#25 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie ListThe Abyss is the highest movie on my list starring Chris Elliott. It is the story of some deep sea dudes who suddenly get contacted by a water tentacle (tentacle rap?) and realize there are sentient creatures living under the sea. It's James Cameron, so you know it's going to be high melodrama, but I often find his particular brand of cacophony to be strangely moving. The end is some typical 80s message about why people shouldn't nuke each other to bits, but that doesn't ruin it because I for one am against people nuking each other to bits.
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(Plus) that picture caption is to close to makeing some kind of sense
They can't all be winner's.
Wait, so you mean to tell me that Cabin Boy, There's Something About Mary, Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas, Dance Flick, Scary Movie 8, Osmosis Jones, Kingpin, Poolside Ecstasy, Manhunter, and Medusa: Dare to be Truthful are all lower on your list than The Abyss?
What kind of Philistine are you?
Get a Life, Glenn.
The Abyss was a great movie. I liked when everyone was throwing up viscous fluid out of their lungs, and also the novelization was good which I guess makes sense since I just found out that Orson Scott Card wrote it.
I'll give you that, but Orson Scott Card is a bit of a fucktard frankly.
I just thought it was weird that he wrote a novelization. I read it when I was 12, but I still remember it being pretty good.
I hate OSC's politics and his nonfiction "editorial" writing style--he's really shrill, sarcastic, rude, and wrong about all kinds of stuff. I TA for a science fiction writer (Tony Daniel--good writer, got nominated for a Hugo for that story) who went to the Clarion workshop and hung out with Card, and he said he's a nice guy, but he's also extremely competitive with other writers, that he feels the need to "beat" everyone else.
But in his better books, there's really no trace of his politics or his confrontational personality. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead especially were well-written, humane, thoughtful books.
Fucking cut and paste. I mean this story, "Life on the Moon." It's great, and nice 'n' short, and well worth a read.
It lost the Hugo to "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly, which IMO is an overrated story.
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I've heard Ender's Game is good, but I read some essay thing by Card that made me dislike him so much I've never wound up picking up the book.
I love The Abyss. Although I wish no movies after it had used the "s/he's dead -- but then!! -- I brought him/her back to life by yelling at him/her!" method of resuscitation. I blame The Abyss for this phenomenon.
Abyss-related question: who here is a fan of the theatrical version, and who prefers the director's cut? (Or have I finally wandered into such nerdy territory no one will follow me?)
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