Anyone know anything on this:
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=3923
Can't see the picture.
crap, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt.
Quote from: EEz28Anyone know anything on this:
http://www.openwatermovie.com
Quote from: EEz28crap, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt.
No, it never works. It'll work for the person posting it, but not for others. You can't link pictures from JoBlo, IMDB and Latino Review.
Quote from: EEz28crap, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt.
No, it never works. It'll work for the person posting it, but not for others. You can't link pictures from JoBlo, IMDB and Latino Review.[/quote]
Grrrrrrrreat, now someone tells me.
and i really wasnt asking for a link to the website but more like one of your little synopsis that you always do with new films, where you put a pic or two and have cast info and all that fun stuff.
Trailer here. (http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/openwaterqt1.html)
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Stills are Here (http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2004/NOPQR/OpenWater/photos/index.php)
that's some scary shit
Final Poster:
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Promo Trailer Here (http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2004/0-9ABC/Colour-Me-Kubrick/trailer-page.html)
looks like a shitty movie to me.
It could either be terrific or gimmicky.
this looks like a scary film...I'm very excited about it.
I also don't like water.
cool this is like the blair water project.
claustrophobic. Can't wait.
This will probably fuck me up for a long time. I've always had this fear of being in water in which I couldn't see past my legs (or in which I couldnt see the bottom). Even in the local river I freak out, imagining this big jaw coming up and chewing off my legs and all-important genitals. So anyways, I'm afraid/excited for this movie.
Yeah, I've got that one too. Hopefully this will be as effective as the trailer makes it look.
Quote from: WithnailHopefully this will be as effective as the trailer makes it look.
I'm trying to stay away from any info about this film because Blair Witch was ruined for me because of the (over)hype and I saw that its first day in wide release.
But I have an intense fear of being stuck out in the middle of the ocean, seeing nothing but water in every direction, particularly at night. I wasn't able to see The Abyss in theatres when I was a kid for that reason. And that scene in Cast Away when Tom Hanks leaves the island and that whale passes him at night... yikes!
Quote from: ...& IYeah, I've got that one too. Hopefully this will be as effective as the trailer makes it look.
its not. i was more tense
waiting to be scared than what the movie could actually deliver. it was very reminiscent of blair witch, although couldnt quite even work up the level of fear as that one. its just hard i suppose on such a small budget just trying to have an interesting setup and then just 'see what happens' to mount any level of tension that can continually increase or develop into a good scene. there were a handful of moments scattered throughout but really nothing TOO INTENSE or whatever. i guess this was probably effective at a film festival when all the critics reviewed it because they hadnt known anything about it, but unfortunately their reviews would be the death of it because its just not as good as that. movie also 'looked' like shit. i guess in the water there was nothing they could do, but really when they were still on land there was no reason for all these shaky closeups of things etc. so, it wasnt bad but its already too overhyped. skip it, wait for video.
One of my fears is being stuck in the ocean with no compass and no land to see. Will it at least make me fear?
it might. its certainly a scary premise. it really depends on how much you put into it. if you WANT to be scared you probably will be scared. but like i said, in a blairwitchy not much actually happens kind-of-way. but if that freaks you out, be my guest. i guess i'm just trying to drop everyones expectations down low so maybe some others can enjoy it more than i did. it was average. couple was pretty good, realistic portrayal. especially liked how they were playing the 6 degrees game and she wanted to quit, (thats SO me and my girlfriend!)
so, anyone curious enough can see it but theres not a whole lot there. its just sort of sad that this will probably go onto being one of the most profitable indie films of the year but the hollywood wont be knocking down the filmmakers door to direct, you know, MI:3 or anything. MAYBE the actors will pop up in some more stuff but really its more of a one-timeHYPE than a career starter. which is really too bad. (whens the last time you saw the cast/crew of blair witch in anything?) but i did REALLY want to be scared and just wasnt. so who knows?
what a terrible movie. mediocre camera work. zero character development. the only thing that i liked was the shark that appeared first. that made me nervous, and i agree with modage, i was more tense waiting to watch this than i was watching it.
possible spoilers maybe?
from the very first frame, even before the couple went on their vacation, they were carried through by this tension that they may die, and that tension tried to last itself for 90 minutes, which just didn't work at all. and it also didn't pay off to anything, it built up to next to nothing, and the ending sucked.
if I was home watching the first 15 minutes of this film on cable I could've sworn I was watching soft porn--the acting, the setting, the way things were lit, even how they depict the "yuppie lifestyle on vacation" were all very reminiscent of the skinemax movies. too bad instead of nudity they just had nothing happening for the next 70 minutes.
bad movie.
i was a wet fart away from a pantsful of shit for the nighttime sequence and actually, pretty much every time a shark popped up...i liked it overall
but i agree, the first fifteen minutes were so bad it was ridiculous
Quote from: petepossible spoilers maybe?
from the very first frame, even before the couple went on their vacation, they were carried through by this tension that they may die, and that tension tried to last itself for 90 minutes, which just didn't work at all. and it also didn't pay off to anything, it built up to next to nothing, and the ending sucked.
if I was home watching the first 15 minutes of this film on cable I could've sworn I was watching soft porn--the acting, the setting, the way things were lit, even how they depict the "yuppie lifestyle on vacation" were all very reminiscent of the skinemax movies. too bad instead of nudity they just had nothing happening for the next 70 minutes.
bad movie.
my friend downloaded the movie and tried to get us to watch it, but, yeah, i really did feel like i was watching a porno he had downloaded. we turned it off. i felt guilty about not paying and i couldn't understand a word they were saying.
