This film allowed JC the cgi tech (water tentacle) to make Terminator 2. The filming of this was a nightmare for the actors, although it is a great film imo.
I watched this on TV, to bad Michael Biehn be a bad guy in this one... I think people love him acting like a hero in Aliens or Terminator... The Encounters of 3rd Degree is a similar great movie & more fun I guess, and is directed by Steven Spielberg.
Fun Fact: Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid. Now, the breathable liquid scene was just filmed with Ed Harris holding his breath for brief windows of filming. Also, the Special Edition version contains 17 extra minutes that was trimmed out of the theatrical release by the studio against James Cameron's wishes. These scenes are key and totally explain the alien's real agenda. Glad to see you guys doing this version because the director's cut of this film has additional footage that makes the story so much better.
@@matsv201at one point it was suggested that premie babies could be put into this fluid while their lungs developed. It also allowed better control of the heat around the baby so could create an environment closer to the womb.
There's something fundamentally disturbing about the director's cut. The NTIs aren't just making friendly contact with us, they're asserting dominance over us. They're going to be keeping humanity on a shorter leash from now on, under threat of annihilation. "And I for one welcome our new underwater overlords," says Ed Harris (via text) while the beautiful hopeful music agrees. "Thank God somebody's taking control out of our unworthy hands!" It does tell us a lot about James Cameron though, and his burning desire to live in a nanny state controlled by humanity's superiors.
Which is funny because Ed Harris and the other actors hated working on this movie. Got to the point Harris punched Cameron on set. Harris wouldn't even promote or talk about the movie for years. But yeah. Good movie.
The sub wasn't at a depth of 2.5 miles. That was just the drop off from where it was resting. I'm not sure what depth the sub was but it was only 70 meters below the rig so they would be able to be outside the submersibles. So, it's not ALL science fiction. Saturation divers can reach depth up to 500 meteres (1640 feet). That's about 1/3 of a mile. Going down that far require a decompression time of about 7-8 days.
@@grixiscontrol Wow! That’s incredible. I’ve always been able to write backwards (used to write love notes to my mom that way) but I never NEEDED to use it as you have. I’m really impressed. Thanks for reading. I’m from the USA, BTW. 😊
One of Lindsey's(Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) biggest fans was my Dad; of now very beloved memory. As a former military analyst, later a systems engineer, we were watching this movie and all the while people called her Queen Bitch of the Universe he had a big grin on his face. And as the end credits rolled Dad turned to me and said: Lindsey's not a bitch, you know, she's an engineer.
The reason Ed Harris had to go down into The Abyss is that the nuclear warhead was on a three hour timer, so it had to be defused. Also, Virgil and Lindsey were separated and were almost divorced. Lindsey mentioned, "Not for long." early on when Virgil mentioned they were still married and why he was still wearing his wedding ring.
Sorry, there's no medicine for the bends. You need a hyperbaric chamber and an IV to reduce the gas bubbles built up in the blood. At this depth, you'd probably need to spend days decompressing in the chamber. I experienced icy water once in a pool at the top of a mountain waterfall. You lose all capability to think when you hit water that cold. You're running completely on instinct, which doesn't always point you in the right direction. Note: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio reportedly suffered a physical and emotional breakdown because she was pushed so hard on the set. Ed Harris once almost drowned and punched James Cameron; once had to pull over his car while driving home when he burst into tears. Gotta give these actors massive props.
My brother was doing younger days scuba diving and working on and off diving. Worst thing according him was doing underwater welding in North Sea. Even with best possible wet insulating suits and we talk just surface water you would get numb in about 40 minutes and they had to rotate every 25 minutes. Still after decades, he still says he has never experience such chill after wards.
Man, you really should have watched the Extended Edition. It filled in a lot of the gaps in the theatrical version. The funny thing is, nearly all of the human technology in this movie is completely real. Not only were all of the underwater scenes actually filmed underwater, but it all really worked, too. The submersibles and ROVs and dive suits and helmets were all functional equipment.
