Friday Fun: Sharknado

Social media has been a flurry the past 24 hours about a new action-packed, gory SyFy-original movie called Sharknado, which premiered last night. Apparently, a literal perfect storm gathers a world variety of sharks into a cyclone that moves into Los Angeles, hurling hungry shark projectiles (which aren't as much of a threat after they've landed and lost their wind support) in addition to the typical damage and terror that a tornado brings. If you watch the trailer, you hear one of the protagonist's plans to stop the "sharknado": a bomb. 

Again, this is one of those pitch meetings I would have loved to witness, and one would think that this was from, for example, the entertainment section of The Onion. But this movie is real.

I've always been a fan of plotless, poor-dialogue, action-packed, summer popcorn flick (e.g. Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow), but sometimes even sci-fi movies can be horribly unbelievable. Sharknado may not have the most laughable storyline to make it onto the screen, even in the past decade, but is it getting a lot of otherwise undue attention because the rise of cable channels and social media? I think just watching the trailer is good enough for me. (Warning: As I mentioned, the movie, trailer and clips will include some gore, but mostly on CGI sharks).