My bum...

...knee is acting up. We better get indoors before it starts raining sharks again!

Not an exact quote from the film, but close enough. The dialogue is simply priceless!

I really don't know what to make of these films. It's amazing that, considering most scenes and much of the lines delivered, at no point do they come across as "Airplane" or "Top Secret" wannabes nor as B-movie spoofs; they also don't have the feel of cheap, inevitable C-movie kitsch and none of the Z-movie criteria are there, but neither are we ever made to feel that any of the films take themselves seriously albeit the deadpan, serious-drama delivery.

And I don't think it's as simple as: It's so awful it's good.
We've all seen bad films; not films you didn't like, I'm talking about truly rotten cinema. They're painful to watch, and only the presence of a potent socio-political subtext or a marked campiness or acutely genre-specific content can propel such films to Cult Classic and that awful-it's-good label, and usually only within a relatively firm demographic (which usually contains many cause-I'm-s'pose-to-like-it members). That applies to things like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" or "Microwave Massacre" or Ed Wood films.

Sharknado? It has none of that. No message. No camp. No redeeming quality. Nada.
These films... it goes beyond that somehow.

It's as if the creators are geniuses of sorts, keenly aware of every single rule and trope and how to manipulate each to a point that allows them to, consciously, get absolutely every single aspect of conventional movie making/story telling so completely wrong, offer us a product so devoid of value, yet manage to amuse so many in a way that no seriously bad film ever could, and without shame to boot.
It has to be intentional. Can't be chance! Not in all three films. That's statistically impossible.
However, I categorically refuse to believe that anyone possessing such talent would ever--or could ever--willingly give birth to something like Sharknado. Just. Can't.

Could their 'success' have anything to do with the overall popularity of "Shark Week" and anything shark-related?
Is Netflix to blame?

Thoughts?

It seems to say much about Us and our times, a topic that always interests me when related to films, so if you plan on replying with something as basic as "too much thought" or "just relax, it's just a movie", then please refrain entirely.



Ignorance is bliss... 'til it posts on the Internet, then, it's annoying.