The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood
@@charlize1253 Well, the behind-the-scenes bonus features explained that the special effects for the wave sequence were not complete when James Cameron began showing the film to test audiences, and thus audiences rated that section of the film poorly. The studio also wanted Cameron to limit the length of the film, because they feared it was too long. As a result, James Cameron removed the entire subplot about increasing surface tensions and the NTIs showing their power over water. However, because those scenes were so integral to the film, James Cameron re-edited the film after its initial release in theaters to include the missing sequences. He justified the additional cost to complete the wave sequence by counting it as part of the LaserDisc home video release.
@@charlize1253 Actually, it’s 32 minutes of additional material and it certainly makes for a better film. 😊 The longer version was actually released in select theaters in February of 1993 before the extended cut premiered on Laser Disc.
The early CGI effects used in this film for the alien manipulation of water, etc. was sort of a dress rehearsal for Cameron to be able to do all the effects required for Terminator 2 and the liquid metal nature for the T-1000 model.
When they were checking the sub, humans can go that deep with proper equipment, but it's near the limit. That's why they had to pressurize before getting in the rig and would normally need to depressurize to go back up to the surface. The main sci-fi in this is the beings and the liquid breathing thing. If you want to get another video out of this, you could also react to the Director's Cut Special Edition which has an entire sub-plot that was cut out of the theatrical version. Director's Cut is a much better version and it could be a fun video to compare them.
I'm glad we the general public started with the simpler theatrical version. But the extended version gives more context with the aliens, and also a little more backstory on Bud and Lindsay.
They couldn't leave the bomb down there because Coffey set it to blow on a timer. It wouldve killed them all. Someone had to go down and disarm it before it detonated. Thats the reason for Buds sacrifice
After dozens of times watching this masterpiece, I still get an emotional gut punch when we see Ed Harris just sitting, waiting to die, before the aliens approach him. A most excellent movie.
*** The Abyss title is from a book by C.P.Idyll ,1964 and denotes the deepest region of the Ocean between 20-30' thousand feet called the Hadal zone after Hades tne Greek name used in Dantes " The Divine Comedy " journey into the underworld and Dantes guide was the poet Virgil .That's the protaganonist "Bud's " name in the film .!!...***
Great watch ladies! I looked it up and the fastest submarine on record went a max of 44.7 knots, which is just over 50 mph. And apparently we've only explored 5% of the earths ocean. The deepest crewed dive was 10,927 metres into the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench. Keep up the good work, Michelle and Natalie! 5 Hoots to you ladies!
They couldn't just leave the nuke down there because the detonator was set on a timer. Three hours when Coffey set it, and just about an hour left when Bud suited up to go down to it. Even if the explosion wouldn't have completely obliterated the rig and any vessels on the surface within a few miles, it surely would have wiped out the entire NTI community. Disarming it was the only option
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment if you haven't seen Tombstone yet Michael Biehn is awesome in that too. People say Val Kilmer stole the show but I don't think he could have without Michael Biehn to act off of.
Fun facts with this....14.7 psi per 33 feet of ocianic water..typically humans can go about 130 feet deep. At 2 miles down its 330 atmospheric pressures or 4850 psi. Scary!
Space and underwater are opposite sides of a coin (nothing vs 'everything', both kill horribly in darkness) but the fact that there are numerous things living in the deep makes it instantly scarier.
The maximum depth reached by anyone in a single breath is 702 feet (213.9 metres) and this record was set in 2007 by Herbert Nitsch. you can go much further if you had a oxygen supply.. 332 m (1,089 ft), is the Deepest scuba dive, anything beyond 1000 is a extreme risk
Most of the human body is water, which is incompressible so as long as body cavities are pressurized to ambient pressure the body won’t crush per se, that’s how SCUBA works. Your regulator gives you air at ambient pressure. Under pressure, though, nitrogen is a problem and even too high a partial pressure of oxygen is toxic. The deeper you dive the more work has to be done on what you’re breathing. A big limit on how deep divers can go is High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, which happens when pressure squeezes the myelin sheaths around nerve fibers against the fibers themselves, causing them to fire randomly. Go deep enough and that affects everyone, not just the villain.