Quote from: bonanzataz
my friend downloaded the movie and tried to get us to watch it, but, yeah, i really did feel like i was watching a porno he had downloaded. we turned it off. i felt guilty about not paying and i couldn't understand a word they were saying.
first scene:
guy: I'm rich bitch.
girl: yeah but we're talking to each other on a cellphone.
hotel scene:
guy: I'm rich bitch, you having a good time, bitch?
girl: yeah, but I'm so naked right now.
boat scene:
you really can't understand what they're saying 'cause they have hot island music playing in the background of yuppie in water.
then the rest:
girl: I'm scared
guy: don't worry
girl: is that a shark?
then repeat over and over again
you guys suck
Quote from: petefirst scene:
guy: I'm rich bitch.
girl: yeah but we're talking to each other on a cellphone.
hotel scene:
guy: I'm rich bitch, you having a good time, bitch?
girl: yeah, but I'm so naked right now.
boat scene:
you really can't understand what they're saying 'cause they have hot island music playing in the background of yuppie in water.
then the rest:
girl: I'm scared
guy: don't worry
girl: is that a shark?
then repeat over and over again
:lol: well done.
you guys really suck
First time they see a shark: perfect shot.
Night scene: scary as hell.
Rest of it: eh.
First fifteen minutes: how did the Sundance Submission team get past this? Oh wait, it was invited. How did the Hamptons submission team get past it?
for a better movie shot on video about yuppie being stuck in the middle of nowhere, everyone should check out The King is Alive.
The whole movie is counterintuitive. It's ultimately unsuccessful as a horror movie, but it works on a completely different level. The usual horror victim empathy is (or should be) replaced with pity.
minor spoilersThe most important line of the movie:
I wanted to go skiing!And I thought this (http://www.citypages.com/filmreviews/detail.asp?MID=5922) was pretty interesting...
If not as aptly average-looking as the Blair Witch crew, the couple appears realistically damned by a combination of fashionable outdoorsiness and suburban invincibility as they jet off for a quickie Caribbean getaway . . . As mysterious splashes and nudges increase in menace, Kentis's terrifying nod to the indiscriminate feeding habits of sea life becomes a play on Bush-stoked first-world fears of unforeseen attack and a takedown of everyday bourgeois vanity.[/list:u]
spoilerrssSaw it tonight. Yeah it was pretty intense.. I must defend the film first off:
Quote from: Jeremy BlackmanIt's ultimately unsuccessful as a horror movie, but it works on a completely different level.
.. That's because it's a thriller. Not a horror.
Quote from: El Duderinowhat a terrible movie. mediocre camera work. zero character development.
The camera work was done raw like that because it gives it a more realistic feel. Like a camera guy is watching two real human beings stranded. And it worked for me, at least. As for the character development - - you didn't catch the arguments between the two out in the water? That was enough character development for me.
Quote from: themodernage02skip it, wait for video.
May as well shell out the few extra bucks to see it on the big screen. Because it won't have the same effect on you that it would in the theatre.
Now as for the rest... yeah, the nudity on the bed in the first 15 mins confused the hell out of me. What was the point? They were showing their feelings for each other and everything. Yeah, romance is okay to establish their love, but the full nudity was just pointless.
Him dying was pretty neat.. I kind of expected ONE of them to die. And then the search party goes nuts...... then she takes off her shit and drowns herself/feeds herself to the sharks. I actually shouted "WHAT??" when that happened. Just because I knew every other person in the theatre was thinking it.
Oh yeah, and that shark that was gutted.. I was waiting for the guy's head to fall out. So much for that.
After the credits were done rolling.. a guy a few rows back said, "worst piece of shit i ever saw."
Ah well. If he was walking in expecting Jaws that was his own problem. Good movie, but I don't need to see it again.
Quote from: CinephileQuote from: Jeremy BlackmanIt's ultimately unsuccessful as a horror movie, but it works on a completely different level.
.. That's because it's a thriller. Not a horror.
SPOILER Oh yeah, and that shark that was gutted.. I was waiting for the guy's head to fall out. So much for that.
i agree, i think for it to be 'horror' it must contain an element of the supernatural. this being based on 'true events' and seeming pretty plausible this doesnt really qualify.
SPOILER i also was waiting for an arm or something to fall out.
aren't there entire subgenres of horror movies that aren't supernatural, that only involves serial killers, sci-fi mutants, or just plain ugly animals? the first holloween, friday the 13th, and texas chainsaw were all about psycho killers (not to mention classics like Psycho and Peeping Tom), or movies like Alien, Aliens, and The Fly, or movies like Man's Best Friend, and, what the hell, JAWS.
