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 The Shallows 

What grade would you give this film?
A 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
B 82%  82%  [ 9 ]
C 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
D 9%  9%  [ 1 ]
F 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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 The Shallows 
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OK. I doubt it, but sure.

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Fun Fact: WOKJ has the highest ratio of bullies to regular contributors of any message board on the Internet! :towel:


Fuck you, Bradley.

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The movie introduces Nancy and her background well but for some reason (assuming legal causes) keeps the name of the island hidden throughout the entire movie.

Yeah, no.

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Blake Lively is the heart and sole of this movie

Good pedicure?

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The final act with the shark being impatient seems just too much, this dark sea mammal has got nothing to loose here and these creatures have been hunting their whole life.

We have a marine biologist here people!

Jack Sparrow wrote:
This is Blake Lively's Gravity/Martian

Pure gold.


What does it mean by "Yeah, no"
English problems get the fuck in queue.
That's my observation. I don't see you writing an review.
What do you mean by "Pure gold"

Two of your four remarks makes no sense and you talk to me about making sense.

So from here on it seems all my posts are going to be made fun of because I am apparently too stupid for all the folks of this forum


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Umm, it is Blake Lively's Gravity/The Martian. That doesn't say anything about comparisons of quality, just the set-up/idea. Hell, he wasn't the first one to make the comparison (obviously), Libs has done it twice before, the first time even in this very thread.


Chippy did it better:
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It's Blake Lively's Phonebooth.


Comparing it to The Martian/Gravity makes it look like it's some kind of an awards contender. This is Phonebooth / Buried / ATM territory.


Its called comparison of recent movies. So what if Chippy had "better" comparisons? I am comparing to recent movies and not about the quality of it. Just because you assumed something means others are wrong. Do you sometimes read how stupid you sound?


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Chippy wrote:
OK. I doubt it, but sure.


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The shark was played by Kiefer Sutherland.


Glad you joined the band of people making fun of me.


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Stop embarrassing yourself Jack.


Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:36 am
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Shut the fuck up _axiom. You are a prick who hides behind message boards and think they are kings of the world. The forum is much more dirtier because of bullies like you.


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I'm a bully and a prick and yet you're the only one going personal here. Nice going Jack. Put me on ignore list if I bother you.


Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:43 am
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Why don't you do that and put me in your ignore list? I didn't comment on your review to make you feel stupid. Clearly my post bothered you more to have written a post more than you have posted in last few days, and decades before contributing anything useless on the forum.

And calling someone "embarrassing themselves" is not personal attack? Or maybe making fun of a person's thoughts is not personal enough for you. Most of the times when you know that you have done something like a prick and bully you hide with posts like "Stop embarrassing yourself", this isn't the first time I have heard it from you.


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Jack Sparrow wrote:
Chippy wrote:
OK. I doubt it, but sure.


Chippy wrote:
The shark was played by Kiefer Sutherland.


Glad you joined the band of people making fun of me.


I did not make fun of you. I made a different comparison.

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^ Alright my bad. It just read that way.


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I find your posts funny. Why would I put you on ban list then? If you can't deal with my replies and they make you act like a little kid, that's not my problem, is it? Face the fact people don't have to agree with you and can have polar opposite opinion.


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I don't have problems with people having polar opposite opinions. Your opinions though should make some sense and not be just ugly like your reflection. BTW one would be called chicken when they just make fun of others without having their own opinions like in this thread I don't see your review here.

Also suddenly from personal attacks I am acting like a little kid. "PURE GOLD"


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I'm watching the movie this Friday. Hence no review. I don't copy/paste other's opinions like some here do. And not seeing the movie doesn't mean I can't comment on the review itself. Grow up.


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You did comment on what I thought about the movie, which you couldn't/shouldn't have if you haven't seen the movie I am talking about "the shark finale" and "marine biologist" (What the fuck does that mean anyways, do you really have to be marine biologist to know that??) comment.

I hope you didn't include me in copy pasting of reviews because I can show you post where I wrote first.


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Sparrow, just stop replying and digging yourself further into a hole. _axiom has a sour personality and is being a bully, and the conversation is just going in a mind-numbing circle.

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Sorry was about to stop anyways. I'm done here.


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Yeah, no. I didn't like this one at all. My biggest problem with these kinds of movies is - if you're going all the way to be as real as possible, then don't fuck it up. And they do fuck it up. A lot. They go all the way to have a character that was a medical student which is so lucky cause she will know what to do with the wound. And she has just the right amount of needle/hook like jewelry to somewhat help her close the wound. Sure, OK, I can believe that.

Then she just sits on a rock for 40-50 minutes. OK, still good.

Then the final act comes where they realized - oh how are we going to get her out? Yeah, step aside logic. You don't matter anymore. While the death of the shark was cool, she should've been dead. Ears popped, hemorrhage - pretty much drowned on spot.

Also I laughed like crazy at what was probably the worst CGI effect I've ever seen. Blake Lively's face being put on a stunt double while surfing. It was fucking hilarious to see the face being so badly put on stunt girl's face. It moved so strange and had weird facial expressions.

But not everything was bad. The seagull was fucking aces. Better acting than Blake. He stole the whole show. It would be more thrilling to watch his "sail" towards the shore for the final act than what Blake was doing.

The location where they filmed this is really beautiful. But they did a lame job of filming the tank/pool scenes. It was very obvious which shot was from the location and which one was from the set they've had.

*1/2 / ***** (D-)


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Jack Sparrow wrote:
_axiom wrote:
Jack Sparrow wrote:
The movie introduces Nancy and her background well but for some reason (assuming legal causes) keeps the name of the island hidden throughout the entire movie.

Yeah, no.


What does it mean by "Yeah, no"
English problems get the fuck in queue.

After having seen the film, this remark is even more pointless and completely wrong. So yeah, no. You can't put legal rights on a beach name. Those cannot be trademarked.

And it has been more than implied why they didn't tell her the beach name, despite her asking multiple times. It was a conscious decision by the makers of the movie not to put the exact location on the map for the viewers to pinpoint it. Whether it was to give movie a more mysterious/adventurous tone or for some other reason, doesn't matter. It's on purpose.


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This was just a tense and good experience. I liked it a lot, Lively is just great, and it's very well shot too. The score pulsates the film and kept me at the edge of my seat for the most part. Everything works very well, Serra did a very good job. The film sets itself up well and finishes with a lot of satisfaction too. I can add this to one of the better films of the summer.

B+


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This is a really good film. Quite intense, cleverly shot, awesomely tempting the audience at times, and a super cool finale. Seriously, the way she kills the shark is imaginative and super cool. She is quite resourceful, and she doesn't have much to work with! Blake Lively makes the film. She is super sexy, and she provides the right boob shots at the right time, and the right ass shots too, and for a skinny girl that is a feat! There were times when she wasn't great, but that was largely due to the script. Otherwise she is good. There were things I did not like; the soppy Hollywood "one year later" ending, the attempted link between the seagull and her medical education, her talking to herself as if she is operating on a patient, and the subtle feminist/anti-male undertone. But these were minor. The film is really entertaining. The glimpses of the shark are few-and-far-between, ramping up the tension, and when you do see him it delivers a punch.

Open Water is great, but this is probably the best shark film since Jaws.

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This film has grown on me over the years, its a pretty good shark film and since I saw this before Jaws I like this a little better, even though the second half of Jaws is MUCH better than this movie. Blake Lively is good and sexy in here, she really carries this movie.


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