The biggest effect that freaky fish had on me, though, plays on both my lingering fear of the deep and my long-time love of the movies. Shark Week is probably somewhere between "sound" and "color" on the list of things that make TV awesome, but real sharks don't have mutated super-brains or hunt in packs. Thank you, Jaws, for making my favorite movie sharks (and my biggest cinematic guilty pleasure) possible:
DEEP BLUE SEA
Aside from the genetically augmented pack of super sharks and the brilliant Jaws-meets-Poseidon Adventure premise, the film stars geek-friendly action hero Thomas Jane and Nick Mutha-F@*$in Fury himself, Samuel L. Jackson. I can't not watch this movie when it is on. I own it on DVD, and I've still managed to sit through the TV edit, just because I couldn't turn away and spent the commercial breaks reflecting on it's awesomeness. I love this movie and you should too!
SAM JACKSON'S BIG SPOILERY MOMENT:
As an added bonus, here's the trailer to what may very well become my NEXT shark-related guilty pleasure. It might not have the cast and budget of DBS (or Jaws, natch), but what it lacks in quality, it seems to make up for in quantity. I give you Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus:
3 comments:
That photo of the JAWS game just gave me a major flashback to my childhood. Thanks for the post. I gotta say, MEGASHARK vs GIANT OCTOPUS was a disappointment though. It's no SHARK ATTACK 3.
Awesime article. I guess I can come out of the closet now and admit that I enjoyed Deep Blue Sea, that's not to say I think it was good...but seriously, bring on the sharks!
OMG! I totally had that shark game, but I completely forgot about it!
Thank you!
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