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"Deep Blue Sea."

Saw it on telly last night, hadn't seen it before. Tried to be Jaws, but didn't manage it.

It was ok, nothing special. Special effects are bloody awful, I think FM could do better with a copy of paint. It blatantly left itself open for a sequel, suprised they haven't released one yet, to be honest.

It was ok for a couple of hours of entertainment, nothing too special. Jaws was scary, this wasn't. This had a couple of jumpy moments in, and that was it.
It wasn't completely cliched, as the woman died and the "hard bloke" made it.

Clever enough to detect 1 part blood in one million parts water, but when they look up, they can't tell a seal from a surfboard.

Yes, genius creatures.

All sharks are clever anyway, why the hell do we want to make them more clever.

They are the greatest predators in the world and I hope one of them attacks Bush.

but they were "clever" sharks!

Sharks that can swim backwards.

Hah.

40ft bloody tiger shark indeed.

Probably because any real sharks ended up in the deleted scenes.

Seriously, any real sharks involved were probably just used to help aid the animators for the CGI sharks.

Insane Bartender wrote:
> FantasyMeister wrote:
> Spot the real ones.
>
>
> What real sharks? Even when they had an "ordinary" shark in
> open water, it was a terriblye fake of a tiger shark. Tiger sharks
> don't actually have huge brown stripes....

The 40ft Tiger Shark in the pen that the shark-wrangler was riding on at the beginning of the film was animatronic. It weighed something crazy like 3 tons, and they had a great deal of trouble stopping it once it got going :)

I've watched the movie a couple of times and still have trouble working out which ones are the real ones.

The sagacious one wrote:
> Yeah harpooning it with the long pointy bit at the front and the actor
> who shot the shark was very wooden in DBS. Therefore I stand by my
> statement.
>
> My nautical terms are lacking though.

So let me get this straight, if I were to attach a piece of wood to a car, and run somoene down with it, I'm not running them down with a lethal spear, I'm harpooning them?

gerrid wrote:
> It's not supposed to be serious.
> It's not trying to be Jaws at all.

It was trying to be serious. It was just a crap film.

FantasyMeister wrote:
> Spot the real ones.


What real sharks? Even when they had an "ordinary" shark in open water, it was a terriblye fake of a tiger shark. Tiger sharks don't actually have huge brown stripes....