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Azizza
VANDERSHANKED
posted 08-21-2004 11:22:14 AM
Dear god did this movie suck. I can not remember hating a movie more than this. By the time it was over half the people who had come to see it were gone. I wish I was one of them. I want that bit of my life back.
"Pacifism is a privilege of the protected"
Ruvyen
Cartoon Broccoli Boy
posted 08-21-2004 11:31:58 AM
quote:
Azizza had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Dear god did this movie suck. I can not remember hating a movie more than this. By the time it was over half the people who had come to see it were gone. I wish I was one of them. I want that bit of my life back.

Yeah, it looked very craptacular.

Thief: "I have come to a realisation. Dragons are not real in a general sense, but they may exist in certain specific cases."
Fighter: "Like how quantum mechanics describes how subatomic particles can spontaneously pop into existence at random!"
Thief: "No, that's stupid and stop making up words."
--8-Bit Theater
Azakias
Never wore the pants, thus still wields the power of unused (_|_)
posted 08-21-2004 12:01:50 PM
Was that the one where 2 people floated around in the middle of the ocean for days?

I just wonder how the hell you can make a 2 hour stretch of that.

"Age by age have men stood up and said to the world, 'From what has come before me, I was forged, but I am new and greater than my forebears.' And so each man walks the world in ruin, abandoned and untried. Less than the whole of his being"
Sean
posted 08-21-2004 12:27:22 PM
What the hell possessed you to even go see it? Don't say curiousity. Curiousity made people see Blair Witch.
A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.

It's not something people hear about.

Azizza
VANDERSHANKED
posted 08-21-2004 12:33:27 PM
quote:
Sean had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
What the hell possessed you to even go see it? Don't say curiousity. Curiousity made people see Blair Witch.

My friend Abe wanted to go see it. So His wife, me, and our friend Glenn went with him. He is not allowed to choose a movie ever again. EVER! I think his wife made him sleep on the couch last night LOL.

"Pacifism is a privilege of the protected"
Mr. Parcelan
posted 08-21-2004 03:49:37 PM
That's a bummer. I thought it would be good, just because "being trapped in open water" is a big phobia of mine.
Phoenix
Pancake
posted 08-21-2004 11:21:03 PM
I thought you'd make this post as soon as you got home last night

Definitely a movie to miss.

Snoota
Now I am become Death, shatterer of worlds
posted 08-21-2004 11:44:53 PM
Everything I've read about this movie says it's good and worth going to see. Hell, it had like a 91 rating on Rotten Tomatoes last week.(Which may have changed after the movie came out and more reviewers get their reviews in. I don't check that site too often.)
Lechium
With no one to ever know
posted 08-22-2004 12:04:07 AM
I just wonder how you can turn an experience such as this and turn it into a two hour movie. I wonder how long it took them to film it, like "Lost in Translation" took 3 days to film (I think).
"The MP checkpoint is not an Imperial Stormtrooper roadblock, so I should not tell them "You don't need to see my identification, these are not the droids you are looking for."
Elvish Crack Piper
Murder is justified so long as people believe in something different than you do
posted 08-22-2004 12:54:58 AM
3 Days?

How'd they manage that. (Knows Nothing about Lost in TRanslation.)

(Insert Funny Phrase Here)
Snoota
Now I am become Death, shatterer of worlds
posted 08-22-2004 01:14:30 AM
quote:
Lechium was listening to Cher while typing:
I just wonder how you can turn an experience such as this and turn it into a two hour movie.

What do you mean? Sharks don't just attack anything they see. In fact, they're probably nature's most vicious scavangers. The "smell" of blood in the water is what mostly draws them, and they tend to pray on already wounded creatures. A person in such a situation, even with sharks in very close contact, is more likely to drown than get attacked by a shark. Unless they start to annoy it.

It's why shark attacks are so rare, despite the fact that thousands of people a day swim in beaches with sharks well within the area.

I mean, you can't exactly swim up to one and pet it and cuddle it, but unless it is really, really starving or you start making way too much noise in the water, a shark is more likely to leave you alone than not.

And Lost in Translation was filmed in 27 days, according to IMDB.

Snoota fucked around with this message on 08-22-2004 at 01:17 AM.

Liam
Swims in Erotic Circles
posted 08-22-2004 01:37:38 AM
quote:
Mr. Parcelan enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
That's a bummer. I thought it would be good, just because "being trapped in open water" is a big phobia of mine.

Let's go canoeing.

Toktuk
Pooh Ogre
Keeper of the Shoulders of Peachis Perching
posted 08-22-2004 09:06:15 AM
The last 2 shark attacks in Texas were both on people who were wade fishing.

They both had the dead / injured fish tied to their waist.

