If you think about it, it’s only a matter of time before The Discovery Channel does something like this during Shark Week. “Shark Orgy 3D?” Just think of the ratings!
Every year, after the glut of summer blockbusters has eroded from theaters, I’m left with the same problem: A lack of worthwhile movies to lampoon. You’d think it would be easier to make fun of movies as poorly conceived as Shark Night 3D, but you’d be wrong. These movies are already ridiculous enough. It’s like putting a clown nose on a jester. You’re only going to enhance the ridiculousness by a micron or two.
Do you guys even KNOW the plot for Shark Night 3D? Yeah, there’s the obvious: A bunch of hot-bodies played by no-name actors go up to a lake somewhere to have sex and then be eaten by “rare, fresh water” sharks. But do you know what the wrinkle to the plot is? The lake that the hot-bodies are wake boarding on has be STOCKED with sharks by a group that apparently “controls” them somehow.
So it’s not good enough that we have to push the same primeval fear response that Jaws and it’s glut of sequels pushed over a generation a go… and it’s not good enough that we mimic the same exploitation vibe of Piranha 3D from last year… but let’s throw in a little bit of a little bit of Deep Blue Sea and the threat of INTELLIGENT predators, just to be sure!
I look at a movie like Shark Night 3D and I’m immediately reminded of the monster movies and gimmick flicks of the 1950s. Films like THEM and Tarantula come to mind. It makes me wonder if audiences then felt insulted by a low rent premise like most discerning audiences do today?
Or maybe they were just on board for the spectacle of it? Special effects were still kind of a new thing in that era and they wanted to see something different. Does that excuse a movie like Shark Night 3D today? Look at the technology at the disposal of these filmmakers and THIS is what they use it for?
Maybe everyone just needs to get off my lawn.
Meanwhile, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy looks kind of interesting to me – and not for the obvious reasons. Actually, I’ve heard there’s very little sex in the movie and that it’s mostly a character piece with solid performances. To me, it kind of looks like The Big Chill meets Wet, Hot American Summer. But maybe that’s just me.
All I know is that I like Jason Sudeikis and I like Will Forte and I like Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte together. So this goes in the automatic “win” pile for me.
Thinking about Sudeikis’s track record this year – Hall Pass, Horrible Bosses and now A Good Old Fashioned Orgy – it’s clear he’s trying to make a push into leading-man territory. But I don’t know if that’s really his bag. I always end up laughing whenever he shows up somewhere, but something tells me he needs to hang around on Saturday Night Live a little longer to raise his profile. I don’t think the movies are cutting it for him.
What do you guys think? Is anyone interested in seeing Shark Night 3D? What’s the appeal for you? How about A Good Old Fashioned Orgy? Was it even on your radar? Because, I gotta admit, I hadn’t even HEARD of it until just this weekend.
Leave your comments below!
We could NEVER come up with Ideas THAT good!
*gasp!*
SHARK ORGY 3D!
Alright…this week’s comic knocked it out of the park.
I almost choked on what I was eating. Too funny!
A fantastic compliment!
Thank you, Chuck!
Never heard of either, they don’t even register as being worth renting. What do I want to see? Troll Hunter!
Oh man, TrollHunter. And Attack the Block. Two movies I keep wondering why I haven’t seen yet. Damn life for being busy!
As for Shark Night 3D , it makes me think Piranhas 3D, and then I’m sad cause I didn’t get to see that in theaters. I think that looked more obnoxiously bad/fun than this clear ripoff. I did want to see it. Know why? The same reason people went to see Godzilla movies etc. It’s just pure fun, and at times you get a “oh shit!” scare and other times you get a “ahahaha that’s so fake and unrealistic its funny, I love it!” You gotta admire a movie that doesn’t pretend to be something it’s not. A good example is “Snakes on A Plane.” That movie never takes itself seriously. And b/c of that, it was a great ‘event movie’ that myself and a half dozen others drove to see in college.
Well, in that case, you should love Shark Night 3D. It’s directed by the same guy who directed Snakes on a Plane.
I just watched the Orgy trailer and it doesn’t really remind me of The Big Chill at all.
I guess I came up with The Big Chill because a bunch of friends gather together at a fancy house and sex is involved.
Maybe I’m weird.
I had never heard of AGOFO until just now, but now I’d really like to see it! It doesn’t look like there’s a weak actor in the bunch!
However, I REFUSE to even acknowledge the existence of that OTHER movie. I was raised on Jaws, and it will always and forever be the only shark movie ever worth anything (let’s just not talk about the sequels, okay?).
I loved the last panel! Reminded me of something from Scott Pilgrim.
I’m gonna take that compliment and RUN WITH IT, sir!
I am waiting for “A Good Old Fashion Orgy in 3-D”: A Porn Parody.
I’m just glad that Tom and Jared, in their moment of genius, didn’t shout: A Good Old Fashioned Night! Followed by a pause… their heads drop and they sadly whisper ‘in 3D’.
That might have to be the follow up comic!…
I hadn’t heard of either of these movies and I thought you had made them up.
Then the punchline should be DOUBLE hilarious!
…and double sad. 🙁
Same here. I read this whole comic as just random randomness for the sake of being random. When I scrolled down a little and saw that the shark one was real, it didn’t register in my mind that the orgy one would be real too, and then I scrolled down a bit more.