June 3, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
And now time for the viewing room with Adam and Eton.
Welcome to the viewing room, and we talked about films
new and old, local and global. Today we're talking about
(00:26):
Shark Nato, which was released on July eleventh, twenty thirteen,
with a budget of two million dollars. And that was
my best impression of Dragon, because I'm not Dragon. And
as you can see, he is missing today because he's
doing something, you know, with his career in training and
blah blah blah, something important.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now, how it's more important than our world famous podcast,
I don't know, but it is what it is. And
so because of that, we were forced to do something
a little bit different today and it's gonna be fun.
So I brought in three that you probably already know,
except for one. My dear father decided to stop by
(01:08):
and make an appearance, not by phone, but by in person.
So yeah, we'll take it away with that. So I
texted you and I said, hey, do you want to
be on the viewing room for the second time, except
this time not a phone appearance? And you said sure,
(01:29):
I can help you out. And then I said we're
reviewing Sharknato.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, So first and last time, I'm agreeing to this
without knowing what movie.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I expect nothing less, and you told me what. I
phoned you this. We talked about it this morning. You
were like, oh, I thought you were kidding when you
said shark Nato. But no, no, I figured when with
Ethan not here, I got to do something that's not
quite as uh quite as seriously reviewable, you know what
(02:03):
I mean, Like we could review this, we could review
this in a serious way, but then we've been making
the same mistake that they made with this movie.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yes, I agree, you know, aside from the fact that,
as I said before, this is an hour and a
half of my life. Then I will not get back.
But you know, the movies are made. B movies are made,
C movies are made, D movies are made. It's it's
the industry. I guess, uh huh, that's it's rough.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, okay, so overall overall, obviously you feel you're not
going to get the time back. So not a great experience.
But like you go to me, it was funny at times, right.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, that's the thing. You have to take a movie
like this, You have to look at it in the
in the context of what it is. It's not a
Hollywood blockbuster, it's not a big budget movie. Who have
you got in it? You've got Ian Zerring in the
main part. He was, He was in the main role.
You're not gonna have any idea about this, but he
(03:07):
was one of the main characters in Beverly Hills nine
o two and oh.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's where I know him from. Sorry, no, no, no, no, no,
the other guy.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
No no, no, no, Beverly Hills nine o two and
oh back in the nineties, the original Beverly Hills nine
o two and oh, and Tara Reid who was in
American Pie and a lot of stuff like that. So
there now, now, after I watched it, you know, I
was just refreshing myself on what Ian's Erring has done
lately and Tara Reid and everybody. And when you read that,
(03:38):
your lead actor says, I had my doubts about this movie.
I didn't want to do it, but I needed to
make enough money to keep up my insurance with the
actors guilds for my family. That's I'm paraphrasing a little here,
But so that's a that's what you know you call
(03:58):
a red flag. Yeah, but yeah, it was. It was funny.
I think the weird thing is though they were trying
to be serious.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yes, that's the problem, but in the way it comes
off as funny. I mean I was laughing right out loud. Yeah,
like as I was watching. The cats were looking at
me rather rather funny.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
As I was watching it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Think they got the humor, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So, so you know, sharks are dropped by the hurricanes
and the water spouts and the tornadoes into the streets
of Los Angeles on dry pavement. Oh, I know it,
so it can walk away. Yeah, you could just walk away.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
With the with the water and on all that and
the set design and the other thing, of course, is
how they finally defeat the tornadoes first of all three
tornadoes in one area. I'm not a weather expert, but
through my pilot training, I've done a little bit of
weather weather research, you know, I've had to learn a
bit of weather stuff, and I can. I don't feel
(04:59):
like that that's a realistic thing. I mean, here we
are talking about the realism of Shark NATO, but you
know what I mean. And then I mean, it's not
even remotely realistic. Oh, we're gonna drop a bomb into
a tornado to make it go away.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But I think they were just trying to kill the sharks.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, No, because they explain it as they're like, a tornado
is caused by a temperature differential, and so if we
drop a bomb into it, the explosion will heat the
air up enough to nullify the temperature differential.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Sure, a one thousand pounds fuel air bombs exactly. Maybe
I could do.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Something of these air masses that we're talking about. It's
it's it's kind of that part is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But I mean a lot of this comes down to
I mean, obviously, like you say that the the premise
is ridiculous, but you can watch fun movies out of
ridiculous premises, you know, fantasy and science fiction. I mean really,
But I think budget is a bit thing because you know,
you watch the scenes and one moment there's three feet
of water and fake shark fins and panic and tear.
(06:08):
But then they cut immediately to you know, twenty feet
away on the street and the sun shining and stry pavement.
It's what you have to work with with your budget
and your locations. I think the budget for this movie
is well, I didn't look. I don't know I take
a guess that was twenty thirteen, was the first one.
I don't know, five million, Yarry million, two million, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well it was made for television, so there's not exactly
a grossing amount. Yeah anyway, yeah it's it did two
hundred they got Yeah, I got a theatrical reason. It
made about two hundred thousand in that one theatrical release date.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So yeah, but it was a direct to basically, I mean,
you know it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Was on the Sci Fi Channel, I think, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well you did have some like I say, Ian Zerring,
I mean past you know, big name. Terry Reid was
a big name for a few years. John h John
Hurd was the barfly there, George and you know, I
don't remember last time I saw him in a main role,
but you see him all through all kinds of TV
shows over the years. You'll see him and go I
(07:19):
remember him, like yeah, yeah, person of interest. He did
a couple episodes like lots of TV. Yeah, like like
you know, Gary said Dad from Home Alone. You know,
he's a solid actor. Who does you remember his face?
