the meg

[futureman 22566]

is there a thread for this?  

it’s no jaws but it’s still pretty fun.  and the chinese chick is smoke.  she looks 25 and she’s 45..  pure insanity. 

[gsoda3 3317]

the story was bad.  the acting sucked.  li bingbing was wow.  that's about it.

 

 

[PRONG HORN 3167]

 

 

[RamjetFDO 10604]

33 minutes ago, futureman said:

and the chinese chick is smoke.  she looks 25 and she’s 45..  pure insanity. 

[futureman 22566]

1 hour ago, gsoda3 said:

the story was bad.  the acting sucked.  li bingbing was wow.  that's about it.

you couldn’t be more wrong.  oscar buzz is building. 

[Pato del Muerto 52995]

You can get me to believe that an enormous shark shows up out of the deep somehow. 

But it’s too much to believe that said giant fish can be quick like I’ve seen it in the trailers. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

The story wasn’t inherently bad. It had  some nice suspense . The acting/casting was atrocious. 

Chinese Lead - watching her try to flirt with Jason Statham was cringe worthy acting 

Jason Statham - his range consists of 0-1

Chinese Father - did they intentionally find bad actors?

Brooding punk supermodel who can’t act as a engineer - check

Token Black actor plays stereotype black guy who sounds like he didn’t graduate High School but yet holds Uber technical position somehow. Couldn’t afford a better actor?

Dwight  - fine

Cliff Curtis - fine

 

 

 

 

[Tom 2960]

Dwight stole the show.

Fun movie.  Would watch again for free on HBO.

 

Apparently Statham was pissed because the original cut was pretty gory, but the studio wanted a PG-13 flick to make more money and it was all cut. 

[DougO 5257]

How did Syfy let this one get away from them?

[Pato del Muerto 52995]

18 minutes ago, DougO said:

How did Syfy let this one get away from them?

Syfy doesn’t spend $130 million dollars on a movie. 

I cant believe any studio did, but here we are. 

[Continental Op 3934]

This movie adequately met all of my giant shark eating things movie needs.  

[Patrick Bateman 3945]

5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Syfy doesn’t spend $130 million dollars on a movie. 

I cant believe any studio did, but here we are. 

Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not.

[Underdog 28894]

8 hours ago, DougO said:

How did Syfy let this one get away from them?

Neither Tiffany or Debs were available. 

 

[Underdog 28894]

6 hours ago, Continental Op said:

This movie adequately met all of my giant shark eating things movie needs.  

Pretty much what my expectations are, loved the books. 

[wutang75 455]

Dwight stole the show.
Fun movie.  Would watch again for free on HBO.
 
Apparently Statham was pissed because the original cut was pretty gory, but the studio wanted a PG-13 flick to make more money and it was all cut. 

They should release 2 versions. Why has no studio done this? PG-13 for the mass audience, R for the rest of us. I’m sure there is a reason. I guess it depends if they shot the gory scenes and cut them vs not shooting them at all.


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[Underdog 28894]

Director's cut on DVD. 

[futureman 22566]

4 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not.

it’s making good money in china.  it’ll clear a profit easily and be pretty profitable.   which is great news, because I can’t wait for the meg 2

[Pato del Muerto 52995]

It made 141million worldwide opening week. It should turn a profit. 

I assume there will be a sequel, and maybe it’ll be cheaper because they’ve already modeled the shark?  I dunno if cgi works like that. 

[HenryJames 66394]

7 hours ago, Continental Op said:

This movie adequately met all of my giant shark eating things movie needs.  

1. giant shark

2. eating things

[TrashMaster G 17803]

The movie title is dumb.

[CurlyDumps 4571]

Even for a big dumb shark movie, it was pretty boring and terrible.

[Continental Op 3934]

1. giant shark
2. eating things

Exactly

[Monster 219]

[Trey3216 15382]

I can see myself getting fairly intoxicated and going in just to laugh

[Irwin F Fletcher 3554]

2 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

The movie title is dumb.

 

[DougO 5257]

13 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Leaks have it closer 180 million but it was co-financed by a Chinese studio..... It did pretty good business but the 2nd week drop will most likely point to if this is a hit or not.

You would think for an extra 178 million they could have at least put tentacles on the shark.

[Pato del Muerto 52995]

Sharktopus lives!  Megalopus!

[futureman 22566]

I thought the thermocline angle was pretty cool.  there’s so much we don’t know about what’s under the water...

Edited August 14, 2018 by futureman

[Underdog 28894]

LMAO.  When JW: Fallen Kingdom is a better movie, you know you have a pile of shit on your hands.  This could’ve/should’ve been better, Author of the series has to be highly disappointed or even pissed.  Prior post nailed it,  SyFy material at best.  Hard to believe a mechanical shark 40+ yrs old is still more realistic than this cgi crap. 

[Trey3216 15382]

21 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

  Megalopuss!

Vic??

Edited August 15, 2018 by Trey3216

[DougO 5257]

47 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Vic??

Whaleshark vs. Cholacabra.

[EvilCaseMcCoy 691]

Phew, this movie is gonna kill it in China. 

[bschoolprof 6281]

My older boys made me take them to this.  It was not surprisingly beyond terrible.  It had all the bad acting and production quality of sharknado, but wasn't in on the joke.  

[zman13 180]

When Statham is one of the best actors in the movie, you know the acting is bad.