Yes, it's officially Shark Week. Discovery Channel's made up holiday has influenced much of how we view these ancient creatures. But, even more, it has inspired an entirely new genre of films. Kevin Maher of AtomicAbe.com goes deep into the genre, from classic tales to CGI tactics as well as educating us on some lesser known remakes you can't wait to sink your teeth in to.
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00:00Hi, y'all. Welcome to Live Science where we live, laugh, love science. Today we are celebrating
00:13Shark Week. Happy Shark Week to everyone. And we are going to be talking about shark
00:17movies with, welcome to the stage, Kevin Maher. Hello, Kevin.
00:22Hello, everybody. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Happy Shark Week, sir. Oh, I
00:28see your shark in the back. Nice. I got the shark in the back and I wore my shark shirt.
00:33It's covered with a little, which somebody pointed out to me, it's simultaneously like
00:38it's shark heads from Jaws, but then it also is like Mayor Larry Vaughn's anchor jacket
00:45in the first Jaws film. So it serves a couple of purposes.
00:49Oh, well, I mean, it does look like the regular great white that we see and all. Is that the
00:54same shark you have behind you there too?
00:56I'm not sure what kind of shark that is. I'm going to guess it's a tiger shark, the
01:00one behind me. I'm not sure.
01:02Listen, I wish I had any of my colleagues here, but they're too busy covering the Shark
01:06Week.
01:07It's a busy week for everybody. Whether you're coming out of San Diego Comic-Con or going
01:12into Shark Week, it's a busy, busy July.
01:15Yeah. So listen, you love shark movies. Well, first of all, you're a movie aficionado. Kevin
01:21here is part of Atomic A Productions, where you can actually watch a fun shark supercut
01:27of different techniques that we're going to be covering today. But right now we have him
01:31to our exclusive to talk about his favorite shark movies and the best of all time, of
01:36course. What are your greatest shark movies that you would like to?
01:41I mean, everybody names Jaws and it's like, yeah, I can't argue with that. That is the
01:46Citizen Kane of shark movies. There's no question. But I do have some deep cuts that
01:52I'm not going to call them the best. I'm going to call them some of my favorites. Thank you
01:55for that, favorite. And the first one is from 1981. It's an Italian movie that is just shamelessly
02:04ripping off Jaws. It was released in the United States under the title Great White.
02:11And then Universal saw the movie in the poster and they sued and took them to court and it
02:16disappeared after one weekend. So around the world, this movie is known in other places
02:21is like a big blockbuster film. And most Americans never saw it. I meant to do a check to see
02:28if it's streaming. It had been streaming on Amazon. I don't know if it is. But let's let's
02:32take a look at Great White. Here we go. So every movie has the mayor who won't close
02:38the beaches. Sure. The shark. Get ready. There it is. It's pre CGI. Right. That's a
02:45real shark. That's a practical that's a puppet. Basically, it's a big, big, bony plastic shark
02:52coming up to get a mechanical shark. But then they intercut with real shark. And in this
02:59scene, what's happening is every movie has the mayor who won't close the beaches. But
03:03in Great White, the mayor sees that no one is is caught the shark. So he decides he's
03:10going to go capture the shark himself. I'm not sure what the plan was. Is it just like
03:14get it to eat the bait and then fly it away? Just like it's just like big fishing, right?
03:19Just like wily coyote shark hunting. And in Italian, it is the Ultimo Squalo. Oh, yes.
03:29And one of the things I love is we're going to see a pretty great special effect coming
03:33up. So stay tuned. He falls in the water. The helicopter struggles. And I'm guessing
03:41it was, you know, these are Italian actors. They were dubbed in English, so we're not
03:45hearing their dubbed voices. But he he hangs on as the shark comes back. And it's a very
03:51fake shark. Look at this. Oh, I don't like you. You couple the fake shark with the fake
04:01human. You get you get a stunt body in there, a dummy to get ripped apart, chewing on the
04:08legs. Man, I thought for sure the shark was going to. Oh, no. Here it comes. Oh, no. And
04:16this is this is part of why Universal sued because that that's very similar to the shark
04:21attacking the helicopter scene in Jaws 2. This came out in 1981. So it's like three
04:25years after after Jaws 2 came out. OK, so, you know, somewhat of a reference movie to
04:33the great, the great. Yep. And then we'll get into the science of it. But but some of
04:38the other ones I love are there's a Bollywood film. You know, we have to look internationally
04:43to how Jaws influenced cinema around the world and how they came back with their own version.
