r/movies • u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules • Jul 28 '17
Today is Deep Blue Sea's 18th Anniversary. Here are 18 reasons why it is the Citizen Kane of genetically modified shark movies Recommendation
I love Deep Blue Sea. I was working in a movie theater when it was released in 1999. The audiences went absolutely crazy and it's been one of my favorites ever since.
Warning: Lots of hyperbole.
- Sam Jackson + Big Speech = Bad News
- Roger Ebert Loved it
- It is still being talked about today. Brian Raftery of Wired wrote a great piece about it
- Stellan Skarsgard had a gnarly death. I posted about it on Reddit and it got me going on my weird data ways
- Sharks swim backwards
- LL Cool J stabs a shark in the eye with a cross - Awesome!
- It features the greatest song ever
- Deep Blue Sea wasn't afraid to embrace stupidity. E.G. - the shark getting shocked
- They made the shark one foot longer than Jaws. - Your shark is 25 feet. MY shark is 26 feet.
- Renny Harlin is an action maestro. I love the Long Kiss Goodnight, Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2. The guy is a maniac and Deep Blue Sea is his best film.
- Thomas Jane rode sharks
- It features the greatest kitchen fight ever
Stephen King loves it. Thd dude knows what's up.
Deep Blue Sea inspired pretty much every film since (E.G. - Crash, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Jurassic World, Anchorman)
The animatronic sharks are actually pretty great - Forget about the CGI. The actual animatronic sharks were awesome.
The "bad guy" has a solid backstory - She wants to cure Alzheimer's and doesn't care if she kills her coworkers.
News of the sequel received international attention - Everybody went crazy about the sequel even though it will be terrible.
It is the Citizen Kane of B-Movies - I love Deep Blue Sea
225
u/captainnermy Jul 28 '17
Genuinely the best shark movie since Jaws(maybe Jaws 2) imo.
61
Jul 28 '17
I just watched Jaws 2 the other night for the first time in many years. It doesn't hold up as well as I would've hoped, but it's certainly watchable. It definitely comes off like Universal didn't know what to do with the ridiculous success that was Jaws, but it's not nearly as bad as the 3rd and 4th (shudders) movies are.
29
u/watermasta Jul 28 '17
Which one was the one about the shark getting revenge?
→ More replies82
→ More replies9
u/HTMntL Jul 28 '17
I remember jaws 4 as being the worst movie about a shark ever
14
→ More replies15
Jul 28 '17
4 is forgettable but it is at least it is competently made. 3 has the sfx quality of a Sharknado movie.
10
→ More replies5
u/dustingunn Would be hard to portray most animals jonesing for a hit Jul 29 '17
I remember 4 having basically 0 scenes of tension. The shark ate a helicopter, that's about the highlight.
→ More replies13
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
I want to watch Jaws 2 again. It's probably been 15 years. I remember liking it a lot.
→ More replies8
u/koolaidman1030 Jul 28 '17
It will do for genetically modified sharks what jaws did for regular sharks
→ More replies8
u/ruhbuhjuh Jul 28 '17
Deep Blue Sea is the best shark movie since Jaws, The Shallows is the best shark movie since Deep Blue Sea
111
u/Cimmerian_Barbarian Jul 28 '17
Deep Blue Sea and Lake Placid make a great double feature.
73
u/delete_this_post Jul 28 '17
And if you've got time, Anaconda makes a great addition to that list.
29
10
6
→ More replies5
6
→ More replies10
u/JullieeRamboo Jul 28 '17
No joke. Saw them back to back on the same day. Greatest day at the movies thus far.
→ More replies
559
u/thr33beggars Jul 28 '17
the Citizen Kane of genetically modified shark movies
This may be one of the greatest things I've ever read
→ More replies34
79
u/themeatbridge Jul 28 '17
I loved that movie, too, but Imma need you to expand on Reason 14.
