A total *beep* movie - Le grand bleu (1988) Discussion

[–] Stainless_Steel_Rat 19 years ago

Not for me and others. It's a wonderful movie.

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[–] cskite 19 years ago

It was a little boring and uneventful at times but it's still a pretty good Luc Besson movie. Although La Femme Nikita and Leon are better.

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[–] HotCaliforniaSun 19 years ago

this movie was sooo goddamn boring. I'm a huge luc besson fan and a huge movie fan in general. I hate the traditional popcorn films and I still hated this movie. Wasted 3 hours of my life, it was actually painfully boring.

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[–] aev1982 19 years ago

I know the feeling, I just wasted 12 seconds of my life reading your post.
...and another 30 posting this response. From the depth of your vocabulary I'd assume that "traditional popcorn films" are custom designed for you.

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[–] artsay 19 years ago

+1

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[–] Killa-Bee 19 years ago

I watched this movie over a hundred times when I was a kid... I simply loved it. I watched it again recently and the magic wasn't there anymore.

I suppose that my eye catches all the problems with the script more easily...

However... I'd give my left hand to be able to feel again the way I felt when I first saw this movie!

And for that, I am incapable of saying that this movie is rubbish! It's quite the contrary actually.

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[–] artsay 19 years ago

Killa-Bee. I agree about some script problems. But the magic is not in the script. The magic is in the devotion to the sea. And its there.

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[–] kubiak2000 19 years ago

I saw my first movie on theater at the age of 8. It's was this movie.
I love it, I love dolphin and I love free-diving.
3 min 12 free apnea, my record :p

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[–] darkangel1980 19 years ago

I had just posted in other thread saying for me the first time I saw it was an incredible experience, and then found your post. the same has happened to me!I mean, I still like it, but I remember how much I loved it when I was a kid!!!I got the dvd last year, and I liked it, but the magic had disappeared...

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[–] arstorp 19 years ago

That hot california sun must have burned you
Wait 20 years and you will like it.

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[–] dglassey 19 years ago

You couldn't be more wrong. Have you no soul?

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[–] zbepb 19 years ago

care to explain why?

PS as a scuba diving instructor, I deal with different opinions about the sea, swimming, diving etc. one of them sounds pretty nice: a man's got legs, not fins, lungs, not gills, and even eyes cant really work underwater. so stop cheating on nature, get life on the surface!

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[–] remrulzz 19 years ago

i love it sure it not the greatest thing ever made,but the music in the movie is awesome and the places where there film the movie are beautiful,make me want to take a break from work and take a vacation over there...

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[–] serinaserina 19 years ago

I can't help but applaud to your post. I had no clue the end to the American version was changed, I couldn't imagine the end to this movie being any different than it turns out to be in the original.

I agree the deeper stuff goes to Cannes to.

Well said!

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[–] darkangel1980 19 years ago

as an european, I find pretty rude to make this kind of comments:

"Probably you just need to come from Europe to see things clearer sometimes"

that´s like saying you have to go to the U.S. to understand XXX or king kong...

I love this movie, and I love the locations, the music, the whole atmosphere that surronds you while watching it, but I can understand some people don´t like it and I don´t see a cultural problem on that. Or do you think all Europeans loved it?

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[–] darkangel1980 19 years ago

"To me this film is pretty profound and appeals to the sensitive guy -- obviously not to the starter of this topic at least"

I totally agree.

"It's just, I think there will always be great European productions that can be as good as possible, but won't get any attention in the U.S. at all"

of course, neither will they get the deserved attention in most of the rest of European countries. And let´s be frank, in Europe we can find a lot of rubbish, too....

Anyway, I understand what you meant. I guess it´s just that I´m a bit fed up with all those generalizations and stuff, specially because this is supposed to be for people who love the movies, wherever they come from.

bye :)

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[–] weilonging 19 years ago

Oscar is American's Oscar. I never have the thought that winning an Oscar is the evidence of being the best, because everyone is entitled to his own taste of good or bad.
The big blue is marvelous in many respects, one of which I appreicate most is its poster rather than the movie itself: the one with Jack and the dolphin in the sea under the starry sky. Just awesome.
Sounds weird, but that's true, it was the very poster which impressed me so deeply that made me interested in the movie, and years later, I still cannot find any other poster that may even compare.

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[–] Mister_Anderson 19 years ago

It flopped in the states because they didn't want to take a chance and air the real version, so they cut it up and made a mess. The only really good thing I enjoy about the American version is the music. But the original version has good music too.

The U.S. version cut out the whole part where Jacques and the girl take a break from each other. And it cuts out the mermaid story he tells her. The final scene (even before the changed last shot) is just not as powerful. And of course the final shot (although it could work in a different movie) just muddies the message of the film.

Americans were never introduced to the real greatness of this movie until 1998.

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[–] Urbain_legend 19 years ago

I found it insightful, beautifully filmed, and quite funny...I think you may have missed the point.

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[–] mackatwater 19 years ago

I thought the movie was fantastic, for a movie from 1988 the aesthetics were great.

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