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Recently, I saw Xavier Gens’ Under Paris (2024), a French Horror film about a grieving marine biologist who must confront her tragic past to save Paris from the devastation wrought by a monster shark in the Seine. Although the film offered nothing new, I had a good time, and it led me to explore other aquatic horror films. Horror is a genre that aims to elicit emotions such as fear and disgust. And nothing scares humans more than the fear of the unknown, which can be explored effectively in aquatic horror films because you never know what lurks beneath the surface of any body of water. As I dug deeper, I discovered several underappreciated gems and concluded that there’s a plethora of aquatic horror films that have the potential to form their own subgenre of horror. This list includes horror films where water either plays a significant role in the story or occupies the vast bulk of the screen time. So, for your viewing pleasure, here are the top ten aquatic horror films.

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Looking for an action-packed suspenseful thriller like the 1997 film starring Robin Williams, “Flubber”.

At first glance, this film is a light comedy, but soon the tone takes a dark and heavy turn as professor Brainard (Williams) is stalked and threatened by a hardened gang of criminals, including Ted Levine from “Silence of the Lambs” (a film similar in tone to “Flubber”) intent on stealing his work.

I absolutely adore any film that can get me on the edge of my seat, wondering what’s going to happen next. Though “Flubber” had me sweating and shielding my eyes from time to time, it was worth the watch and I’m looking for a similar thrilling ride.

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There is a lot of discussion about how bad borderlands is especially in contrast to how good fallout was but i started to think there are plenty of movies that feel like they a ripped from a video game.

Can you think of any and what about it made you think it

Source code from 2011 starring jake gylenhaal comes to mind.

Scott vs the world actively makes those comparisons so does free guy guy

I feel like dredd as well well

So does overlord from 2018

Horror movies tend to feel eerie and make me feel a little unsettled, but it’s rare to see a horror movie where I genuinely feel terrified as to what will happen next. The atmosphere building in this movie was incredible and it isn’t afraid to put its characters through dire situations and fatal consequences, which makes you fear for each and every one. Here is my review: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hVsQ6tgfWxI&t=0s. Is it fair to say this is one of the scariest horror movies in years?

Now when I watch the opening scene of Citizen Kane, I now think about how "rosebud" is not actually a metaphor for lost youth, but is instead about a woman's butthole.

Going through an ‘Alien’ binge - currently on ‘Resurrection.’ Curious as to what everyone’s thoughts are on the different films.

I was watching Miami Vice the other day and it dawned on me, Brian DePalma should have directed this. Give me some examples where a director change could have improved the final film.

Asking as I find this kind of discussion more interesting than the simple “What’s your fav?” As it leads to a bit of repetition in the replies.

Someone at Paramount Pictures in the early 90s seems to have thought Roger Rabbit's success was because there was a talking baby in it

I say that because both Cool World and Bebe's Kids, both of which came from Paramount and both of which came out in 1992, had a sassy talking baby with the voice of a grown man. Not only that but it seems that executives thought the public wanted more of their talking babies because the Cool World baby has a slightly longer amount of screen time than Baby Herman (or he's at least in a couple more scenes than Herman was) while the Bebe's Kids talking baby is a major character

Kind of a weird coincidence. Only other options I can think of is "sassy talking baby" is to some Paramount executive from then what "giant spiders" are to Jon Peters or it was a weird coinkydink that both movies, that were distributed by the same studio, had that same ol' cartoon gag

He left significant, deep and incredibly powerful body of work and animation, and a filmmaking in general lost a lot great things when he died of cancer in 2010. What things you would like to see in his interpretation? What material in your opinion would benefit greatly from his expert hands?

Movies like Mulholland Drive and Donnie Darko

I just realized how it’s been well over 10 years since the last movie came out, which as a result, has gotten me worried because I start to realize that there could’ve been a third entry, but oddly enough, it never happened at all.

A Cinema near me is playing both of these classics around the same time on the same day and I can’t decide which one to see.

Question, Do you wish Coppola made The Godfather: Part IV?

I've been on a Godfather binge this week and I think Godfather 1 and 2 are probably the greatest movies ever made. I think Godfather III was good, but it has flaws in the film. After III, it looked like Coppola and Puzo were trying to get a fourth film made.

I think around the late 1990s, Coppola and Puzo had discussions on a fourth film. Apparently, they wanted Part IV to be a prequel and sequel similar to the 2nd part. They discussed seeing Vito Corleone and Sonny gaining the families' political power and racketeering empire during the 1930s; and with Vincent Corleone in the 1980s, haunted by Mary's death, running the family business through a ten-year destructive war and eventually losing the families' business interests, respect and power, seeing one final scene with Michael Corleone before his death, completing the 100-year story of the Corleone family's rise and fall.

Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire were considering returning to reprise their roles, with Ray Liotta & Luis Guzman considered for other roles and Coppola wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to play Sonny Corleone.

