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Things we learned from this movie. (Spoilers)


I think you all know how this is played by now if you've ever been on an IMDB board.

1. Giganto sharks will apparently be attracted by an open champange/wine bottle falling into the ocean because its red. Not because it smells or tastes anything like blood.

2. Genetically tampered with giganto sharks will become more intelligent because they have bigger brains. Which is why in real life whales rule the world due to the fact that their brains are far bigger than peoples.

3. The Giganto sharks using this superior intellect will devise a method of swimming backward even though its is physiologically impossible for a shark to do so.

4. Giganto sharks can recognize a gun even though sharks have terribly poor eysight.

5. When breeding giganto sharks presume that they can be held securly by a flimsy chain link fence.

5. Giganto sharks will work in unison and devise plans and traps for your party even though most of the species in this film are rogue creatures that would eat their own mother if given the chance.

6. Giganto sharks can easily swim through small corridors and bulkways making nearly 90 degree turns without getting stuck.

7. A giganto shark apparently only needs waist high water to survive.

8. Apparently the film 'Jaws 3' dosen't exist in this world, if it did these people would realize: Building anything underwater where creatures are likely to smash through your viewing window is a bad bad idea.

9. Said viewing window will crack slowly and not spring small leaks despite the incredible pressure from the outside.

10. You can survive getting your arm bitten off and being dropped under water, being chomped by a giganto shark and thrown face first into a window and still be concious.

11. Carter Blake has big brass balls

12. Never scream about your harrowing tale of survival and inspriational leadership abilities near an open moonpool if there are giganto sharks around.

13. When some large creature is attempting to eat you, don't hide in the oven, you'll only give it ideas.

14. Giganto sharks that want to escape into the 'Deep Blue Sea' will occupy their time by hunting you and your friends instead of say trying to bash down that flimsy gate.

15. You can easily mistake a small model shark with a giganto shark that you yourself created and worked with for sevearl months.

16. Wetsuits will apparently insulate you from electric shock.

17. Adding milk to scrambeld eggs is a mistake.

18. Once you've realized your folly of playing god through genetic engineering sacrifice yourself by slicing your hands open and jumping in the water with the giganto sharks, you might redeem yourself to all those dead people.

19. Helicopter piolots will not simply climb higher in altitude to pull a submerged victim from the ocean depths, their partner instead will waste precious moments fiddling with the rope mechanism.

20. Flooding ocean water is always uniquly the same toliet bowl blue color and never contains any trace elements such as plackton, seaweed, small fish, or any other various sea life.

Feel free to add your own.

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Well actually most functions of the body are from the brain so if something improves the functionality of neurons, eyesight and other things like swimming backwards could be possible.

Most of the points are true though :)
I enjoyed the movie nontheless. 9/10

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169. You wait your whole life for a single moment...and one day it's tomorrow.

170. If you work in a tower and a flaming helicopter is hurtling towards you, freeze like a deer in the headlights instead of moving out of the way.

171. Sam Jackson got full sentences; usually Carter just nods.

172. Sharks are from a time when the world was just flesh and teeth.

173. When securing a 8000-pound sedated shark, use two yellow luggage straps.

174. You'd think the tropical storm would have put all the fires out...

175. Susan was a stupid bitch.

176. Sam Jackson is the only a$$hole down here who thinks that's a tad bit odd.

177. Sometimes the answer you get isn't always the answer you want.

178. Wreck diving is a tourist thing.

179. A bigger brain means more protein.

180. What does an 8000-pound shark think about? The deep blue sea.

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181. When in front of an underwater viewing window, you should just stand there when the glass cracks. And continue to stand there as the cracks begin to spiderweb outward. And still continue to stand there as chunks of the window begin to fly into the lab area. But when the window finally gives way and the ocean rushes in - THAT'S when you run.

182. If the sharks are so smart, why didn't the shark who threw the stretcher at the viewing window hang around waiting for the thing to shatter?? You never know. She could've come in to the lab area and maybe grabbed a quick snack if any of the humans weren't quick enough getting to the door.

183. There is nothing even remotely likeable about "Dr. Susie".

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184. The very first person who should've been eaten by a shark is that douchebag in the white shirt from the opening scene on the boat.

185. Samuel L. Jackson's characters likes people to tell him things. "TELL me I didn't see that". "Someone please TELL me what that is".

186. Did the shark grab Samuel L. Jackson and tear him in half just to stop his speech??

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187. Disembodied brain tissue afflicted with Alzheimer's disease will spontaneously begin to regenerate and fire when introduced to two drops of protein from a shark's brain. The process will take a maximum of six seconds.

