Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson team up in the most anticipated throw down since, uh, The Asylum vs. Steven Spielberg!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o

I got that one already in my Netflick que!

DEAR GOD!

Top of my Netflix queue!!!!!

"It rises."

Don't you hate being stuck on a submarine with a pretentious bastard like that. "Talk normal!"

Just because he's seen MOBY DICK too many times......

Oooooo I'm dying to inflict this on my customers. Hope it beats SHARK ATTACK III.

Why do I suspect that, had Lorenzo Lamas improvised John Barrowman's (in)famous SHARK ATTACK 3 quip, not only would it not have ended up in the film, but the actress might have slapped him?

That's a pretty amazing 180°... switching from knocking off blockbusters to trying to be the next Sci-Fi Channel.

I'm pretty sure the Asylum has actually been producing sci-fi channel movies for years.

Aren't The Asylum now knocking off films that haven't even been made yet? I.e. the much delayed MEG (2010)

Debbie Gibson is an actress?!? Captain Jack Harkness fought a shark?!? So much so that he quipped?!? Infamously?!? What quip?!?

Answers, man, answers!!!

Whaddaya say I....

So, has anyone here watched this yet? We await your analysis with baited breath...

It's said "Very Long Wait" on Netflix all week, until today when it said available "Now." But I've often seen stuff say "Now," and it doesn't come.

Shark vs. airplane!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYRZ_-RXtk

:lol:

MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS (2009)—Directed by Jack Perez. Stars Lorenzo Lamas, Debbie Gibson, Vic Chao. This ridiculously monikered monster mash became The Asylum’s best-known, if not exactly best, film to date after its trailer made the Internet rounds as a viral video for all to mock. Obviously, a film with this title—and made by The Asylum—couldn’t possibly be good, but it’s also difficult to ignore.

Former teen pop star and Playboy model Gibson gets top billing as a lisping marine biologist, the maverick kind who hijacks a mini-sub, so she can check out some whales. A giant octopus attacks a Japanese oil rig. A mega shark leaps a few miles into the sky to chomp a 747. Holy crap. The odious Lamas appears as a scowling military man who thinks the idea of a giant octopus is as ridiculous as we do. Perhaps the only aspect of the film sillier is an out-of-left-field broom-closet tryst between Debbie and Japanese scientist Chao that gives them the big clue to defeat the monsters. Which they don’t really do, because The Asylum has to keep the ending open for a sequel. Maybe MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS VS BIG ASS FROG, I don’t know.

Stock footage swiped from The Asylum’s 30,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA results in cramped sets and continuity errors. All three submarines use the same set, and the quickie CGI effects are the pits. All actors are bad, but the inexperienced Gibson, surprisingly (and bully for her for not getting a nose job), comes off looking best. Producer David Michael Latt owns The Asylum and has also directed some of its pictures.

OK, yeah, THAT I would rent.

Yeah, there was no way this could possibly be as entertaining as the trailer. I watched it last night and found it largely boring. The actors weren't great, but bless them for knowing it was total junk. I was surprised that Gibson (who looks great) handled herself as well as she did. Lamas was clearly phoning it in but he did have a couple of legitimately (and intentionally) funny lines. What's up with Sean Lawlor having basically the second lead as Gibson's mentor, but relegated to seventh (?!) billing?

I found the bloopers and the making-of pretty interesting, as it shows just how quickly The Asylum cranks these things out: this was shot in January of this year.

Somebody's old crush is rekindled!

I had a little crush on the female Navy submariner who kept answering her captain "Aye" even though no one else onboard used that. I think it was an actor thing. I think she came to her director and said "Can I say 'aye' when Captain Jim Belushi gives me a direct order?" and I think the director said "Hey, I wish I'd written that!"

I've got the whole production figured out in my head. I know just how it went.

Make the film of that. Release it direct to DVD. It could be called... hmmm... oh, I know: The Asylum! Let's see how they like it!

Jim Belushi is in MEGA SHARK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS?????

Wow, this sounds more awesome with each post. :lol:

Was the worst actor in the film that captain guy or the overacting dude who pulled the gun on him?

Well, she didn't do it for me back in the day. I was a Lita Ford/Doro Pesch kinda-guy back in that tragically mulleted era. But yeah, I think "Deborah" looks better now than she did then.

I don't know if Overacting Sonar Guy (or whatever his name was) was so bad or if they just had that camera pushed IN HIS GREEN FACE for so long that I thought I'd go mad.

No, Jim Belushi isn't in the movie. The captain is just a Jim Belushi type.


Either matters have taken a turn for the worse... or it's Christmas.

MEGA SHARK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS airs tonight (8/29) on "Syfy," its natural home. 9pm EST.