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34. Deep Blue Sea

Inviso - 17
Genny - 27
Scarlet - 28
JONA - 29
Snake - 29
Charon - 30
Johnbobb - 32
KBM - 33
Karo - 35

Inviso - This movie is just stupid fun. The premise isbizarre, to say the least (youre seriously telling me that you need to perform delicate science experiments on sharks, and youre NOT doing this inland somehow?), but if you can look back that, its an enjoyable movie. I like the colorful cast of characters, and while Samuel L. Jackson does have some death flags flapping around his head, his death is a surprise if only because he gets killed off before two separate fodder characters, in an extremely unique and memorable indoor shark kill. I also give credit for managing to make sharks feel more threatening than just generic killing machines. By making them hyper-intelligent sharks, it adds just that extra bit of menace to their actions, and makes the threat posed to the humans that much more real. PLUS, it makes the big reveal that much cooler, when the humans realize that the sharks just want to sink the facility so they can escape into the open ocean. So yeahfun movie with some definite rewatch value.

Genny - Deep Blue Sea straddles the line between a good meme and a good movie. In other words it's so dumb in a way it actually works. My hat is like a shark's fin/10

Scarlet - Saffron Burrows, who I am always extremely torn on as actress, anchors this utterly preposterous movie that thinks its hybridizing Jurassic Park and Jaws, when in reality its hybridizing Jurassic Park II and Jaws III. I mean, this movie is almost hilarious thanks to just how ludicrous it actually is. For me, this is reminiscent of the Godzilla film that was released a year earlier. You can just feel the fingerprints of a studio all over everything in this movie. Its built by committee, full of jaws and fury, signifying nothing.
Rating: 25/100

JONA - LL Cool J and Samuel Jackson can be entertaining but not much else stood out.

Snake - Why I Chose It - Following Jaws, the shark movie became an important sub-genre under the umbrella of horror. While few have ever been received well commercially or critically, Deep Blue Sea was a box office success for both the genre and for a flailing director desperate for a hit. In addition, Deep Blue Sea, though not received well at the time, has retroactively become a well-regarded entry in the killer shark category.

My Thoughts - Though this movie is mostly forgettable, the Samuel L. Jackson death is indisputably the best shark death of all time.

Charon - Super intelligent sharks fool scientists into helping them escape a research facility, yet can't tell them apart from fire extinguishers in the end. I guess this film was born from someone's fascination with sharks and cancer research, which is a bit overblown by the media so making a film based around this premise is odd. The whole movie is odd though. Here again we find comical black character being "hilarious". Ah LL, why was it that you never panned out an acting career quite like Ice Cube? Another thing I have to note is that this film sort of did a swerve by killing off the main character, basically twice. It wwas hard to wrap my head around the only two characters surviving being the two they were. It has some cool action beats and scenes in it, but usually these shark films are too hokey to suspend me far enough to get very engrossed with what's going on.
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