It was reported in June 1999, that fourth film and Andy Garcia claimed that the script was almost produced, but after Mario Puzo's death, Coppola decided the retire the series.

I am kind of curious as to how the film would of been made

So Do you wish Godfather IV was made? What if Coppola made Part IV?

how do you think the film would of been received? Do you wish Coppola tried to make it?

What two films would you grab from your collection if you were told everything else would be obliterated?

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Is Andy the most incompetent and useless Android ever in a film?

Genuine question. I was shocked by how hopeless he was. It was more stark when you compare him to all the other androids in the alien franchise.

I sent a video I created showing over 350 examples of symbols in movies to Eddie Muller of Turner Classic Movies. Eddie found it "fascinating." Eddie asked permission to use my name and describe my discovery on the air when he showed the movie "Three Strangers." Eddie had previously shown the movie about 2 years before on Noir Alley. He purposely rescreened the movie again so that he could tie in my Quan Yin discovery. By doing this, and mentioning my discovery, during the outro to the movie on July 20, 2020, Eddie is now on record as the television presenter who made the first public announcement my discovery. I’m sure Eddie has figured out the meaning of the Quan Yins and is keeping the secret. This makes me respect him even more, because just like the Quan Yin Cognoscenti, he also is keeping the secret, and thereby honoring all those Quan Yin Cognoscenti from bygone eras.

I thought you might be interested in viewing my video showing these symbols in American movies beginning in 1930 and continuing through 2022. I began cataloging my discoveries in 2016, working with professors from USC, UCLA, Yale, and Chapman University. I created a video which shows over 350 examples of these symbols. I believe you will be amazed after viewing just the first 5 minutes of my video.

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I'm very confused as to why he seemed to completely disappear. He hasn't directed anything in over ten years.

This man directed The Shawshank Redemption, the highest rated movie on IMDb and one the most culturally iconic films ever made. He also oversaw the first season of The Walking Dead which was one of the most successful and popular television series of the century. The impact he's had is honestly astounding.

Why did he seem to just go away completely? It's baffling.

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Should I see Wolverine x Deadpool, It Ends with Us, orrrrr Twister? Or other?

Feeling sick and need a bit of a laugh. I already have Superbad on my watch list, but for context, my top 3 movies I’ve found the funniest are Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim and Tropic Thunder

I don't know what accent John Lithgow was going for in Buckaroo Banzai. Sometimes it sounded Russian, other times stereo-typically Italian like a Super Mario parody. It was just bizarre (then again that whole movie is bizarre).

Also, Tom Hardy in Locke. Some have suggested he was trying to do a Welsh accent but actual Welsh people I talked to have said if he was trying to do a Wesh accent, he was doing a terrible job of it.

what's the most bizarre, incomprehensible fake accent you've heard an actor do in a film?

Zootopia and Teen Wolf Too

Both have Jason Bateman playing a furry creature

Both also have a giant cast dance party that includes the furry creature Jason Bateman plays

Both dance party sequences are set to a song that plays during one big scene and at the end in a scene where everyone is celebrating

Funnily enough there is a line in Zootopia where Nick, Jason Bateman's character, complains about wolves; I'd like to believe this is a reference to Teen Wolf Too but I somehow doubt the creatives at Disney would reference an obscure 80s sequel that their target audience has never heard of and most of their parents probably forgot about if they've ever watched it or even heard of it

Also Zootopia and Little Nicky (Both of which have Tiny Lister in them)

Both movies are about the main character leaving home to go to the big city only to uncover a conspiracy where the villain convinces almost everyone in the entire city to go nuts so they can take power, both movies have the main character befriend one or two peppy, dimwitted young guys obsessed with a certain musician (Ozzy/Gazelle), both have a scene where the main characters threaten a street merchant whose a thief and con artist, both movies have a scene where the main character has to deal with a difficult roommate/neighbor making insane demands, and both movies have a little person (or little creature in Zootopia's case) in a stroller gag

I actually enjoy this movie, and I re-watch it about once every six months. Does anyone else enjoy this flick? It so universally hated but I didn't think it was such a terrible movie.

Why are haters stupid? How can so called professional critics watch what is clearly an action classic in Death Wish 3 and be so blind to it?

First for those who haven't seen the movie, here's an overview - vigilante Paul Kersey (played magnetically by Charles Bronson), having got revenge in previous Death Wish movies on street punks for his wife's murder and daughters rape, and then the same daughters second rape and murder by other unrelated punks, is going to visit an old Buddy who gets murdered horribly by street punks. Anyway, Kersey is caught looking at the body and taken to jail, where he is beaten up by cops who want to work with him to take out a gang of street punks who have turned a busy downtown neighbourhood into a war zone.

