After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up in Barbados...
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1
That is fucking horrible.
C'mon Art another Aquatic Dead thread?!
The story reminds me of a film I saw once about a ghost ship. It was this ship and it was full of ghosts. What was it called? Hmm Herbie Rides Again, that's it.
I remember standing in Smiths, trying very hard not to laugh, while too youths next to me had a 'how many killings?' conversation about Ghostship
Yarrrr!
The movie "Ghost Ship" is a bit of a snorefest, TBH, with some potentially interesting material pissed up the wall. Also since you pretty much see the money shot (the cheesewire style mass dismemberment) in the trailer watching the actual movie is a bit redundant...
Yeah, that scene at the beginning was great and set it up to be a great movie, which it most definately wasn't.
I just love the way the guardian saw fit to put an ad for birdseye halfway through that article...
They were obviously killed by the monster from Dep Rising, which is the finest aquatic monster movie starring Treat Williams and Famke Jansen ever made.
No doubt the Evil Spaniard knew the monster was coming, and left them to their fate...
I wasjust watching the film 'Open Water' earlier this morning.
About young couple who were accidently left behind on a scuba trip. They stuck out in the water for what seemed like 24 hours before they were attacked by sharks.
The people they went scuba diving with didn't realise they were gone until the following day.
Only a camera they were carring were found inside a shark that was caught later on in the day.
Unlike what happend with the 'Ghostship' no bodies were found at all.
I saw Open Water recently as well, great low budget film that
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Cheers,
Rob.
Oh, petrified as in partually turned to stone, not petrified as in died from FEAR.
That's much less interesting...
That's much less interesting...
The same way that "The boat's phantom crew was made up of the desiccated corpses of 11 young men" *doesn't* mean that they'd been turned into coconut.
Very dissapointed with Open Water to be honest... it's some good bits but over all it's not great
I thought Open Water was incredibly dull. The only part that I liked was the night scene but it lasted about 3 minutes(if that). Oh, and the full frontal nudity, that'll always grab my attention during a crap film. Of course anyone who's read Thryllseekyr's post now doesn't need to watch the movie ;)
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I'm curious as to how they make it work dramatically - it's based on the true story of people who went for a swim, surfaced to find their boat missing, floated about a bit and then get eaten by sharks and/or drowned. Now, I love Jaws as much as the next man, but if you KNOW that the characters going to get eaten in the end (and theres nothing they can do about it) what's the fun in watching them bob about a bit for 90 minuts?
Spolisher
... well actually you don't know.
What, they might be washed out to sea, never to be seen again, but it might end up happily in some way?
I had no idea about Open water as i'd not read/seen any previews or hype of it anywhere. So i went into watching the film without knowing all the points about
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the sharks and getting left behind and wotnot. right up until it suddenly ended i was still expecting a "hollywood" ending and was pleasantly surprised when i didn't get one.
cheers,
Rob.
ps - don't remember the full frontal nudity though! Must be getting old :(
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So they float about and they die, and that's it? That's crap.
Mmmmmm! when you put it like that then.....!
Rob.
SPOILER TYPE STUFF AGAIN !!!!
Its supposed to be a true story, but actually the police think they faked their own deaths due to massive debt. So its not true at all, but around 90mins of watching peolple bob up and down thinking, christ I wish these two tossers would be eaten soon.
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...In order to make it work dramatically they try and create tension out of the way their relationship breaks down as the film goes on rather than the sharks really. It works ooooookay, but Blair Witch was kind of similar and was done a lot better I feel. I can see Rob's point about the ending, it is refreshing that it ended the way it did, although after 90 minutes I was just gutted nothing had actually happened.
As for the nudity, it's at some point during the first 40 minutes or so. It's like someone thought "people are getting bored because we haven't got to the sharks yet! Quick, bring in the muff!!!" and hey presto the cute blonde from Grey's Anatomy leaps out the bathroom naked to save the day. That part was quite tense.
Spoilers...
I saw it essentially cold (though I did know about the full frontal nudity...) so was expecting a Hollywoodish ending as well. There are some pretty tense moments and the 'it's your fault' 'it's my fault!' bits work quite well... and the stuff at night stuff is really really tense. All the way through there's also this growing sense of doom. But overall it does not quite mesh together.
Yeah, I thought it had a lot of good ingredients, but the overall "meh" factor was quite high.
I don't think thta was the cute blonde from Grey's Anatomy, though I wish it was.
Well, I have it on good authority that it is. Namely my girlfriend, who watches Grey's Anatomy and has a keen eye for these things. She might be wrong though, in which case I'll take great pleasure in telling her.
I hate these based on a true story films where everyone dies so no one knows what happened. See also that horror film set in the outback with the guy who looks like Alf Roberts but isnt.
Wolf Creek?
Precisely! Open Water was a load of Old Dog's Cock for that precise reason! The major "brrrr" aspect was that it was supposedly based on true events... and then you get right to the end and--
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...and of course there's no possible way that anyone could know what actually happened, because the principal protagonists - who we just spent an hour and a half watch bobbing about and being sick - are never bloody found! "Based On True Events" should really be changed to "Could Plausibly Have Happened... But Probably Didn't. Though there's still a muff shot."
Load of arse!
My favourite one was always 'The Mothman Prophecies' and its 'Based on actual reported events' schtick. Yeah reported in The Weekly World News a magazine which in its own small print basically states that it makes up its own stories or will print anyone elses made up tosh. Doesn't stop it being a fun read but makes any attempt to market the film as in any way 'actual' a little bit ridiculous.
That one with the ginat mutant pig shot in the outback is ace!
Hats off to the Coen brothers though, who tagged Fargo as a true story just for the hell of it.
Me and Heather managed to enjoy that movie by making up lyrics to the theme music (which is repeated throughout). IIRC the lyrics go something like "oooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo, it's the Mothman prophecies!".
Oh, and my apologies. Turns out the muff in question doesn't belong to the girl from Grey's Anatomy.