"SHARKTOPUS is almost here!" Topic

You were warned…this Saturday night on Sci-fi/SyFy is the premier of SHARKTOPUS…the collaboration between Roger Corman and his daughter?

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imdb.com/title/tt1619880

Oi!

be afraid…be very, very afraid!

I am holding out for Sharktocalypse Now! If its not currently being filmed then someone better get on it.

I just threw up in my mouth, a little bit.

I am more interested in Josh Gates hosting the movie, then the flick itself. That guy is funny on his monster hunting show.

I knew you guys would be waiting for that thing. And I thought that Piranha movie looked so bad, Syfy looks to be aiming to lower the bar even more.

Roger Corman and his daughter, why am I not surprised by this.

How do you sell a movie like this to a TV network exec any ways?

"How do you sell a movie like this to a TV network exec any ways?"

I think it involves prostitutes and lots of lines of cocaine.

Awesome!

SCHWEET!

I do believe it was the other way round. I thought I read that Syfy had copyrighted the title then shopped it around for someone to make something with it. Corman just happened to be the guy they went with.

This happens more often then you would think, expecially when it comes to shoestring budget b-flicks.

And Roger cried all the way to the Bank

I wonder what they are working on next…part clam, part Stingray….it's CLAMRAY!!!

I want to see them gene splice a shark, squid, pirhana, and a carrot and show the out come in 3D!

I wish they'd just go back to showing re-runs of the Invaders, The Immortal, Space 1999….

Hmm, last scene from trailer almost make it worthwile :P

but do you think they'll ever show 'Alien Tresspass'…(along the lines of 'Mars Attacks', if you were wondering….)…Noooooooooooo!!!!

How about a Roger Corman 'film-festival' for SyFy? If they're going to do 'sloock' at least make it an 'event' with guest-hosts talking about the 'best of the worst' and so on….

Slishfully,
Sgt DWW-btod

I just threw up in McKinstry's mouth, a little bit :)

The last dozen or so have looked so bad that they had little to no redeeming qualities to them at all…but this one at least reminded me of something that I did like…the Sharktopus looks like a creature from Gamma World…and that is a good thing.

Seriously horrible effects but almost funny.

I'm sure it's on my "Must Not See" list … But yes, I like Gates on his show …

The only true Sci Fi on this SyFy Channel is on Tuesday.
Friday nights used to be Sci Fi night around here. And what prey tell noes Wrestling have to do with Sci Fi? Sci Fi and Wrestling is an oxymorgon. I hardly watch the SyFy Channeland Sharkopuss is not on my list. I am going to play Tmorrow's War.
I am a Science Fiction Fan from the '50s and the term nerd was not invented, yet.

And they said Gigli was bad …

Yeah … I agree … Wrestling does not belong on SyFy. I do like and liked some shows on SyFy … All the Stargates, Sanctuary, BSG, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Ghost Hunters, Destination Truth, etc. … but wrestling does not do it for me … I think SyFy is doing it for the $$$ …

I couldn't bring myself to watch it.

I watched about 5 minutes as self induced torture while channel surfing….. Settled on Johnny Depp in From Hell….

Wrestling should not be on Syfy, not when I think it's also on TNT. I believe the Syfy channel is owned by NBC, which their ratings are in the tank. And how they are running the Syfy channel kind of shows why, who the hell did Jeff Zucker put in charge of Syfy? A Wrestling fan?

Saw some of it last night, and seen Eric Roberts career take another nose dive. He must be willing to do any role he can find now.

It's always about the $$$ …

Henry Fonda once did a horrible film (what would now be a SyFy production) called "Tentacles".

When asked why an actor of his accomplishments would do such a film he basically said: I'm an actor. It's what I do.

If you watched it, and it doesn't sound like many did, you would have seen that SyFy didn't take this serious at all. Josh Gates's hosting duties were straight from the old "USA Up All Night" bits. Good humor. The movie was bad of course and that was the point. They make these movies to be bad. No one takes them serious, so neither do they take themselves serious.
But they are just fine for a night of painting, with just passing attention paid to the screen.

Nick: So… "watch us make fun of ourselves," is their premise to maintain their audience?

By that logic, they've reduced themselves to, "Jack" but without the threat of actual bodily harm.

I agree, wrestling doesn't belong on SyFy, but neither does all that dreck they keep producing.

Surely, some of the old TV shows which were excellent by the way, would be much better choices, and can't cost that much to run on a station, e.g. UFO, Space 1999, The Invaders, The old BSG series, Blake's 7, etc.

I can't believe they can get any advertisers, given their poor lineup.

Seeing as they turned on their original core audience anyways, I don't see that they have any logic at all.

There is that.

Sy-Fy is to science fiction as MTV is to music, and that's why both channels are garbage. Since NBC owns Sy-Fy, I'm surprised they haven't added a Law & Order spinoff- Law & Order: Alpha Centauri

ooooo CSI Moon Base Alpha!

Now I might watch that! :P

I think there are more cop shows on TV than anything else !!!

Surely, some of the old TV shows which were excellent by the way, would be much better choices, and can't cost that much to run on a station, e.g. UFO, Space 1999, The Invaders, The old BSG series, Blake's 7, etc.

They ran many of those when the station first came on the air. Along with Doctor Who, Buck ROgers and the Incredible Hulk. I also seem to remember them running the old Planet of the Apes series. And whatever happened to their yearly anime festival? That was usually excellent. Those were a good couple of years…SIGH.

Chuck

Space 1999 was decent as long as you didn't listen to the dialog too much…

I remember once that Sci-Fi Channel showed Braveheart now I know that Braveheart was'nt historicly accurate,but it not Science Fiction by any means.

Captain Gideon

P.S. I remember the early years oif Sci-Fi when they had GOOD programs on almost any time of the day.

Braveheart was defintely Alternative History Kiltpunk.

BBC America has Dr. Who, plus Being Human and some other near Sci-Fi shows. Plus STNG.

SyFy is trying to distance themselves from the Sci-Fi past… best way to do that is make these cheese movies and drive away the "old market" crowd. Once they are all gone they can continue to fill their line up with Wrestling, Game Shows, Reality TV, and a couple high priced licensed shows they can't afford to drop, yet (stargate, caprica, etc).

If SyFy drops the SG series, Eureka, etc. … it will lose a lot of viewers IMO … Their movies generally suck !! And IMO … SyFy should run STNG, DS-9, Voyager along with Enterprise at least once a week … if not daily …

I think Nick W. above has nailed it.

I've often thought the best thing for SyFy is a serious competetitor, like Canada's "Space" channel, to challenge their market.

I'm not sure how one lobbies for a "foreign" channel to be picked up on US TV, though I imagine tacking it onto a NAFTA revision might do.

BTW, watched "Sharktopus" with my girl. Larfed our heads off, it was so bad. Almost thought I heard Eric Robert's sigh "Thank You" when the shark done him wrong.

Regards,
Keith F.

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