Post by ArcLight on Jan 11, 2020 23:13:09 GMT -5
Okay...sounds like the storm is coming in so this'll probably be quick...
Woke up early enough that I went to check out the first Saturday showing of Underwater. (I work 2nd shift, so leaving home before 2 PM is early for me)
Normally in this small town that would almost guarantee me a private showing for all but the bigger films. For whatever reason (I've no idea how well the film is doing financially) there was a good handful of people there.
Preview here:
youtu.be/jCFWEzIVILc
Basically - a small group of people at the bottom of the ocean have a very bad day.
Overall...it wasn't bad. Things start off with a bang and it clips along at a pretty good pace. Clocks in at just over 90 minutes which makes it the shortest movie I've seen in a theater in ages. That's not a bad thing, because that's really about all the time you need for a film like this.
It does seem to be at odds with itself - trying to shoehorn some big blockbuster-style action/effects sequences into a tense thriller as the dwindling crew try and find their way to safety, both from the destruction of the underwater mining and research platform they're stationed on and the things causing said destruction. It never quite reaches a good, sustained level of nail-biting tension because they need to throw an explosion - or more often, implosion - into the mix.
They did do two things I really didn't care for. Without spoilers, I'll just say that one trope they followed is so tired and overused that it's become a joke amongst characters in other movies like this.
If you like monster movies as I do, I think it's worth a matinee at least.
Woke up early enough that I went to check out the first Saturday showing of Underwater. (I work 2nd shift, so leaving home before 2 PM is early for me)
Normally in this small town that would almost guarantee me a private showing for all but the bigger films. For whatever reason (I've no idea how well the film is doing financially) there was a good handful of people there.
Preview here:
youtu.be/jCFWEzIVILc
Basically - a small group of people at the bottom of the ocean have a very bad day.
Overall...it wasn't bad. Things start off with a bang and it clips along at a pretty good pace. Clocks in at just over 90 minutes which makes it the shortest movie I've seen in a theater in ages. That's not a bad thing, because that's really about all the time you need for a film like this.
It does seem to be at odds with itself - trying to shoehorn some big blockbuster-style action/effects sequences into a tense thriller as the dwindling crew try and find their way to safety, both from the destruction of the underwater mining and research platform they're stationed on and the things causing said destruction. It never quite reaches a good, sustained level of nail-biting tension because they need to throw an explosion - or more often, implosion - into the mix.
They did do two things I really didn't care for. Without spoilers, I'll just say that one trope they followed is so tired and overused that it's become a joke amongst characters in other movies like this.
If you like monster movies as I do, I think it's worth a matinee at least.