You know? And and what movie was that he played
(07:40):
a senator? I think a couple of times senator or
congressman or whatever, you know, that kind of a character
acting thing.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, it's the thing is like the acting isn't like
awful moments, but also when you think about the writing
that they have to work with, like you know what
I mean, Like it's it's not like absolutely awful, and
and but then you throw in the really crappy cgi
sharks and waves that everything around it, it's just it's
hard to take it serious. But like I mean, that's
(08:08):
the other thing is a lot of this movie was
shot on a green screen, and so that's why, like
the there's those weird cuts where like you were you
were mentioning this where you have the close up shots
of them, you know, with the shark or whatever, and
then this is like these random really wide angle shots
thrown in and it just throws off your perception of things.
And also like just the overall like like when you're
(08:30):
when you're filming something like generally as a scene, like
you there's a lot of good examples of this, but
like you start off with a wider shot and then
as the scene gets more intense, the shots get closer
and closer. In general, that's like a way to make
it seem more intense, so that by the time you
reach that final kind of climactic moment of the scene
(08:52):
or wherever the tension is releasing, you can pull the
shots back again and it's like that push and pull
of you know, wide shots shots. But then they totally
throw off that that kind of flow by like you said,
a close up shot of a shark fin and then
the next scene it's from twenty feet away and it's
really jolting. And so it's not even like they they
(09:15):
took some of those like elements that you don't need
a high budget to do those things right, Like those
wider shots are actually harder to make than the narrower shots,
you know, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There's but I think then again that comes to location
and budget, because if you have if you have the
budget to do it all CGI, you can make it
consistent and and and it'll have a consistent look. If
you don't, then you're mixing those two a little bit
of CGI some on location where you can get it,
(09:49):
and it's jarring to me. It was jarring, and I
mean again the title of the movie Sharknado shark Nato. Okay,
you know that it's going to be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
To start with.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That can be fun. I mean, that can be fun.
There's there was some fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It he chainsaws out of the shark. I mean, you
know it's at the bar of the is his waitress
worked at the bar is still alive?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, that one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It's but I mean it's cool to see when they
kill her off. I'm like, oh, they went all in
with this movie, and then you know, and then you realize, oh,
she's alive too.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, it was I haven't watched something like that in
a long time, and I was never big on the
B movie sort of horrorish comedy, natural disaster stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
This is a horror movie. But to me, it's not
a horror movie. I mean it has it has your
like classic eighties nineties gory horror, like prosthetics and blood
and the way like the way they like the actual
props and whatnot, but like it's not shot like a
horror movie. It's shot like a like a sci fi adventure.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Sort of an action anything. Yeah, I mean, it's it's
not my cup of tea. I've watched a lot of
you know, kind of B movie science fiction stuff, more
proper science fiction.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I like my science fiction and fantasy stuff well done,
you know. And a lot of the time you get Yeah,
you can get a lot of really good books science
fiction and fantasy that are butchered, you know, when they
are taking the screen sometimes. Yeah, And you have to
make choices sometimes that do that, I know, to get
it to screen because it's very different medium. But it's
(11:38):
it's I don't know, it's interesting. Cool.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
All right, Well we'll leave it. We'll leave it there
for this little section, all right. And next up is
the co host of the Commander Cookout podcast. You can
see him on the Different Avenue Meeting network, Twitch streams,
and on the Friday Fun Table on your show, and
sometimes on the Tuesday All Out of Banks. He's around
here all the time. If you watch anything on the network,
(12:01):
you know who he is. It's Uncle Brando. So this
seems like a movie that is up your alley whenever
I talk to you and you're like, so, I watched
this movie and it was like a really weird movie,
and then you proceed to describe it to me and
it is, yeah, the weirdest movie I have ever heard of,
And you're like, you guys should review it. And so
I felt like when I was trying to figure out
a movie that again, as I said before, wasn't too
(12:25):
serious necessarily, but also would appeal to the people that
I was bringing on, I'm like, this feels like the
thing that would be up your.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Ell uh huh ah huh.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
And I wanted to be on the show ever since
it started doing like, Oh I have something to offer,
I can I can do this. Shark ne Do Shark
ned is what I get. Can't we Shark to Do
Part six would have time travel. It can't be part
to do or Shark to Do Part three where they
take New York. It's gotta be the first one where
(12:54):
they're trying to make an.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Actual movie, poor Kwa. That's for why in French will
be come on man, And that's.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The because it's fun.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
That's the issue with Sharknado. I think you and and
your dad hit it really hard. Is they tried hard
to make it an actual movie. And there's a line
in the B movie Sand there's a line.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
On this side. You have movies that are in on
the joke.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
The next five Sharknado movies Snakes on a Plane, Snake's
on a Train, Shark Kano, Sharks of the Corn, Jurassic Shark,
all of those movies.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Are in on the joke.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
But then you have terrible movies like this that think
they're being good. Yes, and that's where you have Sharknado.
