Sharknado

[Drunk Monk]

This movie is TEAR-RHI-BULL. Oh man. Ouch. Couldn't even make it through to the end (but at least I got past the poster). It's one of those films that makes you angry because you keep thinking, dang, I could totally write something better than this. You all know my disdain for digital blood. This had digital rain, digital tornado and digital sharks. The funny thing is that here is this epic disaster hitting L.A., the sharknado, but it is shot when there really isn't any bad weather. You can clearly see blue sky and calm seas throughout the flick. They just superimpose some weak CGI storm effects and call it a storm day. The other thing is that they don't really bother to cordon off the streets or anything, so in the background, people are going about their daily business as the film's protagonist battle the sharknado.

So this is the film I thought up while watching this: imagine an apocalyptic event (sharknado, zombie attack, godzilla, whatev) where it's all just a hallucination of the protagonists - sort of Man of La Mancha vs. windmills, but set in modern day with a gaggle of Sancho Panzas under a folie-deux spell, following some schizophrenic into battle against the hallucinated evil and leaving chaos in their wake. If Sharknado was that, it would be awesome. Of course, I didn't make it to the end, so maybe it was.

No sword fights, but they were staging for a chainsaw fight. It surely sucked because who cares about a chainsaw fight with digital sharks and digital blood?