Been to 52m/170ft on air myself. I shouldn't have, but nice little wreck... Massive fan corals near it... Went to 40, sometimes 45m a few times when I was diving regularly. Never dived on anything but air so that is the deepest I ever got. You need to breathe gases with a different mix than air to go deep. You need to reduce the oxygen and nitrogen content of the gas mix you are breathing. So long as you are slowly adjusting to pressure changes, the pressure itself is not what kills you, not directly. It is the increased gas transfer in your lungs into your blood of gases which is caused by said increased pressure that is going to mess you up.
I only remember the movie because of the intentional drowning scene, i thought about that for years after and in fact ever since i saw it way back in 90'
One of my favorites... filmed in an abandoned nuclear facility in Aiken, SC. So they were all dive qualified including Cameron. A really hard film to shoot but quite memorable. The Director's Cut shows additional scenes where the 'aliens' demonstrated that they could create 1,000 foot high tidal waves to destroy coastal cities. They were about to do it but after Bud disarmed the warhead they changed their mind.
Fun fact, the reason that the door didn’t crush his hand is that the wedding band was made from titanium, according to the novel Lindsey designed the ring in her engineering class.
What was up with this “lose consciousness” stuff? Lindsey said that she was going to DROWN and then Bud could tow her back to the rig. There’s only one definition for “DROWN” and it ends in death. Also, directly after that, Bud is shown swimming with Lindsey in tow, heading back to the rig and they say it’s impossible? THEY WERE JUST SHOWING YOU HOW “POSSIBLE” IT IS! WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!
26:00 "Has anybody discussed how they are going to get out of this predicament?" They are stuck. Lindsay got them enough air from the outside tank that they can breathe until rescue comes. That's it. If they get in their little subs right now and go the the surface WITHOUT taking three weeks to decompress in a hyperbaric chamber they will pop like bloody balloons. The only place with that kind of chamber for them to survive is their ship (the one that lost the crane) but it ran away from the hurricane. So there is literally nothing to do until the hurricane goes away and their ship comes back. Which is why they are all just sitting around waiting. Ain't got nothin else to do.
I'm a physical media fan and this just came out on 4k and it looks amazing. The last release was on regular dvd, it never got a blu ray release. I'd never seen the movie before and it was really good.
I was only waiting for the BluRay since BluRay came out in 2006 and I realised DVD was actually pretty low quality. You can bet that I bought the 4K/BluRay double pack instantly. Still can't quite believe Cameron finally did it.
Haha, but true! In real life, the military uses special high-power ELF ("extremely low frequency") radio waves generated from huge antenna arrays powered by millions of volts to communicate with submarines because regular radio waves quickly die in the ocean
The reason so many of you reactors have never heard of a lot of great movies is because, like this one, they were probably made before, or nearly before, you were born. The Sting, Godfather, & Green Mile are 3 of the best I think you haven't reacted to.
The diving element is pretty realistic until the deep dive into the abyss (other things, like the ring holding open the hydraulic door are not so realistic). That dive into the abyss is based on a theoretical way a diver could survive at much greater depths than normal. Anyone who goes even as deep as the realistic parts, though, requires days of decompression to go back to the surface. The director's cut adds an element similar to _The Day the Earth Stood Still._ It's an interesting watch.
The filming of this was so bad the actors called it the abuse. The water was freezing cold, they had to put chemicals in the water to stop algea forming which stung their eyes. James Cameroon nearly drowned, the water as you can imagine played havoc with the electrics. Ed Harris refused to do any promotion or marketing for the movie he was so done with it by the end.
I love this movie so much, such an underrated gem, I watched it way back in the day when it first came in theaters and loved it… For many years I only saw the theatrical version, but then I bought it on DVD and saw the extended version and loved it even more… This will always be a classic for me and I watch it at least 1-2 times a year, I have just bought the new 4K release with both the 4K and the Blu-Ray and with both the theatrical and the extended version on it… Great reaction ♥️
10:00 "It's like being astronauts in the ocean." Aquanauts. Seriously though, NASA trains astronauts in large pools so they can get used to their space suits, but in water. To be clear, the pools of water are for TRAINING - when they're done training they go up to real space and do space things up in real space. So real astronauts train by doing basically the same thing these actors are doing: putting on suits and doing stuff in a pool with cameras filming them.
