{"id":6658,"date":"2014-12-08T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2014-12-08T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T03:30:33","slug":"classic-film-review-deep-blue-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/6658","title":{"rendered":"Classic Film Review: Deep Blue Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-deep-blue-sea\"<\/a>By Nik Rasmussen–\u00a0<\/strong>Get ready to dive into the Deep Blue Sea. The 90\u2019s were full of monster movies.\u00a0 In my mind, Deep Blue Sea was the only other good shark movie besides Jaws.\u00a0 A team of scientists in a lab facility deep in the ocean has been developing a drug to cure brain diseases including Alzheimer\u2019s by experimenting on sharks.<\/p>\n

Why sharks?\u00a0 According to the movie, great white sharks\u2019 brains do not break down at any age of the shark\u2019s life span.\u00a0 The plan is to harvest \u201cbrain juice\u201d from the sharks; however, unbeknownst to most of the team, the three test sharks are given genetic enhancements to provide sufficient amounts of brain juice for the experiment to work similar to cattle and steroids.<\/p>\n

The experiment is a rush job because the big corporation funding the facility grows impatient and gives an ultimatum: give us a cure or you\u2019ll be living out on the street.\u00a0 Well, the experiment works, but as a side effect, the oldest killing machines of nature grew smarter.\u00a0 Long story short, don\u2019t get near a shark\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n

To be clear, this movie is not your traditional crappy Sci-fi channel B-film (bad acting, cookie-cutter plot and awful CG effects) like Sharktopus, for example.\u00a0 The actors are believable.\u00a0 The monsters look legit, and the underwater facility doesn\u2019t look like a flooded parking garage.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a science major, but the leap of imagination that takes place when they explain the sciences as to how and why this story takes place was convincing to me.\u00a0 Much like Jaws, after seeing Deep Blue Sea, I had second thoughts about swimming in large bodies of water.<\/p>\n

Deep Blue Sea was released in 1999 and is rated R, which makes sense, since a PG horror film kind of defeats the purpose.\u00a0 Starring LL Cool J (first black man to ever survive in a horror film, spoiler alert), Samuel L. Jackson (Jurassic Park, Star Wars I-III and Pulp Fiction) and Thomas Jane (The Punisher and Steven King\u2019s The Mist).\u00a0 It is directed by Renny Harlin, known for his work in Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and Exorcist: The Beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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