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Sunday, October 19, 2014

How to Make a Sequel: My Sharknado 2 Movie Review

Finally! 
(Or, in this case, Fin-ly!)
I got to see Sharknado 2!
And yes, it was worth the wait!


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Sharknado 2: The Second One [Blu-ray]

How to Make a Sequel: 
My Sharknado 2 
Movie Review

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https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/yahoo-tv/-sharknado-2--retold-in-10-
outrageously-ridiculous-gifs-160118629.html
What do you do when you create a cinematic sensation? You make a sequel! The official title is: "Sharknado 2: The Second One". Which should clue us in that they're not going to take themselves too seriously. Or, if they do, they'll be so serious, it'll be hilarious. Yeah, it's kinda crazy how comedy works that way. 
POMELO Big Shark Backpack From Pomelo (Black)
What's the best way to make a sequel? Figure out what worked in the previous movie; and do more of that; plus up the ante! So instead of one chainsaw, we have more, plus we have plenty more makeshift weapons, including big bats, wide shovels, handy circular saws, squirt gun flamethrowers, etc.; and instead of an LA beach community in peril, we have New York City! The New York City!


If you really want to make the sequel fun, add as many celebrities, former celebrities, or celebrity wannabes as you can find. Especially in a shark movie, 'cause there's nothing better than watching Kelly Ripa stomping on a hammerhead shark with her high heels; or Matt Lauer skewering one with an umbrella. 

And have fun with which actor/actress plays which role. I.e., Former Taxi star Judd Hirsch plays a taxi driver; and former Airplane! star Robert Hayes flies an airplane! 
Pealra Shark Bag, Dark Blue, One Size
Best of all, add lots of surprises! If you don't think this movie had any surprises, ask Tara Reid if she needs a hand. Even Lady Liberty herself will tell you that heads will roll. And when the right woman comes along, I know where to find free engagement rings!

So kudos to the Sharknado cast and crew for doing the impossible, for making an even better movie than the previous one. Especially the writer Thunder Levin (the new William Shakespeare or Ernest Hemingway of shark movies)! He did everything right. Excellent character dynamics; enthralling back stories, etc. Where to next time? Paris? Moscow? Outer space? 

All The Best,

Sharknado 2: Sneak Peek | Syfy

Published on Jun 27, 2014 by
Fin Shepard: Even the Sharknadoes are tougher in New York.
_________________________
Bryan: Don't mess with a Mets fan on the 7 train.
_________________________

Ben: Holy sh... ark.
_________________________

April Wexler: Fin, why aren't you having more fun with this?

Fin Shepard: Come on, April. Two of my friends were killed. I almost destroyed Los Angeles. And, oh, yeah... I got eaten by shark. How much fun do you think that was?

_________________________

The Mayor: Well this is the Big Apple, Fin. When something bites us, we bite back.
_________________________

Fin Shepard: I know you're scared. I'm scared too. They're sharks. They're scary. No one wants to get eaten. But I've been eaten. And I'm here to tell you it takes a lot more than to bring a good man down. A lot more that to bring a New Yorker down. [cuts a falling shark in half with a chainsaw] Let's go show them what it means to be a hero. Let's go show them what it means to be a New Yorker! Let's go kill some sharks!

Sharknado 2 - New York

Published on Jul 31, 2014 by

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Monday, September 22, 2014

Ghost Shark Movie Review

 
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Ghost Shark 
Movie Review
 
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Adult or Child's Man Eater Shark Hat

Spoiler Alert: As can be expected, Ghost Shark was a silly movie. Which is fine, except when the filmmakers defy the rules of the world they created. The shark’s head gets blown off with a hand grenade, but then the head’s intact on its corpse. Plus, after getting killed with a grenade exploding inside its mouth, the shark swims away to a haunted cave. 


Made no sense. Not that the concept of a ghost shark made sense, but still, you can’t violate the rules and logic of the world you create, no matter how crazy those rules and that logic may be. 


The idea of a shark coming out of any body of water is cool. But if the shark’s a ghost and can pass through any objects, how is it able to chomp on people? (Or maybe I just prefer my screenplay Sharks on a Plane so much more. Crazy as mine is, at least it makes some semblance of sense and features humor, suspense, romance, character arcs, and a whole lot of fun! Everything you want in a movie with only half the calories! Or something like that. If you are, or if you know, a movie mogul, hook me up!) 


Cute at the end of Ghost Shark that they ask what day it is; and it’s Tuesday like the ending of Jaws. Nice homage, except that the surviving characters swim out to sea instead of back to land like in Jaws. I kept expecting a real (non-ghost) shark to attack. Who goes swimming after seeing so many of his/her friends and acquaintances killed by a shark, even if it was a ghost shark? 


Ghost Shark Trailer (2013)



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Author Unknown: 
(From: http://theoatmeal.com/djtaf/j/20)
What did one shark say to the other 
while eating a clownfish?
... This tastes funny.

Dean Burkey:
I don’t want to insult the man, 
so let me just say that he’s a swell guy and all that, 

but he’s not the sharpest shark at the feeding frenzy.

 Ray Divine: 

Stealing from a thief 
is like paddling with your hands 
in shark-infested waters.

