Hello and welcome back Shark. Here is to another episode of
Deep Dives with Sharks. I am the host here.
My name is Alex and I forgot to put a stupid joke at the
beginning of my intro here so this is the one we get.
But we do have a movie review today and we also have a very
special guest with us, Sir Baileyum AKA Bailey AKA one of
the hosts of the Hot Takes from the Bleachers podcast.
Unfortunately, we do not have Corbs and Pat with us today, but
sending our love out to them as well.
But I'm going to give it over to Bailey here for a second so he
can give himself a little introduction.
What's going on, guys? I'm Bailey.
Like Alex has just said, Alex is kind of kind of helped been one
of those guys that's molded me into moving towards podcasting,
but I do a very different topic in the sporting world.
He focuses a lot more in sharks the local of the Baltimore area
in Maryland. Born and raised, love everything
Maryland and I just continue to fall in love with it more and
more as I as I grow and experience more that Maryland
has the offer for it. Yeah, we, we had Alex on about a
week ago or two weeks ago, something like that to do joint
episode with us. And we, we had an absolute blast
doing it. And we, we wanted to return the
favor and come hang out and give you guys a little bit of our
time and love. So thank you guys for having us
and hopefully maybe next time in the future we can get everybody
here for you. But yeah.
Absolutely. We'll have to get Korbs and Pat
to do their own research on a shark and then see how much they
get correct, how much we need to correct about what they have.
But I will say that when I used to work with Billion Corbs, they
definitely put up with a lot of my shark facts, I think the most
out of anyone. I think the only other person
that encouraged it more was our manager who actively wanted me
to give her a different shark fact every day, which is then
hard to keep track of how many shark facts I've given.
So I partially blame her for this podcast existing so we can
give that up to her. But so just to kind of jump in,
like I said, we do have a movie review today.
We are going over the Meg. I figured it was one that we're
right around Halloween. It's spooky enough.
And of course, I always love kind of taking a crap on shark
movies that are not great. But this one I got to say for it
was not the worst one I reviewed.
I'm hoping that that comes through here.
Came out in 2018 and was directed by John Turtelob.
I don't even know if that's how you say it.
It looks like there's turtle in his name.
Pretty cool. And it actually was adapted from
a book called The Meg, a novel of deep terror.
And just kind of give an even better overview.
Google provides that. Previously thought to be
extinct, a massive creature attacks a deep sea submersible,
leaving it disabled and trapping the crew at the Pacific.
With time running out, a visionary oceanographer recruits
rescue diver Jonas Taylor, played by Jason's Jason Statham.
We love him to save the crew and the sea itself from an
unimaginable threat, a 75 foot long prehistoric shark known as
the Megalodon. So the overview did not give me
a lot of hope. And then watching some of the
trailers and ads, I thought it was going to be pretty stupid.
I really did not have high hopes going into this already.
Kind of like put it below Jaws 'cause I figured, you know, Jaws
is the greatest shark movie in many people's eyes.
So I figured it's not to be as great as that, but it's not to
be as ridiculous as like 47 meters down was and definitely
not as ridiculous as Sharknado. So I kind of figured it was
going to be on that like second ground really hovering around 47
meters, but barely any of your pre watch takes.
So I think I was pretty open to doing something like this.
Like you said, Charles has always kind of been the standard
for me for shark movies. Like I still haven't seen 47
meters down. My my extent with that movie
comes from rest in peace. Comedian Ralphie May talking
about watching that movie. I'm not going to go deep in
depth into what he says because not quite friendly, but please
go look it up. It's it's quite funny, but no,
that's about my son with that movie.
Jaws was is kind of like the staple for me.
So I'm going into this. I was skeptical for that in that
in that sense, but I love Jason Statham.
I've seen a lot of I love a good action movie.
So seeing him and all, especially a lot of the fast and
furious movies, which the more and more they keep coming out
with those, the more I'm like, can we please just put it to
bed? But it is so cool.
Just fast cars, that kind of stuff.
Going to have fast 30 at some point.
Yeah, no, genuinely. And it's going to be like the
Rock Johnson on his deathbed, Vin Diesel on his deathbed,
setting up like the next generation of Fast and Furious
People. I'm like what?
I'm waiting for them to quite literally jump the shark the
same way that they had the fawns do.
Like I'm just waiting for them to have some scene like that so
that way people can literally say they have jumped the shark
again. I'm here for it.
I love that. Yeah.
I mean, other than Jaws and really like Shark Week, I hadn't
really dabbled too, too much into a lot of cinematography
that had been done around sharks.
So this was definitely something new.
But I think I kind of told you earlier, you know, I mean, it
wasn't awful. I didn't hate it, but it didn't
wow me like Jaws did kind of thing.
I think I kind of had that that feeling going into this and as
I'll later describe, it kind of did feel that way for me.
Oh yeah, it definitely was not a bad movie by any means.
I there are some ridiculous parts which we're going to go
into, but I mean just like I think off RIP.
What really irritated me was just kind of how ridiculous some
of the scenes were. Like the opening scene, for
example, kind of gives you no really background or anything.
They kind of just jump right into it.
Jason Statham's down on a sunken ship or sunken submersible, and
he's throwing guys around. It looks like he's, like beating
people up, but he's actually, like, saving people or whatever.
It's a lot of action immediately.
And like, it explodes. And essentially what it's trying
to show is like, yeah, Jason Statham's character, which, by
the way, I'm going to refer to him as Jason Statham the entire
review. I did not care to learn his name
once throughout this movie, nor did it ever stay.
I think it's like Jonas or something like that.
But I'm like, I did not pay attention to his name because
every time he's on the screen, I'm like, it's Jason Statham.
So I will say that like for these like ridiculous shark
movies, and I characterize it in the ridiculous cause any movie
in my opinion that uses a shark as the main villain is already
ridiculous. Jaws included.
Love it, but it's also ridiculous.
But having all these well known actors in movies like this
almost Take Me Out of it because it feels like it's a cameo in a
movie that I myself can't usually take serious.
But anyway, with Jason Statham ripping everyone out, the
submarines exploding, you're kind of just like what is
happening here. Like, it didn't give me a whole
lot there. And then we're immediately
brought to some boat where Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight from
The Office, is now just on scene.
And I'm like, so we've got Jason Statham and Dwight together, and
both of them are great actors. I got to give him that.
Interesting combination. Right.
For real. Like who in the world is going
to put Dwight Schrute and and Jason stayed them together?
Like it it just doesn't seem and both of them played their roles
phenomenally in this movie. This is not a shot at either of
them. Like they both did it.
But like this was an odd casting call but it it paid off.
They they did a great job. But he pulls up on the scene and
says some random crap in Mandarin, which evidently
translates completely wrong because he's incorrect.
And essentially like, it creates this kind of awkward scene which
does show the disconnect between Dwight's character, Brain
Wilson's character, who is funding the whole operation
essentially. But it is rather funny that they
have this powerhouse there now as the scene progresses a little
bit. There wasn't a whole lot of note
for me to put there. So I kind of jumped to when they
finally get in the first submersible.
That is actually the main point of this movie.
And they have the two guys in the back that are kind of like
the Co pilots say that sex, food, power and money are the
motivators for them. And that just made me laugh.
I was not expecting that to come within 10 minutes of the start
of the movie. But we're already on to what
motivates the sub crew. And mind you, I'd also like to
point out in the opening scene, we did not see the shark.
We are about 10-15 minutes into this.
I think it took like 20 or 30 minutes before the shark even
shows up. And it's just a bunch of like,
knocking stuff around. And I'm like, OK, So the reason
for that submersible, though, is they're trying to explore the
deepest parts of the ocean, which as many of us know, over
80% of the ocean has not been explored up to this point.
Or at least that was the last number I looked at.
I'd have to double check back into that.
But they're trying to say it's undiscovered.
And it's undiscovered, the lowest bits because there's just
dust essentially in the way because all of our powerful
equipment can't get through some sea dust, you know.
So there's actually evidently this really heated underground
area under the water that is apparently hiding megalodons,
which is rather ridiculous in my opinion.
So it. With with that aspect, I I
definitely see that a little bit.
It just makes me think back and I know you and I have had this
conversation. I don't think it made it into
the episode that we did, but it was about like Shark week and
they made this fake movie about a megalodon being real and all
that. There was a part in there too,
where like one of the the boat sank, but it was completely
flipped over underwater and like three people were still there
and they had like an air pocket of water at the bottom of the
ocean floor. I'm like that.
