Guys with huge tanks.

I mean in film, or tv. What characters in what film/show have hige tanks, what fish do they have in them, and what would you have in it?

KI'm Jong Il in Team America: World Police. He has two Nurse Sharks, whereas, I'd have 500 Bala Sharks, 300 Marbled Angelfish, 300 Altums, and 600 Koi Angelfish.

The guy in Despicable Me, with the Great White Shark (I've forgotten his name. I'd have 5000 Neon Yellow Rasboras.

 

Dr. Evil had ill tempered sea bass

 

The guy in Duece Bigalow

 

There was a Great White Shark in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

 

I think much cooler than any fictional character are the people on monster fish keepers with 5000+ gallon "tanks" in their basements.

 

I think much cooler than any fictional character are the people on monster fish keepers with 5000+ gallon "tanks" in their basements.

I saw a video of a guy with a 15,000 gallon tank.

Weehawken was on jeopardy the other day. The category was hawks.

 

I'd have a walk through tunnel type aquarium, Saltwater with some various sharks, rays, and a good mix of various fish... that would be pretty sweet, and you could charge admission when your friends come over LOL!!

 

There was a Great White Shark in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

That is one of my all time favorite movies! Ace/JI'm Carrey's face when the shark attacked was the best! I would love to have that house that the fish collector guy had, and all of those fish


There was ~200 gal Saltwater tank in Batman Dark Night, it was in that building of the Chinese company.

 

Pretty much everyone on Star Trek TNG has a salt water tank. Picard has one in his ready room, but most of the "nice quarters," for day-players also seems to have a salt water tank.

 

A game called Red Steel for the Nintendo WiI had a rather large fish tank that use had to "point" at different fish in the tank as a tutorial on how to use the pointer on the remote.

It was pretty neat.

 

crimson238 - so relieved i'm not the only Star Trek nerd here who thought of that ;D

Also, Tracy Jordan from '30 Rock' had one in his dressing room... but I guess the maienance was too much for the crew, as it became a terrarium in thhe later easons. They should have joined FL .

Also, many bond villans!

 

Storm breaker from the Alex rider novels had a man of war tank

 

Storm breaker from the Alex rider novels had a man of war tank

That was the bad guy, in Cornwall?

 

@ lea:

"Capt'n there be whales here!"

Must've been the largest tank ever!


(for those unfamiliar, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. 2x Humpback Whales... not a fish of course, in the cargo hold of space ship... pretty awesome and a Very nice Composite Shot)

 

That was the bad guy, in Cornwall?

yeah. sorry, I explained it badly...

 

Crimson - lol ;D.

That was filmed at the Georgia aquarium, which has a massive kelp forest area bordering with the sea, and it's the biggest aquarium in the world. Apparently many people showed up there afterwards and complained that there were actually no whales there!

Man - I feel such the nerd for knowing this stuff

 

Man - I feel such the nerd for knowing this stuff

 

It's s'ok, I may not know the location filmed, but I can give you all kinds of other tech specs, like lenses and filtration ect

 

Haha, i'm sure I could have a good nerdly conversation with you crimson

And stop laughing yallyall ;D

Back on topic - I recall Baz Lurmans Romeo and Juliett had a neat thin salt water tank in the scene where they meet. Very nice, bu too thin of fish to be happy imo.

@ Jaysee - lol, i'd have some sharks with frikin laser beams attached to their heads in my pool. . Just as a conversation starter of course...

 

I'm laughing because I've never even seen one episode... I think that's sadder...

 

How bout this one:

P Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney

 

From Finding Nemo. That's awesome!

 

Will Smith in Seven Pounds had a jellyfish in his hotel room in a cylindrical tank. I can't find any photos or full scene of when he sets it up.

Being inspired as a young boy. You can see part of the tank at the end. -

 

I just remembered, The Simpsons have a tank (with goldies I assume?) in their living room - but you only see it from time to time. I recall it had a HOB on it too, how nice they didnt just draw in a little fishbowl.

And in Futurama, in Universe B in the parallel dimensions episode, the Professor had a ceolocanth tank. Awesome .