And that's what makes them hard to watch is because
they're not trying to make you laugh.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Along with them. They thought people were gonna jump out
of their seats. Fuck yeah, man, when nine two.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
One oh guy cuts a cuts a shark and half
of that Shane saw in midair, they thought they were
being serious and badass.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
They thought that was fucking cool, cutting edge special.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
We gotta give them some credit though, because they did
realize they they learned from the mistakes. I guess you
get not mistakes, but they learned from the audience reaction
obviously that they needed to take it in the different
direction than they did.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Oh it was a mistake.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
They were mistakes. This whole movie was an atrocity. But
something good did come from it. Five good?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Something has kime from it?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Nothing good? Oh? Nothing good?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Okay, because that was gonna be My next question. Is
one thing one thing you found in that you liked
or that was that was well done?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Or was good.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That was good and well done, and then I liked.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I like, how right at the beginning, Right at the beginning,
when they were on the boat, they had a really
cool setup with like this guy that's like killing all
the sharks to sell the sharkfin shoot the shark fins
to like the evil businessman. I was like, Yeah, this
is gonna be like a cool like espionage subplot. Immediately forgotten,
but it was cool while it lasted.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That is an interesting point, like that opening scene has
no bearing on the rest of the movie other than
to set up if there's a storm coming.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And it's not even the storm, it's the tornado and
the three count them, three f five tornadoes that they
blow up as you talked about full of sharks don't
even show up until after they flooded the whole Hollywood
Hills e when they find the daughter and the wife
that's Tara Reid and whatever her name is in the
(15:24):
house and the house is up to up to their
chest and water and full of sharks and shit. And
then they leave the house and on the driveway in
front of the house there's no water.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's so inconsistent. So they shot that house scene in
a pool. It was like a set with a pool,
and then they put the house in the pool, set
in the pool, and and it's that that's one of
those interesting facts that they shot it in a pool.
But they were also freezing because they couldn't get hot water.
For some of those shots, they're actually shivering because they're
(15:58):
so cold.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So they got Tara Reid, but not a heated pool.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, that's what a two million dollar budget with a
lot of CGI shot in eighteen days will do for you.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Well, man, they could have just cut it down to
seventeen days and heated the fricking pool.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Don't you think, like hypothermia is not good.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, but then they spent six days shooting the bus
scene off the Los Angeles Bridge or whatever a bridge
that was.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I heard the dude buddy did a lot of his
own stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He did a lot on that.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't pay a lot of attention
to the behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I just want to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But I heard that he did actually repel down a bridge.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But I mean, that's that's an interesting thing about like, Okay,
where did they spend their budget? So, like you said,
they couldn't cut it down slightly. And so this this
scene where he saves a bunch of children that I mean,
it's a nice scene for character development, what little there is,
but it it It doesn't have any bearing on the
overall story. Really, Like they saved a bunch of kids
(16:50):
from a bus, okay, but it took them six days
to do that, and like you said, could we have
not like maybe cut that scene down a little bit,
made it a little more simple, and then got a
heated pool or you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And the entire scene was set up to do the
joke where they kill the bus driver. Yeah, exactly, that's
the whole purpose of that scene.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
And they spent so much time and so many dollars,
and yeah, what do you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Really learn about anybody there?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
You learn that Terror reads a jerk bag, learning that
his wife or his daughter kind of sucks, and he
will go out and help people because he's a hero.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And we knew that already, right, And that's my point
is like obviously they're trying to do character devoment, but
like through this whole movie to the characters really change
except his wife. His wife changes a little bit. She
almost falls back in love with him because did she though, well,
they they kind of set it up like she did.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
But like spoilers, LB, she's not in the sequels.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I haven't watched sequels. I've only watched the first one.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So well, sir, I have spoiled them for you.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I have five movies to watch them.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Just honestly.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
The one where they're in New York is really good,
and the one where they travel through time is extra good,
and the other ones are tornadoes.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, and then all the spinoffs are good. Shark Avalanche
because snow is frozen water. Shark Kano because you That's
why those are two very good movies.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, all right. And last, but almost not least, we
have The Man, the Math, the Legend, the Numero Uno,
the Big Cheese Gary Nicol. So if there's one guy
in this world who has never said a negative thing
(18:25):
in his life and loves everything, you could bring him
the the you know, most garbage piece of slop movie
that you've ever seen, and he'll find something about it
to rant and rave about how much he loves And
I feel like that sums up what this is.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I'm telling you right now, no matter what anyone else
has said, the fact that you got what's his name.
He's not David Steve, He's Steve from Nilo too. And oho,
you got that dude taking a chainsaw not once but twice,
slicing in half once and then just for or you know,
(19:01):
a little bit extra oomph, they let him go right
into the shark's mouth and chop away. And not only that,
the exact same shark that just ate is his girl.
That girl in the helicopter, she's still in there, and
he saves her too. He comes out boom like it
was cinematic perfection.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wouldn't that far?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What more do you want?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This is why, This is why I opened it like that.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You have to go in knowing that it's gonna be garbage.
