Citypub and Burger in Denver plans to offer fish tacos and Bloody Mary specials beginning at 6 p.m., leading up to the premiere of Sharknado 3 at 7 p.m. on the SyFy channel.
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In this installment, the killer sharks, outrageous death scenes and questionable acting take a back seat to the franchise’s new main objective: promoting Comcast and all its entities. Ziering and stunt performers coordinate for their action shots as Ferrante directs. Far from it. Its product-placement chum. In addition to upping those integrations, this third go-round functions as little more than an opportunity to showcase the Comcast family. The sharknado siege is “covered” by NBC News personalities Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker.
Mark Cuban as President of the United States? Apparently, Syfy would say ice spiders – giving us a tale about giant spiders that eat people at a Utah ski resort. Xfinity also gets a couple of moments on screen. The problem is that all the self-referential gags have begun yielding diminishing returns, as the filmmakers seem less interested in surpassing themselves (since being cheesy is part of the conceit) than simply in replicating what’s gone before to service pithy slogans like “The Feast Coast”.
When she’s not strolling through the park, Reid hangs out at the nearby Cabana Bay Beach Resort.
Or what about this: Even if you accept the fact that a super tornado can throw a shark with incredible force, thus turning it into a deadly projectile, is such force really strong enough for the thrown sharks to penetrate concrete walls and topple buildings and structures such as the Washington Monument and the White House (both of which get destroyed in “Sharknado 3”)?
What do you think of Ian’s shark diving story?
Levin had spent years trying to get a script made as a Hollywood screenwriter before making his own film, “Mutant Vampire Zombies from the ‘Hood!”
While Jaws is referenced in Sharknado 3, another Universal property, and theme park attraction, plays a more explicit role in the Syfy movie. Indeed, the film was such a sensation that it warranted a sequel, Sharknado 2. Then this coming Saturday, poor Los Angeles – the city that, you’ll recall, was the site of the first “Sharknado” back in 2013 – gets walloped again, this time by “Lavalantula”. Sharknado 3 is no longer on the outside looking in; it’s now the guest of honor. At times I felt like I was viewing a fan’s version of a “Sharknado” movie filmed on a smart phone while using an app that simulates sharks eating people.
The standout among these secondary offerings, though, is “Lavalantula”, if only because it represents one of the weirdest cast reunions in history.
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Beware: Seek guilty pleasure elsewhere.