Recreational diving is usually down to about 130 feet. Commercial saturation divers go to a little over 1700 feet. Special suits are required below that depth, with some dives going past 2000 feet.
9:35 "There could be survivors because they sealed themselves off in a compartment." Tragically, no. Not a chance. Once a sub hits "crush depth" it all crushes. All of it. Ever see a guy crush a beer can? Same thing, but it's a human can and none of the humans survive. But even if they did. There is not a single diving suit on that sub. Not for this depth. So no survivor is safely suited up and ready to be saved. That means these Navy SEALs need to open the door to that sealed compartment which will instantly flood AND crush it. Any survivors not crushed will immediately drown and freeze in this 35 degree water - it would be pretty much impossible to put them into a diving suit, even if the Navy SEALs brought one. Which they didn't. This was never a rescue. It was ONLY about getting the nuclear launch codes off of that submarine before the Russians send a diver to get them. They lied about rescuing the men so these oil drillers and their bosses would agree. Most humans agree to save other humans, immediately, as fast as possible. They wouldn't be nearly as excited about saving nuclear launch codes and definitely not in a hurry to do it. They would tell the Navy to send their own divers because there is no real hurry to save a piece of paper in a safe.
James Cameron and his brother invented some of the deep sea technology they used in this and Titanic. It’s crazy how technical he is and passionate even
"When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand?" Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Kimberly Scott. Technological First Fact: The first feature film to have used an early version of Adobe Photoshop. Music Enthusiast Fact: The music heard in the scene where Bud (Ed Harris) and Coffey (Michael Biehn) have a man-to-man showdown was reused in the theatrical trailer of The Fugitive (1993). Movie Magic Fact: The striped wire scene (blue with white stripe and black with yellow stripe) was filmed with two black and white wires to ensure that they looked identical under the colored lighting. US Navy Enthusiast Fact: The Trident submarine at the start of the film is the USS Montana, designated SSBN-741. In reality, SSBN-741 became the USS Maine. The Maine, the 4th ship bearing the name, was laid down in 1990, launched in 1994, and officially commissioned in 1995. The designation of USS Montana would not be assigned to a submarine until May of 2018 when the hull of the Virginia-Class Submarine USS Montana, SSN-794, was laid. She would not be commissioned into the fleet until June of 2022. Science Rules Fact: Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid. Ed Harris did not actually breathe the fluid. He held his breath inside a helmet full of liquid while being towed 30 feet (10 m) below the surface of the large tank. He recalled that the worst moments were being towed with fluid rushing up his nose and his eyes swelling up.
The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood
The two water tanks used in the filming of The Abyss were specially constructed to hold large amounts of water. The first tank, based on the abandoned plant's primary reactor containment vessel, held 7.5 million US gallons of water and was 18 m deep and 70 m across. At the time, it was the largest fresh-water-filtered tank in the world. Additional scenes were shot in the second tank, an unused turbine pit, which held 2.5 million US gallons of water. As the production crew rushed to finish painting the main tank, millions of gallons of water poured in and took five days to fill. The Deepcore rig was anchored to a 90-ton concrete column at the bottom of the large tank
This is a fantastic film. Michael Biehn, who played Kyle Reese in Terminator and Corporal Hicks in Aliens is fantastic as the films antagonist. Ed Harris is great in this film as well. If you want to see another great film with Ed Harris, I recommend "Radio" a true and wonderful story from 2003 of true friendship. It is about the famous James "Radio" Kennedy and his friend Coach Harold Jones in 1976 South Carolina. Ed Harris plays Coach Jones and Cuba Gooding Jr. Plays "Radio". A great story you do not want to pass up. Great reaction to a great film
The Abyss was filmed in an unfinished nuclear power plant! They had to fill up the tank with loads of water and then it leaked! It wasn't a fun time for the actors during filming, but it was also a test for the T-1000 special effects that would come a few years later in T2.
11:15 Fun Fact: These diving helmets with the BIG face glass were designed by James Cameron so the actors could be seen to show US that the actors were really doing the diving and they were stunt doubles.
