Some of you here are just complainging that this movie wasnt good just to be negative. The first time I saw this, it was intense and still is. And they truly did a good job in filming and making the camera angles look as though they were in the water at nose level. Very good movie.
shareI just watched it on IFC for the 90th time. It still holds up and packs a nasty punch in my opinion. Sorry haters! I love this flick. From the scary Storm scene to the ending it still reduces me to tears.
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I honestly think the bottom line to any of this movie's detractors is that it just doesn't have a resolution that agrees with them. People just hate that sometimes and judge the entire film accordingly. Everything else about the film was excellently done and I felt that the tone set by the director/writer/cast was exactly how I was supposed to feel. It's a disturbing movie that works, and people who get disturbed enough by it will start casting aspersions on it.
shareI agree. I thought this was an extremely well done film. I love horror films but none really scare me. This movie SCARED ME *beep* As a kid i had a reoccuring nightmare about being in the middle of the ocean, just vast water and skykine in all 4 directions. This film stuck with me for weeks sending shivers down my spine.
shareI agree, this movie is excellent and it's low budget works in its favour. If this were a hollywood movie the sharks would be digital and the dialogue rediculous. Instead we have REAL sharks and REAL dialogue about REAL people. Almost like watching a documentary.
The music is also excellent and very subtle but effectve. It punches at just the right places and is sad/sweet at the right places. The only thing I didn't like was Daniel, not a strong actor in my opinion.
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I appreciate the fact that you guys liked this film, but there is absolutely no call for insulting the people who don't like it. Just because you enjoy a film and someone else hates it does not make the viewer ungrateful, stupid or just wanting to be negative. This film spoke to you and that is fine, but not every person is going to like every movie.
How many films do you not like? By your argument all of those films are actually good and you are just wanting to be negative. By looking at your other reviews, this seems to be a pattern with you; your opinions are obviously factual and anyone else's are not.
This movie, in my view, was terrible. I did not find it thrilling, interesting or anything other than downright boring. I was not looking to be negative. In fact, I was looking forward to this movie for months and was so excited when it was finally released. I spent 80 minutes in the theater waiting for it to get interesting. I left feeling more ripped off than I had ever felt in a movie before.
You can dislike or like anything you want, but don't assume because other people do not agree with you that there is either something wrong with them or that they just want to be negative. People like and dislike movies for different reasons, but we generally dislike jerks for the same reasons.
People dislike it because they're conditioned to expect bloodbaths which are spoon-fed to them in an obvious maner. What Open Water does so well is offer genuine terror without feeling the need to treat the audience like morons. Violence in OW is implied or not even shown at all. Morons don't like that. They don't understand it.
share"People dislike it because they're conditioned to expect bloodbaths which are spoon-fed to them in an obvious maner. What Open Water does so well is offer genuine terror without feeling the need to treat the audience like morons. Violence in OW is implied or not even shown at all. Morons don't like that. They don't understand it."
I am sorry but you are completely wrong here. Plus you have for absolutely no reason insulted people who don't agree with you. You only damage your own point and your own credibility when you refer to people as morons simply because they have a different opinion than you.
"Open Water" offered you genuine terror. I genuinely happy for you. The movie worked for you.
It didn't work for me and it has nothing to do with anything you have said. Every movie that has ever been truly scary to be has not been a bloodbath. When I was a kid I thought "Poltergeist" was terrifying and not one single person dies in the movie. I found "Sinister" to be quite scary as well and it was not a bloodbath. Even the original "The Haunting" was scary and there is no violence or blood in that movie.
Disliking "Open Water" has nothing to do with the lack of blood or lack of displayed violence. For some reason or another, the variables did not come together in any sort of way that I could see as frightening.
And you people need to get off your high horses by insulting people who don't like movies that you like by saying that they "don't understand it." The dislike has NOTHING to do with non understanding the movie. It simply has to do with not liking it.
Can't we all just get along?
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Maybe they don't understand that people can see a movie..know what it's all about..and still not like it.
"So we'll have them go diving, then they get left, then they fight, then we have some attacks, then the end."
The only real kind of any effort in the story they made was the role reversal with the male and female as to who was freaking out and who was keeping the other together. It's not a shock that the script took such a short time to make because there really wasn't anything thought provoking here other than the fact that you hope your boat captain isn't as incompetent when you go scuba.
To assume that people are only looking for guts and gore in suspense is moronic in it's own right. Many of us want STORY, and this movie had a severe lack of a compelling one.
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