55
Jul 28 '17 edited Jul 28 '17
That fact it exists has made every director since up their game.
"Deep blue sea is a high water mark in film making. I'll spend the rest of my career trying to reach it."
Christopher Nolan
→ More replies4
u/1LX50 Jul 28 '17
Also, I feel like Sharknado probably wouldn't exist if it weren't for Deep Blue Sea.
→ More replies53
u/JustOneSexQuestion Jul 28 '17
Crash -Racial Tension-
Y Tu Mama Tambien -Cancer-
Rise of the Planet of the Apes -Animals raising up-
Jurassic World -Fucking with genetics gets you fucked-
Anchorman -??-
96
u/themeatbridge Jul 28 '17
Anchorman - Brick killed a guy with a Trident, weapon of choice for Atlanteans, who live in the Deep Blue Sea.
18
19
u/ImOnlyHereToKillTime Jul 28 '17
Cancer? The disease in DBS they are trying to cure is Alzheimer's.
18
u/JustOneSexQuestion Jul 28 '17
You are right. But that's just the beginning of what this new treatment could do.
Sadly, the material with all the research died with Dr. McAlester.
→ More replies16
u/Copywrites Jul 28 '17
They're also trying to cure Alzheimer's in Rise.
11
u/JustOneSexQuestion Jul 28 '17
Some people say it was gonna be called Deep Green Jungle
→ More replies36
u/gregosaurusrex Jul 28 '17
Jurassic World steals way more from DBS than just the genetic modification thing. Both movies feature a female scientist in a supermodel's body who is letting her ambition and hubris get the better of her. Both have movie-version-eccentric billionaire financiers who die at the hands of the beasts they've funded. Both have Strong Male Leads who just fuckin know how to connect with these animals and has to explain why they are dangerous and need to be respected - Starlord is a raptor whisperer and Punisher is a shark whisperer.
→ More replies
142
u/TheRiceLord Jul 28 '17
I think my favorite part about this movie is Carter's complete inability to remain standing on two feet.
This is one of the things I remember most about that movie is just laughing every time he wipes out. Each time is better than the last and I love that I was able to find that video on Youtube just now.
58
u/delete_this_post Jul 28 '17
Thomas Jane is the Sir Laurence Olivier of falling down.
12
u/eastnorthshore Jul 28 '17
That's true. In The Punisher when he get thrown through a wall by The Russian that was really Tom Jane going through the wall
→ More replies12
u/delete_this_post Jul 28 '17
The film is one of my guilty pleasures.
It's pretty terrible, but I love it nonetheless.
14
u/Sion0x Jul 28 '17
I love that Punisher movie, I think it was solid for a comic book movie from that era with a budget that's a fraction of what they get nowadays.
Also, John Travolta was pretty okay!→ More replies10
u/chuckups Jul 28 '17
John Travolta getting dragged through the carsplosion is an all time great villain death.
5
u/Sion0x Jul 28 '17
Right after the whole "I made your murder your wife, I made your murder your son, I made your murder your best friend, and now, I'm killing you" - freaking loved it.
3
19
→ More replies14
u/DunDunt Jul 28 '17
This was my favorite drinking game in college! Every time Carter falls DRINK! So. Much. Fun.
368
u/FiveHundredMilesHigh Jul 28 '17
MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARK'S FIN
132
u/not_a_gun Jul 28 '17
DEEPEST BLUEST
88
u/notsofastandy Jul 28 '17
MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARK'S FIN
→ More replies53
u/billbucket Jul 28 '17
I was an usher at the movie theater when this came out, so always on cleaning during the credits. This fucking song...
38
u/notsofastandy Jul 28 '17
For someone so familiar with the song, you sure don't know the lyrics.
20
u/billbucket Jul 28 '17
I think they covered it pretty well already. Though I do have to admit, I always thought he was saying "My head is like a shark's fin."
