Is there anybody who isn't constantly annoyed at how dumb these people a - Open Water 2: Adrift (2006) Discussion

[–] szlwson 15 years ago

Why the F would they have got a heavy man to climb the rope and not a lighter female?

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[–] jamesl9 15 years ago

Because a woman wouldn't have the upper body strength to pull herself up. Trust me, I'm a woman. The only chance they had was a man on the rope.

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[–] zombiefrank 15 years ago

Wow, apparently you speak for all women? You might not have been strong enough, but the fact that those women were capable of staying afloat for so long, leads me to believe that they were capable of pulling themselves up...I'm sorry but again I really can not believe you think women do not have the upper body strength to do so. I am a male and I have watched two women I am friends with at the gym do over 50 pull ups, so speak for yourself fat ass. Now back to the topic, this movie really pi--ed me off. I do not understand why they never attempted to boost one another when clearly the edge of the boat was not that much taller, considering how little the dude had to climb in order to reach it in the first place. I do not buy the fact that it was only because they were panicking. They were scared, but they were pretty collected regardless considering they were capable of staying afloat for so long and they were not arguing amongst each other. In other words they understood the situation yet they waited so long to even think of using their bathing suits as a rope. That was the fourth thing I considered, the knife being the first thing I would have tried using to plant a step into the side of the boat....This movie really annoyed me, I don't even want to finish my thoughts..lol

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[–] LittleSilverBoxes 14 years ago

I'm a woman and don't think I'd have the upper body strength to pull myself up. I struggled to pull myself out of the pool when I was swimming last friday! I can't even do one push up!
However I think in those sorts of situations, you do find the strength somewhere deep down to do the almost impossible. I think if my life depended on it, I'd be able to pull myself out of the water.

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[–] edess 14 years ago

If I had to do it, I could do it.

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[–] thepartydjz 13 years ago

Anybody could've climbed up into the boat, this shear idiocracy, the dumbest most assinine movie ever made.

PURE GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!

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[–] DurakSuka 8 years ago

You're a first class idiot.

Hama cheez ba-Beer behtar meshawad!

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[–] BigEasy1203 14 years ago

It's all relative. While it is true that men are stronger than women (in general), they also tend to be larger than women and therefore have more body weight to lift.

This is definitely the case in the film. The guy they chose to try to climb the clothing rope was at least 60 pounds heavier than any of the women, and I am basing that on him weighing about 180. He's probably stronger than any of the women, but lifting an additional 60 pounds of weight is a pretty good equalizer. Then consider that all of the women looked pretty fit, I would guess any one of them could climb the rope as well, but with much less stress on it.

The best solution by far was using the clothing rope like they did, but have the strongest woman do the climbing, and get all of the guys to help push her up by her feet at the same time. I realize without having a base under them, the guys could only do so much, but they would definitely be able to provide some amount of lift. If the guy came close to making it without any help at all, I have no doubt this method would work.

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[–] uscmd 12 years ago

I thought the same thing. Or at least, if the guy was the one with the requisite strength, how about, using another guy to support a portion of his weight, i.e., lessen the pull on the clothing rope.

But how about 2 of the big strong guys tossing one of the small women onto the boat. The way they do in a pool. I think they could have gooten her within reach of the lower rail.

But who would be so stupid as to go into the water without giving thought, any thought about how do we get back? No one I know.

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[–] thepartydjz 11 years ago

The only thing stupider than the characters in this movie are the fans of the movie, they are truly clowns

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[–] CuddleBunny909 14 years ago

Oh my gosh..that is exactly what me and my sisters were complaining about -__-

I'm intolerant to intolerance.

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[–] philip-taylor-ok 14 years ago

All they had to do was gather around the girl with the life Jacket (Extra buoyancy) then the lightest female pulls herself up using he rope and the platform of 4 People together all pushing and supporting her, for an extra foothold they could have stuck the Very Strong hunting knife into the Hull as a step!! I had to stop watching after around half way as I could not believe how *beep* stupid they were, and I figured they deserved to drown anyhow!! Though I did feel sorry for the poor baby, who was the only sympathetic character, and the only one I felt for

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[–] cheryllchance 13 years ago

LOL I thought the same thing.another stupid thing they did

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[–] soupphysics 13 years ago

Just one guy alone, attempting to jump, almost reached the edge.

So if just 2 guys have grabbed his feet, and each of them pushed hum up, he would EASILY have reached it.

End of movie!

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[–] caridwen1987 9 years ago

I know

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[–] szlwson 15 years ago

Why would they have thrown the mobile phone in the water?

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[–] monkeyfront 15 years ago

I accidentally put my mobile in the washing machine once... After doing so I put it in the dryer. It still worked. Mobiles are surprisingly durable. They gave it up far too easily.

And I agree with the person who said about getting a lighter female to try and climb the rope. I was thinking the same thing. I also considered perhaps stabbing the knife into the boat. If it stuck in using it to stand on or perhaps making a hole and using that as a foot hold.

If they'd original been skinny dipping it would have been easier to believe. However, I think they had many options. They were clearly very stupid.

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[–] jrpelt 15 years ago

You should read the plot synopsis on OW2's wiki entry -- you can tell the person writing it was just as exasperated with their dumb moves they made, even pointing out that they should have had one of their lighter members rather thhan Zaxh climb the rope.

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[–] lkillen 15 years ago

Yes
I found myself wishing for sharks.

