The Jaws Drop
Tuesday Round-up of Everything, Week of 8/5, Post #2:
The Jaws Drop
Spurred by the trailers for--and even more, by the subtitle of-- "Sharknado 2: The Second One" (surely the most enticing subtitle since "Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia"), and cajoled by the pleadings of my family ('cause I have that sort of proper family, and it was that sort of summer night), I finally sat down and watched "Sharknado," which had lurked at the bottom of my DVR list for a year.
Jaw-dropper #1: It kinda delivered for us. That is, we were howling from the first five seconds, and we never stopped. Lots of Syfy movies are dumb. Most of them ignore science, or actual human behavior. But THIS! Floods that fill a house--so that, you know, the water can BURST OUT THE WINDOWS (WITH SHARKS IN IT)--onto dry lawn outside, which was somehow NOT flooded at that point...the (amateur) bombing of a tornado...which works...the chainsaw...I mean...
Jaw-dropper #2: "Sharknado" was not the least scientifically accurate movie I saw that day.
Because that's the day my pal--the scientist-screenwriter Neil Ruttenberg --and I took in the Natural Wonder that is "Lucy." In which brain capacity gets broken down into percentages, and treated like levels for a D&D character. "At 20%, you can control your body. At 30%, you can control other people's bodies. At 40%..."
I've already got dibs on "Sharknado 3." I'm already writing it. I've already subtitled it. "The Lucy One."
The Jaws Drop
Spurred by the trailers for--and even more, by the subtitle of-- "Sharknado 2: The Second One" (surely the most enticing subtitle since "Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia"), and cajoled by the pleadings of my family ('cause I have that sort of proper family, and it was that sort of summer night), I finally sat down and watched "Sharknado," which had lurked at the bottom of my DVR list for a year.
Jaw-dropper #1: It kinda delivered for us. That is, we were howling from the first five seconds, and we never stopped. Lots of Syfy movies are dumb. Most of them ignore science, or actual human behavior. But THIS! Floods that fill a house--so that, you know, the water can BURST OUT THE WINDOWS (WITH SHARKS IN IT)--onto dry lawn outside, which was somehow NOT flooded at that point...the (amateur) bombing of a tornado...which works...the chainsaw...I mean...
Jaw-dropper #2: "Sharknado" was not the least scientifically accurate movie I saw that day.
Because that's the day my pal--the scientist-screenwriter Neil Ruttenberg --and I took in the Natural Wonder that is "Lucy." In which brain capacity gets broken down into percentages, and treated like levels for a D&D character. "At 20%, you can control your body. At 30%, you can control other people's bodies. At 40%..."
I've already got dibs on "Sharknado 3." I'm already writing it. I've already subtitled it. "The Lucy One."
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