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Reasons why this movie is terrible

posted 16 years ago by Recoil_
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- Unconvincing characters. Almost every single line is so cheesy and embarrassing that you feel guilty for watching this. I'm looking at you, Preacher.

- Stupid characters and situations. When the big glass window starts to crack, why are those idiots still standing there? It's painfully obvious that the window is going to shatter sooner or later, yet they keep waiting 'til the very last second just for some cheap suspense. And why doesn't Dr. Susan simply pour a few drops of her blood into the water instead of jumping down, exposing her defenseless ass to an intelligent, hungry shark?

- The terrible CGI and bad use of it. Was it really necessary to make the elevator shaft CGI? They could've pulled it off by shooting a model of it, AND it would've looked more realistic. Don't even get me started on the sharks.

- The pretentious dialogue sprinkled throughout the movie. The script writer was obviously trying to create some depth by adding religious themes but it just comes off as forced and ridiculous. AGAIN - I'm looking at you, Preacher.

The only way you can enjoy this movie is if you're either drunk or like watching bad movies just for the unintentional humour.

[–] Tales-from-the-Goondocks 13 years ago

I sooo want to debunk your stupid post, but it is pretty old so I doubt you'll even notice.

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[–] wjm6292 12 years ago

as silly action packed sci-fi goes, this ranks as top notch. give it a break its not supposed to be casablanca

[–] Tales-from-the-Goondocks 12 years ago

as silly action packed sci-fi goes, this ranks as top notch. give it a break its not supposed to be casablanca

Exactly.

[–] AbesOddysee 11 years ago

Agreed, the character and action are fun to watch, it has some silly illogical scenes, but still, a fun movie.

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[–] johnnyrico-1 12 years ago

"The only way you can enjoy this movie is if you're either drunk..."

tested and myth busted. I'm wasted and I can't believe how crap this movie was. Jaw droppingly bad. Samual L Jackson's only relief was he was killed off before the end.

[–] balboa34 12 years ago

I WAS actually drunk when i first saw this movie and thought it was awesome,
i saw it the other night sober and thought it was a pile of *beep*

[–] Jeb081387 12 years ago

finally saw this movie yesturday and its bad, but not in a way that makes it unenjoyable, honestly its a pretty silly movie but you can laugh at it a lot so its ok. However the preacher character is legitimately annoying for the first half of the movie (he's not really even funny until the omelette line) and the movie doesn't do a very good job of having Thomas Jane's character show how much of a badass he is, until the final 25 min.

Is it really that hard not to be a dick on IMDB???

[–] ninji19 11 years ago

Having watched this many times in the past, with my most recent viewing (been in a shark mode as of late), the one thing I wondered was why they all went back down to level 1 after Dr Whitlock was hoisted up in the helicopter. I guess they were escaping the hurricane winds and surges (and thankfully they did cuz they very well could have died with the helicopter explosion as Brenda did). But still, why all the way down to the bottom level? Why didn't they just go to level 3 where the living quarters were? Would have at least put them where they ended up 3 quarters of the way thru the film (where they had to swim up to the surface 60 ft).

[–] nellegc 9 years ago

Having watched this many times in the past, with my most recent viewing (been in a shark mode as of late), the one thing I wondered was why they all went back down to level 1 after Dr Whitlock was hoisted up in the helicopter.

The monitors that displayed the cameras to view the helicopter as they hoisted their friend/coworker were on level 1. They were trying to watch the guy be airlifted and rescued without having to be in the storm.

"Once upon a time, there was magical place where it never rained. The End."

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[–] Marcelo-Perroni 9 years ago

It is a really, really, really bad movie!!!
Not one decent performance from one single actor!!!
The only convincing performance, was from the parrot!!
The facts are dumb, the sharks are horrible, there's a really bad actor that sounds and looks like Samuel L. Jackson, the script is horrible...
Everything is just a waste of time!!
And I'm not talking about my time...
The time people wasted doing this garbage!!
Don't they have anything better to film? Not one good script? Really??
I'm here imagining how broke those actors were at that time, to agree to such a project...
It's really pitiful...
Like said on the first post... The CGI was terrible and the lines were embarrassing.
Don't they read the script and think: "Hell, no!! I'm not doing this!!"??
Even the Tiger Shark was wrong!! Tiger Sharks don't have pointy noses. They're flat, kind like square. White Sharks are the ones with the pointy noses!!
Anyway... I just needed to say something...
The only shark movie that was worse than this one, was Shark In Venice, with Stephen Baldwin.
With the scene where the guy is attacked by a shark, you see a let sinking to the bottom, and the next scene shows the guy walking out of the hospital!!!
Bizarre!!!

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[–] Marcelo-Perroni 9 years ago

Well, thank you.... LOL
That was the idea...
But they were supposed to be Great Whites.
The thing is... Great Whites don't survive in captivity. And that's a fact!
And the shark they fed the other two with, as they said, was a Tiger Shark. But the CGI people didn't even think of Googling it. They just made a Great White with a few stripes...
I really don't get why people are not thorough when they get paid to do something, and how nobody notices!!
I would think they hired some "expert" to help with the facts in the movie.
But again, only a few people would notice the difference, so... Who really cares?
But on the Shark in Venice... The leg sinking... And the guy just walking out of the hospital a few moments later... That was the biggest one of all!!!