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[–] Son_Of_A_Bitch_Must_Pay 15 years ago

Forget the rope,, Did anyone notice the indentions at the back of the boat,, whereever the guy and girl were at near the end of the movie, in the close-up shots that could have easily been used to get back on the thing, someone could have easily grabbed hold of them and someone could have climbed up their back and gotten back on

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[–] The_Optimist 15 years ago

They should have called this Morons at Sea. One guy cracks his own skull, while another stabs himself in the chest.

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[–] eifel-1 15 years ago

Yes, and that girl who decided to swim away in open sea/ocean, an unknown direction, without seeing any shore.

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[–] tbula37 15 years ago

So true!!!!

Jeremiah 29:11-13

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[–] barbarossa4188 12 years ago

Lol!!!!!!!

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[–] slesleylawson 9 years ago

Ha ha Morons at Sea.

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[–] jamesl9 15 years ago

That never would have worked. The holds were under the boat. No way they could have gotten up that way.

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[–] bing-57 9 years ago

> someone could have easily grabbed hold of them and someone could have climbed up their back and gotten back on

Probably not, because the slant of the back of the boat made it almost impossible to climb up. But, they should have at least tried something with the back of the boat.

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[–] eifel-1 15 years ago

I would say that they were acting on emotion without any thinking.

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[–] platinum_polar_bear 15 years ago

I agree with the other person they were probably acting on emotion. Whenever your in a situation like that you most likely panic and dont think straight and just go with the first thing you think of. Same thing with horror movies when your about to get killed you dont think straight either and do whatever first comes to mind which sometimes ends up being a stupid move.

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[–] past_tyme 15 years ago

I think survival instincts kick in as well, and even though you're acting on impulses, you are still acting to survive. I really doubt people would just give up so soon and just tread water without coming up with all possible solutions as quickly as possible. And then there's the motivation of the two parents who instinctively would have done everything for their daughter. Yes, there are horror stories of people dying in such circumstances, but there are also amazing survival stories as well. With 6 people around, it's just plot convenience that they didn't come up with a solution (that most everyone in the audience though of) quicker. That makes it a very bad movie. And if the writers had just attempted to show them trying to boost each up on their shoulders (people say there was no leverage, but the hooks on the bottom of the boat could have been very useful as well as the knife and eventually the goggles) or a lot of the other methods mentioned even if they all would fail, it would make the story more believable.

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[–] PB_Floyd 15 years ago

There was no freakin' need for any kind of rope, or hole in hull or something else... There were three guys, of which two seemed to be pretty shaped up. Those Michelle girl was like 50 kilos. Belive me, three guys can lift one skinny girl out of water enough that she can catch the edge. I play waterpolo, doing similar exercises for your legs strength (In fact, I'm not lifting girls, but some other ugly stuff. Too bad.). Once, I saw guy (goalkeeper) putin' his little girl in chair, grab that chair for legs and went across the pool for 25 meters, leavin little girl dry. She was laughing out aloud btw.

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[–] tbula37 15 years ago

I wondered why they didn't do that, have the guys make a ladder or whatever, and lift the light girls up. I am more out of shape than I'd like to be and would find that task difficult, but I think if my baby was on board alone, adrenaline would kick in and make me able to propel myself over the side of the boat with the help of five people, three of them being fairly in shape guys!!!!

Jeremiah 29:11-13

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[–] Stirchley 12 years ago

I think if my baby was on board alone, adrenaline would kick in and make me able to propel myself over the side of the boat with the help of five people, three of them being fairly in shape guys!!!!

Totally agree. I have just posted elsewhere that the mother was relatively calm about being separated from her baby. Most mothers would have been totally mental and would do anything to reboard the boat.

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[–] InfoBabe 15 years ago

I lived around the ocean a good part of my life but I don't know that much about boats. But one thing I do know is that the sea is very unforgiving and doesn't suffer fools.

This bunch one-upping each other fueled by alcohol, no real experience, is very believable. Remember those four football players about a couple years ago who went for a spin out in the Gulf? People who should know better, don't.

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[–] SoulsDescend 15 years ago

Not sure why writers somehow don't understand that people don't want to watch a group of idiots make dumb mistake after dumb mistake. There are several clever ways they could have cranked up the tension, rather than having the characters stabbing one another and voluntarily throwing their cell phones into the water.

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[–] databyter 14 years ago

Thank you. I had to come post because this movie annoyed me so much. I mean, somewhat entertaining if you suspend belief that there are people this stupid. I came into the movie a bit after the beginning and I was thinking, it's too damn bad all these genius's don't have a knife, then I see a guy with one and I'm thinking wtf, just dig a freakin hole, make a step, a tunnel or whatever. Yea the hull is tuff, but it won't stand up to a prolonged knife attack, especially at the seam of the ladder port, and you can fix the damage later who cares.
Then finally one of the genius's grows a brain and starts to do it. And gets attacked?

Oh yea, and the idiot girl finally gets on board does she help her buddy, nah, just go check on the baby. I mean please, I like kids too but you have to have a sense of priorities in life. A crying baby is a baby that is functioning. You help your half drowned friend out of the emergency situation first, then go check on the baby, and even if you mess up and check on the baby first like a brain dead mom might, you don't take a nap without making sure your friend has boarded the boat. At the end I found it hard to feel too bad for the dumb lady who let her friend die.

Please, no one is that stupid.

This could have been written just a bit better and avoided all the stupidities necesary to justify the plot.

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[–] Eradan 14 years ago

These people were so stupid they made my brain hurt....

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[–] LordManhammer 8 years ago

I love how some people are using Amy's supposed inattention to her baby as a reason to criticize her, and other people are using her over-attention to the baby to criticize her. Woman just can't get a break!

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