Cameron H.

Great Idea, Lando! How about "Feel the Heat" from Cobra... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pjo8uw-RQg

Piranha 3D or Piranha 3DD?

So...I just noticed this. With this post the Deep Blue Sea episode will officially tie Monkey Shines for the third most commented episode of HDTGM. In just a few more it will have as many posts as A View to a Kill. Granted, it will never touch Temptation, but that is still pretty impressive. I really like this movie (in fact, I recommended it on one of my very first posts), but to have so many comments on it boggles my mind. In my opinion, HDTGM has covered much "crazier" movies in the past. Any theories as to why this one seems to resonate so much?

I'm down for most of this, but once they reveal her in her true form, could we bump LL's "Deepest Bluest" back a bit and end the movie with the song that should have been played over the credits? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ezkrrA4vhs

Thanks for posting this, Jarry! Do you think we should all take a stab at doing a critical analysis of "Deepest Bluest?" Maybe we should just go line by line... Right now I am stuck on the lyric, "Getting the lap dance while I smash through your boat." He also makes the classic error of mistaking "leagues" for "fathoms," which I love!

And without watching the movie again, aren't the staffers kind of waving like, "Hey, what's going on guys?" Among them, there's not a single look of the horror you would expect them to feel when arriving to work and finding A) their place of employment and livelihood slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean and B ) their co-workers and friends are most probably dead. A fun little coda to think about is if, upon arrival, you find out they were planning to refuel once they reached Aquatica. Radio for help? Nope, otherwise they probably would have done that before heading off to work and would have been forewarned that something was amiss. Consequently, after a few days drifting at sea and desperately resorting to cannibalism, the remaining members of the staff finally succumb to exposure and mercifully die. The End. "My hat is like a shark's fin!"

Yes. Yes it was. Which is why PFT said "Who cares?" if it has a license plate stuck in its mouth. He does this whole death defying, daring-do, aquafrolic to get it out of its mouth for absolutely no good reason. It's kind of like, why does he need to be underwater to watch the shark's feed? That doesn't make sense... And speaking of being underwater, when Carter is corralling the largest shark (which we are told later weighs 8000lbs), he removes his SCUBA gear, breath mask, and tranquilizes the shark? Okay...fine, I'll buy that, but the next thing you know he is rising dramatically from the wet lab floor with this massive shark strapped down to this platform. My question is, how did he get it there? I certainly didn't see an elaborate pulley mechanism nearby, and if they did have one, no one at HQ should be surprised to see him. Are we being led to believe that Carter grabbed this shark by its tail and hauled 4 tons of dead weight all the way to the lab? With that kind of innate strength Carter should have been punching these sharks out left and right!

I have to admit, one thing I thoroughly enjoyed in Deep Blue Sea was the amazing Foley work. What does the sound of a shark eating sound like? Like a dog growling and flinging a toy around, of course! A thin needle being delicately injected into the brain? Well, we've got a rotten cantaloupe, don't we? We'll just have someone punch their fist through it a couple of times. But how do can we convey a shark smelling blood in the water? That's easy! Sharks have nostrils, don't they? We'll just record someone sniffing the air, as I am 100% certain that inhaling oxygen is how things are smelled underwater...

Not true. But, then again, you haven't heard my rap album yet. That's how each song starts. It's a concept album about all the things I'm here to say.

Not to mention that apparently about 90% of Thomas Jane's dialog had to be water based metaphors. For example: "We're on the water. Whole cat and mouse thing don't float." "Look, I got a workable deal here. I don't make waves." "I'm just a fish keeper, lady." "Someone on the water who wouldn't make waves." Look, we get it, you work in the water! Let it go, man!

A little off topic, but...how are we not all freaking out that Paul announced that they'll be doing Face/Off? We finally wore Zouks down!

When Stellar Skateboard's character is airlifted out and the helicopter crashes, why isn’t a second rescue team sent out? I imagine the hospital or airport they are working for would wonder what happened to their rescue team. Was there no concern that they lost contact with their people? Where’s the rescue team for the rescue team?

Good point, but here's my question, how was Carter able to track a single, evidently untagged shark in the open ocean? We know the sharks are untagged due to a line regarding the storm reducing visibility and that when the sharks take out the cameras no one says, "No problem, I can still track them on this screen..." They just sort of collectively shit their pants. Also, based on a line from Scoggins, we are told that sharks can swim at an average speed of 50 ft per second which, despite assertions of his "trustworthiness," is patently untrue. Bursts of speed, maybe, but not average speed. But, let's take Scoggins at his word and say the average speed for this specific breed of unholy sharks is 50 feet per second. And let us further assume that since the sharks are solely tracked visually, by the time the team discovers a shark is missing and they are able to mobilize a search party, an hour has passed. Not taking into account the three dimensional space that is the fucking ocean, that means they would have a potential search area of 3,653 sq miles! To put this in perspective, this is about 1,200 sq miles larger than the state of Deleware. Is Carter magic or did the shark leave a swath of dismembered frat boys in its wake? Was the good ship Douche Bro at the beginning of the movie only the next stop on the shark’s grisly tapas crawl? And since I'm not really a math guy I will go ahead and show my work, feel free to let me know if I'm wrong: 50ft x 60secs= 3,000ft, 3,000ft x 60 mins=180,000ft 180,000ft /5280 ft per mile =34.1 miles A=πr2 3,653 sq miles= 3.14 (34.1)2 (On a related note, I may have just out nerded the Internet)

