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The LUV BUG is nipping at the shark's fins in THE DEEP BLUE SEA.
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The Luv Bug sends in the following thoughts on Deep Blue Sea. His report is spoiler rich and not too positive, but we all know that the Bug has sea going film experiences that were not exactly the best, so keep that in mind geeks.
FROM: HERBIE THE LUV BUG
It's hard to believe that mondo movie stars like Samuel Jackson have agreed
to
join Renny Harlin for DEEP BLUE SEA, a movie that is bucking for some
goodwill by recently invoking the hallowed name of JAWS as an inspiration,
and
thinks that shooting in TITANIC's Mexico ocean facility will result in
Cameron
magic fairy dust making the movie into a blockbuster.
From a not so early
version of the screenplay that has seven writers credited on the front, the
movie will stink and sink. (SPOILER COMING)10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1... Plotline has a bunch of shark
scientists operating on great whites and giving them human DNA. They get "smarter" with their human brain matter and
start breaking out of underwater cages and causing a lot of trouble for the
scientists who are trapped under the sea in their facility by a hurricane up
above. Can you say THE ABYSS? The sharks do all this really stupid stuff
like pretending to play dead and then jumping up and eating people. One
shark
jumps thirty or forty feet in the air to grab a scientist who is hanging
from
a rope and eat them. The dumbest part has one shark trap a guy in an oven
and
then the shark ACTUALLY TURNS ON THE GAS with his snout or something. The
end
has a small plane chasing the sharks on the surface of the ocean before
everything blows up, which is typical for Rennie Harlin.
The dialogue
is
all awful and the whole thing reads like a worse version of the last ALIEN
movie, with more underwater stuff. Samuel Jackson proved he doesn't always
pick a good movie by starring in SPHERE, which also sank.
The thinking
sharks
idea is really badly done and wasn't this also just used in that horrible TV
miniseries CREATURE? The walking, thinking shark? JAWS could sure use a
revival on par with Spielberg's JURASSIC PARK. But this junk ain't it. Is
there anybody at Warner Brothers left with a brain themselves? These sharks
are smarter.
Herbie the Luv Bug signing off
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I belive in this movie! Renny Harlin is a good action director...Long kiss goodnight was great and face the fact: Cutthroat island wasn
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The problem that we have with action films at the moment is the fact that everyone thinks if an action film is tongue in cheek or if it knows deep down inside that it is crap, that sheer knowledge will compensate for its being pants. That knid of thinking has only worked so ar with True Lies and Con Air. In my opinion, a movie knowing its faults and being tongue and cheek about it does not make it a better movie, it only makes it self-conscious and shit, and this idea of mine is also shared by many decent critics out there.
I did enjoy Long Kiss Goodnight but that does not mean that Harlin is a great director, actually he is awful and he should realise that himself and stop making films that are even more appalling than his already proven trackrecord. -
Luv Bug's comments totally cracked me up.. a shark pretends to be dead?? Turns on an oven to fry some guy?? LOL !! don't know about blockbuster action movie, but sure sounds like a good comedy to me.. lol
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7 writers worked on this? Who are they?
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While I agree that for every decent Renny Harlin flick there is a Cutthroat Island, give the guy a little credit. Die Hard 2 was a decent and competent action film. No, John McTiernan definitely was better, but don't count Harlin out yet.
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lets just all put our collective heads together and make the best movie of all time . being that we know everything, we should be able to put together the best flick of all time, or better yet, why dont we just fuck ourselves and pay the seven dollars and form our own opinions?
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I'm telling you, guys, smart sharks, jumping out of the water! It's like this book I read 5 years ago:HUNGER by William R. Dantz. I'm looking at it right now. It was almost like Jaws 3 (the dolphins bit).
Then again, JAWS is such a huge movie for most of us out here. Look at Kevin Smith and Mallrats (Brodie and Quint are the two main characters) and Chasing Amy (the scene where they talk about injuries sustained from sex and the character Hooper).
Hell, I named a character in my last film hooper.
I just hope none of these shark movies suck.
JAWS 5! JAWS 5! And, to a lesser degree, MEG! -
love the title, but this particular fish smells rotten to me. Harlin couldn't direct his way out of a wet paper bag. i also happen to think sam jackson is maybe the most overrated actor in hollywood. i mean, sure, i think the guy's cool just like everyone else, but can anyone out there tell me they actually BELIEVE his performances? no. you're watching samuel l. jackson up there, yelling his head off and making a big fuss over whatever, and sure, he's acting cool as fuck, but not really ACTING. (see Willis, Bruce)
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Why? Why would anybody ever attempt to make super-smart sharks? Except for a big budget, poorly written action extravaganza, I mean.
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Personally, I liked the director Renny Harlin. So I agreed with Dr.Phibes and Lo Wang or others who likes Harlin and DBS. And fuck this luv bug guy who is trying to bad mouth the movie before seeing it.
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And by the way, some viewers from darkhorizons give DBS a very positive review, ALRIGHT.
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