And I know the boys have talked about the fact
that they tried to make it more than that, but
everyone knew right off the bat it what's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
So that's like, throw it away.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I just I can't get over the excitement that you
get from the outrageousness.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's true, like when you're watching it, you're like, it
is kind of fun, like you can see what they
were going for and it is kind of fun at
the same time that it's really shitty.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Being a sinophile such as yourself, did you find it
very hard? Okay, Well, be a movie guy such as yourself,
would you say it was a lot harder to sort
of disobey all the rules of reality and not notice
the lack of water and more sharks and.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You can overlook them.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's because like, as much as they didn't intend for it,
they wanted it to be serious and it wasn't and
it didn't really come across that way. It doesn't come
across that way, and so you can overlook it, right,
you know what I mean, Like, even if they didn't
intend it, that's still how it comes across.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
And the story, no one's really talked about the story
of the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That's true. I mean there was what story exactly. I
mean there's a there's a basic plot.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
And got these guys.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Yeah, they're cutting, they're cutting the fins, they're doing all
this like bad guys.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Okay, we don't like that. This and that boom. Then
you got the nine O two one oh guy running a.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Bar and then the girl wants to hook up with
him and he's like, no, no, no, we can't do that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I'm the I'm the boss, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
She goes for his son. By the end of the movie,
it's really.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Weird, crazy, and then he goes back to his ex wife. No,
not funny, and so that all happens, and all the
way in between you got the storyline of like the
daughter as well, and like everyone meeting, and it was
so random and weird.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But then what's it what's his his British friend?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
What's his name from Tasmania? I don't a man like
dazz or something like that. Why why does the humor
I guess see someone with an accent throw him in there.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And then he's, Oh, I'm gonna make my super sacrifice
or whatever sacrifice whatever is.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
And you notice what happened.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Yeah, so he ends up dying, and then Steve from
Mano goes and does the exact same thing and lips.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah exactly, like what do you think and then fails
out he didn't have time.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah right, It's all those little things. They all add up.
But the one thing I thought was kind of funny
was when they were in the big truck driving and
the old cocks of shotgun.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
He was like, oh, that's kind of hot.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
It's like, man, yeah, I thought of you. That's why
I laughed. I was like that, I can see LB
like that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Do you find it funny though? How they give heard
the shotguns through the entire movie. Rest just have like
a baseball bat or something.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Like old pirate pistols and what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
And yeah, So it's as far as you go in
not expecting this to be a documentary, you'll be okay,
I think, yeah, and it it built that foundation for
the Giant franchise. It made billions of dollars apparently, and
they don't.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Think it was billions for the whole franchise. Oh for
the whole franchise.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, like something like four billion, like something insane.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Yeah, made And they made an incredible VLT that they
had at the Stratosphere in Las Vegas that I played
a lot, which was really fun. So if you got
a good VLT for your movie, I'm into that. And
they did have another really good line with the Hollywood
sign falling down. The guy's like, oh man, my mom
told me if I moved to Hollywood it'd be the
death of me. And then the sign falls on, like
it's just the most dumbest shit.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But it works.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Another fun fact there he actually wrote a couple of
the songs that were for.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
The movie, and the song is another actor.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That actor I don't remember his name now, I had
it in my notes, but he he wrote a couple
of songs.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
The songs are like weird al songs. Yeah, it's you know,
it's the whole thing is just a parody of everything else.
It's just yeah, I thought it was for what it is,
pretty good stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, it's interesting, it's funny you mentioned parody, and I'm
gonna pull the notes for this, but they actually there's
a whole bunch of Spielberg nods in this movie.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So this is the list that somebody came up with,
somebody a lot more, a lot smarter than me. So
when the shark is on the Santa Monica pier and
attempts to attack and they shove the air tank, it
that's Jaws. The second same scene with the ferris wheel
rolling down the pier, well that one. And then when
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the shark lands in front of the Chinese Theater, it
falls just behind the side square. Yeah, but it also
has the sidewalk square and Spielberg's signature and handprints are
in the cement.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Also it's his lack of fame, his star.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah. And then when Nova and Matt go up on
the helicopter and come up against the first tornado, she explains,
we're gonna need a bigger chopper, which is Jaws again yep.
And then you already got the boulder nailed it.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
See, yeah, you already knew them. But I know, I
just think that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Very funny, those nods to the guys that you're parroting,
and yeah, just the idea.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I remember when it first came out, The idea of
a movie about a tornado full of sharks like that
was metal as shit. You know. It's like, man, okay,
i'll see what's up with this. I'll walk around with that.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
And then all of a sudden it starts going like
oh and at the time, even.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
It was, it was very c G I A. You
could tell so.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Everyone like there was that moment where like, yeah, we're serious.
Everyone's like, no, you're not. But it's okay. They're like, oh,
it's okay, Yeah, it's fine, just be you, bro. And
then I was like boom, everything goes. They're going to
space like Fast and Furious. The first couple of Fast
Furious were garbage, and then Curious used to and then
Space Say it again, Sharks in Space. Sorry it's last one.
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This was the worst Shark Nada movie by far. Yeah,
but it was the foundations. Yeah cool, this is great.
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
A big fan of the show.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Where's drag uh doing some film things?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
We're supposed to make up something funny, Dude, I don't know, Like,
where's Dragon?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Oh, I don't know. He's probably changing network Ryan's oil
in his truck. Probably that's the one.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, causing chaos or no, wronging rights and bringing chaos
to order and uh, most importantly, Maggie, what did you
think of this?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Who really okay?
