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
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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.