No, there's there's no, there's no that scientifically cannot
happen. Like what?
Right, no. And like that's kind of the the
thing with it, like one of the main questions I always get
asked when it comes to megalodons is could they still
exist? Which like I've said a million
times, I've got a degree in social work.
I'm not actually like a marine biologist or anything like that,
but everything that I've looked into the prey has gotten too
small. They would have to be eating
about as much as a whale shark does on the daily except for
they eat krill, which are a lot easier to get in mass amounts
versus having to eat that same amount of Mako sharks in a day.
Like something that big just is going to have a tough time
getting that competition. And also they preferred shallow
waters so they were in shallower sea like warm sea areas like
they were tropical sharks. They're thought to be closer to
Makos. So it's very odd that they're a
modeled after great whites and B this movie would have them be
over 11,000 meters down. That is not the habitat they'd
be in. Which is what threw me off
because I was like they were they liked warm water.
Why are they where it would be cold?
But we'll get more into that. I will add that they have the
sub get bumped twice during like the intro scene and that's
actually rather accurate to what a shark would do.
They're going to try to figure out what something is and if
you've ever seen a bruv or for those that do not remember what
that stands for, that's the baited remote underwater video.
You'll see those on Shark Week and Shark Fest a lot.
But sharks will bump it first to figure out what it is.
They're curious. They don't have hands, they
don't know if it can hurt you. So what they're going to do is
they're going to bump it and then they'll go to get it.
But what this shark does after it bumps it 2 times is that then
and just kind of picks it up, holds it, latches onto it and
just kind of keeps going for a while on taking down this sub,
which is rather fart fetched. They'd probably take a bite to
see if it was food. If it was great, delete it.
If not, there's going to leave and it's not really worth their
time. So the fact that the shark kind
of keeps coming back, it doesn't make any sense either to me
because the lights on, yeah, sure, that'll like, get its
attention. But even the most curious
sharks, like, oceanic white tips, are very curious and like,
crackling a water bottle, like, having, like, something like
that will get their attention very easily.
But like, if you're flickering lights on and off, like, after a
while, the sharks are smart enough to realize, OK, it's the
same thing that I just looked at, like, I don't need to keep
going back and slamming into this thing.
Evidently, the megalodon. No, it's just going to keep
slamming into it and calling it a great day because that's what
it did in this movie. And I don't know why, but yeah,
it hates lights. He hates the captain, and
apparently he hated the captain so much it nudged the Subs that
way. She gets stabbed by a
screwdriver, which was nowhere nearby in the scene previously.
So I don't know why that got thrown there.
Like the guy who So the character, the wall is the one
that's like hot wiring the sub to get it back up.
It gets bumped, there's nothing near her.
And then she comes back up in the next scene.
She's got like a screwdriver in her.
And I'm like, OK, that makes sense.
But we then are back up at the surface at the main base they
have Sue Yin who is like the main marine biologists daughter
who's also a diver from herself. But she just takes a glider from
the sub and then just like goes down like she's going to go save
them but doesn't really have a plan at all or at least doesn't
share it with anyone. So I literally wrote in my notes
the hell is she going to do? And I'm still waiting on an
answer. I don't know what her plan was
going into this. It seemed like she didn't have
one. And even Sun Yin's daughter is
like making jokes during this process and is like unironically
one of the most funny characters in this movie.
Like she was the Comic Relief and played it very well because
there were some parts that made no sense.
And I was like, you know what? I'm glad this little girl is
here because she actually makes it somewhat funnier and much
more bearable. And I'd also like to say I've
never been in a sub, but when Jason Statham gets in his sub
and starts flying down to like catch up with them, first of
all, screw all pressure like stabilization.
He just flies down 11,000 meters like it's nothing, has a little
Nosebleed, but then he's fine. That didn't make sense to me.
And then secondly, as he's going down, it's making like World War
2 airplane noises. And I don't think that Subs are
supposed to do that. It was massively confused.
Really hear anything down underwater, unless you're one of
the animals who can pick up on all of those.
That would be my guess because of course, it's kind of like
when you've been in a pool and like you go underwater and try
to yell something to your friend and see if they'll hear you.
And you guys can never make out what it is you'd hear like some
creaking of what you're in. What I imagine.
Like I said, I've never been in the sub, but like, I imagine
it'd be similar to that. Like you, unless you have a
device outside your sub listening to the water around
you, you shouldn't hear the noises the animals are making.
Especially when like later scenes they have the whales like
singing and stuff. I'm like, you better have mics
right on the other side of that glass or else you're hearing
nothing and you're seeing whales dance or whatever.
But you know, at that point there's still no sharks for like
20 minutes in. They also are showing all these
vents of gas underneath the dust, which I guess is causing
the dust. If there's vents, usually
they're like Thermo, so they're usually warm in some way.
And I'm like, OK, why? Like why is it not like we
haven't discussed if it's like why they're down here if it's
warm or anything like that. So at this point I'm like, I
feel like it should happen. Which later they do actually
have it. So that way it is in fact warm,
which also is a weird thing that we're going to go over.
But once we get back to SU Yin, she now is just staring at the
other sub that's stuck and she goes, you know what?
I'm going to stare here for a minute.
And then she also gets attacked because why wouldn't she?
You know, this is a shark movie where it's going to have the
shark go after everything because screw what it normally
would do, and it actually gets attacked by a squid.
First we get a little misdirection, which is wild
because every animal down there just hates every ship they can
see. But.
Not the first misdirect. They, the sea creatures of the
Meg, like to pull on this this crew.
Oh my gosh, for real. They it's like, I literally, I
think later wrote about something like that because I
was like, there's just so many moments where you're like, this
isn't it? This, this isn't the end.
They're going to keep going. They're going to push us an
extra 50 minutes. There's I think if I'm thinking
of what you're thinking, will we get to that point?
There's I definitely have thoughts on regard to that and
not necessarily like the the real life aspects, but it more
in terms of like the, the the the cinematography and like
that, just the the overall making and the the effect I
think they were going for right. Well, we'll, we'll get to that
when when we get later into this movie.
I'm so glad you you also added that because Oh my goodness, I
can like the beginning of the movie.
Like like I said, this was a good movie.
I'm not going to tear into this as bad as I did Sharknado, but
there were some things that I was like, what are we doing
here? And the cinematography from a
cinematography standpoint also pretty solid, except for some
small minor things. But it's I don't understand
their choice in writing here to have every deep sea animal just
want to automatically just attack anything that comes
anywhere near them. It made no sense.
Most animals are skittish. Yeah, absolutely.
It's this is some anti SeaWorld type 20. 25.
They're pro shark finning. I know it.
They're actually not They actually made a statement
against that in this film. So go team.
We love it. But they finally get there and
SU Yin is her, her ship can't do much and she's like, no, Jason
Statham, I can help you. And he's like, absolutely not
get out of here. So Ben's be damned.
She also just like launches herself 11,000 meters up into
the water and is also fine. The like, I, I need to get a
doctor in here because I feel like you should not just be able
to walk around later. I feel like if divers come up a
little too quickly, they're like out of Commission for a week.
And these superhumans are just fine.
Like they're all just pressure effects them.
Not at all. Honestly didn't even think about
that either. Like going through the movie.
But now that you bring it up, I yeah, yeah, I'm like.
It really did not make a lick of sense.
I was like, like, I'm not great at science, but I've been to
enough science classes to know the basic rules.
Like, well, I think. That's Oh my gosh.
Like you have the knowledge to understand, for the most part,
the science behind it. I don't fully understand the
science behind it. So I'm like, all right, yeah,
that could check out. And then you're just like laying
out how it's not like a good thing I didn't go into studying
science. It helps that we did both go to
the same college for a little bit.
I think that they might not be the greatest science college.
It's fine, it's fine, love it to death, but.
Their teacher school. They really are.
And nurses. And nurses.
They really were the two highest ones.
God love them so like to also add I am not an expert on Meg
behavior but most sharks like great whites, Makos, and tigers
aren't going to keep destroying the same thing over and over
again. Especially if it's just laying
on the floor of the ocean like they're going to go check it
out. If it's not providing food and
it's not a danger to them, there's going to leave it alone.