And now time for the viewing room with Adam and Eton.
Welcome to the viewing room, and we talked about films
new and old, local and global. Today we're talking about
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Shark Nato, which was released on July eleventh, twenty thirteen,
with a budget of two million dollars. And that was
my best impression of Dragon, because I'm not Dragon. And
as you can see, he is missing today because he's
doing something, you know, with his career in training and
blah blah blah, something important.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Now, how it's more important than our world famous podcast,
I don't know, but it is what it is. And
so because of that, we were forced to do something
a little bit different today and it's gonna be fun.
So I brought in three that you probably already know,
except for one. My dear father decided to stop by
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and make an appearance, not by phone, but by in person.
So yeah, we'll take it away with that. So I
texted you and I said, hey, do you want to
be on the viewing room for the second time, except
this time not a phone appearance? And you said sure,
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I can help you out. And then I said we're
reviewing Sharknato.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, So first and last time, I'm agreeing to this
without knowing what movie.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I expect nothing less, and you told me what. I
phoned you this. We talked about it this morning. You
were like, oh, I thought you were kidding when you
said shark Nato. But no, no, I figured when with
Ethan not here, I got to do something that's not
quite as uh quite as seriously reviewable, you know what
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I mean, Like we could review this, we could review
this in a serious way, but then we've been making
the same mistake that they made with this movie.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yes, I agree, you know, aside from the fact that,
as I said before, this is an hour and a
half of my life. Then I will not get back.
But you know, the movies are made. B movies are made,
C movies are made, D movies are made. It's it's
the industry. I guess, uh huh, that's it's rough.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, okay, so overall overall, obviously you feel you're not
going to get the time back. So not a great experience.
But like you go to me, it was funny at times, right.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, that's the thing. You have to take a movie
like this, You have to look at it in the
in the context of what it is. It's not a
Hollywood blockbuster, it's not a big budget movie. Who have
you got in it? You've got Ian Zerring in the
main part. He was, He was in the main role.
You're not gonna have any idea about this, but he
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was one of the main characters in Beverly Hills nine
o two and oh.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's where I know him from. Sorry, no, no, no, no, no,
the other guy.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
No no, no, no, Beverly Hills nine o two and
oh back in the nineties, the original Beverly Hills nine
o two and oh, and Tara Reid who was in
American Pie and a lot of stuff like that. So
there now, now, after I watched it, you know, I
was just refreshing myself on what Ian's Erring has done
lately and Tara Reid and everybody. And when you read that,
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your lead actor says, I had my doubts about this movie.
I didn't want to do it, but I needed to
make enough money to keep up my insurance with the
actors guilds for my family. That's I'm paraphrasing a little here,
But so that's a that's what you know you call
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a red flag. Yeah, but yeah, it was. It was funny.
I think the weird thing is though they were trying
to be serious.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yes, that's the problem, but in the way it comes
off as funny. I mean I was laughing right out loud. Yeah,
like as I was watching. The cats were looking at
me rather rather funny.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
As I was watching it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Think they got the humor, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So, so you know, sharks are dropped by the hurricanes
and the water spouts and the tornadoes into the streets
of Los Angeles on dry pavement. Oh, I know it,
so it can walk away. Yeah, you could just walk away.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
With the with the water and on all that and
the set design and the other thing, of course, is
how they finally defeat the tornadoes first of all three
tornadoes in one area. I'm not a weather expert, but
through my pilot training, I've done a little bit of
weather weather research, you know, I've had to learn a
bit of weather stuff, and I can. I don't feel
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like that that's a realistic thing. I mean, here we
are talking about the realism of Shark NATO, but you
know what I mean. And then I mean, it's not
even remotely realistic. Oh, we're gonna drop a bomb into
a tornado to make it go away.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But I think they were just trying to kill the sharks.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, No, because they explain it as they're like, a tornado
is caused by a temperature differential, and so if we
drop a bomb into it, the explosion will heat the
air up enough to nullify the temperature differential.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Sure, a one thousand pounds fuel air bombs exactly. Maybe
I could do.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Something of these air masses that we're talking about. It's
it's it's kind of that part is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But I mean a lot of this comes down to
I mean, obviously, like you say that the the premise
is ridiculous, but you can watch fun movies out of
ridiculous premises, you know, fantasy and science fiction. I mean really,
But I think budget is a bit thing because you know,
you watch the scenes and one moment there's three feet
of water and fake shark fins and panic and tear.
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But then they cut immediately to you know, twenty feet
away on the street and the sun shining and stry pavement.
It's what you have to work with with your budget
and your locations. I think the budget for this movie
is well, I didn't look. I don't know I take
a guess that was twenty thirteen, was the first one.
I don't know, five million, Yarry million, two million, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well it was made for television, so there's not exactly
a grossing amount. Yeah anyway, yeah it's it did two
hundred they got Yeah, I got a theatrical reason. It
made about two hundred thousand in that one theatrical release date.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So yeah, but it was a direct to basically, I mean,
you know it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Was on the Sci Fi Channel, I think, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well you did have some like I say, Ian Zerring,
I mean past you know, big name. Terry Reid was
a big name for a few years. John h John
Hurd was the barfly there, George and you know, I
don't remember last time I saw him in a main role,
but you see him all through all kinds of TV
shows over the years. You'll see him and go I
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remember him, like yeah, yeah, person of interest. He did
a couple episodes like lots of TV. Yeah, like like
you know, Gary said Dad from Home Alone. You know,
he's a solid actor. Who does you remember his face?