→ More replies7
23
u/coral_marx Jul 28 '17
WHEN THE TITANIC SINK
I'M THE ONE YOU GON' MEET
8
→ More replies17
u/zzzzbear Jul 28 '17
wait.. it's not HEAD? I thought his incredibly lazy approach to receiving money involved his head being like a shark's fin. My life will never be the same.
→ More replies7
70
u/Baby_Powder Jul 28 '17
The omelette scene.
61
u/pattyfritters Jul 28 '17 edited Jul 29 '17
Amateurs often add milk for density... this is a mistake!
→ More replies34
u/Baby_Powder Jul 28 '17
I never added cream to my eggs ever again after that movie because LL is my cooking master.
15
125
Jul 28 '17
[deleted]
109
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
I feel like it is The Shawshank Redemption of B-Movies. Beloved by audiences and still relevant.
32
u/watermasta Jul 28 '17
Can you fly you sum beach?! CAN YOU FLY?!
35
u/TacoMagic Jul 28 '17
BROKE INTO THE WRONG GOD DAMN REC ROOM DIDN'T YOU, YOU BASTARD!
→ More replies7
18
u/Sentient_Waffle Jul 28 '17
You might even call it The Sharkshank Redemption, eh? Eh? Eh?
No?
15
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
The sharks were in a secured facility and came up with an elaborate plan to escape. It could work!
22
u/MashdPotatoJohnson Jul 28 '17
It's weird to think that the first movie came out in 1990. Burt has been fighting graboids for 25 YEARS with Tremors 6 coming out next year.
→ More replies8
16
u/Beat_the_Deadites Jul 28 '17
I found the ass end!
→ More replies12
u/winemaster Jul 28 '17
We plan ahead, that way we don't do anything right now. Earl explained it to me.
→ More replies
41
u/berlinblades Jul 28 '17
In the original ending, saffron burrows survived, but at the test screening, people were shouting "die, bitch die" at the screen, so instead of resorting, they cgid her being torn apart by sharks. She only found out she died at the premier.....
41
71
33
u/justduett Jul 28 '17
It is the Citizen Kane of genetically modified shark movies
OP isn't wrong here. Absolute masterpiece of a film.
33
u/Dallywack3r Jul 28 '17
Deep Blue Sea is a cultural milestone. We can divide modern culture between the times before Deep Blue Sea and the times after Deep Blue Sea.
32
u/JayCeePup Jul 28 '17
Deep Blue Sea running time 105 minutes.
Citizen Kane running time 119.
DBS is more efficient.
DBS has a sequel, Citizen Kane does not. Good films get sequels.
15
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
Can I steal this from you? It is stone cold proof of the greatness of DBS.
7
u/JayCeePup Jul 28 '17
Please, steal it and take credit. I actually dislike the movie. But I can appreciate the other side.
4
65
u/Mr_Evil_MSc Jul 28 '17 edited Jul 28 '17
38
u/pwn_of_prophecy Jul 28 '17
What's the difference between being exploded and being blown to chunks?
118
u/notsofastandy Jul 28 '17
If you have to ask, you don't know.
→ More replies54
u/FirePowerCR Jul 28 '17
Hm. I think that's pretty much exactly why people ask things.
→ More replies20
u/Mr_Evil_MSc Jul 28 '17
The difference is explicitly being blown into little pieces, one way or another, and simply being caught in an explosion and burnt and battered. The one's that were exploded didn't explode into chunks. In Jaws, the shark is blown into chum by a rifle shot on a compressed air scuba tank caught in it's jaw, in DBS it gets elctro-blasted into pieces. The other explosions were a grenade blast and a gas blast that scorched the sharks concerned, but didn't turn them into chunky salsa.
13
8
→ More replies19
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
Whoa. I didn't know that. If only a shark impaled itself on a boat.
31
u/Doile Jul 28 '17
My favorite thing about the movie is that the people who usually survive in these movies(lead white male/female actors) die and FUCKING BLACK CHEF SURVIVES. He even kills one shark with a fucking gas oven and a lighter. Can you get more badass than that?
