Shark Night

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Jordan

Whooooooooo boy. It's not good. But not everything can be as glorious as Piranha. Firstly, it's not r-rated, which means there no awesome gore or nudity. There is also a lot of the worst scripted horrendous teen melodrama I've seen in any "horror" film in a long time. And is it just me, or is this film a little bit raciest? That Black guy, gee whiz...

The only good things this film had going for it was a premise for having sharks in a lake that is so absurd it's hilarious and one or two big fish out of water deaths that are pretty funny. And the films stars Sara Paxton and Chris Carmack in conflict, so I liked to think of it as Aquamarine vs Lovewrecked.

The 3D is very amateurish. Convergence points are all over the place. The underwater shots must have been shot with two cameras side by side because they are extremely hard to reconstitute in your brain. So much depth. And then half of the shots on land are so close together there is no depth at all, it's just 2D. Most annoyingly, simple 2 headed conversations have widely different amounts of depth despite being the same framing cutting back and fourth.

I know Piranha opted for post conversion due to the unrecognisable light reflections the sun creates on the surface of water. It's really only an issue in a couple of shots in this film though, of course being called Shark Night, you'd expect a great deal of it to actually take place at night, where this isn't as much of an issue.

The bad guys in this a horrifically cartoonish. But worse are all the main characters who are so annoying you just want them to die immediately.

The film has few redeeming qualities and is probably best used as an example of how 3D can be done wrong. A great learning tool. Added bonus was we were the only people in the cinema so we could commentate as loudly as we pleased. They also screwed up the 3D projection, almost giving us an epileptic fit from the strobing, but they were kind enough to start the film again once they sorted the problem out.