04:48So a tongue is the Bollywood Jaws. And Judy, do you remember the opening scene of Jaws?
04:55Yeah, the kids are swimming. Oh, no, it's the two people swimming. Right. Two people go out to the
04:59beach, a guy and a girl just met. Right. Just met at a campfire. OK, so there's the shark
05:06and a big, big, big, big, big, phony, practical shark. But the tongue is the shark. That's a
05:12very good question. This is I don't know. This is Bollywood Jaws. Bollywood Jaws. Oh,
05:19what they did story wise to raise the stakes is that instead of just being a campfire,
05:26the scene where the shark attacks is that it's a wedding. It's a bride and groom are
05:34celebrating. They're getting drunk. She swims out into the water in her wedding dress. And
05:40the guy watches on the shore and sees his bride get killed by this shark. So they actually
05:46one up Spielberg and Jaws by by making it such a much more powerful revenge movie.
05:51You know, like what's better than new lovers is married lovers.
05:55Married. Well, they're about to be married or they just were married. And and yeah, now
06:01the shark is going to come out of the water. And this is I think culturally it's just things
06:08are heightened. The shark kind of flies and goes over the boat, which we can question the
06:14science. Could a shark, could an enormous shark not just breach, but actually go out of
06:20the water? I don't know. And like you said, science people are covering other more
06:28important stories than a Bollywood film from 1996.
06:31I just I you told me there is a Bollywood film and I was like, there can't possibly be in
06:36that clip.
06:37We just saw a clip.
06:38That's fantastic. And then my I guess I have to add this clip.
06:43Well, we have to watch Jersey Shore Shark Attack next.
06:46This is this is one of my true favorites.
06:49Will it will it be on screen with us or will we be on full screen?
06:52What if they want to bury him regular like, like, like they don't care more than a corpus.
06:56So they just found a body that was killed by a shark.
06:59Sure, obviously.
07:02Shark!
07:06They're everywhere.
07:09Donny, post to Trump.
07:11So they're based on characters from MTV's Jersey Shore.
07:16And I think this is from the year 2012 when the show was still pretty popular.
07:23And I just really admire that the sharks look very fake and very cheap.
07:29So they they invested in the characters and the character relationships and the
07:33dialogue. And I think when you look back at Jaws, there are so many scenes without the
07:39shark. And it's about people on Amity Island and the relationships and the community
07:44and the culture and the conflicts and the tensions.
07:47And this movie does a really good job of making it like yuppie gentrifiers versus
07:53Jersey Shore guidos and guidettes.
07:56Oh, poor Smithy, poor shark Smithy.
07:58Nookie. Nookie.
08:00No.
08:01Her name, I swear, is Nookie.
08:04I just feel like.
08:06I forget the guy, instead of being called the situation, he's called like the
08:10circumstance.
08:15So that's well worth checking out.
08:17I might I might actually mess with that movie tonight to like celebrate Shark Week in
08:21the market. I've already watched Jaws.
08:22I watched, you know, Finding Nemo.
08:24I love the shark scene in that, you know, fish your friend, not food.
08:29So those are your obscure favorites.
08:31Those are some of my obscure favorites.
08:32Love it. Love it.
08:35So actually, I wanted to point out to everyone, because this is live science where we
08:41live, laugh, love science, that we actually just came out with a awesome story about
08:46whale sharks.
08:48They're the biggest omnivores.
08:49We thought that they were carnivores, like most whales.
08:52They just are not like most whales, like most sharks.
08:55But because they're like most whales, they also eat seaweed.
08:59And, you know, we have this lovely story here written by my colleague, Ben, and it
09:05just came out today, just four hours ago.
09:07So it's, you know, Shark Week, more shark stuff.
09:12But I'm curious if there's any whale shark movies.
