Sharks

Preston found a movie on Netflix and instantly decided that we must see it. We knew it was going to be bad, but we had no idea just how awesomely bad it would be! "Sharks in Venice", with that title, you cannot go wrong, right? It starred Steven Baldwin, here is the official plot synopsis from IMDB:

" The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David's girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the Mafia assassins and survive the voracious sharks laying in wait beneath the surface, or will he succumb to the same fate as his father? "

About 80% of the movie was thrown together using stock footage from National Geographic or PBS/ NOVA shots, and a collection of tourist videos for Venice. We are pretty sure that the acting shots were taken on one shot, as Preston commented " I can't imagine that they acted that out several times and decided 'yeah, that was a good take'". It was fun trying to find all of the special scenes and mistakes, like films out of sequence, showing him getting bit by the shark, then climbing a rock wall, wondering how there is a dry tomb underneath Venice, the fact that the shots with the actors on the canal were actually blue screened, and they only had 5 seconds of footage on the canal so the same people keep movie past them. (a man with his 2 sons happy and looking in the same direction the shark fin keeps appearing.) One of our favorite parts was watching the divers having conversations with air tubes in their mouths. I totally recommend watching this movie, but not alone, the more the merrier. I think we will be watching it again real soon with our friends. Preston is convinced that they did not make the movie until we put it into our netflix Que. There was a short wait on it, so it only adds to his suspicion. He thinks it was a joke/ dare and when we actually wanted to watch it, they were like "oh crap, we better hurry up and throw something together." The police captain's name is "Captain Bonasera", which I love because it is lame, and totally spelled wrong. I am convinced that I know more Italian than the writers. "good night Senioriella". Love it. As a warning, it does drop the "F" bomb at the end a few times. However it is said by Bulgarians trying to pull off and Italian accent. I could go on all day about this movie, but will stop here.

The scariest part, was I was looking at pictures of Preston and I when we were in Venice and I hadn't noticed this before. Maybe there is some truth to this movie. It is scary just how close we were to danger.