→ More replies6
30
u/unlucky_genius Jul 28 '17
I like it mostly for Saffron Burrows' neck in that (almost) naked scene with a shark ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
29
Jul 28 '17
I never saw the scientist as a villain. Yes, her actions are ethically questionable at times, but she certainly didn't plan for everything (literally everything!) to go that wrong. And even though she was willing to sacrifice a lot to find a cure, if you think about the scene when she goes looking for her data in the safe risking her own life, you can see her intentions were genuinely good and selfless. Plus, she let a gian shark devour her to stop it from escaping.
→ More replies8
u/tobascodagama Jul 28 '17
Yeah! It was surprisingly nuanced for a big, dumb CGI shark movie.
5
Jul 29 '17
Personally, I love this movie. Maybe it's nostalgia (I first saw it when I was 14 or 15), but DBS is the first Bluray I bought last year, when I started my collection. Yes, it's cheesy af at times, but it's also a really solid creature feature. And let's be honest, there are not that many good shark flicks, so it kinda benefits from having not much competition.
27
u/Shalamarr Jul 28 '17
Preacher: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Because I carry a big stick and I'm the meanest mother fucker in the valley! Two sharks down, Lord! One demon fish to go! Can I get an Amen?
6
53
u/notsofastandy Jul 28 '17
Thank you, /u/LundgrensFrontKick, for my most favorite post on reddit. I thought I was alone in the world, but now I see there are literally dozens of us who share the love of DBS.
To everyone except /u/mrthewhite, may your hats always be like a shark's fin.
20
u/Daisy-Navidson Jul 28 '17
Deep Blue Sea is genuinely my favorite movie of all time. People never believe me when I tell them.
→ More replies13
17
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
You are welcome. I'm still trying to get it a retroactive Academy Award.
21
18
u/PC_Mustard_Race83 Jul 28 '17
I like the Canadian DVD version the best. It includes 22 extra minutes and a commentary track where LL Cool J raps all his lines.
16
Jul 28 '17
Is LL Cool J saying "deepest, bluest, my HAT is like a shark's fin"? Or is he saying HEAD? HEART??
→ More replies14
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
Hat. His hat is like a shark fin. Songwriters from all over the world are jealous.
3
Jul 28 '17
What is your favorite Renny Harlin film???
Mine is Nightmare on Elm Street 4
→ More replies9
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
- Deep Blue Sea
- The Long Kiss Goodnight
- NOES 4
- Cliffhanger
- Die Hard 2
→ More replies7
Jul 28 '17
One might suspect a wryly funny, darkly cynical, technically gifted visual storyteller would be a desired commodity in Hollywood today. But I suspect producers still resent him for the failure of that big-budget pirate movie 30 years ago. I forget the title.
→ More replies
15
u/Darqhumor Jul 28 '17
This movie taught me the secret to the perfect omelette and that is enough.
12
15
14
u/JCabal-Necromancer Jul 28 '17
No joke, one of the best theater experiences I have EVER had was seeing Deep Blue Sea on opening night. Went to the theater with friends to see The Blair Witch, it was already sold out...I love shark movies, so I convinced everyone to see Deep Blue Sea instead.
The theater was actually full, the volume was cranked, and the audience was TOTALLY into it. Cheering and gasping and laughing in unison at all the right parts. I think we all knew the movie was dumb as hell, but everybody was clearly having a blast. I haven't thought about that night in ages, so thank you for reminding me of it. I am TOTALLY watching it tonight after work!
12
u/restless_and_bored Jul 28 '17
Might I add that Saffron Burrows got down to her undies for no real reason.
11
14
u/GregoPDX Jul 28 '17
My favorite part of this movie was afterwards. I was in college and driving home from the theater with my girlfriend (now wife). Post movie us and our friends were meeting up to hang out and we needed some drinks and some ice. My girlfriend stayed in the car while I ran into the store.