09:16This has come up, it's it's it's a species of shark that does not get a lot of love in
09:20the shark movies. And I I'm this is just my theory is that a whale shark seems a little
09:25docile compared to the aggressive nature that, you know, doesn't even necessarily exist,
09:32but was assigned to great white sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks.
09:37Whale sharks do not have a dedicated film that I know of, but there is a whale shark
09:43scene in the movie Kongtiki, a Norwegian film.
09:46And you see it's it's just passing under the boat.
09:50I see the flag.
09:51It's enormous.
09:52Right. But don't worry, it's eating seaweed, guys.
09:55Don't worry about it. Yeah, they got nothing to worry about.
09:57The concern in the film is that it's going to flip the boat because it's so big.
10:02So even if it isn't going to attack them and eat them, it could still cause a lot of
10:09damage to the boat.
10:11This is like nice production value.
10:13This is like, is this a good movie?
10:15Yeah, this is like a quality drama film.
10:17It's it's like a seafaring adventure based on a true story.
10:22And and this is really, I think, the only scene with the whale shark.
10:28Goodness.
10:30But it's so beautifully the CGI here, look, when it goes under the boat, it's just I was
10:35like, I can't look at that.
10:37Oh, my Lord.
10:39I'm guessing that's I don't know.
10:42I don't think they wrangle the whale shark.
10:45Well.
10:50But that's yeah, look at that.
10:51That's the whale shark scene in Kongtiki.
10:54That's a whale shark.
10:56But I mean, so Jaws is the is the the base level.
11:02And I and I was saying this to my colleagues when we were coming up with our roundup for
11:06the best shark movies is like, well, we have to have Jaws.
11:08And it's like was I mean, there must have been movies before Jaws.
11:11So I'm posing you this question.
11:13There were there were a lot of them that were just these kind of seafaring adventures,
11:18probably more probably had more in common with Moby Dick than with Jaws, and that it's
11:24it's just about these masculine seafaring adventure stories of like being macho on land.
11:30There's even one I think it might be called Tiger Shark with Roddy McDowell, where he
11:36plays he plays like a well-to-do college boy who gets insulted.
11:42So he has to prove himself by going to sea and encountering sharks along the way.
11:48And he survives.
11:50And he survives.
11:51And it's like he's not generation.
11:54Yeah, not just he's not just up against the sharks, but like the tough guys on the ship.
12:00So it's about like it's a rite of passage of going to sea and becoming a man.
12:04Sure. And sharks are very symbolic.
12:07And, you know, they show up as one of sharks.
12:10And those movies are often one of many things you encounter.
12:13But the movie The Shark Fighters, I think that's from what?
12:181956.
12:22The military has filled the water around our main character here, Victor Mature.
12:31He's surrounded by an experimental potion that they're hoping will keep sharks away.
12:37So they're trying to come up with shark deterrent, kind of like in the 60s, Batman, the
12:42shark repellent spray.
12:44Oh, my God. Yeah.
12:49And so dramatic and very serious, very dramatic.
12:54And, you know, that's the thing about these pre-Jaws movies is that they are not giant
13:01sharks or smart sharks or super sharks that can come out of the water.
13:06It's it's terrifying enough just that they are sharks, that they are man eaters.
13:12I mean, honestly, it's it's why I don't watch shark movies, because I feel like sharks
13:16are, you know, I went to Australia recently and just researching, oh, you can't go into
13:20the beach there because there'll be sharks there.
13:22And here's a nice story of a woman who went swimming late at night and got dragged down.
13:26Her friend watched her get dragged out to her death.
13:28And I'm like, real life terrifying.
13:30Don't need to play with sharks or I don't need to go in a cage and swim near sharks.
13:35I mean, I can go to a zoo for that, right?
13:40But not for me, not for me, not for me.
13:45Totally fine. I get it.
13:46I mean, maybe that's like the what is it that that phallos of phobia, phallos of phobia,
13:53phallos of phobia is the fear of the water and what lurks in it and that there's so much
14:00unknown. And I think one of the interesting things we see in a lot of modern 21st century
14:09CGI shark movies is that the sharks are not necessarily in the water.
