Comments on: Meg Madness Mounts: Now The Video

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:03:07 +0000

I remember watching this on a documemtary on, I think, Discovery Channel a couple of years ago. A gray whale had been found dead and was towed out to a spot in the Pacific where it was filmed and studied over the course of two years or so, and different communities of scavengers moved in to feed on it. As one food source such as blubber or muscle tissue was exploited and then depleted, the group of scavengers that fed on that left, to be followed by another group that fed exclusively on other parts of the whale.

I know they said which shark species it was that fed on the whale. I believe that they were mainly sleeper sharks but I don’t recall offhand which species they were. There were also swarms of hagfish burrowing into the carcass, and then worms that live only in burrows in whalebone finally colonized the skeleton.

By: LiberalDem

LiberalDem — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:15:00 +0000

You know, maybe the reason the movie “Jaws” failed to really scare me was that it involved a shark, who lived in the ocean, while I live in Ohio, and have absolutely no intention of EVER putting my foot in the ocean – so, while I enjoyed the movie, it was largely a case of “So what? It poses no danger to ME.”

A movie, in order to REALLY scare you, has to generate a plausible fear that “This could happen to me, if I’m not careful” and shark movies never did that for me, since I’m not a water person.

By: J.Vac

J.Vac — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:51:26 +0000

I regret to inform everyone that my experiment of having my grandma put a plate of pancakes at the bottom of my swimming pool was unable to produce good footage of the local megalodon being reported in my neighborhood…. Sorry, just trying to get all this garbage out of the way now. You know its only a matter of time. :-p

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:21:41 +0000

I’m not doubting you, Sordes. I’m just saying what they say in the video! So it seems to me if that is the case, then the producers of this video are either deliberately misleading the viewers, or the TV show that this appeared on is doing it.

By: Sordes

Sordes — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:01:17 +0000

The other sharks are doubtless spiny dogfish and they rarely exceed lengths of over one metre. In fact the are in general smaller, some species are even smaller than a half metre on average. The chimera in the video is surely also not bigger than one metre.

So if they small ones were about 1m, this sleeper shark war perhaps somewhere between 5 and 7m.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:22:44 +0000

I don’t know how big they really are, but they say that those small sharks are 2 meters and that the big one is at least 10 meters long, too big to fit onto the camera, and it is a “mystery animal”. It’s all very sensationalist the way they talk about it.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:18:48 +0000

Well, Sordes, that’s how big they say the smaller ones are!

By: ShefZ28

ShefZ28 — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:00:54 +0000

Nothing can compare to Jaws.

The last shark movie I remember seeing was Deep Blue Sea (I think thats the name with Sam Jackson and LL Cool J). It wasn’t a great movie, but was fun to watch and served its purpose.

I cant wait for “Megalodons on a Plane” that would be entertinment at its greatest.

By: Jason P.

Jason P. — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:09:57 +0000

For what it’s worth, MEG has been ‘close’ to being made countless times since the book was first optioned back in 1997. It’s had countless producers associated with it at one time or another. I’d love to see it onscreen, but I’ll believe it when I see it…

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:01:20 +0000

Speed 2 was a commercial success as it made $164,508,066 (US) worldwide, far above the production budget of $110 million. No matter what anyone thinks of any of the movies noted, all have been successes for Jan de Bont. For Meg to obtain him as the director is seen as a coup within the motion picture industry.