Shark Week is once again making things up - [ARTICLE]

[petegreg21]

Maybe they can show reruns of the Canadian show 'Shark Tank' while they are at it.

Shark Tank is American.

Dragon's Den is Canadian.

[ericdaoust]

Haven't seen the Sharknado movies but I would like to see how they stack up against the "B" movie legends, Plan 9 From Outer Space and Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes. Movies that are so horrendously stupid they're destined to become unitentional comedy classics. Sharknado just seems to drip with that sort of potential.

The difference is that Sharknado was not unintentional.

[petegreg21]

But staying on topic, I've never watched anything during Shark Week. I figure it serves no other purpose than making me afraid of swimming in the ocean, no matter how close I stay to the shore lol!

[doulos]

Shark Tank is American.

Dragon's Den is Canadian.

There's my TV ignorance showing right there. It's probably considered 'reality television' too so it should be in my wheelhouse. I feel shame.

[NoWayOut]

The difference is that Sharknado was not unintentional.

See that rather spoils things a bit. To truly reach the "B" movie pinnacle it has to be unintentional. I may still check them out for a laugh but now they have slid further down the order on the list of crap to watch.

[ericdaoust]

See that rather spoils things a bit. To truly reach the "B" movie pinnacle it has to be unintentional. I may still check them out for a laugh but now they have slid further down the order on the list of crap to watch.

I don't think it changes much. It was intentionally bad. They just did it successfully.

[Savvy1982]

I don't think it changes much. It was intentionally bad. They just did it successfully.

My thoughts precisely - They took the camp, the gore, and the heavy-handed hammy acting and just ran with it.

The result is by no means great cinema, but its engaging enough that I'd stay up an extra hour after the girlfriend has gone to bed to finish it if it's Tuesday night and I've had a couple glasses of wine.

[vitun-tyhmä]

The difference is that Sharknado was not unintentional.

oh come on, how could it not be?

[Loch]

I knew sharks weren't real!

*Disclaimer: I haven't read anything in the thread and I have just assumed that the actual sharks were the things they made up...

[ericdaoust]

I knew sharks weren't real!

*Disclaimer: I haven't read anything in the thread and I have just assumed that the actual sharks were the things they made up...

You are so smart!

[Savvy1982]

oh come on, how could it not be?

If your movie stars Tara Reid, you're just setting yourself up for unintentional hilarity.

[NoWayOut]

I knew sharks weren't real!

*Disclaimer: I haven't read anything in the thread and I have just assumed that the actual sharks were the things they made up...

I know what you mean. Sounds as far fetched and made up as Canadians. Whoever heard of sharks and Canadians. Haha. Next thing you know they'll tell us the earth is round and that the dodo is extinct.

[The Bottlenecker]

I have long been a fan of Shark Week, but was sort of turned off last year when they first aired "Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives". I, like many people, didn't realize it was fiction until I did a bit of Internet research. What made me angriest was that the docufiction, as it is called, had lots of great, accurate information about what scientists know about the real carcharadon megalodon species that existed some 28 to 1.5 million years ago. Because people soon discovered that the "documentary" they had just watched was fiction, many then just wrongly assumed that there was ever any such creature, but there was! Terrible idea.
To that end, I find myself questioning if all of these documentaries I have watched so far this week are real or not. There was one about a twenty foot hammerhead reported in the waters of the Bahamas which has already been lambasted as being more legend than fact. How can I believe any of what they show anymore. Just p****s me off.

[Loch]

Okay... so I'm taking in a little shark week and it's a program on a couple of shark attacks at surf beach California... blah, blah cool video, blah...

And then they decide to take the tooth fragments found in one victim and try and get DNA... which is wtf enough, but when they discover the fragments are too small the narrator basically says "once again the killer shark stays one step ahead of the police".

What in the hell? Sharks are now doing forensic counter measures? This world is a scary place.

[sasquatch]

You want a shark "fact" search for Joe Chernov shark infographic image.... An estimated 100million sharks are killed every year by humans...

Take out an apex predator from the food chain and you're going to having serious issues in the food chain...

Obviously that's a big number and it's pretty well impossible to prove, but, it's still pretty harrowing nonetheless... My advice, boycott shark fin soup and spread the word.