You know? And and what movie was that he played
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a senator? I think a couple of times senator or
congressman or whatever, you know, that kind of a character
acting thing.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, it's the thing is like the acting isn't like
awful moments, but also when you think about the writing
that they have to work with, like you know what
I mean, Like it's it's not like absolutely awful, and
and but then you throw in the really crappy cgi
sharks and waves that everything around it, it's just it's
hard to take it serious. But like I mean, that's
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the other thing is a lot of this movie was
shot on a green screen, and so that's why, like
the there's those weird cuts where like you were you
were mentioning this where you have the close up shots
of them, you know, with the shark or whatever, and
then this is like these random really wide angle shots
thrown in and it just throws off your perception of things.
And also like just the overall like like when you're
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when you're filming something like generally as a scene, like
you there's a lot of good examples of this, but
like you start off with a wider shot and then
as the scene gets more intense, the shots get closer
and closer. In general, that's like a way to make
it seem more intense, so that by the time you
reach that final kind of climactic moment of the scene
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or wherever the tension is releasing, you can pull the
shots back again and it's like that push and pull
of you know, wide shots shots. But then they totally
throw off that that kind of flow by like you said,
a close up shot of a shark fin and then
the next scene it's from twenty feet away and it's
really jolting. And so it's not even like they they
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took some of those like elements that you don't need
a high budget to do those things right, Like those
wider shots are actually harder to make than the narrower shots,
you know, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There's but I think then again that comes to location
and budget, because if you have if you have the
budget to do it all CGI, you can make it
consistent and and and it'll have a consistent look. If
you don't, then you're mixing those two a little bit
of CGI some on location where you can get it,
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and it's jarring to me. It was jarring, and I
mean again the title of the movie Sharknado shark Nato. Okay,
you know that it's going to be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
To start with.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That can be fun. I mean, that can be fun.
There's there was some fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It he chainsaws out of the shark. I mean, you
know it's at the bar of the is his waitress
worked at the bar is still alive?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, that one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It's but I mean it's cool to see when they
kill her off. I'm like, oh, they went all in
with this movie, and then you know, and then you realize, oh,
she's alive too.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, it was I haven't watched something like that in
a long time, and I was never big on the
B movie sort of horrorish comedy, natural disaster stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
This is a horror movie. But to me, it's not
a horror movie. I mean it has it has your
like classic eighties nineties gory horror, like prosthetics and blood
and the way like the way they like the actual
props and whatnot, but like it's not shot like a
horror movie. It's shot like a like a sci fi adventure.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Sort of an action anything. Yeah, I mean, it's it's
not my cup of tea. I've watched a lot of
you know, kind of B movie science fiction stuff, more
proper science fiction.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I like my science fiction and fantasy stuff well done,
you know. And a lot of the time you get Yeah,
you can get a lot of really good books science
fiction and fantasy that are butchered, you know, when they
are taking the screen sometimes. Yeah, And you have to
make choices sometimes that do that, I know, to get
it to screen because it's very different medium. But it's
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it's I don't know, it's interesting. Cool.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
All right, Well we'll leave it. We'll leave it there
for this little section, all right. And next up is
the co host of the Commander Cookout podcast. You can
see him on the Different Avenue Meeting network, Twitch streams,
and on the Friday Fun Table on your show, and
sometimes on the Tuesday All Out of Banks. He's around
here all the time. If you watch anything on the network,
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you know who he is. It's Uncle Brando. So this
seems like a movie that is up your alley whenever
I talk to you and you're like, so, I watched
this movie and it was like a really weird movie,
and then you proceed to describe it to me and
it is, yeah, the weirdest movie I have ever heard of,
And you're like, you guys should review it. And so
I felt like when I was trying to figure out
a movie that again, as I said before, wasn't too
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serious necessarily, but also would appeal to the people that
I was bringing on, I'm like, this feels like the
thing that would be up your.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Ell uh huh ah huh.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
And I wanted to be on the show ever since
it started doing like, Oh I have something to offer,
I can I can do this. Shark ne Do Shark
ned is what I get. Can't we Shark to Do
Part six would have time travel. It can't be part
to do or Shark to Do Part three where they
take New York. It's gotta be the first one where
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they're trying to make an.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Actual movie, poor Kwa. That's for why in French will
be come on man, And that's.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The because it's fun.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
That's the issue with Sharknado. I think you and and
your dad hit it really hard. Is they tried hard
to make it an actual movie. And there's a line
in the B movie Sand there's a line.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
On this side. You have movies that are in on
the joke.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
The next five Sharknado movies Snakes on a Plane, Snake's
on a Train, Shark Kano, Sharks of the Corn, Jurassic Shark,
all of those movies.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Are in on the joke.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
But then you have terrible movies like this that think
they're being good. Yes, and that's where you have Sharknado.
