The isolated location in the ocean makes a sort of sense as well, as open ocean sharks do very, very poorly in enclosed spaces: in aquariums, their lifespan is generally measured in days. Mako sharks actually do have one of the largest brain:body ratios of any shark. There is a lot of unusually clever stuff in here for what is essentially a very stupid movie. You know that not all of them are going to make it to the surface, and much of the pleasure comes from watching the various ways they get munched. Yes, someone has a ham-fisted “looks like we’ve moved down the food chain” line. They can also swim backwards, which is like a human becoming smart enough to spontaneously levitate.įollowing an inevitable accident (clearly Jurassic Park never made it to theatres in DBS world), the facility starts flooding, and our plucky band of scientists, cooks and ex-con divers (?) must try and survive the onslaught of three sharks that are both very clever and sick of being poked with needles in the brain. Of course, said genetic twiddling also makes them look nothing like mako sharks, but that’s beside the point. Unfortunately, some unethical genetic twiddling later to increase the ‘yield’ and what we have is some very smart sharks on our hands. I say all this so that you can get a flavor of the perspective I approach this movie from, and see the huge amount of affection I have as well as the tongue I have planted firmly in my cheek.Ī team of scientists, working on an old mid-ocean submarine base, have been experimenting on some mako sharks, because apparently, shark’s brains don’t degrade as they age, and if we could harvest some special proteins from them, we could prevent and even reverse nasty diseases such as alzheimer’s. My favorite though was Deep Blue Sea, a movie we rented for my 14th birthday, an age at which I feel that really bad movies can become formative. I have a soft spot for the genre though, as they fulfilled three vital criteria at the video rental store:ġ) They were in the all encompassing Horror/Fantasy/Sci-Fi section.ģ) They were usually age rated low enough that 12 year old Andy could rent them without issue. I think it was the success of Jurassic Park combined with the lowered cost of CGI, but in the space of a few short years we had Anaconda, Komodo, Boa, Mimic*, Lake Placid, and the immortal Deep Rising** None of them are, y’know, good. Today’s film offerings: Deep Blue Sea & Deep Blue Sea 2Īndy : For some reason, the late 90s was a gold mine of giant monster movies. Hello and Hallo-welcome to Sharky Saturday, where we review films with a bite (radius)! You join your bloggers, Andy and Lilly, as they approach the research facility out in the middle of the ocean, where nothing could go wrong because there are definitely no super-smart sharks with a grudge swimming around, right?
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