I must be one of the few people who liked the monster.
At last no CGI, it was a real robot fish....yehh !!!!
It felt a little more like Jaws and less like a sci Fi churned out movie.
However the one problem was, all the characters were annoying and dislikable, the only decent one who came back to save his friends.....
(well you know)
after that it was, hope they all get eaten....
A film where you cheer on the monster is not really that much fun in the end....
If they would have used CGI the movie would have been even worse. I liked the fish and the look of it, I just don't like the fact that a small fish like that could bite a big chunk of the boat and terrorize them. They should have made the fish bigger and the characters not as retarded.
shareI don't think it was supposed to be just an extra-big fish.
The fact that the pendant was protective and the things the old man and Johnny talked about make me think that it's something tribal, ancient, and definitely vengeful. When they trespassed and invaded its space, messing with its environment, it rose to the surface to set things right.
I was so pleased to see a non-CGI creature used! Hooray, Larry Fessenden, someone who never disappoints me! I'm a huge fan of old-style effects, which I grew up with in the Fifties and Sixties. Some CGI is OK, but cheap CGI usually is pitiful, with no feeling of interaction. When there's nothing there, generally you need decent enough actors to make you think there might be. The majority of actors aren't good enough to convince me they are in immediate danger or in awe of something they see. (The TV series "Primeval" is a very good example of failed responses to the dino or other creature only a few feet away.)
*** The trouble with reality is there is no background music. ***
Hooray, Larry Fessenden, someone who never disappoints me!
Also, all his movies sluggishly-paced, gloomy, and have a downbeat ending where everyone dies. And they all have bland or underdeveloped characters.
Larry's movies are so bad I think that me, a guy with no experience in movies, could make better horror movies if I had the same budget.
I liked the look of the fish, but it looks too much like a giant river cat to be too terrifying, even with all the teeth.
shareI was curious enough to watch it off of 'Chiller'; the fish to me resembles a cross between a snake head & the infamously greedy prehistoric sabertoothed tarpon: xiphactinus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiphactinus
100% agree with the OP! I like the fish was not CGI. Almost all the characters were annoying and after Johnny goes, you wish the rest will be eaten...
Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.
I must be one of the few people who liked the monster.
At last no CGI, it was a real robot fish....yehh !!!!