-Tok

Alaan
posted 08-22-2004 11:59:15 AM
It is some what common to see pictures or video of sharks swimming around in the middle of huge groups of people on Florida/California beaches. How often are there beach attacks? Usually it is a surfer that happens to look like a big, slow seal.
Toktuk
Pooh Ogre
Keeper of the Shoulders of Peachis Perching
posted 08-23-2004 12:20:00 AM
Floridian Seals are easy to immitate!

-Tok

Peter
Pancake
posted 08-23-2004 12:37:19 AM
quote:
Toktuk had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Floridian Seals are easy to immitate!

-Tok


I bet Florida would have seals if it wasn't for the danmed 'cuda. nasty fuckers.

Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 08-23-2004 02:12:12 AM
quote:
Verily, Toktuk doth proclaim:
The last 2 shark attacks in Texas were both on people who were wade fishing.

They both had the dead / injured fish tied to their waist.

-Tok


Funniest Sharkbite Ever

Lyinar's sweetie and don't you forget it!*
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Roy Batty
*Also Lyinar's attack panda

sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me

OtakuPenguin
Peels like a tangerine, but is juicy like an orange.
posted 08-23-2004 02:15:25 AM
Yeah, I screened Open Water and thought it really sucked a lot.

Plus, we've been having customers say the movie is out of focus when really it's just the shitty camera they shot it with.

..:: This Is The Sound Of Settling ::..
Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 08-23-2004 10:08:49 AM
I think part of the problem is that it's been compared to Jaws too much. Jaws was a big deal when it came out. It put the fear of sharks dead center in the public mind. You can't scare people the same way as easily later. I mean, look at Deep Blue Sea. Even Samuel L Jackson getting eaten couldn't shock people into liking that shark movie.

Plus, while the low-budget look worked for Blair Witch (giving it a realistic sense and feel that takes advantage of certain human fears), I got the feeling that Open Water had more the "realistic" feel of a National Geographic documentary.

Lyinar's sweetie and don't you forget it!*
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Roy Batty
*Also Lyinar's attack panda

sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me

Blindy
Roll for initiative, Monkey Boy!
posted 08-23-2004 10:16:51 AM
How did they make a two hour movie out of the story of castaway?
On a plane ride, the more it shakes,
The more I have to let go.
OtakuPenguin
Peels like a tangerine, but is juicy like an orange.
posted 08-23-2004 11:35:03 AM
quote:
Blindy painfully thought these words up:
How did they make a two hour movie out of the story of castaway?

It' not a two hour movie, the run time on the movie (without trailers) is only 80 minutes.

And, the thing that made me not like it, call me a sucker but They both die in the end. He gets bitten in the leg, it gets infected or SOMETHING that's not explained and the next morning he dies. She lets him float away and watches as the sharks pull his body under and chow down. Then, she commits suicide

..:: This Is The Sound Of Settling ::..
Ruvyen
Cartoon Broccoli Boy
posted 08-23-2004 11:47:30 AM
quote:
OtakuPenguin was listening to Cher while typing:
And, the thing that made me not like it, call me a sucker but They both die in the end. He gets bitten in the leg, it gets infected or SOMETHING that's not explained and the next morning he dies. She lets him float away and watches as the sharks pull his body under and chow down. Then, she commits suicide

It's possible that the shark bite nicked a big artery in his leg or something and he just bled to death. But yeah, that ending sounds entirely craptacular.

Thief: "I have come to a realisation. Dragons are not real in a general sense, but they may exist in certain specific cases."
Fighter: "Like how quantum mechanics describes how subatomic particles can spontaneously pop into existence at random!"
Thief: "No, that's stupid and stop making up words."
--8-Bit Theater
Bajah
Thooooooor
posted 08-23-2004 12:23:18 PM
When I was perusing www.amctheatres.com to check times for movies on Friday, I saw that Open Water was listed to only be 1 hour, 12 minutes. That's not even worth the 6.50 matinee price. heheh

I was looking for Exorcist times, but it wasn't listed yet for some reason

Snoota
Now I am become Death, shatterer of worlds
posted 08-23-2004 01:11:45 PM
quote:
From the book of Bajah, chapter 3, verse 16:
I was looking for Exorcist times, but it wasn't listed yet for some reason

They're probably trying to stop people from actually seeing it. It is worse than the two sequels. I didn't think that would have been possible.

Azizza
VANDERSHANKED
posted 08-23-2004 01:24:38 PM
quote:
Snoota had this to say about Punky Brewster:
They're probably trying to stop people from actually seeing it. It is worse than the two sequels. I didn't think that would have been possible.

WTF. I thought it was great. Much better than the sequels and worthy of the Exorcist Title.

"Pacifism is a privilege of the protected"
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