While in jail the leader of the street punks (A man so bad that he intentionally shaves his head to look balding even though he’s not - and makes it look cool as fuck!) locks eyes with Kersey and that makes them mortal enemies.

Anyway I won't give away all the twists, but Kersey is released from jail with the police chief's permission to murder whoever he wants to clean the streets up on the one condition that Kersey keeps him updated (which he doesn’t but the chief lets that slide)- and it all gets even better from this point on.

If you've seen this movie, you would already know that this has the greatest final showdown of any action movie ever, as Paul Kersey and friends lay waste to anything that moves.

Other highlights include Kerseys use of the massive machine guns some old guy smuggled back from the Korean War somehow and keeps in a cuboard, his various brutal booby traps for burglars - and on a sadder not I was all tore up inside when Deanna Troi from Star Trek was raped and murdered (yes you see her naked if you're wondering trekkies).

All in all, though Paul Kersey gets a lot of innocent people killed (and raped), he probably kills more bad guys than that. And in doing so teaches the hood that sometimes you have to make a stand.

I know some people might not believe this, but if you ignore know nothing critics, Death Wish 3 is easily more fun than just about any action movie ever (including Die Hard and Terminator) - and no that's not a joke. The action is better, the violence more extreme, it has bad ass bad guys (who like all Death Wish murder gangs are very open to diversity of members which is nice) and a killer 80's score by Jimmy Page.

For fucks sake, if you like action how can you not like this movie?

Anyway, it’s about time that Death Wish 3 finally got it’s due as the action classic which it is. Check it out if you’re hard enough, you won’t be disappointed.

Have you ever seen a film that is an unabashed rip-off of a great movie that was actually quite brilliant? My favorite example by far is the 1981 Neo-Noir Body Heat. To say it lifted from Double Indemnity is putting it mildly, it's the same film. Not a scene by scene lifting but it's very much inspired by the Billy Wilder classic: Both are about Femme Fatales that manipulate a man into murdering their respective husbands for the sake of money. Putting aside the plagiarism, Body Heat is a hell of a film. Every shot is drenched in the foul yet alluring stench of sin. When you watch William Hurt and Kathy Turner on screen, it's like they are locked in a constant state of fornication. Above all this is basically a Classic Noir fan's dream come true, a pitch perfect duplication of a great noir that is free from the constraints of the production code. This 1981 takes advantage of the R rating without ever feeling vulgar. The film isn't cheap or exploitative, it's adult and no more. Anywho, what are your favorite Rip-offs?

After seeing this video of the helicopter pilot rehearsing for Beverly Hills Cop 4 going around, I wondered what scene or action was depicted as being poorly or amateurely done, but is in fact far more complex and dangerous than it lets on to be?

Question, How did Coppola managed to make The Godfather: Part II so fast?

Allow me to explain, The Godfather was released in March of 1972. Because of the Success of The Godfather. Paramount wanted to make a sequel, and managed to convince Francis Ford Coppola to come back to the sequel with greater creative control.

However before he went on Godfather: Part II. Coppola had several conditions. 1st be allowed to direct his own script of The Conversation; 2nd that he be allowed to direct a production for the San Francisco Opera; and that he be allowed to write the screenplay for The Great Gatsby, all prior to production of the sequel for a Christmas 1974 release. Coppola also produced George Lucas's American Graffiti.

First he did The Conversation, which filmed from November of 1972 to February of 1973. He then writes The Great Gatsby probably after which by his own admission took three weeks to write. Theatrically, Coppola would of have 8 Months to write the script as Filming for The Godfather: Part II would start around October of 1973.

Not only that, but Coppola managed to get a lot of the cast and most of the crew back on with the exception of Marlon Brando and Richard S. Castellano, which declined to return. Also, Production, however, nearly ended before it began when Pacino's lawyers told Coppola that he had grave misgivings with the script and was not coming. Coppola spent an entire night rewriting it before giving it to Pacino for his review. Pacino approved it and the production went forward.

I just wonder how Coppola managed to get Godfather Part II in a 2 year span (or less than 2 year span) with all the other stuff that he was also doing at the time.

I’m not new to them, I’ve seen some like the Outrage trilogy, a few other Beat Takeshi films.

I have a bias towards newer films but could watch some older ones if you recommend them.

Alright I’m also on the fence about Takashi Miike. I’ve seen a few of his and I find them to be either too weird or too violent. But I’m open to be proven wrong.

Anyway please share your favorites. Thank you!

I have recently been watching a lot more movies than I did before.

I haven't watched many movies when compared to the average person , who has been an avid movie viewer their whole life.

Stuff that I have watched and enjoyed recently include: -

Groundhog Day

The Shawshank Redemption

E.T.

Back to the Future

The Harry Potter movies.

I just wondered if there were any lesser known stuff that you thought I might like? This might be too broad as a request. I thought it might be nice to start this discussion though.

Thanks.