This movie is one of my favorite kinds of movie where you know that no one will ever attempt to make a movie like this again. A lot of danger was involved in making it and delays ultimately hurt its chances at the box office, but most directors would have faltered or caved or generate a lesser film as a result, yet James Cameron was able to wrangle everyone and everything to get it done. As with most James Cameron's works, this film did a lot to progress film and science as they had to invent new diving, lighting, audio, and special effects tech to get what they needed which would all be utilized some way later on for the film and diving industries.
*BONUS FEATURES: UNDER PRESSURE **_"THE MAKING OF THE ABYSS"_* *EVERYTHING WAS REAL! THE SUBS/THE DIVING SUITS/THE RIG/THE WATER/THE MOON POOL, EXCEPT FOR THE ALIEN CONCEPT, EVERYTHING WAS THE REAL DEAL*
Good sci-fi adventure movie. I was 11 when this came out. I liked it but it wasn't what I though it would be at the time. This came out at a time when underwater "Alien" ripoff movies were all the rage. Movies like "Deep Star 6" , "Leviathan", "Lords of the Deep", and "The Rift" were all out around the same time. I thought this movie was going to be another deep sea horror movie, not a big budget sci-fi movie. I love the deep dive scene and have always found deep sea saturation diving interesting.
38:25 "They said he can cut the weights off and float back up but I don't know how." The same way a helium balloon floats to the sky. No matter what the pressure is, everything that contains a gas will move toward lower pressure. That means up. That suit basically has liquid oxygen that turns to a gas in Bud's body. It's more complicated than that but that's a simple explanation. That gas in his body is in his suit and will lift him up. He's only going down because of external weights heavier than his gas. Drop the wait, and up he goes like a hot air balloon.
36:00 i done this in a sharp situation once, with no equipment, just my hand and mouth. The victim just staired out blank, look pretty much dead. One blow in, and the victim just snapped into life and was like "what happened?"
39:30 "Let the warhead stay down there - nobody can get it." Coffee armed it on a timer. It will blow up. The blast will kill everybody above it so Bud, Lindsey, everybody on the rig will be killed in the blast. And maybe some aliens too. Bud is not going down there to get it. It's too heavy - he can't float up with it anyway. He's going down to disarm it and stop the explosion.
One of my top 3 fave Cameron movie. Saw it the summer before my senior year of high school!!! Michelle saying that she had never heard of this movie killed a piece of my ancient heart a bit. LOL!!!
One of Cameron's best and one of my favourite movies. But then I am somewhat enamoured with all things underwater. 80kts is mindbendingly fast. A US attack submarine can do 30-35 I think. But the Russian VA-111 Shkval (Squall) torpedo can do in excess of 200kts. The depth of Deepcore is not out of the question. Lindsay and the SEALs spend 8 hours on the way down becoming accustomed to the pressure at depth as they make the trip. During that time they are adjusting the mixture of the gas they are breathing. The amount of oxygen and nitrogen in standard air will kill you at depth, so they need to drop the content of these and replace them with something inert like helium. They'd be talking hilariously high-pitched in a real deep sea habitat if they were at ambient pressure. Lindsay also says they will need to spend 3 weeks later slowly getting back to surface pressure. BUT your body can handle pressure if you are equalizing the pressure in your airspaces like lungs, sinus and ears as you go. I've been to 52m and I was lightheaded from narcosis from too much nitrogen on an air dive but you don't feel the pressure if your air spaces are pressurised. So if you could adjust what you breathe so the gases aren't toxic, you should be okay. The deepest suit dive on a gas mix called trimix is 1090 feet, and I think that's just a dive, down and back. Not sure. If you adjusted slowly and had a habitat so you could live near the depth you were diving? Possible? I think the naval commander says he needs them to go below 2000ft. So Deepcore might be at something like 1500ft? Further, the net effect of pressure changes are less the deeper you go. You add one standard atmosphere per 10m/33ft depth, so going from the surface to 10m underwater doubles the pressure you are under. But going from 90-100m only increases the total pressure from 10 atmospheres to 11, so only by 10%.
