Awful Movie, Just Awful! (Includes SPOILERS)

lol this movie was made like 20 years ago, before the time of internet, so there was virtually no way to corroborate any information that may of been wrong, unless you were willing to shell out $$ to randomly call specialists through schools, accredited research facilities, etc.

Even then, one would probably not know how to do so, and banking that hollywood in 1989 was willing to shell out extra money when they could just trust this one " expert, " is a tad bit ignorant.

At around this same time, *beep* like teenage mutant ninja turtles, robocop, etc.
were just coming out.

Everything about the 80s was awful.

Why the hell was there dumping of radioactive materials so closed to a city in TMNT? Or why did seal a virus that turned the undead into zombies that ate brains in " return of the living dead ", and sent them all over the freakin place so this thing could get out? And the contingency plan is to blow up the compound and everything infected?

What it all boils down to is that was this movie entertaining? I gotta say, even though it had *beep* effects, pretty inaccurate depictions on the outcome of situations (like the whole decompression bit), it is way better than the yucky movies thats coming out nowadays.

King Kobra vs Komodo!

Mega shark vs giant squid!

Are you kidding me? Hell, i even saw megladon I, II, and III. At least this movie had snags like the unability to get info without paying out the ass, what were these movies excuses?

I think i'll watch leviathan anyday compared to todays *beep* horrors. What was the last good horror flick in the last 2 years? If you say paranormal activities, then I cry for you, my friend.

I just watched it again for the first time in years, and the monster rising at the end was entirely plausible, decompression issues aside...I had been wondering throughout almost the entire movie why the crew would think they could get rid of it just by flushing it out into the ocean. If it was some genetic merger of human and fish, then it shouldn't drown, and it would presumably start absorbing all the sealife around and becoming some enormous mutated thing - which it did, and rose to the surface at the end, although being blown up, all the bits and pieces would have survived, and start all over again, etc., etc., ad nauseum. Anyway it was fun, including the few little homages to Alien (but not Aliens).

Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.

I agree with everything except a few small points. This was the personal logic I developed throughout the film, and not to be taken as true fact about whatever the filmakers logic might have been. That said.

1. I assumed the doctor told them to dtrip down for examination. Amanda Pays was being modest, while Bowman assumed that order to mean all clothes off. Just different interpretations by the two different women.

2.Agree with you about the air tubes.

3.agreed about the alarm, where did the extraminutes come from? Editing error maybe?

4. Once again. Interpretation. Mayber Willy is more comfortable inside the suit without clothing bulk. Or maybe the producers wanted some ass on screen.

5. There is a statement made about how each person is dealing with the deaths of their friends. Dejesus is building a puzzle and thinking about hte ski slopes, Willy jogs, etc... Realization hadn't fully sunk in yet.

6.Agreed, the sharks were pointless.

7. This was a conclusion I came to only after my latest veiwing of the movie. There were two monsters. The one that was crushed and imploded inside the base was the mutation of Dejesus, the doctor, and the bald guy with the scratches on his chest; and the one that surfaced at the end was the six-pack/bowman hybrid that they flushed out to sea earlier in the film.

8. I think after decompression was complete, they optioned to explode out of the suits for the last hundred feet due to the weight of the suits being cumbersome on the ocean surface. And I think they had mini breathers on after they exited the suits.

Once again, not meant to bash anyone, but just some personal logic. I wouldn't call this movie the worst out there, but certainly was inconsistent and largely cheesy.

No offense but you're an uptight moron. It's a monster movie. It's an Alien rip-off and the key is execution which it does pretty damn well. Who gives a *beep* about trivial details. It's a monster movie!

If you thought this was the stupidest, silliest things ever made then you don't get out much.

So, it didn't bother you that in some of the supposed "underwater" scenes, there are no bubbles coming out of their suits? Yeah, they're using ahem - rebreathers - so no bubbles. Also known as, our budget is too low to shoot all this underwater photography so we won't have bubbles, hey screenwriter, you need to fix this with a plotpoint.

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"This movie is easily one of the stupidest, silliest things ever made. Awful! But Amanda Pays was smoking hot, so I give it that much."--RhodyDave



Your last two sentences say it all. The movie was dumb and Amanda Pays was one hot chick in her prime!






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Oh, you shouldn't take a film like Leviathan too seriously. It's clearly an exploitation B-movie that has the single objective of making some cash out of a story that essentially rips off films like The Thing and Alien. I watched it in the theater when I was a kid and remember having a good time. Watched it again a couple of years ago and thought it wasn't really good but, as I'm a fan of underwater adventures, I still enjoyed it (as a B-movie, of course). I think there's room in the science-fiction/horror genre for great works of art like The Thing and cheap fun flicks like Leviathan.

And the Jerry Goldsmith score is fantastic!