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Razzie for cinemotography??


Just got through watching this mess on AMC. I can understand why many people have this one on their WORST of all time lists. This is a terrible movie, but it's not so much about the acting. I felt that the acting was okay, but there were some very bad supporting roles that were just silly.

The biggest problem for me was the cinematography. the entire underwater scenes were just too dark to see. I know that it was filmed on location, but they should have had some way to light it up some. It wouldn't have made the plot or the special effects any better, but it would have been easier to laugh at it louder!!

The worst part though?? Toward the end where the most fake effect in motion picture history where the shark breaks into the control room. The approach of this PHONY shark is really amazingly bad!! And the entrails and teeth flying across the screen??? I know it had to be better in 3D, but it was bad!!!

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Actually, it wasn't better in 3-D, and I saw it in its original theatrical release. The shark was fake all the way through. And as you said, the underwater shots were way too dark, which makes me wonder why they didn't correct them in post-production. Some people champion this over Revenge, but Revenge's photography was infinitely superior to 3-D's, which was kind of foggy, grainy and amateurly shot, even in the non-3-D scenes...

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Yes I saw it in 3D when it was released and it looked better actually.
I'm watching it now on Netflix (obviously not in 3D) and the quality is so weird looking.
Sometimes the picture is quite sharp but other times it's blurring and just looks "off"
But yes overall it's very badly shot

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The movie's overall visual quality is just terrible. It looks really low-grade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jk4ExFF3tg

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Watching it right now on Turner Classic Movies. MAN! The underwater scenes are SUPER dark!

What the heck?! I don't remember it being that bad in 3-D in the theater. Maybe using just one of the two images counted for 2-D meant some light loss?

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