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I feel like a fool, I payed to see this........................
Total crap, the cgi effects are horrible, the acting worse. Best scene, when the chick strips down to her undergarments, and then they can't even make them sheer? Shame on you. Triva, the license plate pulled from the tiger shark at the begining is the same as the one Hooper cuts out of the wrong dead shark in Jaws. Nice homage, but otherwise, this stuff is grade school. Ice tray sucks, stick to your rapping, maybe better, give that up too. Believe me, Jaws is the greatest shark film ever, currently being remade. Anthony Edwards as Brody, Nick Nolte for Hooper, and John Stamos as Quint. Can't wait, to puke at that one.

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To truly enjoy, you must understand
I am well aware of the flaws in this movie, but to truly appreciate it, you must understand its great strength. bear with me. First, so you know where my info comes from. I'm a diver, and when I was about 8 or 9 my oldest brother brought home a book on sharks which included a rather large appendix of recorded attacks. My love and fascination of sharks and the seas was born. Since then I got into diving and love photographing sharks which are truly beautiful and awesome in their own habitat. I have even worked with a few while volunteer diving for Marineland (The first marine aquarium in the world, the pioneer of the field, and one which has been brought to the brink of closing by places like Disney and Sea World but yet remains open). In the fourth or fifth grade I also took on mythology which includes oceanic civilizations who worshipped sharks as gods. Sorry for the longwindedness but I'm working my way to the point. <
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>Jaws was an excellent story but written at a time when sharks were still very misunderstood. Even Benchley, in retrospect, regrets writing it because it gave sharks a bad name. Keep in mind that his expertise came from being involved with sharks and working on documentaries such as "Blue Water, White Death". Therefore, he knew how fictitious his story was, but never counted on people taking it for the gospel. Since that time it has been discovered that the vast majority of white shark attacks were not white sharks at all, but bull sharks. So the white shark has since lost a lot of its bad reputation to a shark that is worldwide and even comes to live in fresh water. Unfortunately, the general public doesn't follow these things but hopefully Discovery's "Shark Week" parades of info will eventually change that and even make people realize shark attacks are accidents and these movies are just fictitious stories. That was Jaws, now on to Deep Blue. <
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>In recent years studies have been conducted on mako sharks which are the kind in the movie. The general belief about sharks is that they are brainless eating machines. True, most are likely outdone by most mammals alive, but not the mako. The mako is the PERFECT shark for such a work of fiction as Deep Blue. Why? Because they are the smartest of the sharks as it is. How smart is that? They likely learn more swiftly than your favorite dog. They can even set instinct aside as a choice made by thought. This may not sound so spectacular but it is a clear sign of intelligence, especially in a wild animal. It is in the wild that these studies were done. Now add their natural speed of up to approximately 60 MPH and their general fearlessness to the point of being known to attack boats. They have even jumped into boats for who knows what reasons. <
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>Add these factors together, then multiply by four (makos are only about 10-12 feet long naturally) for the size differential. Now what do you have? A damned smart shark that fears nothing short of a ship (okay, maybe that's a bit extreme but you get the point), and has the speed and strength to cover distance in an instant and smash through most anything that isn't made especially strong and can swallow a person and barely notice. <
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>Look up information on the extinct carcharadon megalodon if you'd like visual aid to imagine size. That shark had a tooth length of about 6-7 inches whereas a big white shark has teeth about 2-2 1/2 inches long. A shark the size of those in Deep Blue would even undoubtedly feed on killer whales. And most likely, nothing could contest its rule of the seas when full grown. <
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>A final note to any reading this far. The movie "Open Water" is a rag. Whether you like the way it was filmed or not, the shark attack ending is nothing but a work of exploitation. They don't know what happened to them and threw sharks in because, quite frankly, sharks sell. And quite frankly, every dive boat I have been on has been either very efficient or very inefficient. I have yet to see one display efficiency like that in the movie, but not check role call again later. I'm not saying there aren't any like that, but I haven't seen any. <
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>Sorry for rambling so long. I had many people ask me a lot about sharks after watching Deep Blue and appreciated it much better afterwards. So just thought I'd try and help to understand it.

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"Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters!"
Renny Harlin's "Deep Blue Sea" really has nothing in it that you have not seen before. It is best described as a by-the-numbers thrill-ride that borrows generously from other and better films. <
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>A group of scientists led by Doctor Susan McCallister (Saffron Burrows) is conducting experiments on genetically altered Mako sharks in a deep sea research laboratory. They believe a protein found in the brain of the Makos can be harvested and used to cure Alzheimer's Disease. However, the sharks break loose after a tropical storm hits the laboratory. McAlester, shark handler Carter Blake (Thomas Jane), engineer Tom Scoggins (Michael Rapaport), cook Sherman Dudley (LL Cool J), and scientist Janice Higgins (Jacqueline McKenzie) battle for their lives as they try to avoid the lurking predators. <
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>There are several aspects of "Deep Blue Sea" that are worth complementing. First off, the cast is very good. Burrows is solid as the researcher with good intentions and Jane projects just the right amount of masculinity that his role calls for. LL Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellan Skarsgård, Rapaport, and McKenzie are also great in their smaller parts. Second, the sharks actually look realistic. Special effects certainly have come a long way since the original "Jaws" (1975). Finally, the musical score by Trevor Rabin is wonderful and certainly gets the blood pumping. However, in the final tally, "Deep Blue Sea" just is not smart or clever enough to distinguish it from other predator-prey films. Chalk it up as pure chum.