Films about giant sharks. You've really got to love them, don't you?
Unless, of course, you're Decay who gets pissed off about the fluctuating
size of Mako sharks in Deep
Blue Sea, or Steven Spielberg who got upset when his giant rubber
shark either sank or just didn't work. But other than these two,
doesn't everyone love films about giant sharks?
Well, it looks like a new one is on the way! When Deep Blue Sea was
being made, it looked like the world was getting ready for an onslaught of
films about angry, toothy fish, but then it bombed (well, not so much bombed
as just sank before it did very well), so the fish got put on ice, so to
speak.
One of the fish in the freezer is the Megalodon
for the film "Meg", based on Robert Alten's book of the same name. While the book was not that
good, and was written like an episode of "Batman", with "BANG" and "POW"
scattered throughout, it did have a nice premise, and would have given us
a 60 foot white pointer (over twice the size of the shark in Jaws) biting
people. It had a really dumb ending, though. I assume the film
would have changed this.
Anyway, other film makers jumped on the Megalodon bandwagon. One film,
"Shark
Attack 3", has gone straight to video, and sounds REALLY REALLY BAD!
The other film, that I expect to be bad, but may not be, is
"Megalodon". I read about
this film a couple of years ago, and expected it to disappear into a puff
of nonexistence. But it didn't. It looks like it may well come
to our cinemas (or video, at least). And that has to be a good thing!
Have a look at the trailer on the web page. It's very small and
very dark, so you see bugger all, but it still looks like it could be okay.
So, there we go. It looks like there still is room for films about
big sharks eating people. So the world can't be all bad, can it?
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