What do you mean, it's not a blockbuster title?
Based on on-line views, some yahoo over at Yahoo totalled up the top ten most viewed trailers of 2009. Sure, Twilight's stupid sparkly vampires took number one, Transformers took number two, and most of them are the big-budget blockbusters you would expect.
I have to imagine that at least a few of you morons contributed to Megashark vs. Giant Octopus getting all the way to the number eight viewed trailer of the year. Congratulate yourselves.
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What, RoboGeisha wasn't also in the top ten?
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The worst thing I did in the past decade was watch that movie. And I paid $4.99 for it.
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The best thing I did in the past year (I won't say decade) was to watch that movie. I loved the hell out of it.
But I love me some truly awful movies.
Posted by: Ember at December 30, 2009 06:38 PM (LdRAG)
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ok Ember, how would you rate The Fifth Element?
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Mila is nearly naked through most of the movie. How could you rate it anything but awesome? Seriously? The Fifth Element is seriously awesomely bad in that epic kind of way. I own it. I own Megashark vs. Giant Octopus, too, though. Don't judge me!
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The movie was so awful that it was awfully good.
Posted by: TimothyJ at December 31, 2009 07:06 PM (IKKIf)
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How can we not judge you when you admit to owning a movie that saps 50 IQ points everytime it's viewed. I can accept the idea of a massive shary and octupus fighting and maybe destroying boats but leaping 30000 feet out of the water to swallow an airplane? At that point I physically felt brain cells die. And swimming at 500 knots but taking 30 seconds to go 1500 yds? That doesn't quite compute. At that point my small intestine attempted to climbing to my brain stem to strangle me and end my agony ala Vogon.
The appeal in Megashark vs. Giant Octopus is not that it is at all accurate or realistic. The appeal is in its ridiculous and overwhelming cheese factor. From the moment that two giant and unlikely creatures were instantly unfrozen with no harmful effects after however many millions of years to wreak havoc upon the seas, you knew you were in for a terrible, terrible flick. I enjoyed it precisely because it is impossible to suspend your disbelief and even pretend that the premise is remotely possible.
When it jumped out of the water to eat the airplane, I literally fell off the couch, I was laughing so hard.
I'm a sucker for a completely improbable, totally underfunded, plot-less science fiction movie. It's the same reason that I like most of the terrible SyFy movies out there. They make me laugh. What's not to like about something that makes you laugh?
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The appeal is in its ridiculous and overwhelming cheese factor
exactly the same reason why I used to watch all the Godzilla (and other) bad Japanese sci-fi monster/horror flicks on saturday afternoons as a kid on WGN out of Chicago.
Loved 5th Element, laughed my ass off the entire movie (when I wasn't drooling over Milla's luscious body). Mmmmmm Milla..... what were we talking about?
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2009 summed up in one (long) sentence
We started the year with a president that everybody hated but fortunately we got rid of him pretty quickly and replaced him with a new president that didn't look like at all any of the previous presidents which we were told was a very good and historic thing because it proved that we had finally gotten to the point where those kind of things didn't matter any more so then
we settled down to watch the Steelers win the Superbowl even though nobody thought they were good enough to then right after that it seemed like the baseball season started but nobody noticed because nobody cares plus everybody was distracted by the most ginormous government stimulus bill ever in the history of the world but was necessary in order to save unemployment from rising too high yet for some reason
a gay guy was a judge at a female beauty pageant so he asked one of the contestants what she thought of same-sex marriage and she agreed with the new president so the gay guy called her a lot of nasty names and she ended up getting lots of endorsements and publicity until we found out that she diddled herself (which we were assured in the 90's was totally cool and natural but doesn't appear to be the case any more) so that was it for her but everybody agrees that the gay guy is a jerk and by way of explanation
the new president took some time out from complaining about us (though we probably do deserve it) in order to clarify his position on gay marriage by doing a quarter-bow to the Saudi king (who supposedly owned the old president) and then we all discovered that having eight kids and being on a reality television show while stepping out on your wife is bad for your marriage (who'd have thunk it?) so now it's "Plus Eight Every Other Weekend and Two Holidays a Year" and then
unemployment didn't notice the stimulus and rose too high and we saw that our government never did find a "bad" dictator despite spending a lot of time gladhanding the current crop of dictators around the world but we did find a bad democracy in Honduras which did a bad thing by throwing out their dictator wannabe who crawled back in under the auspices of the US only to have to crawl back out thus proving that tiny little Honduras can thwart the will of the US with no repercussions whatsoever (who'd have thunk it?) so
to distract from this the government took over two car companies so everybody bought their cars from the third one, or would have if anybody had been in the mood to buy a car, which they weren't because they were captivated by the police in Cambridge acting stupidly and harassing the new president's old friend so the cops got dragged through the mud and insulted by everybody, although at least one of them did get a free beer out of the whole ordeal, meanwhile
the president reset our relationship with Russia by giving them a big red plastic button and complaining about us (although there's an outside chance we might deserve some of the criticism) and then in order to encourage people to buy cars the government created a special program which they screwed up the management of and ended up running out of money twice and still overspending and totally destroying car demand for the rest of the year but thankfully
our long national nightmare ended and Ted Kennedy finally kicked the bucket and after a long discussion about which of his relatives to put into the seat Massachusetts decided to put some other dude in the seat which doesn't make much sense but maybe there's a Kennedy nephew coming free from his current job in early 2010 and oh by the way
unemployment continued to ignore the stimulus and rose even higher and as the dog days of summer wore on we discovered that it's possible for a country of three hundred million people to have two pinheads in charge of the Senate and the House who can completely bollix the perfect political climate for health care reform so the entire congress had to go into hiding and appear on milk cartons as citizen groups searched for them with tar, feathers, and tea bags, which doesn't make much sense but does let otherwise-respectable news commentators snicker over an obscure sexual reference which better describes their presidential interviewing technique but anyways
that was interrupted when Kanye West rushed the stage to tell us that the academy had made a mistake and that Taylor Swift wasn't all that and then next he told us that he was the one with problems and then he said he was going to take a break but none of us were surprised because we've known all along that he was an insufferable asshole which the new president eloquently articulated between bows to foreign royalty and enumerating our failings (some of which had an air of validity) and also
David Letterman took time out from stalking Sarah Palin to help police catch a blackmailer who knew that he'd been canoodling interns, yet David still couldn't find time to either visit a dentist to have that gap plugged or update his pathetic act and regrettably the new president went to Copenhagen for the Olympics but all he got was a stupid T-Shirt and a Nobel Peace Prize which made us happy because even though he complains about us (which we're not sure we deserve) he hasn't really been lauded enough for his genius and specialness and recognized as the truly singular visionary that he really is and then
our other long national nightmare ended and the Yankees finally won the World Series after an interminable nine-year drought thus satisfying sports anchors everywhere and then unemployment, like the Jeffersons, kept movin' on up, so the new president had to take a break from reforming health care to do a full-on "salami salami baloney" bow to the emperor of Japan and then Iran paused from beating and murdering protestors to finally admit that it has lots of nuclear facilities and the IAEA is completely incompetent and they're going to have nuclear power and bombs and we all kind of shrugged and told Israel that it sucks to be you and then
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