14:14They're not limited to the ocean.
14:15They can be in a river.
14:16They can be in a pond.
14:19There's one movie where a shark comes out of the toilet and it's just the idea that
14:25anywhere there's water around, always look, always got to look.
14:30So it's the kind of thing where the fear is not just the sharks, but just the unknown
14:37of what could be in there. And that when when we as the dominant species go on on land
14:43where the dominant species, when we go into water, we could become prey.
14:47So it's a big trade off.
14:49And I think that's what people are afraid of.
14:51And I think we had to do we have a phallos of phobia clip we wanted to look at from the
14:56depths, I believe, from the depths.
14:58Yeah, this is a very low budget movie from just 2020.
15:03And I think this is every childhood fear most of us have had.
15:07This is just a swimming pool.
15:08I'm like, no, they're not even in the ocean.
15:10They're not even in the ocean.
15:12They're good. No, what's going to happen?
15:13But the woman in the robe survived the shark attack.
15:15So she has trauma.
15:18And my heart is pounding.
15:19I'm so scared for her.
15:20She's on she's on high alert.
15:25And she hasn't been back in the water since her since surviving a shark attack.
15:29So this is her first time back, literally dipping a toe into the water.
15:34Oh, I know, I would regret this live stream.
15:38What? What?
15:39No.
15:47I mean, it's it's such an irrational fear, but the fear is real.
15:53Like the feeling and the sensation of being afraid of a shark in the deep sea is real.
15:57And it's like, oh, my God, I don't want to do this.
15:59I don't want to do this.
16:00I don't want to do this.
16:01I don't want to do this.
16:02And the sensation of being afraid of a shark in the deep end of a pool, even though my
16:06brain knows it's impossible, I've completely had that fear.
16:10So the movies, the movies that have sharks appearing everywhere else are just they're
16:14just appealing.
16:16They're playing to real fears that people have.
16:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:21I mean, spoiler alert.
16:22Was that just a dream clip?
16:24I mean, it ends up being kind of a, you know, a hallucination.
16:28And I hate to spoil anything.
16:29But from the depths is a very low budget movie that's dealing with the idea that the
16:32the water is the subconscious mind and the shark is the trauma.
16:38So even though it's this like low budget movie that you would find at Walmart, Walmart is
16:43a great place. If you ever want to look at what are the what are the newest shark movies?
16:46There's always new DVDs that seem to go directly to Walmart.
16:50And it's shark movies you've never heard of, like Blood in the Water, Nine Headed Shark
16:55Attack. You know, they'll have so much stuff.
16:57I'm not I'm not I'm not promoting Walmart.
17:00I'm just saying this is where they end up.
17:02This is where they're available.
17:03And if I've ever been, I picked up.
17:05Yeah, I picked up.
17:07I picked up that one from the depths at Walmart, expecting very little.
17:11And I was like, oh, this is a really thoughtful essay on trauma and the mind and that the
17:17shark is a symbol.
17:18So I was I was very surprised by the film.
17:21I don't I don't necessarily recommend it, Judy.
17:23I'm just saying I was surprised that it's not as bad as I thought.
17:27And also, you know, we learned about, you know, water fear and all that.
17:30We're getting some comments in here.
17:32People also love shark movies.
17:34And one that I don't believe we're covering because we've actually covered it on Live
17:37Science Plenty, Megalodon or the Meg, I guess I should say.
17:41But the Meg is terrific.
17:43Very fun movie.
17:45And somebody mentioned open water, which is great.
17:47I mean, the story of making open water is fantastic.
17:50And it's it's also just really visceral response that like, oh, they are legit in the
17:56water with real sharks.
18:00And again, as as we see more and more CGI coming up, it's it's kind of a thing of the
18:05past that people don't don't mess around with sharks.
18:08Yes. Could that bring us into my love of the practical sharks?
18:13Oh, sure.
18:14OK, we have the real sharks versus practical, which is another way of saying like
18:18electrical sharks, mechanical shark or even just a puppet.
18:21It might not have any wiring in it.
18:23Very true, actually.
