Spirit of Sharknado

The goal for a disaster type of movie is to scare or suspense the audience. But Sharknado is made meant not to be one.  The effects Sharknado have on the audiences are very different. I don’t think Sharknado scares anyone neither suspense them. For not able to do so, I don’t think Sharknado is really a disaster movie.

As we discussed in class, the intention of Sharknado might be is trying to make fun of the disaster movies and the movie viewers in this days. People today care too much about how high quality and how fantastic the movies are rather than the plots of the movie. And I also think the cinematographer of Sharknado also might want to give the audience an idea on viewing movie differently.

Sharknado is known to be a bad movie because of the unrealistic of the sharks and especially the CGI. The CGI is so horrible that it allows the audience to laugh at it and somehow take it less serious. But I have to agree that the sharks look so unreal there were lots of ridiculous moments in the movie. For example, where the bar girl feel out of a helicopter and then a shark just randomly pops out of now where and catch her in its mouth. How could such a coincidence happen! Another ridiculous thing would be the shark. To me, they look like a bunch of black Japanese Koi fish swimming happily on the street.  The most ridiculous moments from the movie to me is a shark can bite through the ceiling of the car with much energy after being sucked out from the ocean, from the water for hours or so. And everyone in the car is just freaking out from a fake shark.

The director also had been using the subject matter in Sharknado. The low-angle shots are taken from the ground when a shark is dropping down toward Finn, makes the shark look threatening and powerful, and to show that the motion of the shark is speeding up. It also minimizes the environment; the only background is the sky. There is also a long shot with a high angle which showing the sharks just naturally drop down from the sky when the tornado is just at the back. Isn’t it supposed to be sucked in and swirl around with the tornado? The light sources had been using Sharknado is mainly the available lighting. Another reason that Sharknado is terrible is because of how quickly sequences of events occur. One moment, it would be sunny and all, but in a minute or so, the tornado of sharks would be whirling around the city.

Well, from the horrible special effect of Sharknado, I think Sharknado somehow success on sending out messages to the audience on how people don’t look at the classic of the film anymore. Even though Sharknado is memorable because of its terrible effect, I still think it’s a good movie to watch with friends where you laugh at all the cliché parts.