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ShadowHunter

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I have the Dvr set. Snacks ready and tweets to go lol.

I voted April lives and I see many others did as well. She adds to the crazy so it would not have been the same without her.

Cant believe this is the 4th one I remember watching the 1st one just for fun.

Marathon of all for movies on Sunday.

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Ohwell

Ohwell

Unfortunately, I don't recognize 80% of these D-listers.  It took me half an hour to realize the black guy was Tommy Davidson.  I knew he looked familiar but I hadn't seen him in a loooong time.  Apparently, I didn't recognize Adrian Zmed.  I recognized Gilbert Gofftried and Dog the Bounty Hunter and a few others.  Looking forward to Stacey Dash coming on.  I assume she gets chomped.  Heh.

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Ohwell

Ohwell

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I agree it's not as snarkworthy as the previous ones.   I didn't know who the black actress was who played Finn's DIL but it doesn't matter anyway, the shark just ate her.

Oh yeah, Cheryl Tiegs.

I guess Tara Reid's Sharknado money paid for her face job, but she needs to stop now.

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Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory

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I must be in the minority because I really enjoyed this and didn't think it dropped in quality at all.  This is what it always was for me.  A fun summer show which you watch somewhat to snark somewhat to see weird and unusual cameos but mostly because it actually is kinda funny.  Honestly all the different kinds of -nados had me laughing.  My favorite was the cownado.   I loved some of the references which I am hoping were intentional but hey even if they weren't....... Gil was annoying me for most of the movie but he came through at the end so I give him a "he's five dammit so I let it pass" pass.   Tara Reid as a robot is hilarious in its own right.    

Oh and all that plus a Baywatch reference.

I just enjoy this and wouldn't mind many many more. 

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Guest

Guest

I didn't make it past the hour mark this time.  Changing the world to be kind of futuristic as viewed through the prism of 70s and 80s era sci-fi TV just wasn't working for me.

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CletusMusashi

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I'm just now watching it for the first time. So far, I think the 3rd was the best, and this one is a let down, but if that Mount Rushmore shot ends up leading to a TeddyRoosevelt-nado my opinion of this thing may very well skyrocket. Especially if somebody says "Don't blame me. I noted for Ralph Nado."

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Irlandesa

Irlandesa

I didn't love this one either.

Nothing was ever going to touch the first one but both the second and the third held delightful surprises for me that made me laugh.  This time, I didn't get any of those surprises. 

All the different -nados felt like they were throwing everything and the kitchen sink a this movie.  Or maybe I just wasn't in the mood.  I will say that there didn't seem to be as much advertising this year for this.

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Frozendiva

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I too didn't love it. It was entertaining but lacked the fun of the first couple (Space - Canada's sci-fi station has been running all the installments for the past couple of weeks).  It was on at 6 pm my time and I didn't watch it til after 8 pm.

The cownado was cute. Too bad it didn't result in falling milk or steaks or anything like that. I don't know who the Stacey Dash person is, but if she was the Chicago mayor with the striped socks, the Wizard of Oz gag was excellent.

April's Acres had me thinking of either Green Acres or Petticoat Junction. No gag from those two classics.

I didn't recognize many of the C-listers who got chomped. Maybe that is why it lacked a bit of bite. I wondered if the Eiffel Tower at the end was the one from Las Vegas or Paris.

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CletusMusashi

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Yeah, the cameos have been pretty rock-bottom. Also, there are too many disjointed characters and subarcs, and the only one that I kind of give a shit about is the Hasselhoff/Busey/Reid one. And they have done nothing in this hour and a half that has any relevance to the main action. Seriously, I don't think they've even seen a shark yet.

And... sharknados were silly enough to begin with.  Adding boulders or flaming oil to it just makes it even more implausible that sharks could survive in it. I know, I get it, "Dude: it's a movie called Sharknado, you can't expect it to make sense!" Fuck that, I'm already suspending disbelief plenty. Sharknados exist in the first place? Well, yeah, we kind of have to just sit back and enjoy that leap of faith. Sharknados have become a recurring phenomenon after the first movie? Well, how else are you gonna have sequels? They always happen right when the protagonist arrives? Well, the whole thing is such a parody genre anyway, and that's such a cliche about heroic serial protagonists that I'm still okay with it. But at some point, even in fantasy or syfyence fiction, enough is enough. Otherwise you could have Gilbert Gottfried climb up out of the rubble and say "I'm actually a wizard!" and turn all the sharks into fluffy toy poodles. Which.. would actually be more interesting than some of this movies way-too-numerous CGI shots. Oh, look! Another tornado! With stuff in it! Can I stop acting surprised yet?

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Frozendiva

Frozendiva

I always have wondered where *all* the sharks actually came from.  They are not overfished, like many fish are. Is there some sort of breeding or hatching season that goes on before sharknado time? Millions of shark eggs that just hatch and grow like a chiashark? The Chicago mayor did have a point that Finn Shepherd was always around - maybe he does trigger them or has some sort of magnetic attraction to them. The nuclear sharks seemed really implausible and much of the US and more would be under vast amounts of radiation. The death toll would be staggering.