So the fact he keeps coming back is ridiculous.
Now Jason Statham does get to save 2 out of 3 crew members.
Unfortunately as he's trying to save the third one, I forget his
name, but he's the guy that was in Heroes and Hawaii 5 O so that
actor. But he is there and sacrifices
himself so that way everyone else can be saved.
And he gets back to the surface and Soo Yin immediately comes in
and like yelling at him because apparently he didn't save people
from the first mega attack. So then this one, they're like
this is what you do, you're terrible.
And I'm like, hey, this dude just saved your life and two
others. But you know, 100% success rate
wasn't here. So he's going to yell at him.
That's great, I'm sure he's going to stay and at no point
did he ever consider leaving after this.
Which I'm sorry if y'all call me to the middle of the ocean to
come dive down 11,000 meters and save some people and I save all
but one and y'all start yelling at me I'm leaving.
I don't care what happens next, I'm not putting up with this.
Well, I think the big thing for me with that real quick is also
the fact that, you know, he was on this five years prior to the
movie as one of like the experts.
So you're calling him back in because he has prior knowledge?
Listen to him. What?
Like what? Right, that made no sense.
I don't. Care who it is.
It could be. It could have been the roles
reversed where the woman had been here.
I don't care. Listen to the person who's been
there like they have the knowledge and experience.
They're going to be your, so to speak.
Your your your light through the tunnel.
I will say though, that does actually check out IRL because
how many times have you worked for someone and you're like, oh,
what if we tried it this way? And then they're like, that's
never going to work and you're like, I've done this more than
you. Yes, it will like so I guess
that is rather Laura accurate. So that is that is fair, but
still rather wild that they immediately came up and they're
like this guy sucks. Like what are we doing?
Well, I mean, maybe they weren't really trying to portray the
shark properly, maybe they just wanted to portray how how crazy
humans can be at times, right? See the real villains for the
humans we met along the way. Who knew but from there.
Now this also irritated me the whole movie because the
megalodon anatomy, as mentioned previously, is always portrayed
as a ginormous great white. And that's not true.
They're more closely related to Makos.
So they would have been a lot more slender, pointy, your nose
not as fat and much more speed based.
This one, they put essentially a great white which has like a
very full belly in this movie because every time you see that
shark, it is rather fat even for a great white.
And that thing is booking it through the water.
And I'm like, no shark is going to be doing this on a full
stomach. They're going to just be resting
at this point. Because with how much this shark
ate throughout the movie, it's going to be hanging out like
it's set for probably a month. But this one in particular
evidently was like, Nah, I'm going to eat everything and
anything and it's going to be fine and great.
And I'm going to keep eating and going after the same people
instead of going after all these easier things because I can.
And you're like OK, fine. I guess now when they're back at
the base to the Meg starts staring at Sun Yin's daughter,
which I also forgot her name. So I just keep referring to her
as tiny child throughout my notes.
But it just stares at tiny child through the the glass, which
also I feel like if there's glass underwater, the air inside
is not going to let you see from the outside.
But movie going to movie and I'm also at at this point I looked
and I was like what area is this shark inhabiting?
Like this is when I realized shark like the megalodon did not
inhabit water this deep. And it didn't click until that
moment when I saw it at the base level.
Like because they had to dive down thousands of meters to get
to it. Why is it now suddenly thousands
of meters higher? Which is not uncommon for all
sharks, but for cold blooded sharks such as the Mako, that is
nuts unless you're migrating for the season.
But like cookie cutter sharks will migrate a couple 100 meters
every day from like the top to the bottom to like feed and
things like that. But also the amount of energy
they have to use to do that is made-up for in the amount that
they can eat when they're hunting.
So this megalodon just be completely out of energy, which
I guess makes sense why it's always eating.
But still, that's I'm not even giving them that credit because
you definitely didn't mean to do that.
Like there's no reason they meant to do that.
It also is a legend of jump scares because it waits
perfectly for like the child to be sitting there and like
noticing something things off before it jumped scares in to
like bite the glass. But it even thinks about that
for a second because it's like, oh, maybe it's going to be like
an intelligent moment where it has like this staring with the
child and everything goes great and they love it.
Nope, it still tries to eat the child through the glass and
everyone's like, wait, where's the child?
I'm like, there's one child on this whole base and we've lost
her. What are we doing?
Like you think anyone would pay attention to like the 8 year old
on board, but Nope, it's her playground.
We've only had a monster attack multiple team members leave the
child. Well by herself.
She can fend for herself. She's good.
I teach them young, right? Let them learn at a young age
what the real world is. Welcome to the real world.
You're just gonna get eaten by sharks.
Oh my God. This movie was fun though.
Now the next thing I wrote is so it's determined.
They have opened a hole in the warm water below the dust, which
I put in air quotes so the Meg could escape.
After that I just wrote dot dot dot.
Huh? What do you mean?
Essentially, to describe it a bit better, when they both kind
of release the emergency, like we need to get out of here, like
lift up from below the dust. Apparently they both created
like a parting in the dust that let the water raise about 25°C,
they said, which is also very drastic.
And they're supposedly coming through this dust, which then
created a hole for the megalodon to escape.
And they mentioned that they created that.
Like, wait, so you're saying we created a shark highway?
And then my brain immediately went to the most recent shark
Fest where they had super shark highway around South Africa.
And then I wanted to watch that more, but unfortunately I had to
finish watching this movie. So that's kind of lets you know
when this goes off the rails, where my brain went from this
moment in the movie to the ending.
Now through this is also when Jason Statham starts flirting
with Soon Yin and it's awkward. Not like because of Jason
Statham. It just felt so forced because
we literally went from like a scene ago where she's like, you
killed him, you suck, I hate you to then she comes back and it's
like, I was I was mad and I'm sorry.
Would you like to have a love arc here or like, what are we
doing? Like, it felt not forced, but it
just felt not natural, you know? Like it was like it seemed like
she kind of like took her shot, which I was like, OK, like this
is probably like you're having that flood of emotions after a
near death experience. Like, OK, like psychologically
that makes sense. And then she suddenly just like
you're you're I caught you getting out of the shower.
Like I'm going to leave now. Stares at him for 10 more
seconds. I'm leaving Spooky.
Like what? I've seen that booty.
I'm in. I'm in love, please come home to
me. Jason Statham, if you're
listening. Bailey is available.
Hit him up. Yeah, he can tell you exactly
where to find him. Hot taste from the bleachers.
Leave a comment. Yeah, leave a comment.
I will. I will respond back.
But I need, I need like video proof that it is you Jason, not
just some random scrub on the Internet.
Only video proof will deem a response from me.
Someone's going to send you some Sora AI stuff, I swear.
Bailey, it's me, Jason. I'm going to have like 85
comments on the next episode I drop and it's all just going to
be like like, hi daddy, it's Jason.
I'm going to be like, bro what? Shark here's please go comment.
Hi, Bailey, it's Jason underneath every episode
repeatedly. That's all I want.
And then also tell him your favorite shark.
I'm going to fill your comments with Fred.
Actually tell him your favorite San Jose shark.
Even better, just a random hockey player.
Honestly, but your favorite shark, your favorite sport,
favorite player, I'll take any of it.
I'll know if it's if it's any of that, I'll know you came from
either one of us. It will be greatly appreciative
of it. Absolutely.
And I mean, I'm going to send
you all to say the weirdest stuff to them in the comments.
It's going to be great. We love it.
Just just just you wait. We're, we're when we, when we
slowly build up that following, we'll, we'll, we'll return the
favor. Yeah, we're with it now.
This is when they decide to go in and they're going to tag the
shark because they got to track it somehow, right?
So they decide they're going to tag the shark.
Not a terrible idea, but they for some reason put Jason
Statham on a wench and sent him out in the ocean to then tag
this shark, which you can do from the boat.
Why are we in the water with it? I think they're trying to do the
whole, it's we're too noticeable in a big boat, so we send a
single person, they're not going to notice it.
It is believed that Megalodon also had the ampullae of
Lorenzini, which were the things that detect the electronic
pulses in the water. Guess who has a heartbeat?
Asin Statham. Guess who'd be detected by the
shark? Asin Statham.
So that was just dumb. But then on top of it, when he
shoots it, it doesn't recognize anything.
It's like, Yep, everything's fine.
They're like, all right, pull them in.