 Dean Burkey:

No one wants to die a virgin. 
Especially if you’re a virgin being fed to sharks. 

 Author Unknown: 
(From: http://jokes4us.com/animaljokes/sharkjokes.html)
What do you call a solitary shark 

... A lone shark.


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Funny Stand Up Comedy about Shark

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

My RED 2 Movie Review


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My RED 2 Movie Review
by
Dean Burkey

Red 2 Official Trailer #1 (2013) 

- Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren Movie HD

Published on Jan 17, 2013 by

Have you ever gone mining for silver, but instead you found gold? ... Me neither. But I went to my friends' house to watch Sharknado 2: The Second One, which, if you check my previous posts*, you'll see I blogged about that Syfy flick like crazy. Unfortunately, that movie wasn't on their TV any more. So how did my friends help me overcome my feelings of overwhelming loss? They showed me a movie so amazing, I couldn't complain one bit. 


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Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, and Bruce Willis.

Without knowing anything else about the movie, just knowing that Catherine Zeta-Jones is in it is reason enough to watch. And really, all you ever need is one reason. But this movie gives us so many reasons to watch. Just look at the cast! 


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Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, 
and Academy Award Winner: Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Yeah, that's right. 
He's not only won an Academy Award; 
he's also been knighted! 

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Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren 
as Victoria, an MI-6 Agent, 
whom I think would make an excellent friend, 
but a far worse enemy. 

Being entitled RED 2, this is obviously a sequel to RED, which was also a fun-filled, hilarious, suspenseful, action-comedy, thrill ride. 

The Big Question: Do you need to see the first one to enjoy the second one? Probably not. But you'll miss out on all the fun of the first one if you don't see it. All you need to know to enjoy the second one is: Former CIA Agent Frank (Bruce Willis) wants to enjoy a kill-free retirement, but his girlfriend Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) wants excitement. And then an adventure comes along, which Frank wants to avoid, but can't. And he wants to leave Sarah out of it, but can't. 

 Otherwise RED is on TNT tonight. Wednesday, August 20, 2014, at 7 pm Eastern. Which should give you an idea of how fun these movies are. As long as they didn't butcher it too much when editing it for TV. 

 Click the RED pic below to watch it without commercial interruptions at Amazon Instant Video, where you can rent the HD version for $3.99 and purchase for $12.99; or rent the SD version for $2.99 and purchase for $9.99. Also at Amazon Instant Video, you can buy the HD version of RED 2 for $14.99 and the SD version for $12.99 by clicking the RED 2 pic. (Prices subject to change.)  


Besides the brilliant choreography for the fight scenes; the pervasive hilarity and snappy dialogue woven throughout the script; and the shocking twists and turns along the way; what impressed me most about this movie is the distinctiveness of the characters. Most of them are spies/killers, but they're each so unique. This is how movies should be made!

 Mary-Louise Parker's variety of facial expressions impressed me too. Everyone performs excellently; everyone's fun in this film, but something about the way she can say so much with just a pout or a grin amazed me. 

 So kudos to all, especially screenwriters Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber (based on characters created by Warren Ellis & Cully Hamner)**; director Dean Parisot; and the aforementioned awesome cast for making a thrilling, hilarious movie, which I thoroughly enjoyed; even if there weren't any sharks. 

The Amazon Instant Video description of RED 2 says: "In RED 2, the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device." 

 Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times says: "Hilarious...Even better than the original!"

 And I say: "RED 2 is the Sharknado 2*** of spy movies!"

All The Best,


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* My aforementioned previous posts promoting Sharknado 2: The Second One: 
More Sharknado 2: 
The Second One Fun

 For More Shark Fun, 
Enjoy My Previous Posts: 

Shark Movies
(Just in case this listing of my previous posts about sharks and shark movies causes any confusion, let me clarify that RED 2 is NOT a shark movie.)

 ** I'm a writer, so I listed the writers first! ;o)

 *** And I mean that as the highest of compliments. 


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The Believe Me Movie Trailer


Red 2 Official Trailer #2 (2013) 

- Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren Movie HD

Published on Apr 26, 2013 by

Movie Quotes: 
From: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821694/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
Frank: What are you doing kissing this guy?
Sarah: I didn't wanna kill him.
Frank: What kind of stupid logic is that?

Marvin: If there's one thing I know, it's women and covert operations.

Frank: Marvin, that's two things.
Han Cho Bai: No, grasshopper. It is not.

Marvin: Edward Bailey was a genius physicist who built some of the greatest stuff during the Cold War. Neutron bombs, particle beam weapons, nerve gas. Excellent nerve gas. He was a rock star of conceptual mass killing. They called him the "Da Vinci of Death".

The Frog: [sipping and swishing his glass of wine] Superb.
Al Said: Wine is wine. I want to buy American air defense protocols.
The Frog: Why is it terrorists never appreciate Burgundy?

Han Cho Bai: [about Frank] I'm going to enjoy killing him. Get me a gun that really hurts.

Car chase scene in RED 2

Published on May 30, 2014 by
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Based on a graphic novel published by DC Comics, RED stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous. Which is an acronym that could easily apply to my uncle when he plays golf with big boy clubs. 
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