18:25We made a video people can see at AtomicAbe.com, which contrasts the different methods
18:30of making a shark. But I think the the early 2000s was just the last era where we saw
18:37practical sharks.
18:38And we're we're going to take a look at one of the one of the last practical sharks of
18:43its day. And it does look really hokey, but I just I find it personally very charming.
18:48I really enjoy the practical shark effects.
18:52Which one do you want me to show?
18:53Sorry. Whichever one we can do in the split screen, because I think one of them is too
18:57long. Like Red Water.
19:01We can watch Red Water, sure.
19:04This is 2003.
19:05This is the last as far as I know, this is one of the last practical shark movies.
19:11And they can't get up the ladder and the sharks coming for them.
19:18Yes, that's Christy Swanson.
19:20Yes, that's yes, that's Lou Diamond Phillips.
19:22And yes, and yes, that's a practical shark.
19:25Oh, that is beautiful looking.
19:28Isn't it great?
19:29I mean, I'm just appreciative of the quality.
19:32I I totally became a sucker for this movie.
19:34I was so won over just by the shark effects that are in there.
19:39And this is a rare example where they're not going to blow up the shark.
19:42They're going to kill it with a underwater drill that I guess they use to like drill
19:47for oil. I forget.
19:49This movie is set in the bayou.
19:52The break.
19:58And yeah, they go, oh, my Lord, Lou, full, full practical.
20:02And and also you got to give some credit here to Lou Diamond Phillips.
20:06He's he's got it as a leading man.
20:07I think he I've heard this is really tough when you're in the water and you're cold
20:11and you're holding and then there's a shark attacking you.
20:14It's the only story.
20:16Oh, there it is.
20:18So instead of blowing up the shark, yeah, they twist the drill.
20:22And that's all right.
20:23Happening right there in front of Christy Swanson has something to play opposite.
20:29Plus, they're hard for sharks.
20:30They're just trying to they're just trying to get theirs.
20:36Now, I think I think that's a non ocean movie.
20:39That's a bayou took place.
20:42So we can speculate as to whether or not a
20:48a saltwater creature like a shark could actually survive outside of the ocean.
20:54A lot of speculation.
20:55We also have a shark attack, too.
20:58And this one is is set in the ocean and it's got a nice
21:01see if you can catch the Jaws homage coming up.
21:04I mean, it's already is looks pretty Jaws.
21:07Oh, well, that's that's it.
21:10That's that's her right there.
21:12So he's got to alert the the surfers that are way out.
21:18And tell them that sharks are coming.
21:20And I just want you to pay attention to the big puppety
21:23looking shark head that pops out and very good editing that they they work
21:30to incorporate real footage of sharks with with the phony looking.
21:35Yeah, good quality.
21:36I appreciate it.
21:38Yeah. I mean, just there.
21:41Oh, well, no. OK, good.
21:43And. That look like literally a puppet.
21:49It really does look like just a big, big old shark puppet.
21:52But almost feels like they probably just got like Barbie dolls
21:55and then just like the puppets.
21:58No, no.
22:00And this is one of the last ones you'll see.
22:02This is from the year 2000.
22:04OK. So even though there were developments in time with with what computers
22:09could do and what they could animate and what kinds of sharks they could create,
22:13they went with the big old practical puppets. And the music, and the music, oof, I mean
22:22that's- And in the comments we're hearing that it's a bull shark in there, and I
22:26can't remember if that's right, but I think it might be a bull shark. Well
22:30Infinite Monkey is one of our main followers, so I appreciate their input.