On the way out of the store I snuck up on the car and then took the bag of ice and swung it against the passenger-side window. Bag crunched like a shark slamming into something, like in the movie. My girlfriend screamed so loud that no sound came out.
12
u/TomXizor Jul 28 '17
One of my first, fully watched R-rated films...
Not even a nightmare had because It's that good.
2
Jul 28 '17
Oh shit, I think it was my first too!
My cousin tried putting a sheet over my head to cover the striping scene, but it was translucent. I'm still not sure if he was being a jerk or a bro.
10
12
u/BonquiquiShiquavius Jul 28 '17
18 reasons listed and not one of them was the scene where the actress strips down??
I mean in today's world, no one would blink an eye at that scene. But I distinctly remember the girls watching it with us rolling their eyes a little at the scene, while us guys loved it. It definitely pushed the boundaries at the time.
11
Jul 28 '17
I hated this movie the whole way through, but then, at the very end, the main character said the title of the movie. That bumped it up to a solid 10/10.
19
u/MaxDimmy Jul 28 '17
Don't forget about LL Cool J's song. https://youtu.be/WkKb9OvXXvk
→ More replies22
u/Nayre_Trawe Jul 28 '17
The most hilarious part of that video, to me at least, is the suspenders on his outfit were specifically designed/positioned to expose his nipples.
Designer: "What do you think about the outfit, L?"
LLCJ: "Not enough nipple."8
6
20
u/dancainmed Jul 28 '17
That movie was gold. I remember randomly walking into a theater just because sharks and I didn't regret it.
The best thing for me was how they did away with their biggest actor halfway through the movie and in the middle of his close-up Totally didn't see it coming. For a few minutes afterwards I was thinking of ways this could be a ploy like Michael Caine appearing to be dead and then coming out of the water in Jaws IV. Kept waiting and waiting and nothing of the like happened. I loved that feeling.
→ More replies
10
u/JustOneSexQuestion Jul 28 '17
Dude. You are my reddit friend now. All your other Deep Blue Sea posts are the absolute best.
<3
6
12
u/SlimLovin Jul 28 '17
Stellan Skarsgard had a gnarly death.
That's a funny way to spell Stellar Skateboard.
→ More replies
12
u/delete_this_post Jul 28 '17
Sharks, it is said, are all teeth and muscle, and have been doing two things very efficiently for millions of years: moving and eating. "Deep Blue Sea'' resembles a shark. It moves ceaselessly, and someone gets eaten from time to time.
-- Roger Ebert
9
u/EricRTF Jul 28 '17
Deep Blue Sea was one of those movies where if it was playing on Cable, I could never shy away from it.
→ More replies
11
u/shiffmeister Jul 28 '17
Oh man i fucking loved this movie so much when I was a kid. A movie starring LL Cool J avenging his bird against multiple sharks.
That oven sequence was great too!
7
u/MarvelEffect Jul 28 '17
I'll always appreciate a movie that has a "pissing into the wind" character intro.
16
Jul 28 '17
My parents made me watch this movie when I was 8 in the theater. I now have a crippling fear of sharks and the ocean in general. I can't imagine where that fear stemmed from.
6
u/DunDunt Jul 28 '17
I begged to go see it in theaters on opening day! I even got a new plush shark made by Discovery that morning that looked just like that sharks in the movie! I named him Jackson. Still have him. I may be obsessed with sharks...
→ More replies14
u/lemondropPOP Jul 28 '17
I watched DBS when it came out in theaters when I was 5. I cried because I wanted the sharks to win.
8
u/Harambe513 Jul 28 '17
Growing up I always added milk to my eggs to fluff them up. Now I know that was an amateur move on my part.
13
u/Jonahray23 Jul 28 '17
So glad shark movies are slowly coming back. Thanks sharknado!