So they start pulling the wench in, which then the vibrations
from that are what bring the shark to then turn and start
going after them. So we've established the
vibrations of the wench are what bringing that shark towards the
boat. Why does he then suddenly care
about Jason Statham, who let's be real, a 75 foot shark is not
even going to see him as he's like barreling towards the boat,
but instead goes, Nah, going to go for this tiny man right here
instead of the giant vibrating thing that is actually pissing
me off. So that made no sense.
And then they proceed to also just drag Jason Statham under
the water via the wench and like the boat taking off to outrun
the Meg, which I understand we have to keep Jason Statham safe
from the Meg. But at the same time, you're
also now just like dragging him and drowning him underwater.
And somehow at no point does he come up coughing.
He just is perfectly timed with when he has air and when he
needs to hold his breath to out swim this Meg.
It it made no sense. Notorious.
Notorious for that in his action movies.
Just want to say love you daddy Jason.
Thank you. Holding his breath underwater
for half an hour. What?
All the all the CIA operative movies where he gets like
waterboarded for torture because they're trying to get
information from him and he's just like, no, I'll hold firm.
And that's why everybody loves Jason Statham, because he holds
firm. He gets waterboarded for eons
and then somehow escapes the camp like he's, I don't know,
like some crazy. He's Jason Statham.
Exactly. Of course you can do this.
I did not realize that. That's OK.
So no, Chuck. I'm sorry, Jason.
I did not understand your game. My fault.
Like, I'll take a step back here.
I did not realize we were dealing with Aquaman up in here.
That's crazy. Which directly under this.
That's the other Jason. There's too many Jasons.
Next. I want to bring Jason Bateman in
here somehow. Yeah, but they.
All have really must have good lung capacity.
Dude, they know how to hold their breath.
I'm also realizing Jason Bateman did in fact make his his way
into action films as he did. He starred in A Carry On, which
I'm now realizing no way. The Jason trifecta, If they all
make a movie together, it's over.
The world's just going to implode.
I would like to add, I did directly underneath that last
point, but I'm not understanding Jason Statham's character in
this. That is the whole line.
That's the whole note. I was like, I don't understand
why he's here, what he's doing. Like he did the thing he was
hired here to do. Why is he still here?
Pure purely action, no explanation.
Yep, there was no explanation at all.
So they then realized, well, well, hey, wait a minute, We got
we got to take this shark out somehow.
And the best way to do that's going to be poison because Yep,
poison. So we go ahead and Sun Yin is
like I'm a get in the cage. Why?
She's like, I've done dives like this hundreds of times, and
Jason Statham goes not like this.
And she's goes, yeah. And then they get in the cage.
Good transition. Love that.
Now this cage also, it, it makes no sense.
This whole scene makes no sense at all because they're like,
this glass isn't going to break. OK, this glass is not going to
break under anything you've tested it under, but you've not
tested it under the bite force of what a megalodon can produce
a lot more. So OK, we're just throwing human
bait out there. Fantastic.
Also, the first sharks that show up are great whites, Makos, and
a hammerhead. Why is the hammerhead there?
They prefer shallow coastal waters.
Why in the hell is it in the open ocean?
There is no reason a hammerhead's going to just hang
out like they're notorious for being up and down the East Coast
and all around Florida. What are we doing?
Why are they there? They're not supposed to be.
They're just hanging out in the open ocean, having a great old
time. But.
Don't hammerheads go up into like rivers a little bit?
Or am I thinking more like blue sharks and bull?
Sharks. That's actually bull sharks.
So bull sharks are the ones that like going into rivers, but
there are, they do love bays and estuaries, especially the OR not
California, Carolina hammerhead. They prefer the waters around
the Carolinas. That's actually where they go to
breed and pup. They're also one of the smaller
ones, but not as small as the scalloped.
But even the great hammerheads I prefer like the shallow waters
and like the beaches around Florida.
I'm like Clearwater has them. They're really big around the
Keys and also over like towards Miami, Fort Lauderdale area.
They're like really high in population there.
But no, every year someone sends me a video or some post of
someone being like, Oh my gosh, look, there's a hammerhead in
Ocean City. And it's like, yeah, they hang
out in the Bay, like on the other side of the bridges there.
They just hang out. They like the bridges that
brings fish, so they just eat them.
And every year people like, wait, we have hammerheads, We
get whales and manatees in the Bay.
Yeah, we got a lot. Like there's a lot of water.
Usually you can see dolphins from the beach here in.
Maryland, right? So it's like common sense, you
know, dolphins are there. Surely there's got to be
something that's going to want to eat them.
Surely there's stuff that's they're going to want to eat
there. And you know who shares a very
similar diet? Dolphins and sharks.
So if a dolphin's there, good chance there could be a shark
nearby. If you ever see a bait ball,
decent shot, it's either a dolphin or a shark.
And just because there's one there doesn't mean the other is
not also present. They'll sometimes put their
grievances aside and just have a meal.
It's nice. It's what the world should do.
That we need that we need to be more like dolphins and sharks.
Let's be real. Absolutely.
Like we'll mess each other up all the time, but like as soon
as we all come together, we have that common third enemy that's
like, you know what, screw this mackerel.
We're going to eat it. Like that's, that's what we got
to do. It's like just everyone start
hating on mackerel. It's like us with our Yankees
fans or us with our Red Sox fans were just like, you know what?
Look at a Red Sox fan like, yeah, we don't like this guy.
But then you look at the Yankees fan, we're like, yeah, I don't
like this guy either, though. Let's do.
It no, it's, it's, it's quite literally last night I was at a
Halloween party and someone pulled out Game 7 on their phone
and there was one guy rooting for the Dodgers.
And the rest of us are like rooting for the Jays.
And we're like, wait, don't you support this team?
We're like, yeah, but we just hate the Dodgers right now.
Like we were like, we just can't have them win again.
Come on, like let's give it to the Jays.
I'm like, there's too many Orioles on there.
We'd need them to win this. But it was like, I think like a
Red Sox fan. There was an Angels fan, there
was Orioles fan. Like we had like just so many
different teams fans being like, let's go Jays and the one
Dodgers fans like, yeah, they did it.
And we're like, OK, that fun man.
I'm going to go drink my sorrows from.
The Colorado Auto Buffalo game last night where somebody
accidentally flew to Colorado instead of Toronto for Game 7,
so they went to the college football game instead of Game 7.
Oh my God, I would lose it. I'd be so upset.
I'd be more upset than watching shark movies that portray sharks
wrong. Oh my goodness.
I would be too. I'd be Game 7 as opposed to a
college football game. And that's very different vibes.
Yeah, very. Yeah.
I mean, both can be fun, don't get it twisted.
But it's just like. If I paid the money to go to
game seven, my God. But I'm.
Barreling my way through those gates until I'm in my seats if
I'm going to Game 7. Oh for real, in getting back to
sharks not being portrayed accurately because the next
thing they have in this freaking cage is Sun Yin in the cage
being swallowed like a pill. And she's fine somehow for the
most part. And Jason Statham just puts like
a small air canister on his back and like throws a mask on and
dives in with no weapons. I was like, is he just going to
go punch the shark? Like what's he about to do here?
Like this makes no sense. He it's a 60 foot shark.
Sorry, 75. Let me correct myself.
What is he doing? Like is he just going to jump
in? And like it's either he's going
to punch it, he's going to threaten to sue it.
I don't know what he's about to do, but it makes no sense.
I was like, I admire the confidence.
What during the rescue, though, even more crew members fall into
the water and they just this is a reoccurring event that just
keeps happening is that the people on this expedition cannot
stay in the damn boat. And I don't understand why it's
not that hard. Like they'll have a moment where
like someone's standing on the edge and the boat takes off and
you'll see them wobble and you're like, whoa, we're they
didn't fall there. And then there's a moment where
the boat is dead still. It'll have like a moment that
doesn't even like warrant the boat lurching or anything like
that. And all of a sudden some
person's like whoa and then flying overboard and you're
like, so it just got hard to stand on your legs there, bud.
What? What happened?
What is going on? Honestly I'd it'd be one of
those things where it'd just be even funny where these come out
the waters like sorry guys had a muscle spasm.
Right, sorry, got a cramp. So you dove off the boat?
Yeah, the water to soothe it. What?
Yeah, I read that if you swim, it's better for your joints, so
I figured it'd be great for my muscle here.
