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Sharknado recommendation

rumpofsteelskin said:
Warning: watching Showgirls 2 is like an endurance test. You'll be a stronger person if you make it through, though. I've seen it three times, including once in the theater, and I'm now able to regenerate limbs.
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The thing is, there is the original movie then the sequels get weirder and weirder and self-referential. Sharknado was always preposterous, but if you saw Death Wish and its sequels, the final one was pretty much a parody of earlier ones (not counting newest Bruce Willis one which I haven't seen).

Tremors was another one like that. It got funnier and funnier really.

But I am SO excited to learn there is sequel to Showgirls. OMG. That first one was...just....indescribably bad. And yet I'll watch minutes of as I zip by...:rofl:rofl
 
antidote said:
Sharknado/other syfy (ugh spelling)
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syfy is a trademark, when the SciFi channel changed it's name (which is, hilariously, when some diehard geeks thing the channel jumped the shark....)

anyway, SciFi is still the genre. syfy is marketing.
 
auntiebling said:
syfy is a trademark, when the SciFi channel changed it's name (which is, hilariously, when some diehard geeks thing the channel jumped the shark....)
anyway, SciFi is still the genre. syfy is marketing.
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pun intended?
 
Lex Talionis said:
So ... Sharknado 5 will debut this month. I never had an interest in watching any of the Sharknado films, but with the longevity of this franchise I thought I'd try to sit through one of them, just to see what the attraction is.

Anyone who has seen the series, please recommend the one - just one - Sharknado film that best exemplifies the entire Sharknado experience. I know from Lethal Weapon that the best in a series is sometimes the first; but for other series later iterations are better.

Thank you,
Lex
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You have to enjoy campy, low budget trainwrecks. If you liked the Piranha movies in the 80's, you will like this.
 
antidote said:
Sharknado/other syfy (ugh spelling) movies are best when:
sick on the couch,
or eating pizza and drinking.

not necessarily in that order lol.

I feel Sharktopus was better than any Sharknado. Sharktopus vs Whalewolf was epic too.

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Don't leave Sharktopus vs. Megashark out of this!
 
Don't forget to add all of Discovery's "Shark Week" programming for the last 10 years to the heap of garbage shark movies.
 
My mind is blown reading "Sharknado" and "recommendation" in the same sentence. :laughing

Actually, I haven't seen any of them, but I love this kind of stuff. Sit down with a bunch of friends who are also into non-exemplary "films", turn off brain, stuff junk food into face, drink too much booze, and enjoy. Ya really can't go wrong with the right company. The more terrible the move, the better!
 
auntiebling said:
syfy is a trademark, when the SciFi channel changed it's name (which is, hilariously, when some diehard geeks thing the channel jumped the shark....)

anyway, SciFi is still the genre. syfy is marketing.
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syfy does make The Expanse, which is a fantastic show, so their programming isn't all B-grade schlock :laughing
 
Abacinator said:
syfy does make The Expanse, which is a fantastic show, so their programming isn't all B-grade schlock :laughing
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Ice Spiders....excellent B-grade schlock from SyFy. I swear one of the actors was caught laughing in the background during a scene. :laughing
 
Ya gotta watch the Sharkando movies for the cameos, and then drink to level of their celebrity.

A couple of years ago, this guy was a shot, now he's down to 2 sips of beer or wine.

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auntiebling said:
syfy is a trademark, when the SciFi channel changed it's name (which is, hilariously, when some diehard geeks thing the channel jumped the shark....)

anyway, SciFi is still the genre. syfy is marketing.
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Is that where the term, "jumping the shark" came from? :dunno , never understood that and never saw any of these fine cinematic offerings being discussed here. :dork
 
bruceflinch said:
Is that where the term, "jumping the shark" came from? :dunno , never understood that and never saw any of these fine cinematic offerings being discussed here. :dork
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No, it came from Happy Days.
 
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