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QuarterDollar Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#1: Jul 12th 2013 at 10:08:52 AM

Sy Fy made a film about tornadoes. With sharks in them. Attacking people. I'm not making this up.

I have yet to see the full film, but I have to because this needs a Tropes page.

Dream_Huntress Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#2: Jul 12th 2013 at 10:24:38 AM

[up]Yes.

The movie premiered already on Sy Fy, and apparently everybody on Twitter went nuts for it (even Mia Farrow tweeted about it).

Also, cutting through a shark with chainsaw.

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RLNice Bigfoot Puncher from a computer Since: Sep, 2010
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#3: Jul 12th 2013 at 10:26:36 AM

Reposting from the Asylum thread.

So this scene needs to be in Sharknado.

Heroic sheriff/scientist/whatever: Listen, Mr. Mayor, lives are in danger!

Mr. Mayor: What would you have me do?

Heroic sheriff/scientist/whatever: You have to close down the city of Los Angeles.

Mr. Mayor: Close down Los Angeles? Are you crazy? Do you know how much revenue the city of Los Angeles would lose if I closed down Los Angeles for even a day? Why, thousands... no, HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars. Who's to say that this isn't just some ordinary tornado, anyways?

(Heroic sheriff/scientist/whatever slams a pile of cow bones on Mr. Mayor's table)

Heroic sheriff/scientist/whatever: This used to be a cow. I saw it sucked up into the tornado when it hit the coast down south. These bones are what came out. Something ate that cow. Something in the tornado. Something... not human.

Mr. Mayor: So what? Cows get eaten all the time! Haven't you ever been to a White Castle?

Heroic sheriff/scientist/whatever: There are no White Castles in tornadoes. Or anywhere else in California.

Mr. Mayor: All right. So this tornado stripped the flesh off of a cow's bones. It could be anything. Maybe it sucked up a crate full of steak knives at the same time as the cow. But there's no evidence of a threat sufficient enough to warrant shutting down all of Los Angeles. Get out of my office!

Heroic sheriff/scientist/whatever: If you won't do anything, then I will.

(Heroic sheriff/scientist/whatever cocks a random shotgun he just happened to have with him and storms out of the Mayor's office).

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#5: Jul 12th 2013 at 11:59:09 AM

When I saw the thread name, I thought it was going to be a sequel to Sharktopus.

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#6: Jul 12th 2013 at 4:02:30 PM

I wish I could have seen it. This movie looks so campy and ridiculous it had to be worth watching.

QuarterDollar Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#7: Jul 12th 2013 at 5:01:03 PM

It's on again on the 18th. Mark your calendars.

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#9: Jul 12th 2013 at 7:56:42 PM

I must call everyone I know and plan a movie night.

hoskins88 Since: Dec, 1969
#10: Jul 12th 2013 at 8:02:49 PM

This is what Narm: The Movie should be. Explosions solve everything, death is random and unimportant soon forgotten about, and no one questions why every shark in the damn ocean is in L.A.

edited 12th Jul '13 8:03:13 PM by hoskins88

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#11: Jul 12th 2013 at 10:39:19 PM

EPA: No link between climate change and 'Sharknado'

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#12: Jul 12th 2013 at 10:51:52 PM

Jeez, the comments for that article...

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#13: Jul 12th 2013 at 11:06:27 PM

'Sharknado' Writer: EPA's Denial 'Concerns Me'

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#14: Jul 13th 2013 at 12:17:30 PM

This looks like the greatest movie of all time.

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#15: Jul 13th 2013 at 2:28:17 PM

This seems like an appropiate use of CG.

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#16: Jul 13th 2013 at 3:24:25 PM

They should've worked out the practical effects for this. How much can a few tornado watchers with pickup trucks full of live sharks cost?

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#17: Jul 13th 2013 at 3:27:14 PM

I don't really get the sudden hype. In the end, it's another Asylum movie. One of the better ones, for sure - up there with Nazis from the Center of the Earth - but it certainly won't start to turn people into juggalos.

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#18: Jul 13th 2013 at 7:16:24 PM

I saw it tonight. Apparently, when it comes to sharks, Shotguns Are Just Better.

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#19: Jul 15th 2013 at 5:48:51 PM

This film sounds like a Damned Thing, even if it does take rains of fish to ludicrous levels. :P

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#20: Jul 15th 2013 at 6:08:40 PM

[up][up][up] I suppose it's just because the premise is so absurd.

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LordCrayak Since: Jun, 2009
#21: Jul 15th 2013 at 6:22:10 PM

And now they have announced... Ghost Shark.

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#23: Jul 15th 2013 at 9:18:12 PM

Saw this tonight with my friends. In between the usual "X DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY" shouts and stuff, it was...actually enjoyable in a completely stupid, brainless way.

LordCrayak Since: Jun, 2009
#24: Jul 16th 2013 at 4:58:07 AM

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Last Fourth of July, teenager Christy Bruce disappeared from a high school beach party. Her severed arm washed ashore a day later. Drunken sea captain Blaise Shaw became a hero to the small seaside community of Harmony after killing the great white shark that was deemed responsible, but the Christy Bruce murder was no shark attack. Blaise turns to ghost hunter Ava Conte, who is skeptical but intrigued by his ghost shark ramblings. With preparations for a massive July 4th celebration rapidly approaching, they soon find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy of sex and murder involving the town's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. Unprepared to contend with a Ghost Shark that can hunt on land, sea, as well as anywhere there is enough water or rain to sustain its phantom form, Blaise and Ava must uncover the truth about the towns dark past or fall victim to the Ghost Shark.

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