Timmy, get back in the boat. Like, what are you doing?
Evidently somehow in all the everything getting thrown
around, the Sunan's mask gets a crack in it and just starts
leaking air, which also the airs would have been coming out at
the same rate. Like, I don't think it would all
leave the canister at the same. Like, it wouldn't just suddenly
all leak out unless there was a hole in the canister itself.
But the fact that suddenly she goes from like having like 50%
error to like having like 20 to then having zero in the matter
of a minute. I'm like, I don't think a
canister would do this. But I've never I've, I've not
dive, I've not dove dive to whatever we want to say.
But I've not done that. So I don't know how true that
is, but I feel like that is not right.
It did not make sense. But of course, she passes out
because she ran out of air in a minute and didn't think to hold
her breath the entire time. She's still like yelling.
I'm like this. You have the survival instincts
of a Lima being. What are we doing here?
But they need to do CPR on her. And as someone who is CPR
trained, that was some of the fakest CPR I've seen in my life.
That was not even close to what real CPR looks like it was.
He's like sitting there and he's like counting and then just like
jiggling his shoulders. Like there is not even any sort
of push down on these these CPR compressions, which I know you
can't do real CPR on people in movies.
But at the same time, like, what are we doing?
Question I keep asking now do what?
The office did just like instead of doing that fake stuff like
just point like the BG staying alive in the background.
We all would understand at that point, like, okay, CPR, all
right, cool. Absolutely.
It's also Hollywood. We can get a mannequin that
looks like the actor that can do see, like you can actually do
CPR on, but Nah, Nah, we're just going to keep having actors sit
there and we're going to just place our hands on their chest
and go starting CPR and then not do it correctly at all.
It's like This is why people don't do CPR, right?
IRL, no one's seen it. Like you got to get in there.
But from this point, they have the crane that couldn't hold the
Meg when it was taken, the cage like a pill, couldn't hold it
then, but could easily hold it when the Meg's dead, evidently
just just hold it like it's nothing.
And then of course, they have to spook their friend who ends up
back in the water because you know, it's not going to be a
shark movie unless people are just in the water to be in the
water. And we decided to do it.
And while this then prompts the wall, may he rest in peace
because he gets eaten in this moment because he's floating the
water, having a good time. And even larger Meg decides to
come try to eat the first Meg. Because, you know, we don't only
have megs eating everything. We also have megs eating megs
because, you know, shark cannibalism, while common among
some species, is definitely not common among Mako sharks.
So I don't know why in the world a a great white would, but I
guess they didn't model this after a great white.
But it's more like a Mako, which I believe do not eat each other
pretty much ever. But the guy that Jason Statham
has had beef with this entire movie is Doctor Heller.
And while in the water, Dr. Heller tells them after the
second make has now flipped their boat, it's like a whole
cargo shit, but whatever. But he says try says to swim
calmly to the boat, which is actually great advice.
That's actually what you should do in the case.
If you're in the water with a shark, it probably doesn't know
what you're doing. It's probably spooked out.
It does not want to come in here and try to eat you unless it's
in this movie. But in real life, try to be calm
about it. As long as you're not in the
water with a movie shark, you're going to be fine.
And thankfully, this is a CGI shark, so it's not going to be
out there with you. You'll be all right.
And once they get back on the boat, the first thing that the
crew does is look at and then scream at Jason Statham.
And I am just not quite sure why we keep doing this and why he's
still putting up with this because once again, I get where
a high emotions, high panic. Why is he our scapegoat?
And why does he keep going? Yeah, they're just so upset.
I'm going to hang out here for a while longer.
I'd be like, no, screw you guys, I'm out.
I'll see you. Like, no, we're not doing this.
And instead, Jason's like, yeah, that'd be more.
I think he's into it. I don't know what it does but I
feel like him being yelled at like just scratches that itch in
his brain and he loves it. Some people just like that talk
basic stuff. Bro fair, you know, teach your
own I guess at this point now it's weird.
I don't know why they just keep yelling at him and why he's
putting up with it now. Going from here, we we have
rain. Wilson's character has called in
backup to help out with this because they found two dinghies
somehow. And they're going to go from the
middle of the ocean back to their base, also in the middle
of the ocean, helpful. But they're going to Ding either
way back. And from here, they're also
trying to get back quickly because lead marine biologist
person is dying from what we don't know.
The boat got flipped. Everyone else is 100% fine.
He's coughing up blood. And they're like putting
pressure on a wound they don't show.
I think they couldn't decide how they wanted this man to die.
So they just were kind of like, he's going to die of death.
And that's exactly what they had him do because he's sitting
there bleeding out from shark. Yep.
And so they just kind of have him bleed out.
And then rain. Wilson's character calls in
people to then shoot the Meg, which for most other sharks, if
you take an MP5 and shoot at them, And when I say most other,
I mean every shark, if you shoot a shark, it will die.
It's kind of how that goes. Like, I I mean, of course
shooting it in the right areas will do that.
Like it's the same way with anything.
But I don't know why they just kind of started shooting a shark
and then we're like, Yep, it'll be fine.
Like why is it still a problem? It should be hurt.
It's just it did not miss a beat.
It was like, Yep, I got it guys, I'll leave for right now and
I'll be back later. So very, very polite of it to
let them have a peaceful death of shark death.
Now from here, ocean moves with crying scenes just don't hit for
me. Like they think they're making
this really emotional like, Oh no, she's watching her father
die, but y'all were just in the water.
They can't put the fake tears on the actor.
And they also need to make it look like they were just in the
water. So everything just looks wet.
Like you can't see tears flowing.
Like it looks so fake. It kind of looks like when,
like, little kids are being dramatic and they're trying to,
like, cry to, like, have those angry tears.
And they're like, hey, like, that's the fakest wine you've
ever done, dude. I'm not buying it.
Yeah. Crying to.
Get their way. Exactly.
That is what this movie is. It's a lot of crying to get
their way. Like I'm gonna cry until the
shark dies. Okay, that that will help.
Maybe you'll make the ocean too salty for it.
We'll find out. Probably cry your orphan tears,
I don't know. Yeah, exactly.
Just to cry there, see if we can mess up the solidity or
something. They put the poison in your
tears. We'll see if that helps.
That's how we're going to sneak it in.
But now they did have a small scene where they kind of covered
the effects of like PTSD and grief.
And I put a very high sort of because they have a moment
between Jason Statham and Sun Yin where they come together and
they're talking. She's like, it feels hard.
It's rough. It like, how do you do this
every day? He's like, I don't like, I'm not
handling this. And essentially it's like this
nice moment. But then they immediately go
from like, this is like such a hard thing to we're going to get
this shark. We're going to stop it.
I'm not going to let like, what are what is this?
Why are we suddenly going from grieving to now action planning
and we're fighting back? This is not that's not how
grieving goes. You feel sad for a while is what
happens. And then like you express that
emotion and then you're tired. Then you like have a breather
and then you get back to normal and you're good.
Like it's a cycle in this. They go from like, I'm angry,
I'm sad, I need revenge, I need to cry like it there is it's a
ping pong match and it makes no sense for a lot of the movie.
And this takes us to win. Dwight Schrute goes, all right,
we're going to take this thing out on our own.
And well, he first tells the crew that he's contacted
Australia, Thailand, China, like everyone to let them know about
this shark. And they're sending out
destroyers to get rid of it. Which first of all, if you
alert, like let's say we alert Mexico to the largest shark in
its waters, the whale shark, which first of all poses no
threat. So it'd be insane.
But hey, let's say, hey, you know, off Guadalupe Island, you
got great whites. They also popped there.
Congrats. Do you think Mexico is going to
go? You're right, we should send a
warship out to go kill them. No, they're not going to do
that. Why in the world would they do
that? That makes no sense.
We're going to send out a war. We're going to send out not one
warship. We're going to send out two
warships to go ahead and mess up this shark that is underwater.
And we're not going to send submarines.
We're going to send destroyers, which are on the surface, cool.
That'll work great. But he also didn't, because he
didn't contact anyone. He actually reached out to his
own men, who then got depth charges, essentially.
And we're like, all right, we're just going to blow it up.
So they send a helicopter to drop said depth charges.
Rain Wilson's character goes, we aren't getting within a mile of
that monster until the helicopter kills it and they're
sitting about less than 100 yards away.