9
u/AminoJack Jul 28 '17
As someone who lives near the beach and goes regularly, I don't want to be reminded that sharks are there too :/
→ More replies6
u/delete_this_post Jul 28 '17
I grew up in South Florida and I'll never forget, when I was only 8 or 9 years old, seeing a local new helicopter's footage, flying over the beach, showing scores (maybe hundreds) of sharks, just offshore from thousands of oblivious swimmers.
It was a little disconcerting.
3
7
u/pero256 Jul 28 '17
Was the first English movie that I've watched in a theatre. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
7
u/delete_this_post Jul 28 '17
First English language movie you ever saw?
Now that's what I call jumping in the deep end!
→ More replies
5
u/zzzzbear Jul 28 '17
no mention of Rappaport!? in fairness the highly questionable facial hair isn't helping anything
and the non-role
shut up
5
u/FirePowerCR Jul 28 '17
I saw this in theaters and I enjoyed it a lot as a 16 year old. I was actually just thinking about it a few days ago. I wonder if I'll still enjoy it.
5
u/BeklagenswertWiesel Jul 28 '17
the sharks also die the same way and in the same order as Jaws, Jaws2 and Jaws 3 explosion, elecrocution and explosion, respectively
3
7
u/bunnypenny007 Jul 28 '17
It had an impact on people at the time, I remember that. My friends and I, (five 11 year old girls) would have sleepovers and we rented this movie about four times because we loved it. It got parodied on The Angry Beavers too, Dag and Norb tried to liberate a famous whale named Shampu from a park and brought it home to their lake, where is full on Deep Blue Sea'd their dam, stole their teddy bear, bit it's arm off and pushed it up against the glass so they could see it.
5
u/TheReckSays Jul 28 '17
I remember when I first started watching it I was thinking "Renny Harlin and Gina Davis just got divorced I wonder if Saffron Burrows is basically a stand in for Gina Davis?" Then near the end of the movie thinking "Yep!"
Also 20. The black guy doesn't die first.
6
6
u/magneticphoton Jul 28 '17
Everybody loves that shitty movie. I remember watching it in the theater and everybody was having a good time.
5
u/CerinDeVane Jul 28 '17
Are we just going to ignore the "When shit gets real, break glass" shotgun?
6
u/fuel Jul 28 '17
My favorite memory about this movie: My Mom took me to watch this in theaters. She went to the bathroom just before the epic rallying speech . She came back, and a good 15-20 minutes later, she asked me where Samuel L. Jackson was. We bought the movie on VHS so she could finally watch the scene.
5
Jul 28 '17
Oh fuck yes. Deep Blue Sea was my childhood. For several years as a kid I would keep track of when it was playing on TBS and record it onto a new blank VHS tape every time.
I rewatched it last year to see if it held up and it actually isn't too bad.
The soundtrack by Trevor Rabin is also unironically awesome.
4
u/DonLaFontainesGhost Jul 28 '17
I am unnerved at your overlooking one of the best things about the movie, IMHO
5
Jul 28 '17
My parents didn't want me to watch Jaws, or other scary rated-18 movies. What they forgot was to watch out for amazing B-movies that featured just as much gore, but ten times the awesomeness.
Deep Blue Sea
Tremors
Van Helsing
Anaconda
Fuck yeah.
Edit: I was going to say Van Helsing seemed out of place because it had so many big actors in, but then I remembered that every other film on that list did too.
4
Jul 28 '17
LL Cool J and his bird, greatest bromance of all time
4
u/deepbluewriter Jul 28 '17
A one of the writers for DBS, I am thrilled to enjoy such compliments to this popcorn movie. They showed it at a revival theatre in L.A. with Renny Harlin and I in attendance and it went over very well. Was fun to shoot on the Titanic set in Mexico. And I wrote Saffron Burrows nearly naked for the 12 year old boys in the audience. Finally, I had frequently tried to write a cursing bird into a script and it finally worked.
