# Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus don't make me love you! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392 "2009-05-14T06:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/21 "2009-05-15T00:01:43Z")
How did the shark swim backwards for a few feet in that one scene? That’s highly implausible. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/22 "2009-05-15T01:00:05Z")
It is the kind of movie I can not resist. I have a SciFi sweetspot and I watch every critter wants to kill us all movie. The effects do look cheesy though. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/23 "2009-05-15T01:04:33Z")
Eight giant arms to hold you and huge rows of replacable teeth to bite you…what’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/24 "2009-05-15T03:02:34Z")
Why “octopus”? Giant squid is the monster tradition, I thought? ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/25 "2009-05-15T03:24:37Z")
Yeah, but we have giant squids for real. And sure, they wrestle sperm whales and all, but in order to take on a shark that can bite through the Golden Gate Bridge, you need to go even bigger. But since the Giant Squid is already giant, where do you go from there? Gianter Squid? Lacks a sense of real menace. Mega Squid? Nah, the shark is already mega. Gi-huge-ic squid? That’s just silly. So how about changing it to a giant _octopus_? Yeah. You get all the sucky, squeezy goodness of the squid, but you can make it even bigger! And we can call it “Giant” and make it as big as we want! Yeah, that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/26 "2009-05-15T03:59:38Z")
> [@](#): > > I think this may be direct to DVD Hopefully with the alternate Japanese ending. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/27 "2009-05-16T04:05:43Z")
I am about halfway through watching it right now; this surpasses Shark Attack 3: Megalodon on levels that were previously undreamed of. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/28 "2009-05-16T04:39:10Z")
According to Amazon it is being released on DVD on 5/19/09. Get your pre order in now and avoid the rush. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/29 "2009-05-16T04:55:40Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > I am about halfway through watching it right now; this surpasses Shark Attack 3: Megalodon on levels that were previously undreamed of. That’s all I needed to know! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/30 "2009-05-16T18:24:07Z")
I just added it to my Netflix queue. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/31 "2009-05-17T02:05:07Z")
> [@](#): > > According to Amazon it is being released on DVD on 5/19/09. > Get your pre order in now and avoid the rush. When’s the Criterion edition being released? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/32 "2009-05-17T02:16:06Z")
I just watched it. Strangely enough, I found the acting to be maybe a half-step above what you would expect in a movie like this. The characters didn’t feel like real people, but you could understand their motivations. I thought it was funny that the real villain appears to be white men–well, all white men except Scottish white men. I wish John Barrowman had been it–he could have told Deborah Gibson that he wanted to take her home and eat her pussy. That was, I think, the final bit of class that MSvGO lacked. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/33 "2009-05-17T04:41:11Z")
I already love it. I hope it’s as full of cheesy badness as I want it to be. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/34 "2009-08-29T00:54:50Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > How on Earth is this NOT being shown on the SciFi, sorry, SyFy network? Wish, command, etc. I just saw an ad that this, uh, film, will be on tomorrow night, 8/29, on SyFy. I am so going to be there, popcorn and giant soda. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/35 "2009-08-30T05:41:11Z")
Loved it. Giant shark takes out an airliner - pure poetry. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/36 "2009-08-30T06:20:00Z")
Is it sad that after the shark bit the airplane the first thing that came to my mind was, “That is not how the plane would crash.” The women are hot, though. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/37 "2009-08-30T11:25:46Z")
Yes, they can have giant octopus knocking out fighter planes with tentacles, but we can’t have on with Great Cthulhu in all its (his? her? their?) glory. _skulks away mumbling gibberish_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/38 "2009-08-30T14:58:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Wish, command, etc. I just saw an ad that this, uh, film, will be on tomorrow night, 8/29, on SyFy. I guess it was “giant sea-creature Saturday” yesterday. They aired _Deep Blue Sea_ a couple of hours before MS v GO…I love that scene where Samuel L. Jackson gets chomped in the middle of his motivational speech! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/39 "2009-08-30T16:02:19Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I guess it was “giant sea-creature Saturday” yesterday. They aired _Deep Blue Sea_ a couple of hours before MS v GO…I love that scene where Samuel L. Jackson gets chomped in the middle of his motivational speech! By the most flexible shark in the universe… ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392/40 "2009-08-30T17:52:07Z")
For those that missed **MS vs GO** , happily it is being shown again next Sunday at 9 pm edt, on SYSFY. I didn’t see the update to this thread so I missed it the other night, but I assure you that the DVR is set for next Sunday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mega-shark-vs-giant-octopus-dont-make-me-love-you/496392.md?page=3)