Monster of the Day #1847

Updated on November 28, 2018 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

Yes, I’m alive! Obviously I took a Thanksgiving break last week even from my computer. Then Sunday night we had a big storm. Lots of snow and a bit cold, but nothing ground breaking. Heavy winds, though, which must have done a number on power lines. I woke up Monday with the power out, it was still out Monday night after work, I drove around to a friend’s house. It was now evening instead of 4:00 in the morning and I could now tell how many local blocks were sans power. Indeed, the house I was heading to also lacked power. I slept in a pretty cold house, and the power came on five minutes before leaving for week yesterday. Obviously crews were working through the night, so thanks!

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  • kgb_san_diego

    Welcome back, glorious leader! :-) Felt as cold as that shark, I take it? And yes, you just added a new film to my homework list…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Hey, a shark! Speaking of which, I watched “The Meg” last weekend. It was fun and pretty well made, but you could tell right off the bat who was going to live and who was going to get et. It was so obvious they might as well have been wearing red shirts.

  • Gamera977

    So the shark knocked out your power to freeze you out Ken? All joking aside I’m glad you’re okay. Even down here we lots of issues with peoples water lines freezing and bursting. Nasty stuff there.

    I too am interested in what movie this is.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, I liked it too. It did kinda hit every check box on the giant shark cliche list though.

    (SLIGHT SPOILER) I did like that the hero’s blonde ex-wife which I figured he’d get back together with ended up spending the movie in the clinic and the pretty Chinese lady was the female lead.

  • The Rev.

    You may want to rethink that. Snow Shark is bad. Not fun bad, either. There are a couple of moments with the shark puppet that made me very happy, and trying to rectify the shark’s size with the relatively shallow snow the fin is regularly seen being pulled through was amusing, but ultimately it felt like a chore. I feel bad saying so because they were obviously trying (and everyone spent who knows how many days outside filming in winter in New York), but I cannot recommend it at all. You’d be better off with Siffy’s Avalanche Sharks, although that wasn’t very good, either.

  • The Rev.

    Well, that’s true to the book (I guess if you didn’t read it you wouldn’t know). I won’t ask a pertinent question about the ex-wife, because I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ll be curious to see if that subplot ended the same way. And it is apparently still in a few theaters around here; should I wait until it’s on Netflix or something, or go see it now?

  • BGBear_rnh Icanseeclearlynow

    When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
    But a great white shark who ate tiny reindeer

  • Gamera977

    Ah, no I haven’t read the novel. I just figured it was an attempt to appeal to the Chinese market.

    I’ll let BC speak for himself but I’d describe the movie as ‘so good it’s bad’ with occasional bouts of trying to be a true ‘good’ movie.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I generally enjoyed it, but the cliches were applied so forcefully and with such obviousness that it detracted from that enjoyment.

    I’d say it’s a fun movie, a very good looking movie with great photography and production design, but I don’t really think it needs a theater. Wait for Netflix.

  • Flangepart

    Listened to Dr. Demento when a wee lad?

  • BGBear_rnh Icanseeclearlynow

    On my wide up radio.

  • Such tension coming from this image. With the guy just standing there. In front of the fake looking shark.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    With the snow swirling around everything…except the guy.

  • The Rev.

    Actually, I had forgotten that the love interest character was Japanese in the book, so her being Chinese was indeed a likely sop to China.

  • Ken_Begg

    And a very successful one in the case of The Meg. Expect that thing to continue (especially because the Chinese government decides whether a film is released there or not. Having a Chinese actor in a major role definitely helps secure a release there).

  • Gamera977

    Personally I think it’s sad that a silly movie like this can get that right while a certain big budget film casts a Vietnamese/American actress and then is surprised when their movie flops in China. I mean we put an Asian character in there! To the Chinese she’s just another foreigner.

    And I’d rather look at a Chinese actress than yet another blue-eyed blonde that Hollywood loves so much. I find it funny as hell hearing Brie Larson whining about racism when the only reason she’s lead in the Captain Marvel (or whatever it is, the other one not Shazam) is that she’s another boring tiresome Hollywood blonde. I’d way rather look at a Asian, Latino, or black actress for a change.

  • Dmitri Kozlowsky

    Wait, so FOX spun off Meg Griffin as its own series? When did that happen?