And that's what makes them hard to watch is because
they're not trying to make you laugh.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Along with them. They thought people were gonna jump out
of their seats. Fuck yeah, man, when nine two.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
One oh guy cuts a cuts a shark and half
of that Shane saw in midair, they thought they were
being serious and badass.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
They thought that was fucking cool, cutting edge special.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
We gotta give them some credit though, because they did
realize they they learned from the mistakes. I guess you
get not mistakes, but they learned from the audience reaction
obviously that they needed to take it in the different
direction than they did.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Oh it was a mistake.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
They were mistakes. This whole movie was an atrocity. But
something good did come from it. Five good?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Something has kime from it?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Nothing good? Oh? Nothing good?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Okay, because that was gonna be My next question. Is
one thing one thing you found in that you liked
or that was that was well done?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Or was good.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That was good and well done, and then I liked.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I like, how right at the beginning, Right at the beginning,
when they were on the boat, they had a really
cool setup with like this guy that's like killing all
the sharks to sell the sharkfin shoot the shark fins
to like the evil businessman. I was like, Yeah, this
is gonna be like a cool like espionage subplot. Immediately forgotten,
but it was cool while it lasted.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That is an interesting point, like that opening scene has
no bearing on the rest of the movie other than
to set up if there's a storm coming.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And it's not even the storm, it's the tornado and
the three count them, three f five tornadoes that they
blow up as you talked about full of sharks don't
even show up until after they flooded the whole Hollywood
Hills e when they find the daughter and the wife
that's Tara Reid and whatever her name is in the
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house and the house is up to up to their
chest and water and full of sharks and shit. And
then they leave the house and on the driveway in
front of the house there's no water.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's so inconsistent. So they shot that house scene in
a pool. It was like a set with a pool,
and then they put the house in the pool, set
in the pool, and and it's that that's one of
those interesting facts that they shot it in a pool.
But they were also freezing because they couldn't get hot water.
For some of those shots, they're actually shivering because they're
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so cold.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So they got Tara Reid, but not a heated pool.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, that's what a two million dollar budget with a
lot of CGI shot in eighteen days will do for you.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Well, man, they could have just cut it down to
seventeen days and heated the fricking pool.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Don't you think, like hypothermia is not good.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, but then they spent six days shooting the bus
scene off the Los Angeles Bridge or whatever a bridge
that was.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I heard the dude buddy did a lot of his
own stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He did a lot on that.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't pay a lot of attention
to the behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I just want to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But I heard that he did actually repel down a bridge.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But I mean, that's that's an interesting thing about like, Okay,
where did they spend their budget? So, like you said,
they couldn't cut it down slightly. And so this this
scene where he saves a bunch of children that I mean,
it's a nice scene for character development, what little there is,
but it it It doesn't have any bearing on the
overall story. Really, Like they saved a bunch of kids
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from a bus, okay, but it took them six days
to do that, and like you said, could we have
not like maybe cut that scene down a little bit,
made it a little more simple, and then got a
heated pool or you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And the entire scene was set up to do the
joke where they kill the bus driver. Yeah, exactly, that's
the whole purpose of that scene.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
And they spent so much time and so many dollars,
and yeah, what do you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Really learn about anybody there?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
You learn that Terror reads a jerk bag, learning that
his wife or his daughter kind of sucks, and he
will go out and help people because he's a hero.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And we knew that already, right, And that's my point
is like obviously they're trying to do character devoment, but
like through this whole movie to the characters really change
except his wife. His wife changes a little bit. She
almost falls back in love with him because did she though, well,
they they kind of set it up like she did.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
But like spoilers, LB, she's not in the sequels.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I haven't watched sequels. I've only watched the first one.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So well, sir, I have spoiled them for you.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I have five movies to watch them.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Just honestly.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
The one where they're in New York is really good,
and the one where they travel through time is extra good,
and the other ones are tornadoes.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, and then all the spinoffs are good. Shark Avalanche
because snow is frozen water. Shark Kano because you That's
why those are two very good movies.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, all right. And last, but almost not least, we
have The Man, the Math, the Legend, the Numero Uno,
the Big Cheese Gary Nicol. So if there's one guy
in this world who has never said a negative thing
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in his life and loves everything, you could bring him
the the you know, most garbage piece of slop movie
that you've ever seen, and he'll find something about it
to rant and rave about how much he loves And
I feel like that sums up what this is.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I'm telling you right now, no matter what anyone else
has said, the fact that you got what's his name.
He's not David Steve, He's Steve from Nilo too. And oho,
you got that dude taking a chainsaw not once but twice,
slicing in half once and then just for or you know,
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a little bit extra oomph, they let him go right
into the shark's mouth and chop away. And not only that,
the exact same shark that just ate is his girl.
That girl in the helicopter, she's still in there, and
he saves her too. He comes out boom like it
was cinematic perfection.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wouldn't that far?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What more do you want?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This is why, This is why I opened it like that.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You have to go in knowing that it's gonna be garbage.