So I'm like, you know, that's very much not a mile.
And secondly, you are probably the closest thing to it,
including the helicopter. So I don't know what you are
talking about right now, but your distance skills are
horrible. But when they drop these depth
charges, they drop 2 exploded twice and they're like, Yep,
it's killed. And the whole point of it is a
little bit more misdirection because they kill the whale,
They kill the whale and they go go get us some teeth.
And they send minion #4 who never got a name to go climb
onto the whale, which they don't realize it's a whale yet and
they're going to go RIP out some Megalodon teeth, which fun
factor in a jaw. So I don't know what they think
is going to happen like, and also any that got blown off are
now sinking. So I don't know what teeth he
thinks he's going to get out of this.
But he wanted megalodon teeth for his desk.
And instead he did. Well, actually he did get
megalodon teeth because it came up and just freaking ate him,
which, you know, fair be fair, like just chomp them.
But they did do a little bit of misdirection as well where they
had it. Miss him first and he's like, Oh
my goodness. Because of course a whale
carcass will be a feeding frenzy first.
Sharks until it becomes a whale fall at which point that is
where all the other creatures will get to eat it at the
bottom. But here it gets missed 1st and
then hits him the second time, which I'm like could that
actually be kind of accurate? If you're hanging out on a whale
carcass for some reason, sharks not going to go to bite you,
they're going to bite the whale. So as long as you're not hanging
out on the water, which I would not hang out on a whale carcass
at all. Just please for love of God do
not do that. I do not want to hear any police
reports out of anywhere that were like, Alex from deep dives
with sharks told me to go hang out on a whale.
No, don't do it. That's such a horrible idea.
I'm not getting blamed for any of this, but it just was weird.
And this is like kind of the moment where I was like, this is
like, what are we doing here? Like the next note I have is Meg
Lives kills more people. Jason Statham is going to go
kill it. Cool.
Like, what are we doing here? Like this is the point where I
was like, OK, we're now kind of in borrowed time for the movie.
Like, I feel like we could have had it.
We're like, not that it blows up.
They could have had it where like they thought they did, but
like now they're all because like he already made the
announcement he's going to evacuate the the station.
So I'm like, OK, we kind of have the wrap up and the setup for
the sequel here where we've got Hey, everyone leaves the the
base. They think they went and got it.
Rain Wilson and the rest of his goons get killed by the Meg out
here. No one knows about it.
And then the second movie starts with people being like, well,
wait, where's this billionaire guy?
Like what happened? And then that's when Jason
Statham pops up on screen and goes, it's still alive.
Like some like that. Like that could be such a great
intro. But instead they decided they
wanted 50 minutes left of movie. So no, we, we still got to put
up with this movie for a little bit longer.
This movie could have been much shorter.
And I definitely feel like they they had to just milk it.
Yeah. And the note directly after that
is I'm done with this movie by this time where we hit the beach
scene because that's like, the next thing we do is like,
they're going to go out and get the Meg.
So now they're on some beach in Thailand, I think.
And there's like 700 people in the water and the megalodons
just like swimming around, like, And like, they really did a long
setup on this beach scene where like, there's a million people,
like floating around on inner tubes and on these little
floating docks. And at one point they do a
little bit more misdirection because we haven't done enough
misdirection in this movie where like this group of guys looks
over and they go, oh, my God. And then, like, you pan over
expecting to see a shark and Nope, it's just ladies.
They're just staring at ladies. That's all they're doing.
So you're like, we don't need this.
Yeah, like, appreciate it, I guess.
I don't know, like, what, what are we doing here?
And I feel like at this point we were already three too many
scenes into the movie by the time we're like getting to this
one. And I'm like, so I think I
paused it and saw that I still had like half an hour and was
like, please. So the notes do get very sparse
at this point because I was like, I think I kind of just
kept walking away from the screen and goalie kept being
like, what are you? What are you doing?
Like, it's the movie over. I'm like, no, it won't end.
It just keeps going. Like there, there were so many
points that could have been wrapped up in a nicer bow.
And I think they had like this vision for in case they weren't
going to get a sequel, they wanted to have it so that way
they could like wrap it up and like make the most out of it.
But at the same time, I'm like, you're still going to charge the
same amount for the movie ticket.
Like you could have ended this and then done a great sequel
with it potentially. But now at this at this point,
they've come up with a plan that because the shark is is wreaking
havoc on civilian populations, they're going to lure it back
out towards them and they're going to go ahead and use whales
calls to do that. And the note that I have is that
so the shark that is unrealistically happily eating
people is deterred by whale calls.
It has a full buffet in front of it.
And instead heard someone yell love that chicken from Popeyes
and left to go get Popeyes. Like, what are you doing?
Like, it makes about just as much sense.
Like if you're chilling at McDonald's and then like, you've
got your order, you get up to the counter and like, you've
ordered your food. You get halfway through your
meal and then all of a sudden you hear like the Burger King
Jingle and you go, yeah, you're right.
I actually do want to whopper more.
You're not going to throw your food away and go get it.
You're going to be like, oh, Dang, I should have gotten that
instead. But you know, I already got
this. You're going to finish that.
Like you're not going to just go waste more money or more energy,
need to go get something else. So this plan would not work at
all. Now, at the same time, they keep
going back and forth between Jason Statham and Zinyan and
their gliders being followed by this shark.
And this shark would not care. It's not going to put this much
effort into chasing two people, let alone two things that are
like fighting back against it. Like they'll go mess up a giant
squid. But there is a huge payoff in
that you get to eat the giant squid at the end.
The amount of like calories and like energy that like eating a
person to give the megalodon here is not going to be worth
any of the effort that they just put into any of what they are
doing. Like it's the same thing as you
being like, all right, I'm pretty hungry and I could go get
in my car and once again drive to McDonald's or I can run the
New York City Marathon and go get raising Canes.
I love canes with my whole heart.
I'm not going to go run a marathon because I'm hungry to
go get food. And that is essentially what the
megalodon was doing here, jumping between the two of them.
It makes no sense why he would waste he or she.
They never specified the gender could be a she, we don't know.
But this megalodon would waste that much energy to get
essentially a tic tac. Like you're going to get nothing
out of it. Like you're you're eating a
mint. You're putting, you're running
through a marathon for a mint. I don't get it.
And yeah, why not? Maybe.
They're like the minty flavor a
little bit more than like the charred crispiness of the the
the. Beachgoers see that is true They
that is right, They could have too much tanning oil on them.
So this might be it's just a little too greasy, a little too
slick for them. They're like, you know, like
I've had a a lot of heavy meals. Got to go ahead and just have a
little bit less going to eat a little light tonight.
You know we're going to work for it.
You know, I've been I've been cheating a little too much on
the on the on the diet. Let's let's go back to the Diet
tonight with go get my min. It's going to have a salad.
Only two humans tonight. Just all the only two as a
treat. Oh my gosh.
That's just for being a good boy waking up today.
Yeah, just just for getting up. This is my treat for getting out
of bed and dealing with life's pressures.
But so how how checked out I was at this point was we've had I
don't even know what this is in reference to.
And I quite literally watched this a few hours ago.
We've had too many feel good and stupid moments for me to care
about these folks at this point. Like it's kind of like anytime
there's a dangerous situation, I'm not hoping they live or die
at this point. I'm like, let's just find out
what happens. Like that's all I've got.
And it's not even a full hearted.
I need to pay attention to see what happens.
It's what are you about to put me through is the question I was
kind of asking at this moment. I was like, we're we're already
20 minutes too long. It's probably what people are
asking with this episode too, because this is, I think,
officially the longest one. But it works.
But it's one of those that's like, people are probably like,
OK, dude, you could have ended this forever ago.
And that's how I felt with the movie.
But God knows now the part that really irritated me a little.
Bit more fun like we are. That's true.
See that? Sharks just want to have fun,
just like the girls. Come on now.
Maybe that's that's why they're coming after Jason Statham.
He busted through their Beria and ended up there.
Cyndi Lauper girls just want to have fun party.
Bro yeah, as soon as he landed down.
The reason they were so mad at that sub is because it landed on
the aux and it messed it up and now they can't have the tunes.
I knew it. I knew it.
Sense now I get it. You know this is a 10 out of 10
movie now that that it all clicks in the final notes.
