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Post by janntosh on Jul 28, 2024 21:29:25 GMT
a fun shark action thriller movie and a superior creature feature. It actually upends a few genre conventions especially when it comes to who you think will live and die. Saffron Burrows also gets undressed to her underwear in one scene so that automatically makes it a 5/10 but luckily the rest of the movie is pretty good as well. The CGI sharks unfortunately look terrible, but the animatronic ones look pretty good. Thomas Jane is also underrated as an action star. Fun fact. The original ending had LL Cool J dying and Saffron Burrows helping Thomas Jane kills the shark and then embracing. Test audiences however, hated the Saffron Burrows character to the point where some were screaming "Die Bitch!". So they reshot the ending to have LL Cool J survive and have Saffron Burrows get munched on.  |
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Post by ck100 on Jul 28, 2024 21:49:01 GMT
I just remember Samuel L. Jackson appearing in it and having a scene with a bad CGI shark.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jul 28, 2024 22:09:55 GMT
I just remember Samuel L. Jackson appearing in it and having a scene with a bad CGI shark. THEY ATE ME, A FUCKING SHARK ATE ME! The OTT, unexpected deaths are definitely what keeps this movie's head above the water. |
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 30, 2024 6:08:04 GMT
7/10 Best Shark movie I seen after Jaws.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 30, 2024 7:18:08 GMT
"You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man. You've seen how bad things can get and how quick they can get that way.
Well, they can get a whole lot worse. So we're not going to fight anymore! We're going to pull together and find a way to get out of here! First, we're going to seal off this pool!"
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Jul 31, 2024 8:58:27 GMT
Fun fact. The original ending had LL Cool J dying and Saffron Burrows helping Thomas Jane kills the shark and then embracing. Test audiences however, hated the Saffron Burrows character to the point where some were screaming "Die Bitch!". So they reshot the ending to have LL Cool J survive and have Saffron Burrows get munched on. I bet it was because LL Cool J, in the throes of a decade's worth of concentrated gangsta ego, flat out told the producers that he wanted to live at the end. His confidence must have been bolstered by the fact that Ice Cube had survived in Anaconda recently. The reason that you wrote must have been studio-funded eyewash. |
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on Jul 31, 2024 20:49:19 GMT
There was a rumor circulating online for a number of years that the screenwriters originally pitched the film to Universal as a fifth Jaws installment, but when they turned them down they did a rewrite and pitched it elsewhere. Probably isn't true, but certainly an interesting possibility.
But anyway, the movie doesn't do a whole lot for me. There are some pretty exciting sequences, and the animatronics look excellent, but a lot of what propels the action is the unintelligent decisions made by its characters...No protective barrier around the shark as the doctors operate...Stellan Skarsgard just waltzing up to a shark very up close, lights one, up and blows smoke in its face...Samuel L. Jackson giving his speech close to water...I guess you just have to accept the fact that the people in the movie are smart enough to increase the intelligence of man-eating fish, but not smart enough to avoid danger. It's common in a lot of horror movies, so not an atypical situation.
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