31:22 Way to go girls. I like to think I'm good at predicting the next scene in films but I NEVER figured that other guy was gonna show up. Nicely done.
Thanks ladies, haven't received the notification on this , but saw it on twitter. This movie was said to be the hardest movie to make , for the cast and crew , months of freezing cold water and being wet , people started getting sick . Snd it took much longer than a normal movie
This was such a great adventure that Cameron took us through. I just bought the 4K dvd for this movie. It is okay Michelle I have been on a Sub it is not that bad. Thanks for reviewing this. Cameron was in his prime here.😊
I would see this on TV growing up from time to time, late at night. It was always one of those movies that would grab my interest, and I'd have to finish the movie. It was years before I finally sat down an watched the whole thing from the beginning. I think it's an average movie. I'd probably give it 3.5 out of 5 or something like that. I'm glad y'all liked it. God bless!
31:55 "Do you want to shoot towards a warhead?" Doesn't matter. It's not dynomite. Bullets cannot set off a nuclear weapon. It's impossible. That's kind of like expecting a bullet to start your car. Without the key. You can shoot a car all day long and the bullets cannot start the engine. Same with nuclear weapons.
Love this movie. Saw it when I was a kid. I think the reason it's been "lost" for so long is that Cameron is sitting on all his old releases and won't put them out in current formats unless he approves them. I think he's sort of a perfectionist, so this movie only recently came out in HD, along with ALIENS in 4K and others. That's why it recently got put on Hulu -- finally a digital HD release approved by James Cameron.
Yes those people last year were crushed trying to look at titanic. Jim Cameron making this got very interested in deep sea and diving, he decided to make titanic, based on his research, he did go and film footage for titanic, and did several documentaries, after that accident he announced he is going to do it again, go back down . . He pushed to get new technology , equipment, underwater cameras, lighting, and those little subs . He became very interested in the oceans , and shipwrecks.
I enjoyed watching you see this. for me I have said that it was a 5-star film that had a bad ending. I would have simply not had Harris returned for a happy ending. rescued the survivors and end the film with the audience seeing that he was umm like taken to Atlantis. for me it was an emotional rollercoaster with her nearly dying from the worst plan ever and then his heroic death... by undoing that I felt it was a letdown.
The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood
Orson Scott Card wrote the novelization of this film (his only film adaptation) the first 3 chapters were about each main character during thier childhood years. They were so good that Ed Harris, Elizabeth Masterantonio, and Micheal Biehn used them to base their performancers off of. The Aliens were much more prevelent in his story, they have the ability to actually read minds and save memories, our being in their eyes alone is horrifying to them. But it's a few chars that change thier minds about us. The called us polluting land slugs. The special edition cut added many additional scenes with the aliens, also added to the standoff developing between the Russian and American Navies, and the escalating international response. If you can find the book I would vehemently recommend reading it. Great reaction, glad you liked it ladies. Keep it up
Everyone talks about the amazing special effects & such, but I really like the Love story & the INTESNE acting! The whole pre & post drowning scenes just bring tears to my eyes!
They are still married.... It's mentioned two or three times when Lindsey gets aboard the rig. Great film and a major sleeper... more people need to see this film !
One of my favorites. James Cameron is such a fantastic writer & director. I know he can be a bit tough on set, but man does he make some incredible films. You should watch the making of this movie (I believe it's on youtube), as it was one of the most difficult film shoots of all time. It's a fascinating and eye opening documentary.
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This film allowed JC the cgi tech (water tentacle) to make Terminator 2. The filming of this was a nightmare for the actors, although it is a great film imo.
Ed Harris an Michael biehn where I'm the rock together
Ed Harris under the pressure of Cameron filming water had a emotional break down
Director cup adds a lot at the ending
I watched this on TV, to bad Michael Biehn be a bad guy in this one... I think people love him acting like a hero in Aliens or Terminator... The Encounters of 3rd Degree is a similar great movie & more fun I guess, and is directed by Steven Spielberg.
I've said it for years.....this film should have been FAR more popular. It is excellent from all angles.
Agreed!
Maybe was just in my country,. but it was showed on TV quite reguarlly in the early to mid 90s.