Sharks are just humans, too. Let's no, sorry, Megalodons are
just humans too, basically. Exactly.
See every other shark intelligent but megalodons human
intelligence. We love it.
They have anger towards sending their songs now.
The way that they fight the shark is they essentially pull
of Rose Tico for the Star Wars fans in like Rise of Skywalker
or whatever the hell that movie was where they do the whole it's
not what we the killing who we hate, it's saving who we love
type crap. Because Jason Statham decides
he's going to like, sacrifice himself to try to kill this
shark and then just goes signing off and, like, throws his, like,
earpiece away while they're like, Jason.
No. So he then somehow guts the
shark by using the glider, which I'm not even sure what part
because it suddenly had some metal sticking out of it that he
just like, stabs the shark with and goes like, pretty much
through the entire length of the of the shark here.
So critical damage to say the least.
And the shark just keeps going like nothing happened.
I mean, I stubbed my toe and I have to pause doing whatever I'm
doing to not yell. This shark gets stabbed and is
like, yeah, third time this week.
Anyway, Now, on top of that, the whole point of it was to be
like, blood in the water causes a frenzy, so all these sharks
come out to eat it. Do you want to know how many
species shouldn't be there? Because I'll give you a hint.
It's the majority of them. In that scene.
I'm like, there's about four sharks that should be here.
And I counted at least nine species.
And as I was writing it, I scratched out and said, I'm not
commenting on the amount of wrong species for that feeding
frenzy because I was so annoyed. I was like, this movie's gone on
too long. I'm not right anything else down
about it. This is too many damn sharks
that aren't supposed to be here. Like they could have put ones
that are really cool that are supposed to be there.
Like they could have the oceanic white tip that wasn't there.
They had a tiger shark. I mean little far out for it,
but screw it, I'll allow it. Like then they had the great
white and the Mako and then they've got more hammer heads.
Wrong. Stop that.
I'm like, I think at one point I think there was like a bull
shark out there. I'm like also wrong.
What are you doing? Like there's just like a couple
that pop up that I'm like, you literally just Googled sharks
and went you, you, you, you and you get in there and I'm like,
at this point you should have like if it's around Australia,
you could have thrown Wobee gongs in there that have been
kind of neat. Like it's actually shallow
enough for them. That'd be crazy.
Like you could have put the oceanic white tip.
They'd be far enough away, but still able to come in.
Like there's so many cool species.
They could have, they could have thrown whaler sharks up in here
and that would have made sense. Nope, they didn't.
But of course, why would they? But overall, I was just threw my
book way across the table there. But overall, I did actually
enjoy the movie. I know that I pointed out all
the things that were like, no, I should have, I should have just
needed it across the room. But I did actually enjoy this
movie a lot more than I thought I would.
It was actually rather well written for as much as I just
made fun of it, it did have a lot of good plot points to it.
There were a couple that like you could kind of poke holes in,
but I mean, that's every movie you watch.
And I always come to these shark movies with a heavy bias.
So if I tell you I like them, that's usually a high praise
because if y'all went back and listened to the Sharknado
episode, that was a full 45 minutes of me calling the movie
stupid, saying I hate it. And my main complaint about this
movie is that I just feel like it went on a little too long.
I feel like they didn't know where to end it.
And they had about 3 or 4 endings they could have veered
off and done, but they just kind of didn't.
I mean, overall, I'd give it. I'd probably say give it a 7 or
8 out of 10. I mean, it was rather enjoyable
to watch. I mean, Jaws gets a 10 out of 10
in my book. So it's pretty up there.
Yeah, I. No, I, I definitely, I think I'm
in a a similar boat. Jaws is just kind of solidified.
Jesus, gosh, goodness, sorry about that.
Yeah, No, Jaws is kind of just set the, the standard for me and
is kind of the staple. So it is really hard to to top
that for me. And like I said, I, I haven't
dabbled a ton into in terms of like movies with sharks.
So this was definitely I in terms of shark movies, this is
probably one of the better ones I actually had.
Now that you know that we've now I think about I have seen all
the sharknadoes and when I first liked them just for the like the
plot, I kind of enjoyed it. But in terms of like the
science, like I said, I don't fully understand that, but it
was pretty standard. When I'm watching that airplane
and she looks out and in the cloud, she sees a cloud like a
thing of a shark. Like obviously that's not going
to happen. Like that's such that's so like
outlandish, but that's just Hollywood.
Like Hollywood has to has to out do some outlandish things to
kind of help keep everybody pulled in and.
Exactly. Entranced into it, I would say.
I think the last big thing that I I think that I think that I
didn't hate, but I think could have been done a little bit
better. And maybe I'm just a little bit
biased since I started watching anime just because anime Mr. Rex
or when most of the animes that I've seen with their Mr. Rex was
left jaw dropped to the floor like what the hell is happening?
And those it was definitely like like the second May coming that
that felt pretty standard for what it was.
Give me one second. Anyway, what were we saying
before? So I was, I was trying to make a
comparison with the Mr. Rex in this movie and they were good,
but and I was making it into the point of like, I think I'm a
little bit more biased because of how I've seen anime do their
Mr. X. Right, OK.
So in terms of that, I. Think which real quick, just
because I realized I did not do a lead back in, we had to take a
long pause there for a moment of interruptions.
We are jumping back in. OK, Continue, Bailey.
Yes, indeed, Oh my goodness. But no, yeah, it it just like
the the big misdirect in anime that I can think of off the top
of my head right now is I don't know if you watch anime, but
Seven Deadly Sins at the very, very end, they basically like
the last half of the final season.
They just like full on flip the script and one of the people
you've been watching the entire time along the way who you think
is an ally in the end is really like pulling all the strings and
making everything happen the way it's going.
And you're like, why? And she's the the whole purpose
she's done everything she's done is because she fell in love with
the MC, but the MC doesn't love her.
But she's just so good with like being sneaky and devious about
everything that you don't realize anything until the very
end. And the last like 7 episodes.
The last season's like 16 episodes ballpark.
I'm going to say episodes like 5 to like. 13 is them like having
this long standoff and fight with her, so to speak, where she
unveils everything and how she's like misdirected them and then
obviously it has to come to they do eventually like forgive her
because that the show is called 7 Deadly sins.
Each character has done something along the way that is
their deadly sin. That was her deadly sin.
Interesting they saved. Hers for the very end and you're
just kind of like that's happened because of her.
That's happened because of her that's happened and you're like
like that one to me might be my craziest Mr. Rex like ever so
far today, because you like the whole time you're like, dude,
she's there's something off about her.
You don't know, but you're just like, OK, she seems fine.
She seems cool like and then she hit you with this in the last
like 10 episodes of the show and you're like, what the hell just
happened like this this show like the show was already a 10.
This might have just taken it to like an A20 like what the hell.
So, oh, yeah, no, I mean, I was going to say just reminds me to
like of like a misdirection in like Shutter Island, which is
one of my my favorite movies. They have all this buildup and
like all these kind of like odd moments that are like occurring.
But I feel like in the sense of like the misdirection that we're
talking about, it comes more from the sense of, OK, we've
been kind of hiding this big secret in the background the
whole time. And then now we've had it where
it comes to the forefront. Everything that you kind of had
questions about earlier now are suddenly falling into place.
And you're like, Oh my God, like huge brain reel.
But like this one, it kind of feels like their misdirection is
kind of like, well, we wanted to pad the runtime a little bit.
It's like, OK, why? You like, you didn't need to,
you had plenty of runtime. It's an hour and a half.
Like, what are we doing? Like you could have done an hour
and 15 have been a good movie still.
Yeah, even like the even the beginning you said where it's
just like, I mean, I get obviously they're they're
building plot for I probably for like deeper themes and messages
they're trying to portray throughout the the the story,
which is fine, but like, I don't know, I just like I said, anime
to me has has done it in like demon Slayer right now.
There's they're still coming out with that and there's still one
big question. I'm sitting here.
I'm like, I need to know, like, is that upper demon related to
tundra? Like what the hell, dude, Like
they've got the same hair, they've got the same earrings.
What's going on? Now, granted, anime is a little
bit different because you have manga, so you can kind of read
and read ahead and kind of know what's going to happen.
We didn't have that with the Meg, unless somebody knows that
they made the Meg manga. But like.