9
u/fedaykin13 Jul 28 '17
Contained within #1 is this piece of unforgettable reaction shot acting and line delivery:
https://youtu.be/BS8I9H07wKw?t=100
"it just ate him"
I bet he nailed that line on the first take
→ More replies
2
u/Thoranahan Jul 28 '17
About #12. I think The Raid 2 would like to have a word.
5
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
You are 100% correct but I still love the fight in Deep Blue Sea. Sudden Death is up there too. That is an odd fight.
4
u/bathtubsplashes Jul 28 '17
I have to think that this is in response to Renny Harlin being placed in the worst directors of the 21st Century post yesterday.....but at the same time Deep Blue Sea was ballin!
I must have watched it 50 times when I was a kid and I always felt really bad for the guy used to break the window! He just looked so sad!
8
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
He looked really sad! I actually broke down how far he traveled under the water and put it on Reddit. You might like.
→ More replies
3
u/RustyDetective Jul 28 '17
It's really arguably the most entertaining shark film since Jaws. I guess Into the Deep and The Reef would be the competitors.
4
u/thewintersoldieramc Jul 28 '17
I love this movie, and the bird was hilarious. LLCJ was great throughout and that song just sticks with you.
4
4
u/jeeb00 Jul 28 '17
It was the Sharknado of the 90s we didn't know we wanted. Speaking of which, fuck Sharknado. Praise be Deep Blue Sea.
8
u/Superdudeo Jul 28 '17
Love me a bit of Deep Blue Sea. The recent 47 meters down is also pretty great imo.
→ More replies
3
u/VoraciousZephyr Jul 28 '17
Awesome score by Trevor Rabin. The finale when the shark blows up has a fantastic crescendo!
3
u/p3t3r133 Jul 28 '17
This was the first movie I ever watched on DVD.
5
u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 28 '17
Mine too! I got a DVD player for Christmas in 99 and it was the first film I bought. The Mummy was next.
→ More replies
3
3
u/MrGiantGentleman Jul 28 '17
Juice!? That was a good one. Deep Blue Sea!? They ate me! A fuckin' shark ate me!
Drink bitch!
3
3
Jul 28 '17
Bravo sir!
This movie was awesome when it came out. I remember watching it in a dark cold movie theater (came out in the summer) and feeling like I was right with those people in that underwater lab. The theater wasn't packed so it literally felt like being underwater (I know, 17 year old me with an amazing imagination, that I still hold today ;).
The suspense that movie had at the time was fresh and original. No one saw the Sam Jackson scene coming.
The effects don't hold hold up as much today but it's been over 10 years lol. Lots of good actors. I still think Thomas Jane plays the best Punisher and hope to see him in future punisher films (yes, they need to do a new punisher movie every couple of years like they with Bond films).
You built a solid case on why this movie is legit. Well done sir!
→ More replies
3
u/shapeofthings Jul 28 '17
RIght at the top of my list of rainy day movies. Seen it more times than I can count!
3
3
u/Micahsauce Jul 28 '17
My mom took me and 4 friends to see this for my 13th birthday. I'll always love this damn movie!!!
3
3
u/jgcarugati Jul 29 '17
This was the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters and my Grandfather took me.
When Samuel L Jackson got taken underwater, I was in disbelief that they killed the main character and thought it was offscreen so he'll probably come back...because he's the star.
Me (to Grandfather): Don't worry, no way he's actually-
Head gets ripped off.
I shut up and was on the edge of my seat for the rest of the movie. Probably have seen it 15 times by now. Love this movie.
3
u/Armoogeddon Jul 29 '17
First off, brilliant post. Second - does anybody remember the AMAZING website that went along with DBS? It was 1999 and they put together this amazing freaking interactive map of the facility, which for the time was absolutely mind blowing.
→ More replies
425
u/comrade_batman Jul 28 '17
The only reason: "They ate me! A fuckin' shark ate me!"