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The Meg

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After being stuck in 'development hell' for many years, this long-mooted 'monster shark' project has finally surfaced...and I'm hopeful that it'll be a decent bit of big dumb fun overall.

I've never read the original source material for this, so have no expectations...but I'm aware of the novel's opening prologue scene, and am hopeful it will be included -

A Tyrannosaurus Rex chases a meal down to the shoreline millions of years ago, and is itself attacked by a huge Meg. :)

Anyway, here's the trailers for it for anyone who haven't seen them yet -

THE MEG trailer - 


THE MEG 'international' trailer -

 
Jason Statham = *shudders*

"Hey guys, how about we remake Jaws... only we make the shark bigger?"

 
lol, wow. CHOMP...

How are we still throwing this much money at movies this dumb?

It looks very similar to the masterpiece of Deep Blue Sea.
 
This won't get me onto a movie seat. But I know I'll buy the blu-ray when it hits $5.
 
I hope they don't actually make the shark that big.
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The size already looks pretty inconsistent in the trailer.
 
It looks fun in a "big-budget version of a SyFy movie" sort of way. Jason Statham is slightly odd casting as the lead, though. He comes across as a bit too serious for something this goofy. It's the kind of role that would usually go to someone more humorous, like Dwayne Johnson.
 
WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BITE...

It looks as if the tone of this thing was substantially altered for the final edit, and the interview with Statham seems to indicate he thought it was headed a different way too -

http://www.darkhorizons.com/initial-cut-of-the-meg-was-very-r-rated/

http://www.darkhorizons.com/the-meg-heads-for-a-soft-20m-opening/

Interview - http://collider.com/jason-statham-interview-the-meg-hobbs-and-shaw/#dwayne-johnson

Okay, so my wife happens to be a big Jason Statham fan (I know, go figure!  :rolleyes: ), and we have younger members of the family who happen to be right into the whole 'shark' thing at the moment, so it's a no-brainer for me to take them along to the big screen for this.  However, I'm now gonna have to forget about this 'deleted' info. to try and get the best out of the movie during my viewing.  But if I end up liking it, I'm hoping that some of these finished non-PG-13 moments will at least be included in the 'extras' of the home release, to allow a harder-edged version to be knocked up eventually.
 
i trust statham deploys his martial arts skills against the creature.
 
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