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Ben Harp: NO! No no no no no no NO! Let me tell you what you've produced... Over the last two weeks, you two have produced exactly squat! SQUAT! During which time the ex-presidents have robbed two more banks. Now for Christ's sake, does either one of you have anything even remotely interesting to tell me?
[brief pause]
Johnny Utah: I caught my first tube today... Sir.

Altaltalt: Open Water - the protagonists are odious, the story slow and dull and in the end no-one even gets eaten by a shark!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:19, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Is open Water the one where they fall off the boat and spend the whole film being too retarded to get back on it again?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:21, Reply)

Haha!

( girlinthehole, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:23, Reply)

'Based on a true story'.
Except the reality was the skipper of the dive boat realised what he'd done eventually and went back to find them.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)

nah, he didn't
it's based on something that happened off the Barrier Reef in Oz. Couple were left behind, they only realised days later when they hadn't been seen back at their hotel/campsite (can't remember which). No-one knows what happened to them. Apparently their flotation vests turned up months later undamaged which suggests "not eaten by sharks" but, who knows? The barrier reef is 60 miles off shore, they hardly swam back on their own.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)

My brain must be playing tricks on me.
That does ring a bell now.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)

This was my problem, how could the film be 'based on a true story'
when noone knew what had happened.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)

well, quite
although I think we can safely assume it didn't end well for them.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Seems I'm thinking of Open Water 2
it really is very bad.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)

bees into what, now?
they made a fucking sequel? of a film based on a true story which couldn't have a more terminal ending if it tried?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Yeah.
Different people, they all jump off their boat to go swimming but forget to put the ladder down, they then spend the rest of the film squabbling, failing to get back into the boat and either getting killed or killing each other (there are 4 in this one), as before none of them are likeable.

It was also ruined for my by the fact that given their resources I could have been back in that boat in about 10 minutes.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:54, Reply)

Erm, surely the boat was anchored or something?
Anchor rope. Climb. Job done.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 14:05, Reply)

The best thing about Open Water
is the gratuitous tit and minge shot at the start of the film.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)

In fact they should have been the basis of the whole film, really.
Then they could have called it 'Nork and Mingie'.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:36, Reply)

Very true, and all the more welcome for being unexpected
I also liked it when they died
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)

They were extremely unlikeable as lead characters.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:39, Reply)

Which is abig problem in amovie whose sole sense of tension
is the audiences worry for their safty. i would have wlaked out of the screening if i hadn't fallen asleep
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:45, Reply)

At least I didn't pay to go and see it.
I saw it on telly a couple of years ago.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:47, Reply)

"the protagonists are odious, the story slow and dull and in the end no-one even gets eaten by a shark"
I think you're thinking of Sex and The City actually.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)

It's an easy mistake to make.
Also, I'd like to see a remake of The Godfather and have that bloke wake up and find Sarah Jessica Parker's head in his bed.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)

and Pretty Woman. And Cocktail.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:45, Reply)

sorry i missed your comments on my taste in films
but i was having my hair done for a lunchtime treat/tonight's activities.

this seems to relate to your opinion on my lovely feel-good movies, somehow....

although ACTUALLY the book of cocktail is very dark and depressing, all about drug addiction and losers, and the original script for pretty woman, called $3,000, is TOTALLY different to the actual film that was made. for a start, edward is a cheating swearing guy and they both take drugs and... well it's much darker. so it must be the backers who are saying, hmmm, we can make this film if we just make it fluffy...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 13:58, Reply)

I don't care, as it has Tom Cruise in it.
Instant shite. Unless it's so bad it's unwittingly genius, see "Top Gun"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Sep 2011, 14:07, Reply)

*Shakes head*

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 20 Sep 2011, 14:12, Reply)