22:34Thank you. Thank you, Infinite Monkey. We hope it is a bull shark and you're not
22:37spreading some fake news here. They also added that ocean water is certified
22:43because recreational divers. I mean, like, I would love to go diving, but this is
22:49all keeping me from a distance from these beautiful creatures. You know, most
22:53of the time sharks are not that bad to people unless, you know, we're provoking
22:58them, but that's what happens. So continuing on with CGI. So there's
23:06some bad CGI. Do we have Cyclone? Can we look at Cyclone before we
23:11move on to CGI? Here it is, right here. So Cyclone is from 1978, and this is, it's
23:18also known as Terror Storm. It's basically a disaster movie where there
23:21was a plane crash and people are on a boat, and the majority of the movie is
23:25people being miserable, being stranded in the ocean, and debating whether or not
23:30they would resort to cannibalism. It's a very talky disaster movie in the
23:35tradition of, like, the Poseidon Adventure or the Towering Inferno. In the
23:40final eight minutes of the movie they introduce the sharks, and the sharks
23:44start eating people. And you can see they filmed this with real sharks, and one of
23:51the workarounds that's used here is, this was filmed in Mexico, and from what I
23:57have read, and I have not fact-checked it because that's not my forte, but from
24:03what I read, cadavers were purchased for the film.
24:07I was about to say, that looks like a real person.
24:09It looks like people. So they have real actors in the water with real sharks, but
24:15then they also put body parts and intestines in the water for the sharks
24:20to eat, and they filmed it. So it just was so visceral, it was so real. And these
24:27movies, they'll film in Mexico and foreign countries where you can get blue,
24:32beautiful water, and actual sharks, but then you can also probably work around
24:37things that, like, in the United States with film production, you probably
24:41couldn't take some of the same risks or harm a shark.
24:44Harm a shark. But also they're feeding them, so I feel like that's nice for those sharks, right?
24:48Yeah, but in the States I don't know where you would buy a cadaver. I feel like...
24:53From your local cadaver guy.
24:55In 1978, in Los Angeles, I'm not sure what...
24:59Oh, they'd just go to the ocean then, you know, that's when the mobs all come, right?
25:02Yeah.
25:03Yeah.
25:06No, I mean, you're mentioning Mexico, and I was like, well, I hope they didn't just, like,
25:09throw a body. I hope that would be okay. I mean, I was just researching the murder
25:13movies, and I, you know, learned about snuff films and all that, and we can't even go
25:18into that with shark movies, but yeah. Oh, and then, thank you. Thank you, Tiger Shark.
25:25And it looks like those were Tiger Sharks. Thank you, Infinite Monkey.
25:28Appreciate it.
25:30So yeah, that's one extreme of the real shark with real actors and real corpses.
25:34But then what I think most of us have seen over the last 20 years is more CGI,
25:39like you don't see a lot of real sharks in movies. So we have some CGI examples,
25:44and the first one we're going to take in is Blue Demon, which shows where things were at in 2004
25:50for a low-budget movie. That's supposed to just be a computer thing, but now this is supposed to be
25:54a real shark, or it's supposed to be the main shark from the movie.
25:58Oh, yeah, no, that's a video game shark. I appreciate that.
26:00It's like a screensaver video game shark.
26:06Yeah, yeah.
26:09But anytime we see the shark in the movie, that's what you see, and it has an unreality to it,
26:15but not in a way that they, like, were playful about or having fun with. And I think as the
26:20CGI got better, it changed what sharks could do in the movies. And a big budget example, or I think
26:30mid-budget, but they put the money into the sharks, was Shark Night 3D, that they had CGI,
26:37because you can have sharks do things that a real shark could never do,
26:42practical puppet mechanical shark could never do. So this is an impressive moment.
26:46So moody and dark.
26:49Very dark, which is probably good for special effects purpose.
26:51Totally. Smart thinking. Oh, no, he's almost made it. He's almost making it.
26:56He's good. He's made it. He's shaped the shark. Oh, no.
27:02And the sound design, that real foley.
27:05Yeah, the water coming up on the camera. And then, look, uh-oh, there's his jet ski.
27:10And now the shark's just going to get on the jet ski, right?
27:12In a more recent movie, that probably is a possibility of the shark. Jet ski shark coming
27:19into sci-fi later in the weekend.
27:21Clean Escape Mammoth. I mean, that's easy. That's easy.
27:25But yeah, that's one of the things that the technology changes over time,
27:29where you could do things in 2004 you couldn't have done in 1978, because the science is the
27:34way the movies are made. So we're looking at the science of how the movies are made.
27:39So we're looking at some of these examples. But then the movies get a little playful,
27:45a little snarky, a little imaginative. And in something like Megashark versus Giant Octopus,
27:51I don't want to reveal what's going to happen, but it's a scene with an airplane.
