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The Abyss James Cameron Sci-fi / Action James Cameron James Cameron Mikael Salomon Conrad Buff Joel Goodman Steven Quale Howard E. Smith 20th Century Fox 1989 171 min. English English Spanish 2.35:1 |
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| Ed Harris Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Michael Biehn |
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| Underwater action-adventure. The crew of a deep-sea oil derrick is conscripted to attempt a rescue mission of a downed nuclear submarine. The oil crew is joined by some Navy SEALS that make things interesting. The film eventually turns into a 2001 paced journey into the unknown. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Restored Footage Documentary Complete Screenplay Booklet (with actual interesting notes) multiple angles Storyboards DVD-Rom Games |
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| High art this movie is not. But there are some great things here. The feeling you get is that Cameron was trying to make a film which combined the intellectualism and poetry of 2001, with the drama and tension of an action movie. What you end up with is not a totally unsuccessful hybrid, in fact, there are some extremely well-written moments. As with most James Cameron movies, the effects are groundbreaking. But what makes this film worth the trouble is a great second act. Unfortunately, it ultimately suffers because the script has holes a truck could drive through. It is really unfortunate that one of the last moments of the film is besmirched with one of the greatest cop-outs in film history. In fact, this film has two of my prime examples of lazy scripting. The end, which is obvious, and the moment that the characters explain (to the audience) why it is necessary to show some tits. |
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