And I know the boys have talked about the fact
that they tried to make it more than that, but
everyone knew right off the bat it what's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
So that's like, throw it away.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I just I can't get over the excitement that you
get from the outrageousness.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's true, like when you're watching it, you're like, it
is kind of fun, like you can see what they
were going for and it is kind of fun at
the same time that it's really shitty.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Being a sinophile such as yourself, did you find it
very hard? Okay, Well, be a movie guy such as yourself,
would you say it was a lot harder to sort
of disobey all the rules of reality and not notice
the lack of water and more sharks and.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You can overlook them.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It's because like, as much as they didn't intend for it,
they wanted it to be serious and it wasn't and
it didn't really come across that way. It doesn't come
across that way, and so you can overlook it, right,
you know what I mean, Like, even if they didn't
intend it, that's still how it comes across.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
And the story, no one's really talked about the story
of the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That's true. I mean there was what story exactly. I
mean there's a there's a basic plot.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
And got these guys.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Yeah, they're cutting, they're cutting the fins, they're doing all
this like bad guys.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Okay, we don't like that. This and that boom. Then
you got the nine O two one oh guy running a.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Bar and then the girl wants to hook up with
him and he's like, no, no, no, we can't do that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I'm the I'm the boss, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
She goes for his son. By the end of the movie,
it's really.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Weird, crazy, and then he goes back to his ex wife. No,
not funny, and so that all happens, and all the
way in between you got the storyline of like the
daughter as well, and like everyone meeting, and it was
so random and weird.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But then what's it what's his his British friend?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
What's his name from Tasmania? I don't a man like
dazz or something like that. Why why does the humor
I guess see someone with an accent throw him in there.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And then he's, Oh, I'm gonna make my super sacrifice
or whatever sacrifice whatever is.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
And you notice what happened.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Yeah, so he ends up dying, and then Steve from
Mano goes and does the exact same thing and lips.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah exactly, like what do you think and then fails
out he didn't have time.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah right, It's all those little things. They all add up.
But the one thing I thought was kind of funny
was when they were in the big truck driving and
the old cocks of shotgun.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
He was like, oh, that's kind of hot.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
It's like, man, yeah, I thought of you. That's why
I laughed. I was like that, I can see LB
like that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Do you find it funny though? How they give heard
the shotguns through the entire movie. Rest just have like
a baseball bat or something.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Like old pirate pistols and what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
And yeah, So it's as far as you go in
not expecting this to be a documentary, you'll be okay,
I think, yeah, and it it built that foundation for
the Giant franchise. It made billions of dollars apparently, and
they don't.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Think it was billions for the whole franchise. Oh for
the whole franchise.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, like something like four billion, like something insane.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Yeah, made And they made an incredible VLT that they
had at the Stratosphere in Las Vegas that I played
a lot, which was really fun. So if you got
a good VLT for your movie, I'm into that. And
they did have another really good line with the Hollywood
sign falling down. The guy's like, oh man, my mom
told me if I moved to Hollywood it'd be the
death of me. And then the sign falls on, like
it's just the most dumbest shit.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But it works.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Another fun fact there he actually wrote a couple of
the songs that were for.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
The movie, and the song is another actor.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That actor I don't remember his name now, I had
it in my notes, but he he wrote a couple
of songs.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
The songs are like weird al songs. Yeah, it's you know,
it's the whole thing is just a parody of everything else.
It's just yeah, I thought it was for what it is,
pretty good stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, it's interesting, it's funny you mentioned parody, and I'm
gonna pull the notes for this, but they actually there's
a whole bunch of Spielberg nods in this movie.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So this is the list that somebody came up with,
somebody a lot more, a lot smarter than me. So
when the shark is on the Santa Monica pier and
attempts to attack and they shove the air tank, it
that's Jaws. The second same scene with the ferris wheel
rolling down the pier, well that one. And then when
(23:53):
the shark lands in front of the Chinese Theater, it
falls just behind the side square. Yeah, but it also
has the sidewalk square and Spielberg's signature and handprints are
in the cement.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Also it's his lack of fame, his star.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah. And then when Nova and Matt go up on
the helicopter and come up against the first tornado, she explains,
we're gonna need a bigger chopper, which is Jaws again yep.
And then you already got the boulder nailed it.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
See, yeah, you already knew them. But I know, I
just think that's interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Very funny, those nods to the guys that you're parroting,
and yeah, just the idea.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I remember when it first came out, The idea of
a movie about a tornado full of sharks like that
was metal as shit. You know. It's like, man, okay,
i'll see what's up with this. I'll walk around with that.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
And then all of a sudden it starts going like
oh and at the time, even.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
It was, it was very c G I A. You
could tell so.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Everyone like there was that moment where like, yeah, we're serious.
Everyone's like, no, you're not. But it's okay. They're like, oh,
it's okay, Yeah, it's fine, just be you, bro. And
then I was like boom, everything goes. They're going to
space like Fast and Furious. The first couple of Fast
Furious were garbage, and then Curious used to and then
Space Say it again, Sharks in Space. Sorry it's last one.
(25:15):
This was the worst Shark Nada movie by far. Yeah,
but it was the foundations. Yeah cool, this is great.
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
A big fan of the show.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Where's drag uh doing some film things?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
We're supposed to make up something funny, Dude, I don't know, Like,
where's Dragon?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Oh, I don't know. He's probably changing network Ryan's oil
in his truck. Probably that's the one.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, causing chaos or no, wronging rights and bringing chaos
to order and uh, most importantly, Maggie, what did you
think of this?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Who really okay?
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