27:58What? I feel like of all the places we should be safe from sharks, airplanes.
28:01You're good.
28:02Should. I mean, snakes, sure. But sharks? Challenge.
28:08Challenge.
28:10Oh, God. Or the sun.
28:17It's bigger than the plane.
28:19It's bigger than the plane, and it can achieve the height of a plane.
28:24Wow.
28:25Again, the CG is being used to allow sharks to do things that if...
28:30I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure that couldn't happen.
28:35I defer to the experts.
28:36I was going to say, let Infinite Monkey weigh in.
28:40What kind of shark was that? Was that an airplane shark? I just, yeah.
28:45It's just in the movie known as a Megashark.
28:47This is how I want to watch scary thriller, monster movies, I guess I should call them. But
28:53no, it's just entertaining. I love it.
28:58You make a really good point that monster movie is really where it's at, that
29:03it's less concerned with being a real shark the same way
29:08Godzilla isn't concerned with being a real lizard.
29:11It's just like, oh, this is a giant movie monster who can do whatever we need him to do
29:18in a given film that serves the plot and is exciting and fun to watch.
29:21So that's what you get with Megashark versus giant octopus attacking the plane.
29:27And we have one more ridiculous CGI shark where just, again,
29:34just the shark is no longer enough.
29:36You have to up the ante and that gave us this movie Toxic Shark.
29:47So this has kind of an environmental message that Toxic Shark was born of toxic waste.
29:54Oh, born.
30:03Actual Kevin, why would you?
30:06I thought we were friends, man.
30:08It's terrible. It's terrible.
30:12Yeah, don't pollute the oceans because then sharks are going to snot at you.
30:16I guess they're not attacking. They're just...
30:21Sharks don't even have to bite you anymore.
30:22They're just spewing their toxic waste at you.
30:25Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
30:27So, yeah, as more of these movies come out, they're doing things that normal sharks don't do.
30:35And either they've been genetically altered or mutated,
30:39like in the Samuel L. Jackson movie where the sharks got smarter.
30:45Yeah, I mean, would you even call these like sharks, right?
30:48Like if they're shooting radioactive snot out of their nose.
30:54Well, here's the thing.
30:55I have this device and I call it a phone.
30:59Yeah, I see numbers on there.
31:01That's just a phone, right?
31:02So the thing is, I use this as a flashlight and I play music.
31:10And it's a wallet and I listen to music and podcasts and I text people and I do a step count.
31:17And it does so many things.
31:21And I still call it a phone.
31:23But when you think of a phone.
31:25Right, right.
31:26That's an outdated idea.
31:28A phone can't do all that.
31:29And I feel like movie sharks are like iPhones that they do
31:35things that we never would have thought a phone could do.
31:38They eat planes in the sky.
31:39They eat planes in the sky.
31:42They have multiple heads.
31:44They're not limited to the ocean.
31:46So it's the weird thing where like at what point does the shark in the shark movie stop being a shark?
31:52And then it's just like a big movie monster like Godzilla.
31:55Right, right.
31:57Well, you mentioned the multiple heads.
31:59Right, so here's three-headed shark attack, which is the sequel to, Judy, it's the sequel to?
32:09Two-headed shark?
32:10Two-headed shark attack.
32:12And it was followed by...
32:15Four-headed?
32:16No.
32:17Either four or they might have jumped right to five.
32:19But they keep making these multi-head shark attack movies and it keeps coming back with more heads.
32:28Because one is fine.
32:30I think one shark is very, very scary.
32:35But I guess you're twice as likely to be eaten by a two-headed shark.
32:41Three times as likely to be eaten.
32:44The middle one got it.
32:45He was going to get it anyways if it's a shark.
32:47That just...
32:49It seems a little unfair.
32:52To the science.
32:54Yeah, I welcome scientists to weigh in on how realistic some of the multi-head shark attack
33:02movies are.
33:04No, I mean, you were telling me earlier about the mecha.
33:08Mecha, mecha.
33:09Mecha shark, yeah.