Texas Chainsaw was supposedly based on true events as well.
There's nudity is this??
Now I'm slightly interested... in watching the first 15 minutes.
I'm a perv.
The nudity is funny, because she's sitting on the bed in a way that leaves her legs slightly open, and there's a twisted fold of sheet tucked there to hide her vagina, which looks totally ridiculous and unnatural. The first twenty minutes are so amateurish that I think it might have unfairly tainted my opinion of the rest of the film.
yeah, when you thought the first 1/4th of a film you're watching is shitty it sometimes tends to taint your opinion of the rest of the film.
Quote from: GhostboyThe nudity is funny, because she's sitting on the bed in a way that leaves her legs slightly open, and there's a twisted fold of sheet tucked there to hide her vagina, which looks totally ridiculous and unnatural. The first twenty minutes are so amateurish that I think it might have unfairly tainted my opinion of the rest of the film.
you can see just a quick glimpse of it...trust me, i walked in on that fucking scene twice yesterday doing theater checks, and oh boy did i stop to watch
Quote from: ewardyou can see just a quick glimpse of it...trust me, i walked in on that fucking scene twice yesterday "doing theater checks", and oh boy did i stop to "watch"
Quote from: petearen't there entire subgenres of horror movies that aren't supernatural, that only involves serial killers, sci-fi mutants, or just plain ugly animals? the first holloween, friday the 13th, and texas chainsaw were all about psycho killers (not to mention classics like Psycho and Peeping Tom), or movies like Alien, Aliens, and The Fly, or movies like Man's Best Friend, and, what the hell, JAWS.
Texas Chainsaw was supposedly based on true events as well.
well, by supernatural i didnt mean strictly 'ghosts' or 'the undead' or whatever. i just meant.... of or relating to existence outside the natural world. OR attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
halloween is horror because its not realistic, its about a killer that cant be killed. (see: end of the film), and especially as the sequels roll on its clear that he is not just a normal serial killer. same for friday the 13th or even texas chainsaw, even though some of the events were supposedly 'inspired' by ed gein, i think its pretty safely horror. even Jaws, its not just a shark, its like a shark that is an (almost) unstoppable killing machine. not typical shark behavior. i guess psycho since it sort of started the slasher genre (which is a subgenre of horror) could be considered a horror movie although it seems more like a thriller to me. i dont think peeping tom is a horror movie. alien/aliens/thefly are all sci-fi/horror so they count. the supernatural element isnt the only qualifier, but usually if the story is grounded somewhat in a believable reality like Silence of the Lambs, (which i think is a psychological thriller) etc. its not a horror movie exactly. to me anyways.
yeah, you can see bush when she reaches to turn off the light.
I definitely think it's a thriller, which is why the horror movie I expected did not materialize.
I think a thriller is "Oh God they're going to eat us" whereas a horror movie would be "Oh God they're eating us."
And a thriller, like this one, can be psychological too... not to mention sociopolitical.
Sorry.
Source: Digital Bits
Coming to DVD from Lions Gate is Open Water on 12/28.
I was really excited about this when I heard about the film, but I never got around to see it in the theatres, for some reason.
I have very mixed reactions to it.
The first 15 minutes is unbelievably bad, I thought I was watching Busty Cops. I still can't get past how bad this part was. It was obviously just added to hit 80 minutes, atleast thats how it felt for me.
The scenes in the water, I think, are very good. They are simple, but effective. The film uses it's simplicity to create the tension, with the amateur acting combined with the sparse music. The DV also works in these scenes.
I have no problem with the ending, I actually liked it.
Overall, ***1/2 out of 5 stars.
I think the film would have been better had the first 15 minutes been shot with film in a Hollywood style.
I don't know. I thought the film was pretty boring. The first half of the movie was terrible, and the rest was in the water which was fine; I didn't get to much out of this movie. I give it two out of five stars.
**ADMIN EDIT for SPOILERS**
The dialogue in this movie was so bad i could not believe these two people didnt just kill each other outright. i thought the sharks would kill them just to put everyone out of their misery and have some peace and quiet. i did like the fact that he died first and then she just lost all will and died. but it was just too contrived and hokey IMO.
sorry. i should have mentioned that the above commentary contained spoilers. can you forgive me?
The Germans get Open Water 2?
Source: Moviehole
Fact turns fiction, with a sequel to 'true story' "Open Water" (2004), on the way.
The film, you'll recall, told of a couple who get stranded at sea – after their charting boat leaves them behind – and ultimately smack-bang in the middle of a shark school.
Fangoria has discovered that a movie called "Adrift" has been retitled "Open Water 2", assumingly for marketing reasons. Whilst it's only being released as "Open Water 2" in Germany at the moment, there's a chance it might carry the title when it hits U.S shores, too.
The film only shares a faint story link with the first film: A group who decide to take a swim off the side of their ship neglect to drop the ladder so they can climb back up to the ship. The film features, among others, Eric Dane ("Feast") and Susan May Pratt ("Driving Me Crazy").