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If the title Sharknado does not lead to any new conclusions, then here is a short summary: A tornado throws sharks at Los Angeles. One falls into Tara Reid’s pool while another bounces around a bar stool. Helicopters bomb the weather. ‘Fin’, the character played by a Chippendales dancer, jumps into the gaping jaw of a Great White and chainsaws his way out of its belly screaming with a tag line that reads: “enough said.”
SyFy’s earnings were abysmal when viewing “Sharknado” considering it only received 1.4 million viewers and was topped by over 6 million by The Big Bang Theory (CBS). However, as stated by Vulture, SyFy ‘won the internet’ with unprecedented online interactions. The movie was tweeted over 5000 times a minute, and to add to that, it was captioned and made into gifs. The absurdity of the titles, like “Pirahnacane” and “Velocirapture” created enough hype for The B-movie production machine, Asylum. The publicity was massive coming from both Mashable and the Washington Post. Everyone took advantage of the clever shark puns, and they were incorporated into the shoddily made ending cards. Ultimately, all parties benefited from this phenomenon.
Flying sharks and the chaos they create are captivating because there is always a heartwarming touch to it. On that note, it can be said that they are attempting to chase the overpowering scent of ham being emitted from a selected group of Hollywood ‘fines.’ The awful production values, the limitless outrageous plot enhances, the Nonsensical dialogues, the detached supporting cast, the preposterousness all put together in the film is charming in it’s some way. People felt entertained because the contributors were not obnoxiously sarcastic nor overly cynical. Rich people were fully enjoying themselves along with everyone else for a couple of hours out of the day. Unlike other political or sports debate, it is quite rare to see a sred editor and a new Yorker journalist share the same opinion about a topic of discussion, is it not? This movie is like a breath of fresh air.
Where other Hollywood Blockbusters go wrong, Sharknado gets it right: it embraces the heart of the film full of absurdity while not being awful. Johnny Depp’s ‘’western-adventure-reboot’’ most entertaining part includes a man hunt and cannibalism. There is a part where there is a railroad chase towards the ending, which can be considered the only sequence enjoyable because there are no subliminal messages throughout it, unlike the rest of the movie. Sharknado has all the makings of a blockbuster, the directors just choose to not put in any actual thoughtful effort accordingly to evoke a reaction.
On the flip side, Sharknado do nothing other than produce an unrefined and nonsensical byproduct from which an audience can strain out jokes. A sham so ridiculous that it can’t be objected to, it has no intentions beyond farce. Anything is feasible like a sharktopus, radioactive pandas, or deranged koalas. Indeed, you can enjoy cuddly monsters as much as you like. Movies like Sharknado transform a B film out of the censored cinema into a household item, changing the family movie night into a cheeky social gathering. All that is required is some friends and boom – Twitter, which might have had its funniest, most gentle night ever. It is one of those rare cases where everyone is in on the joke and we find ourselves laughing with, instead of at, something.
At New York magazine, it was Matt Zoller Seitz who accurately likened watching a terrible-good film with friends to “a kind of ritualistic offering, one that’s intended to be joyous and raucously silly.” Certainly, SyFy designed this plan (albeit not in those terms), but you can’t argue against the fact that the actual movie is pure absurdity, which is why we love it (along with the flying sharks that practically exist).
It’s great to witness a movie that allows people to relax on their own schedule, especially after enduring summers of irritable superheroes and immature humor from films aimed towards men. Even if Twitter transforms into a terrible movie watching platform, it will certainly be a step in the right direction. The #Sharknado meme might feature so often in the future that SyFy won’t be able to upload Sharknado again until Thursday, but nothing brings people together more than being part of the same joke. It’s fantastic that awful movies still come from America.
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