[–] Marcelo-Perroni 9 years ago

It even says on the Goofs: "David Franks' leg is bitten off during the first scene, but it reappears in the next scene."
It's gotta be humiliating to have people saying things like that about your movie!!
I see you like "Jaws". Did you watch the documentary about the movie?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469185/
Just watched it a few months ago. And now I just have to go to Martha's Vineyard to see all the houses, streets, harbor and beaches where the movie was made!!
There's even a "Great White Street" now!! LOL
I'm doing a trip through the US, maybe this year or next, and I'll spend a day or two there.
It will start in Florida, going all the way to the Florida Keys, then west through the southern states up to Texas, then east to Washington, then New York and north all the way to Montreal, then back to the US through Niagara Falls, and west up to Seattle, San Juan Islands, then Oregon, a few canyons, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and finally Los Angeles. All 48 states. HI and AK will be left out for some other trip.
And that's why Martha's Vineyard has to be on the itinerary...

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[–] Marcelo-Perroni 9 years ago

Yep!! I do remember the ride!!
I went when I was 11 yo, in L.A., but I had already watched the movie.
Not when it first came out, because I was too young, but a few years later.
I really loved the documentary!! Gave me a total different view of the movie.
I have it here, and I'll watch again when I get there, to see the actual places.
Did you know that a real Great White showed up in Martha's Vineyard 30 years later? Into the exact place where the movie was shot!! Amazing!!
It's all on YouTube.
And about the CGI sharks on the movie, they don't look like Mako Sharks, which are much smaller, with thinner and longer noses and don't have that much white on the lower part of the body.
The CGI team did a pretty bad job... LOL

[–] Marcelo-Perroni 9 years ago

Here's the only video I could find. But I saw a better one on YT before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciex9xbXZXk

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[–] Marcelo-Perroni 9 years ago

You could probably find it on YT. Just type "great white martha's vineyard" on the search.
It was just swimming around that pond for a while. Sengekontacket Pond.
People filmed and observed from the boats until it got back out the same way it went in.
It's funny, because it was the first time a Great White actually went into such a small area, through such a small opening. It's just a small passage under a bridge.
And it went right where Jaws was filmed!!
These sharks prefer open sea, and deep waters.
You can find the exact place on Google Earth at: 41°24'58.09"N 70°32'55.67"W
I'm not an expert on sharks either, but I've always been fascinated with the ocean, I collected Cousteau encyclopedias and books and I was a member of the Cousteau Society for a while.
I always loved aquariums. Went to Seaquarium, Sea World, and when I lived in Paris, I went to the Monaco Oceanographic Museum, cared for by Jacques Cousteau at the time.
People asked me how many times I had been there before. But, even though it was my first time, I read so much about the museum on the Cousteau books, and some other books my mom bought for me years before when she went there, that I knew details of every room, every exposition... LOL
This trip through the US is going to include many dives. Caves, shipwrecks, a few Florida Springs, etc...
You live in FL. Do you dive? Ever been to any of the springs? There are great cave dives in many of them!

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[–] Marcelo-Perroni 9 years ago

I've been diving since I was 9 or 10.
Here in Rio de Janeiro, there are a few places to dive. And there are other towns famous for the clear waters and beaches, like Buzios and Angra dos Reis.
You can see the pics on Google.
I went countless times to both. A few friends have houses in Angra and my famly had in Buzios. So, lots of fun on weekends.
Also, I went diving in the Bahamas and Acapulco. I lived in L.A. for years, and I wanted to dive the Catalina Island, but my friends there didn't like diving.
I have a few wrecks on this trip to the US. There's a German and a Japanese sub from WW2, a few older ships and many caves.
I can show you the wrecks.
We're using this forum here to talk, and not to discuss the movie!! LOL
Go to the group on Facebook where I'll post the pics for the trip:
https://www.facebook.com/mmustour
I didn't show it to many people yet, so, there's only a couple of friends so far.
I'll let everybody know by the time I leave.

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[–] satyr_child 9 years ago

There were a few awful CGI moments, mainly the wide angle view of the sharks attacking and swimming. The practical effects sharks were good... much better than Jaws, which they should be for being decades later.

The characters definitely sucked.... partly because the actors suck. LL Cool J and Michael Rappaport being the worst. If those two characters were omitted or replaced it might have upped the game a little.

The parrot was stupid.

[–] cifra2-518-82944 9 years ago

Maybe just for 1 reason...

1) You weren't IN THE JOKE. The film never pretends to be more than a B-Movie. Chills and thrills, nothing else. The scientific excuse, the odd situation of a cat and mouse game... the key escene in the film, is the big exit of Sam L. Jackson, completely used for a huge thrill, wtf moment...

The movie is in the line of Fred Dekker's "Night of the Creeps", Chuck Russell's "The Blob", Ron Underwood's "Tremors", James Gunn's "Slither" and so on.

People taking DBS too seriously, is why the movie scores a poor 5,8, when it's deserving a 7 at least.

[–] pater-tenebrarum 8 years ago

Correct on all counts!