Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Movie Challenge Day:
28
Today's Challenge:
one from your favorite director
Viewing Details:
So this was suppose to be The Abyss, classic Cameron, instead it's no longer available ANYWHERE, so their was a decision to be made..
Go with True Lies, Avatar, or Titanic, or maybe try one of the his docs, but instead I went to the beginning..
After dinner.
Jenn's Viewing Time:
All the way through, and commenting on most of it..
Amount of Phone Views:
5
Does it Hold up?
Some how the underwater footage managed to look better then anything shot on dry land.
Overall Rating:
Ummm... What's it called when a movie is so bad it's funny good.
Weird Comedy or Something New:
Movie opens with terrible looped voices, and then the underwater sex scene while scuba diving on a ship wreck... sex in the ocean is probably difficult enough.. but lets make it 20 feet under the water and surrounded by a rusting ship wreck...
I think will just list of ridiculous things --
WEIRD sexual tension right off the bat between a boy and his mother...
Dynamite Fishing..
Topless sailing (but they both had tan lines still)
Topless sailors become pirates and stealing food from the possibly mentally challenged resort cook??
Fish hiding inside dead body for what 12 hours? Only to attack a nurse
Fish can fly.. and sound like Bats??
Fish can fly with strings...
Sometimes it's the middle of the night and then other times, it's daylight..
Dead guy getting booped with a plastic fish..
It's actually worth watching.. No seriously..
Random Thoughts:
I don't know what should go in this category or what should go in comedy.. I think it's all comedy but I will just spread it out!
Kinda half a** research, but apparently, as Jenn called him O-Masta Titt-F**K or the Italian producer Ovidio Assonitis fired the first director, hired an all Italian crew and then depending on some reports fired Cameron after two weeks of shooting. Some say he finished principle photography but all agree he was not allowed in the editing room or to see dailies apparently..
This probably explains why I think he produced his own movies after this one.. Which helps if your next movie is The Terminator..
So I am still confused.. but just in case you are planning on watching.. SPOILER ALERT..
Still here.. ok so at the end their plan is to blow up the sunken boat that apparently had the super spawned Piranha's eggs in. Which doesn't make a ton of sense.. because why would they keep coming back there.. wouldn't they just continue to forage and look for food. Or do they have to return to their home base after ever killing spree?
My First Time:
Umm.. I think I cover this in the weird comedy.. it's the definition of a bad 70s 80s movie. With all of the sterotypes you would expect, random nudity, stupid characters, sex in strange places.. and really bad acting. Oh and lets not forget really really bad flying fish effects.