33:10And that, again, it's a sequel to the one where the shark comes out of the water to eat a plane.
33:18Yeah, the one shooting the laser is a mecha, which really shows that it's in the tradition
33:25of the Godzilla movies, that Godzilla fought Mechagodzilla in one of its sequels.
33:32So it's really telegraphing and signaling that these movies are in the tradition of kaiju,
33:39giant monster movies, and that they should not be taken seriously as science.
33:45It's a genre of Japanese films and TV featuring giant monsters.
33:50And the giant monsters will often battle mechas, which are controlled by human beings,
33:57for the most part.
33:58They're not sentient robots.
34:01So the mecha shark is being used to fight the mega shark.
34:06And in the trailer, they show the mega shark is about to take down another plane.
34:11And Judy, guess what happens?
34:12I feel like there's no surprises anymore with sharks.
34:14They're just like, OK, I guess.
34:16They can do anything.
34:17They can fly.
34:18They are everywhere.
34:19They are everywhere.
34:21I guess I was thinking that it was going to be somehow in the cockpit and just slither down
34:25and be like, but like jumping out of the water, I guess, makes sense.
34:30I guess.
34:33Yeah, yeah.
34:33I was wondering this, too, about the three-headed shark.
34:36Is there one stomach?
34:36It looked like it had one body.
34:38So we're following the science.
34:40It has one body.
34:41It has one body.
34:42Yeah, that's a good point.
34:43Now, if it had been a four-headed cow, then you've got a head-to-stomach ratio.
34:50We should maybe think of contacting the science on this.
34:54Let's contact NASA about this.
34:57All right.
34:57So what else do we have?
35:00I think it's just the one clip left.
35:05Our most favorite.
35:07It's not a shark movie, but it's a movie with a shark in it.
35:13I just want to see if there's any questions before we put up this last one.
35:17I think we've covered everybody.
35:19If you want to mention any shark movies that we have forgotten about and educate me and
35:23Kevin on this, feel free to.
35:25Yeah, let us know.
35:26Let us know.
35:26I'm always on the lookout for a good shark movie or even a bad shark movie.
35:31Especially a bad shark movie, I think.
35:33Especially a bad shark movie.
35:34Especially a bad shark movie, I think.
35:37Or, you know, a bad shark.
35:41Or a great shark scene in a non-shark movie.
35:44Oh, no.
35:48Robin!
35:53Again, the full movie.
35:53I love punching shark sounds.
35:56Oh, that poor shark.
35:58He's just trying to get his.
36:00Had me doubt the shark repellent back spray.
36:08And he takes the cap off.
36:11Did he have to shake it?
36:12Oh, I hope so.
36:14Otherwise, you don't get the best part of the repellent.
36:17Well, luckily, Batman is still around.
36:20And we've yet to see Batman, you know, mess with some sharks in the new movie.
36:24So maybe this will also inspire.
36:25Because Shark Week is still a great movie.
36:28Because Shark Week is still a huge thing.
36:29It's been around since 1988.
36:31They haven't really had hosts since the late 90s.
36:34And I mean, this year, it's The Rock, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, which is like levels.
36:39You know, we are, we're getting there.
36:42But I feel like this has been so fun.
36:46I just, I can't believe there's this many genres of sharks.
36:50So many.
36:51We've barely scratched the surface.
36:53I know, like we didn't even cover the best ones.
36:56Because we've all like, yes, open water, terrifying.
36:59The shallows, I don't even.
37:01But no, I really appreciate you, Kevin.
37:04Thanks so much for educating me.
37:06Oh, it's been my pleasure.
37:07And everybody, please, I wanted to show you your home screen on this.
37:13Make sure to check out Atomic A Productions, where you can watch this wonderful,
37:19I would call it a supercut, but it's also educational.
37:22It's a nice.
37:23It's a video essay.
37:24It's maybe one of the most thorough shark movie video essays out there.
37:29Not really.
37:30A lot of media, a lot of clips.
37:33Well, thanks so much, Kevin.
37:35And, you know, keep it to Life Science, where we live, laugh, love science.
37:40Bye, guys.
37:41Bye, everybody.
37:54Bye.