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CletusMusashi

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I would think that, by the end of the first movie, pretty much every shark in the world over ten feet long would be dead, except for the plankton feeders, because apparently eating plankton bestows some sort of tornado immunity. 

ETA: I just saw the defibrillator scene. That part, I will admit, was entertaining.

ETAA: Apparently the whale wasn't getting enough plankton.

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Artsda

Artsda

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I enjoy these as cheasy and bad as they are. 

Vegas! They should have filmed more there, it was great scenery. I also liked the Niagara Falls. lol

Where'd the whale come from?

Nova! I was waiting for her all episode.

The cow lines in Kansas from them flying was straight from 'Twister'. I liked them using that line.

Sharknado 5 has to be coming.

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Jediknight

Jediknight

4 hours ago, 17wheatthins said:

I loved the demise of Stacey Dash!!

That woman doesn't age.

It wasn't bad, I liked Gemini, she was an awesome addition.  It was something to see Carmen Lopez killing sharks and being a badass.  The 5th one better have her and Nova teaming up and kicking shark butt.

Loved the Guttenberg cameo, come on 2 Lava 2 Lantula, don't fail us, be awesome like the first one.

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giovannif7

giovannif7

If I hadn't already turned off my "Oh, come on!" reflex when watching any Sharknado movie, the opening scenes of pastoral Kansas with rolling hills in the background would have reminded me.

This one was still good for a few laughs, but it felt like they worked too hard to make this one snarkworthy, which took a lot of the fun out of it. Or maybe it just suffered in comparison with the first 2, which I watched earlier today. There was nothing in 4 as epic as the Robert Hayes cameo as the captain of the plane at the start of Sharknado 2.

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DrSpaceman73

DrSpaceman73

Agree with others, probably the worst of the bunch, IMO. 

Had a few outrageously funny moments, like at the end when she uses the electrified sharks to revive Finn. 

Based on the end obviously they are going to have another.  I was hope they would end up overseas this year rather than in the US.  Maybe next year. 

They need some new ideas though, running out of ways to kill sharks creatively. 

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ae2

ae2

It was a fun ride for the first hour and a half, with a handful of laughs and lots of fun finding not-so-subtle movie references (and a few that were actually kind of clever).

Then the last half hour really AMPED it up. I don't think we stopped laughing. I think that half hour is the best Sharknado movie yet.

I love that they kept jumping over the U.S. instantly - the tornadoes and the team. Hey - we're in Philly and need a large water source, let's forget about the Delaware or the Atlantic and go to Niagara! And let's REVERSE the waterfall, because, why not?

The CGI was remarkably bad in this one. Almost cartoony. I'm not sure if that was intentional. Oh! And the opening intro was AMAZING! I'm now dying for a Saturday morning Sharknado cartoon. 

From what I could tell, the billionare sharknado guy only disappeared and wasn't noted as dead. Will he be coming back as the arch-Villain of Sharknado V?

My only complaint was we needed MORE NOVA!

Any love for Sharknado: SupernoVa?

The best quote of the movie might have been at the very beginning. As Fin is leaving his son tells him, "Don't go to prison!" I'm not sure if there's some meaning or reference behind that or if it's sheer randomness, but I've found my new goodbye phrase. 

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shapeshifter

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Just watched this. I laughed once at the end with the defribulator sharks. 

If Rahm Emanuel (real mayor of Chicago) could've had a cameo blaming Finn, that would've made it for me; I couldn't recognize most of the cameos. I don't know Stacy Dash, but the Wizard of Oz house falling on her with the wicked witch's feet sticking out was a familiar, appropriate touchstone for me — as was Finn's line, "Follow the yellow brick road! I can't believe I just said that."

As mentioned upthread, they really should have at least had a scifi explanation for why the entire midwestern US didn't have radiation fallout reminiscent of The Day After.

So the new bride got eaten by a shark? I guess that fulfilled the trope that it's not safe to be a black actor in a horror flick. Maybe she can come back with special powers from the radiation.

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BooksRule

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I agree with some other posters that this one tried too hard, but it was mildly fun as a waste of two hours on a Saturday afternoon.  I didn't recognize most of the cameos, though.  Did Adrian Zmed have a cameo?  I looked online to see a list and David Faustino ('Married with children') was listed as the Las Vegas gambler.  I guess he was the guy at the slot machine?  (No matter who it was, I wouldn't have known without looking it up.)

One can learn so much from these movies, right?  I didn't know that nuclear radiation was lime green and that you can create a spark by rubbing two shark bellies together.

Was the shark inside of a shark inside of a shark inside of a shark inside of a shark inside of a whale the seafood version of a 'turducken'?

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