They do have a novel, yeah. That's kind of true, but I don't
know like like, like we said, like the IT it's based off a
novel that that thing I saw on shark Week seems kind of loosely
based off this novel as well, like.
It it definitely caused a frenzy.
They would do it before I would fully make that comparison of
like the books just better, like you're not hitting the
adaptation perfectly, I would say kind of thing.
So I can't fully say that, but I even we're just seeing the movie
just because of how things book to movie usually go.
Yeah, that I have to agree with that.
I myself has also not read the novel.
I definitely want to now after seeing this because I mean same
deal where it's like I do want to see how it's going to play
out. I want to see I don't, I
definitely don't think it's a perfect one to one adaptation.
No movie is of any book. There's so many different things
that you can't convey in a movie that you can in the book.
So I feel like of course the advantage of the movie though,
is it goes out to the larger masses.
That's I think one of the things that I do think that this movie
played a huge role in piquing a lot of people's interests in
megalodons and sharks as a whole.
I do think a lot of people like, I think it's kind of like the,
I'd call it, I guess like kind of the Jaws of like our
generation where in 197574 when Jaws came out, I believe it, it
caused that frenzy. It caused a lot of people like I
know people in my parents generation who watched it.
And one of my neighbors back home is one of the biggest shark
fanatics I know. And whenever I see her, she's
always talking to me about sharks.
And she has all these Jaws T-shirts and Jaws is her
favorite movie of all time. Like shout out Miss Tracy if
you're listening, but it's one of those that like she it's fun
whenever I'm around because she always wants to talk to me about
shark things and Jaws and this and that.
And I get to show her all the different things that I've done
with it and everything like that, which is cool and kind of
the same way I can see. Like there's people who
absolutely adore the Meg and it's what got them into sharks
and what got them wanting to learn more because you hear
there's a 75 foot prehistoric shark and you go, well, what the
hell is that all about? Like, I want to know more about
that. I mean, it's kind of the same
thing when people found out Edgar Allan Poe was some drunk
dude writing about Ravens. It's like, this sounds insane,
but like, I need to pick this up.
Like you're telling me there's a 75 foot shark?
Yeah, tell me more. I do think it's like it was one
that did a great job at like peaking that interest in getting
people to learn more. But I do think it is something
as well that that it, of course, missed a couple of the marks.
I mean, Jaws did, too. I will say Jaws still stands as
the most accurate shark movie I've seen for every other shark
in the movie except for Jaws. But every other shark they show
in that movie is accurate to what would be found, including
the scene where they're pulling license plates and stuff out of
the tiger shark's stomach. They just, they did it and it
worked. But yeah, I mean, that's what I
had for the Meg Bailey. Do you have anything you'd like
to add? Not too, too much watch, I think
I think he definitely kind of really hit it all on the head in
terms of like I said, in terms of the science.
Definitely, definitely listen to Alex because him and I were
talking before we talked about it and I made the point of, yes,
this is a fictional movie, but you know, to my knowledge at
that time, you know, some of the science seemed like it the bends
that that I probably like. If I was really thinking from
it, watching the movie from like a with the mindset of a full
scientific approach, I think I would have picked up on the
bends and like, bro, what? Like what's going on?
With that, it's also coming from like a hater standpoint.
So it's it's one of those that I kind of come in like expecting
to poke holes in it well. OK, well, that's fair.
I, I, I like coming into usually anything.
I try not to set expectations before I go into something,
especially movies, just because there have been times where I
have set an expectation and I was horribly disappointed.
But I've also had movies where I've come in with an expectation
and they exceeded it and I was like, Amen, thank you.
Like. 1000%. I knew all three of those
Spiderman were going to be in the movie.
They knocked it out the park and now granted a.
Lot I cannot agree more. Dude, it's nostalgia, that's why
you love it so much. Sure, that can play a part into
it, but like these guys, it's nostalgic because we felt they
were good for their roles. Like Willem Dafoe is Green
Goblin, I can't picture anybody else is Green Goblin personally.
Absolutely not. Maybe.
Maybe Jack Mickelson, but like Willem Dafoe.
Even that knocked. It out the park, I'm like dude,
just give me Willem Dafoe 1. 100%.
But you know, like I said, I do love Jason Statham as well.
So overall I was, it was a good movie.
There's definitely some aspects, especially like, you know, I
usually watch movies or TV usually later at night.
So there's definitely sometimes when it's when it's a horror
movie, I'm like maybe one or two spots in the movie where I was
like, but for the most part, it wasn't like Jaws.
Jaws, when I remember watching that as a kid, I was one edge
the entire time because it was waiting for Bruce to come out
out of nowhere. And you're just like this one.
You kind of still get that feel, but seeing Jaws first kind of
nullifies that a little bit. And these other ones, so to
speak, I would say. Absolutely no, I'd agree with
that. I do feel like if they did kind
of do the build up the same way that Jaws did, where it's like
you're waiting to see the shark, you have this huge expectation.
I do think it does also hurt the film in this way that it is a
CGI shark because even in Jaws having the mechanical shark, it
still kind of had so much more weight to it that actually
seeing it there versus that's very clearly CGI.
Which I mean, of course it's going to be much more expensive
to use a real 75 foot like shark makeup type deal.
Fake shark. There we go.
That's the words I'm looking for.
But have that versus a CGI shark, which is going to be much
cheaper to work with. And of course, it's got to make
money at the end. And when you're making a movie
where the sharks, the villain, historically, they've been
stupid. They've been cheesy.
Unless it's a Jaws or I mean, I'll even throw the Meg in
there. Like I say, 47 meters down was
pretty cheesy. So it's like that one you could
pick a lot of holes in. I also feel like this movie.
Yeah, right. Like when it came to Jaws and
when it came to the Meg, I feel like they had that suspense and
they had that like this is going to be a big payoff.
And then it gets there and you're like, OK, like, yeah,
like that's actually kind of spooky.
But it's not so much in the sense.
It's kind of like how in in the movie it where the first one
like they did a really good job of like building up that
suspense that way when they did like a jump scare or something
like that, that typically is like a cheaper move.
Like you were already on edge. So it has that bigger play
versus having it where like or like they'll have that
misdirection where it's like you kind of have like in Jaws, they
have the, the music start and then like as it kind of starts
picking me at the and then like they pause and now you're seeing
some kids play and then you got na na, na na, the guy over in
the boat. And then all of a sudden you got
the, as it's getting faster. So like I'm getting goosebumps
talking about it, but like you're like God, like you're
kind of seeing all the targets and like even in that short like
3 second shot of them just doing whatever you're like you almost
build that connection with that character who you knew nothing
about. And in this one, I feel like
they don't quite give like even on the beach scene, I feel like
they kind of tried to recreate the Jaws beach scene, but
instead of having it where it's like, Oh yeah, we've got these
people playing here, we got these people playing here.
They kind of made them all to like, I don't know, like not
like frat boy esque, but like it's almost like they all kind
of seem just so like superficial and just like not what people
would really be doing at a beach.
Like it just kind of felt too staged, at least in my mind.
So I feel like in some cases they missed the mark like that.
But it was not bad at all. It just went on too long for me.
And it was a it was a great movie.
I did enjoy it. I probably would watch it again,
but it I would need to forget what it was about first and go
through on a different mindset for it.
But yeah. Well, Billy, do you have
anything else to add before we wrap up here?
I. Can't really think of too, too
much, just a big thank you for having me on.
Definitely would love to do something like this again in the
future, maybe try and get some of the other guys with us so
that we can share them a little bit with your viewers as well.
And yeah, I mean, for all the listeners, give, give, give this
guy the love he deserves. He puts a lot of work and effort
into this for you guys and it's like like advertised on my
podcast. You know, it's it's so to speak
that metaphorical shark week every day, so to speak.
Obviously it's not an everyday podcast, but when if you.
One day episodes. Build up and you can eventually
just like you've got like 2 months worth of listening, you
can go to it. It can become an everyday thing
for you kind of thing. And that by that point he's you
can just keep following along. It's it's definitely opened my
eyes to the shark world as well. And yeah, like I said, just just
a big thank you much love. It's always fun doing stuff with
you guys and just hope you keep doing it more.
Thank you, I really appreciate that Sir.
I paid you well to be here so I appreciate those words.
I did not pay him anything. My God, it was a lot of fun and
of course I'm hoping to have y'all on.
Hoping to catch the other two lads as well of course.
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