August 13, 20187 yr is there a thread for this? it’s no jaws but it’s still pretty fun. and the chinese chick is smoke. she looks 25 and she’s 45.. pure insanity.
August 13, 20187 yr 33 minutes ago, futureman said: and the chinese chick is smoke. she looks 25 and she’s 45.. pure insanity.
August 13, 20187 yr Author 1 hour ago, gsoda3 said: the story was bad. the acting sucked. li bingbing was wow. that's about it. you couldn’t be more wrong. oscar buzz is building.
August 13, 20187 yr You can get me to believe that an enormous shark shows up out of the deep somehow. But it’s too much to believe that said giant fish can be quick like I’ve seen it in the trailers.
August 14, 20187 yr The story wasn’t inherently bad. It had some nice suspense . The acting/casting was atrocious. Chinese Lead - watching her try to flirt with Jason Statham was cringe worthy acting Jason Statham - his range consists of 0-1 Chinese Father - did they intentionally find bad actors? Brooding punk supermodel who can’t act as a engineer - check Token Black actor plays stereotype black guy who sounds like he didn’t graduate High School but yet holds Uber technical position somehow. Couldn’t afford a better actor? Dwight - fine Cliff Curtis - fine
August 14, 20187 yr Dwight stole the show. Fun movie. Would watch again for free on HBO. Apparently Statham was pissed because the original cut was pretty gory, but the studio wanted a PG-13 flick to make more money and it was all cut.
August 14, 20187 yr 18 minutes ago, DougO said: How did Syfy let this one get away from them? Syfy doesn’t spend $130 million dollars on a movie. I cant believe any studio did, but here we are.
August 14, 20187 yr 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said: Syfy doesn’t spend $130 million dollars on a movie. I cant believe any studio did, but here we are. Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not.
August 14, 20187 yr 8 hours ago, DougO said: How did Syfy let this one get away from them? Neither Tiffany or Debs were available.
August 14, 20187 yr 6 hours ago, Continental Op said: This movie adequately met all of my giant shark eating things movie needs. Pretty much what my expectations are, loved the books.
August 14, 20187 yr Dwight stole the show. Fun movie. Would watch again for free on HBO. Apparently Statham was pissed because the original cut was pretty gory, but the studio wanted a PG-13 flick to make more money and it was all cut. They should release 2 versions. Why has no studio done this? PG-13 for the mass audience, R for the rest of us. I’m sure there is a reason. I guess it depends if they shot the gory scenes and cut them vs not shooting them at all.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
August 14, 20187 yr Author 4 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said: Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not. it’s making good money in china. it’ll clear a profit easily and be pretty profitable. which is great news, because I can’t wait for the meg 2
August 14, 20187 yr It made 141million worldwide opening week. It should turn a profit. I assume there will be a sequel, and maybe it’ll be cheaper because they’ve already modeled the shark? I dunno if cgi works like that.
August 14, 20187 yr 7 hours ago, Continental Op said: This movie adequately met all of my giant shark eating things movie needs. 1. giant shark 2. eating things
August 14, 20187 yr 13 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said: Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not. You would think for an extra 178 million they could have at least put tentacles on the shark.
August 14, 20187 yr Author I thought the thermocline angle was pretty cool. there’s so much we don’t know about what’s under the water... Edited August 14, 20187 yr by futureman
August 15, 20187 yr LMAO. When JW: Fallen Kingdom is a better movie, you know you have a pile of shit on your hands. This could’ve/should’ve been better, Author of the series has to be highly disappointed or even pissed. Prior post nailed it, SyFy material at best. Hard to believe a mechanical shark 40+ yrs old is still more realistic than this cgi crap.
August 15, 20187 yr 21 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said: Megalopuss! Vic?? Edited August 15, 20187 yr by Trey3216
August 19, 20187 yr My older boys made me take them to this. It was not surprisingly beyond terrible. It had all the bad acting and production quality of sharknado, but wasn't in on the joke.
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