This is the scariest movie I've ever seen in my life. I hate the water, I hate the dark, and I hate sharks. The scene that just played made me about vomit with anxiety.
Open Water
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vraiblonde said:
Yeah I Choose to Skip that one ..........
DotTheEyes
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Yes, it is.
Open Water is a film most people hate, no doubt because they went in expecting a Jaws-style Hollywood suspense film. This doesn't play it safe or conform to the genre norm. It's a very realistic film about a married couple fighting to survive, then losing hope. The best words to describe it are harrowing and depressing, especially the thunderstorm sequence near the end. This isn't an entertaining movie, but it is highly effective. If you can accept its independent style and slow pace, it will leave you drained and devastated. Open Water is truly an unsung masterpiece of the horror-suspense genre.
I wish mainstream audiences had responsed to it the way viewers at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival did. It received raves there, leading to a studio purchasing it and distributing it nationwide.
Open Water is a film most people hate, no doubt because they went in expecting a Jaws-style Hollywood suspense film. This doesn't play it safe or conform to the genre norm. It's a very realistic film about a married couple fighting to survive, then losing hope. The best words to describe it are harrowing and depressing, especially the thunderstorm sequence near the end. This isn't an entertaining movie, but it is highly effective. If you can accept its independent style and slow pace, it will leave you drained and devastated. Open Water is truly an unsung masterpiece of the horror-suspense genre.
I wish mainstream audiences had responsed to it the way viewers at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival did. It received raves there, leading to a studio purchasing it and distributing it nationwide.
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Larry Gude
Strung Out
Ok...
...but the 'mainstream' is the mainstream, not the elites, like Sundance. The mainstream is 'pop' or LCD, lowest common denominator; Am Idol, Survivor, whatever big budget movie is being pushed, crap on the radio, etc. It's not likely for the masses to like something that is so niche like this movie is because it doesn't, by design, have the mass appeal characteristics that are expected. It happens once in awhile, but not likely.
If you're a film snob you're gonna feast on the different, the unusual, whatever the people you think are cool say is cool, etc.
Frankly, I was glued to this flick for the reasons you state; it was compelling as hell to me. But, I make no claim to elitism; I loved Borat.
Further, I thought the two divers could have shown more abject terror at a couple of points and her face didn't show resignation or dispair, to me, when she just let it all go. The scene still blew me away.
The real kicker is both Vrail and I thought that they survived this. We haven't figured out why, but, if Hollywood can find a way to convince people of the outcome and have the movie end the other way, it adds to the impact!
DotTheEyes said:
...but the 'mainstream' is the mainstream, not the elites, like Sundance. The mainstream is 'pop' or LCD, lowest common denominator; Am Idol, Survivor, whatever big budget movie is being pushed, crap on the radio, etc. It's not likely for the masses to like something that is so niche like this movie is because it doesn't, by design, have the mass appeal characteristics that are expected. It happens once in awhile, but not likely.
If you're a film snob you're gonna feast on the different, the unusual, whatever the people you think are cool say is cool, etc.
Frankly, I was glued to this flick for the reasons you state; it was compelling as hell to me. But, I make no claim to elitism; I loved Borat.
Further, I thought the two divers could have shown more abject terror at a couple of points and her face didn't show resignation or dispair, to me, when she just let it all go. The scene still blew me away.
The real kicker is both Vrail and I thought that they survived this. We haven't figured out why, but, if Hollywood can find a way to convince people of the outcome and have the movie end the other way, it adds to the impact!