 

I just remembered, The Simpsons have a tank (with goldies I assume?) in their living room - but you only see it from time to time. I recall it had a HOB on it too, how nice they didnt just draw in a little fishbowl.

And in Futurama, in Universe B in the parallel dimensions episode, the Professor had a ceolocanth tank. Awesome .

In one episode Homer forgets to turn the tap off when filling the tank with water... it gets flooded

In NCIS or bones, there is a marine fish breeder who is a murderer and in another there is a fish tank with ammonia in it and they are like "how did ammonia get in THERE"
"maybe they used windex to clean the glass"

Now I'M the nerd

 

Yallyall - rofl ;P. Nice Simpsons ref!

Oh and who could forget the talking fish in the restaurant tank in Monty Python's meaning of life?

'Hide, it's Mr Creaso!!'

And of course, A Fish Called Wanda.

 

In the children's TV show 'Fairly Odd Parents', the main character has an unfiltered bowl that has two goldfish in it. The goldfish transform into fairy/genie type things, and he has infinite wishes.

In American Dad, there is Klaus.

 

not a 100% sure on this. cause it's been a while since I've seen it. but dosen't John Travolta's chacater in Swordfish. Have fish tanks everywhere throughout his manision?

 

Troy Mclure does in the simspsons...

 

Hi, I'm Troy Mclure, you may remember me from such off the cuff references as 'Troy Mclure does in the Simpsons'

You read that in his voice, didn't you?

 

No no, in the episode where he marries Selma, it comes out he is "in love with," his fish, or something like that.

(the episode was called a fish called selma)

 

... I totally forgot all about that episoda... Think I suffer from simpson overload through the years.


Theres got to be some fishkeepers among those writers.

 

I used to like fairly odd parents... now i'm 14 lolz!

There used to be a show called my goldfish is evil... and it was about a goldfish who tries to take over the world. It is what every fish does when your asleep, right?

 

You in the business Crimson? I could tell you how the visual effects were done...

It's s'ok, I may not know the location filmed, but I can give you all kinds of other tech specs, like lenses and filtration ect

 

Scottied;
Certainly am

 

Cool - always good to have a fellow film/post geek around

Sorry for temporary thread hijack...

 

I am a huge film geek DoP for a few yrs, though sadly, slow times now in Phila.

Back to big tanks... technically not a tank, but Col. O'Neil in Stargate (tv show) had his own pond to fish in (granted with no fish)

 

Not film related... but have noticed pretty much any and every rapper I've seen on MTV cribs. Always has at least one fishtank, if not multiply tanks in each room. The one that I rember the most was Nelly's crib. He had some most impressive cichild tanks. He even made a point of showing them off and talked about how much he enijoyed having fish. Even knew they were cichilds. Which I was impressed he even knew. Although I'm sure that's as far as his knowledge of them goes and I highly doubt Nelly's peforming too many W/Cs.

 

diy guy, tht reminds me of a big fish room a gangsater had in The Wire. In one scene he had some poor kid sweating as he though he was going to take him upstairs to kill him, but instead showed him his fish and began leaving firm instructions on how to care for them when he left town .

yallyall - I am far older, but I recall that evil goldfish show in the afternoon too. It was quite cool what I saw.

It also reminds me of a South Park episode where Stan has a goldfish which he was convinced was trying to kill him. Not to mention the episodes concerning the South Park aquarium - namely the Family Guy show writing Dugongs and the killer whale the sent to the moon. So. very. funny.

 

diy guy, tht reminds me of a big fish room a gangsater had in The Wire. In one scene he had some poor kid sweating as he though he was going to take him upstairs to kill him, but instead showed him his fish and began leaving firm instructions on how to care for them when he left town .

Best show ever made - bar none. That was Weebay - and later before he leaves he says "make sure you take care of my tetras!" Not big fish, but a very big fish room. Was so funny because Weebay is the "enforcer" for the gang - and then he has this soft side where he has at least 8 good-sized tanks in his house. Good one, lea!