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Sharknado a Ratings Flop

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Clay
Clay
Saturday, July 13, AD 2013 12:50am

I loved Sharknado. The #1 worst movie I have ever seen is still a #1 movie.

DJ Hesselius
DJ Hesselius
Saturday, July 13, AD 2013 6:35am

Is Sharknado worse than Plan Nine from Outerspace? (My sister’s “favorite” movie to hate.)

Nate Winchester
Saturday, July 13, AD 2013 9:40am

Jonah in his latest G-file talked about it:

Last night started fine. My wife and daughter are out of town and so Cosmo the Wonderdog and I settled in for a man’s night. An added bonus: Sharknado was on SyFy! Oh, and I don’t mean the smarmy BBC version that all the hipsters claim to prefer. I mean the American version. You know, the one lacking any redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Now, if you don’t know what Sharknado is, you’re part of the problem. But to sum up: It’s a “movie” about a freaky weather event (caused by global warming, of course) that results in sharks being swept up by first a hurricane and then a series of tornados, and then the sharks rain down on Los Angeles with a grim determination to eat anyone in their path. Amazingly, that premise is actually wildly more plausible than the execution. The whole movie was like one of those kids’ placemat games where you have to spot “What’s Wrong with This Picture?” To set out to identify the most ridiculous scene, the worst acting, or the dumbest dialogue of the movie is to march along the edge of a Mobius strip of stupidity toward madness.

Aw man, sounds glorious. It’s things like this which makes one think Mystery Science Theater 3000 needs to be federally subsidized over PBS. We NEED things like that in these dark hours.

(in other news, Pacific Rim is AWESOME, must see on big screen)

t. Shaw
t. Shaw
Saturday, July 13, AD 2013 9:44am

I wasted a couple of minutes in the first hour. Then, I wasted eyesight on the last five minutes when that dude used a chain saw to cut his way out of the shark. Last I heard internal combustion machines require oxygen to combust.

One worse movie that I paid to see nearly 20 years ago (because my young son wanted it) was “Mr. Bean.” I still tell him, “You owe me.”

J. Christian
J. Christian
Saturday, July 13, AD 2013 12:59pm

“Sharknado” was one of SyFy’s better portmanteau b-movie titles. I’m sort of hoping for “Yakalanche” to show up next.

Elaine Krewer
Admin
Saturday, July 13, AD 2013 1:10pm

Next, Discovery and The Weather Channel will team up to present Sharknado Week 🙂

Fabio P.Barbieri
Sunday, July 14, AD 2013 2:58am

Same story as SNAKES ON A PLANE – remember that? Massive hit on the social media, followed by ratings catastrophe that nearly ended Samuel L. Jackson’s career. Evidently, in both cases, the concept was much more fun to talk about than to watch.

Pinky
Pinky
Sunday, July 14, AD 2013 10:20am

Sure. It’s a lot more fun to talk about a movie like that than to watch a movie like that.

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