188. When preparing for the possibility of a confrontation with a mutated shark in a half-flooded kitchen the frying pan is a perfect defensive weapon.

189. You can jam any size batteries haphazardly into a lantern and it will work.

190. A giganto shark with the brain the size of a Buick can easily swim through a human-sized door with room to spare.

191. When the hot girl dies the water will stop rising long enough to escape.

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192. Even though a shark swims 50 feet per second, and humans only swim 2 feet per second, it's logical that Preacher was able to hop, stumble and swim down a flooded hall and hide in the kitchen without the shark seeing him (at first).

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Saffron burrows bra does not go see-through when wet! (Damn)

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Carter Blake prefers a tank top wet suit and is impervious to cold.

Jim Whitlock can't seem to get out of the movie even after he's very, very dead.

Always make sure that a more delicious looking person is in front of you when a shark attacks.

Brothers never make it out of situations like this. EVER!

When a fake shark floats towards you make sure to push it back under the water so that you won't realize that a live shark is right behind it.

Gigantic sharks don't appreciate their maker.

When electrocuting a shark somehow some of the lights will stay on.

Sharks hate zip lock bags.

Aida Turtorro as Brenda Kerns isn't as successful at managing a control tower as Janice Soprano was in managing her love life.

You must have amazing lung capacity to join and under water station.

Preacher is just as adept with a cross as a knife when filleting fish.

The two main female characters should have died sooner.

An 8,000 pound Mako only has freedom on its mind - and the deaths of the underwater station staff.

You can have your femoral artery severed by a shark, remain in water for sever minutes and still have a tourniquet instantly stop the bleeding.

Susan is a jerk.

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- Who do we trust? SCOGGINS!

- There's always a golden rule in these kinds of movies and other genres: the hero always has a special skill and can only use this at the last possible and decisive moment, when most of the damage is done.

=> Carter = Shark Rangler

- A shark will just let a person walk around a flooded room for a while before charging in.

- Carter has the tendency to fall or fly through the sky alot => HERO?

- A shark will be so blinded by the light of the diver trying to catch her, she doesn't notice him taking his gear off to in an attempt to distract and catch her with his speargun.



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215(Roughly) Sharks always leave a snack for later e.g Jim Whitlock and Scoggins leg.

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216 A super intelligent Shark will still manage to be outsmarted by LL Cool J...
217 When you are performing surgery on a huge dangerous animal make sure you wait til' the weekend when there's only a skeleton crew working..

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I learned that the sound of Michael Rappaports voice inspires an intense feeling of hatred in me.

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219: If you want to pick an animal to perform scientific tests on which may result in increase of intelligence, speed and size why pick a lab-rat, a chimp or a cow when you could pick a carnivorous shark?! I mean what's the worst that could happen right? (It must be because their genetic make-up and metabolism is so similar to ours!)

220: Although most sharks have to stay in motion to survive, super intelligent sharks can stop and reverse or take a snooze out of water and be fine

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221: Science is EVIL!!!!11.........except when it comes to creating your dodgy looking CGI shark effects.

222: Saffron Burrows is the only actress in the world who can make a woman trying to cure a horrible disease and help people completely unlikable.

223. If your dad can't remember your mom is dead, and every time you tell him he takes it "like a car wreck", just keep telling him anyway.

224: The guy who owns that car who's license plate somehow ended up both in a shark here AND a shark in Jaws really needs to just stop driving altogether.

225: Carter doesn't like making waves. In fact, he's so opposed to wave making, he will tell at least two different characters on two different occasions how anti-wave making he is. Death to all wave makers.

226: If you ask Preach if he likes a song, he will flip you off.

227: As Janice found out the hard way, sharks take "eating you out" very literally.

228: Believing in God and carrying a cross will help you fend off mutant sharks. That, and the test audience liking your character more than "that bitchy scientist chick".

229: If someone says "what in God's creation?", do NOT take credit say "not his, ours". Playing God is one thing, but being cocky about it will result in an instant arm amputation.

230: Whatever you do, don't leave banana peels lying around Carter. He WILL slip on them.

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224: The guy who owns that car who's license plate somehow ended up both in a shark here AND a shark in Jaws really needs to just stop driving altogether.

My sides have officially split!

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30. (Picked a random number) Like velociraptors, super sharks can open doors.

"Snakes, Why'd it have to be Snakes?"

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