When the shark attacks Dr. Jim and everything goes apeshit, Carter runs to a glass case which he breaks with his bare elbow (ouch) and pulls out a gun to kill the shark. Burrows, shouts “No!” and frees the shark. Okay, so this raises a couple of questions: First of all, they have already proven the drug works and they still have some of the sample. Can they not just synthesize more from the sample they already have? If not, why can’t they just get more goop from the dead shark’s brain? Also, they have two additional sharks, so even if they need more of the miracle drug, they have options. Is putting down one frenzied shark really that big of a deal? Secondly, and perhaps an answer to my first question, maybe the drug can’t be synthesized and only works if taken from a live specimen. If this is the case, and given that a giganto-shark only provided a syringe full of this cure at a time, even if the drug is successful the price tag on it would be so astronomical no one but the super rich would be able to afford it. Thousands of people have Alzheimer’s and in order to cure them they have to have to maintain this huge, multi-million dollar aquatic facility set up solely for the creation and maintenance of these demon sharks. The cost rises even higher when you consider they would have to eventually make more sharks to meet demand. The most likely outcome would be Sam Jackson telling her, “Well, I respect what you’re doing here, but I’m a business man and I don’t really see how I can make a return on my investment. I’m really sorry, but I’ve still got to shut you down.” But then again, perhaps all of this is moot because even she gets her drug approved, wouldn’t she have to admit that she broke the Harvard Compact in order to mass produce it? Wouldn’t that negate any findings? Would the powers-that-be let the legalities of it slide and go ahead and approve the drug anyway?

So, I watched the delete scenes (with and without commentary) for this movie and there is a scene that was supposed to take place the morning after the birthday party. In it Janice is complaining of a hangover* to which Dr. Jim replies: “A hangover is just not having enough fluid in your body to run your Krebs cycle, which is exactly the same thing as dying of thirst. So, dying of thirst would be feel like the hangover that finally kills you.” If that quote sounds familiar, you may be recalling when it was recited almost word for word by John Nash’s “roommate” Charles in the award winning film A Beautiful Mind. Among the awards won by A Beautiful Mind were an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA for writing. Akiva Goldsman, the writer of A Beautiful Mind, was also a producer of this film. So we should all respect that the dialog in this film is Oscar worthy and that an award winning film like A Beautiful Mind had no problem getting sloppy seconds off the cutting room floor from a movie that included lines like, “She may be the smartest animal on the planet, but she’s still just an animal. Come to mama.” *It should also be pointed out that Janice, the character complaining of her hangover, had just revealed in the previous deleted scene that she was pregnant with Dr. Jim’s child. So her character is not just deplorably annoying, but also a potentially negligent and unfit mother. However, this may explain why she was killed via crotch/womb bite. It would have made this scene all the more tragic, but since the scene was cut, it just made her death look ridiculous.

Deep Blue Sea should one-hundred percent be viewed as an allegorical, passion play in the vein of Everyman.

What's even crazier then that is that it is a paraphrase of something Einstein actually said (albeit, less creepy-touchy): "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT's relativity." Really, Scoggins? Four years at CalTech and you have never heard that same exact quote on relativity attributed to the man who developed the theory? What were they teaching you there?

If there is something wrong with you then there is something wrong with all of us... You just succinctly described the sentiment of 98% of the people here. You are among friends!

Just finished watching Deep Blue Sea for the first time in about ten years and I have to say I found the science to be pretty solid...

I did. Thank you!

LL Cool J is a better cook as he was able to use the tools and knowledge of his trade to kill a shark! Not once did Ice Cube try to beat a snake to death with a camera. Missed opportunity if you ask me...

I would also like to second Paul's Star Wars: Rebels recommendation. It has yet to achieve the greatness of some of the Clone Wars episodes, but is far more consistent in quality. It's a lot of fun. As for Ant-Man, no matter how much Marvel would like me to forget it, Ant-Man will always be synonymous with spousal abuse for me. Yes, I know it's the Scott Lang version and not Hank Pym, I just can't see past it. I'd say read Ms Marvel or Moon Knight instead...

It is a live episode and I think it will be out Friday. If I am remembering correctly, LOL had a quick turn around. As for Lake Placid, who knows...

Yeah, I kinda got the vibe this was being recorded in the men's room of a bowling alley's arcade. Like Paul was counting his skee-ball tickets and suddenly realized he had a mini-episode to record.

To me, the real question is why does her husband have a readily available head/mugshot of his wife? When was that picture taken of her? Were they just goofing around one day and he was like, "Hey Honey, let me take a picture of you. No, don't smile or put on makeup. I just want you looking dead-eyed and austere."