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Post by WarrenPeace on Jan 19, 2019 7:29:20 GMT
And of course it gives the hero a chance when it holds it in it's grip where it didn't give anyone else a chance.
Other than that, good movie.
I wanna know what happens to them next on the island.
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Post by biker1 on Jan 19, 2019 8:52:39 GMT
not bad - an early CGI monster movie, one of the better of it's type, with some scary & gory moments.
Some of the characters are moronic, but thankfully they begin to die off pretty early in the piece. Treat provides humor..Famke Janssen, the sex appeal.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 19, 2019 15:32:57 GMT
It’s on Roger Ebert’s “most hated films” list. Essentially he lambasted it for being an “Alien” rehash. Well, Roger, so was “The Relic” but you enjoyed that didn’t you?
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Post by biker1 on Jan 19, 2019 18:38:19 GMT
re. Ebert^
that alien rehash complaint is a bit pointless anyway. Alien wasn't exactly a first, and a bunch of people being stalked by a monster is a genre staple, used numerous times since the thing of the early 1950s. I'd also suggest that deep rising is miles better than a sorry ass the relic.
John Carpenter's the thing was dismissed by various critics for the same reason - and look at it's reputation now. I don't mind a rehash - as long as it's done well, in view of genre and it's familiar narrative conventions. (there was one on tv last night called the pyramid (2014) - pretty average though).
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Post by WarrenPeace on Jan 19, 2019 18:51:56 GMT
It’s on Roger Ebert’s “most hated films” list. Essentially he lambasted it for being an “Alien” rehash. Well, Roger, so was “The Relic” but you enjoyed that didn’t you? Roger Ebert was a stuck up film snob. I never pay attention to critics reviews anyway. It's what YOU like that matters. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 19, 2019 20:05:36 GMT
I liked it. Have it on dvd.
The cgi was fake ridiculous at times but at least they had fun with it like the jet ski chase and the
"don't say I never gave you nothing" scene where Kevin O'Connor gives Wes Studi the gun to shoot himself and he shoots at him instead.
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Post by wmcclain on Oct 2, 2021 19:56:35 GMT
Deep Rising (1998), written and directed by Stephen Sommers. In a remarkable set of coincidences one stormy night in the South China Sea: - A slinky femme fatale thief is caught pilfering the luxury ship's safe...
- ...about the time the ship is disabled by nefarious plotters...
- ...and a no-questions-asked boat crew is bringing hard case mercenaries to the area...
- ...when they crash into another drifting boat and are nearly wrecked...
- ...just as a monstrous deep sea creature rises up and decides to snack on luxury ship passengers.
A night to remember! Nine years after a burst of deep sea creature-features -- DeepStar Six (1989), Leviathan (1989), The Abyss (1989) -- we have another entry in the genre. It's set on the surface but fits especially well with the first two films. The emphasis is less on horror this time and more on action/adventure. Pure "horror" suggests the nightmare of getting into situations that cannot be handled. Not in this case: our three favorite characters are handling both human and marine monsters with wit, clever repartee and abundant gunfire. We have high confidence they will survive. Treat Williams and Famke Janssen instantly strike sparks in a meet-cute monster survival setting. Love at first sight, trust a little later. Lover-not-a-fighter Kevin J. O'Connor provides extra comic commentary. He has a girlfriend -- Korean actress Una Damon -- who I wish had lasted longer. We love to hate ship owner Anthony Heald. We are also not fond the the mercenaries because they are cruel to our heroes. All are monster food in the end: Wes Studi, Jason Flemyng, Cliff Curtis, Djimon Hounsou. We always like it when tough guys meet something worse. We never get attached to the rich gambling tourists on the luxury liner. Just as well. Maybe we like thief Janssen better because she is stealing from them, as well as being sharp and pretty. You won't believe it, but we have a countdown race against a missile warhead detonation. How do the writers come up with this stuff? Director Sommers -- The Mummy (1999) -- tends to overdo everything. He boasts about it. I think we eventually have enough of muscular tentacles charging down corridors, and when our favorite couple are fleeing on a jet-ski down flooded passages, firing a shotgun, we are ready to be done. Harrison Ford turned down the lead, which I think was wise. This is way too overblown for him, which is saying something given some of the other action films he has been in. Jerry Goldsmith score, returning from Leviathan (1989) and dozens of others. My thumbnails are from the Mill Creek Blu-ray, a double feature with The Puppet Masters (1994). Kino also has a Blu-ray but I have not seen it. 
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Oct 2, 2021 19:59:36 GMT
I agree, DR is a great monster B-movie. It's just relentless.
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Post by Marv on Oct 2, 2021 20:26:38 GMT
Great might be overselling but it’s certainly not bad.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Oct 2, 2021 20:30:36 GMT
Who doesn't like Treat Williams and Famke Janssen?
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