It remains my second favorite Cameron movie to this day. Cause as much as his other movies are technically well done, this one also had heart.
Beyond Agree. An outstanding film.
Fun Fact: Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid. Now, the breathable liquid scene was just filmed with Ed Harris holding his breath for brief windows of filming.
Also, the Special Edition version contains 17 extra minutes that was trimmed out of the theatrical release by the studio against James Cameron's wishes. These scenes are key and totally explain the alien's real agenda. Glad to see you guys doing this version because the director's cut of this film has additional footage that makes the story so much better.
I prefer the theatrical cut myself.
The stuff is ridiculously carcinogenic, so its as far as i know not used for anything
@@matsv201at one point it was suggested that premie babies could be put into this fluid while their lungs developed.
It also allowed better control of the heat around the baby so could create an environment closer to the womb.
@@shawnmiller4781 but the risk of the baby dying is probobly a tad to high
There's something fundamentally disturbing about the director's cut. The NTIs aren't just making friendly contact with us, they're asserting dominance over us. They're going to be keeping humanity on a shorter leash from now on, under threat of annihilation. "And I for one welcome our new underwater overlords," says Ed Harris (via text) while the beautiful hopeful music agrees. "Thank God somebody's taking control out of our unworthy hands!"
It does tell us a lot about James Cameron though, and his burning desire to live in a nanny state controlled by humanity's superiors.
The Abyss is truly one of James Cameron’s best movies, and one of my favorite Ed Harris movies of all time.
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It's better than Avatar imo. Avatar "Visually" is a spectacle but that's about it really. Cameron was on his A-game back then with this and T2.
Which is funny because Ed Harris and the other actors hated working on this movie. Got to the point Harris punched Cameron on set. Harris wouldn't even promote or talk about the movie for years.
But yeah. Good movie.
At least no one died during production 😅 and Cameron learned a lot about what not to do when filming in water.
The sub wasn't at a depth of 2.5 miles. That was just the drop off from where it was resting. I'm not sure what depth the sub was but it was only 70 meters below the rig so they would be able to be outside the submersibles. So, it's not ALL science fiction. Saturation divers can reach depth up to 500 meteres (1640 feet). That's about 1/3 of a mile. Going down that far require a decompression time of about 7-8 days.
1:51 reminded me of my job in ukrainian army but screen was much bigger, and i used to write backwards so commander from other side see it normal
@@grixiscontrol Wow! That’s incredible. I’ve always been able to write backwards (used to write love notes to my mom that way) but I never NEEDED to use it as you have. I’m really impressed. Thanks for reading. I’m from the USA, BTW. 😊
@@annieromo74 i never did it before that job )) you would be good at it :)
One of Lindsey's(Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) biggest fans was my Dad; of now very beloved memory. As a former military analyst, later a systems engineer, we were watching this movie and all the while people called her Queen Bitch of the Universe he had a big grin on his face. And as the end credits rolled Dad turned to me and said: Lindsey's not a bitch, you know, she's an engineer.
The reason Ed Harris had to go down into The Abyss is that the nuclear warhead was on a three hour timer, so it had to be defused.
Also, Virgil and Lindsey were separated and were almost divorced. Lindsey mentioned, "Not for long." early on when Virgil mentioned they were still married and why he was still wearing his wedding ring.
Sorry, there's no medicine for the bends. You need a hyperbaric chamber and an IV to reduce the gas bubbles built up in the blood. At this depth, you'd probably need to spend days decompressing in the chamber.
I experienced icy water once in a pool at the top of a mountain waterfall. You lose all capability to think when you hit water that cold. You're running completely on instinct, which doesn't always point you in the right direction.
Note: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio reportedly suffered a physical and emotional breakdown because she was pushed so hard on the set. Ed Harris once almost drowned and punched James Cameron; once had to pull over his car while driving home when he burst into tears. Gotta give these actors massive props.
My brother was doing younger days scuba diving and working on and off diving. Worst thing according him was doing underwater welding in North Sea. Even with best possible wet insulating suits and we talk just surface water you would get numb in about 40 minutes and they had to rotate every 25 minutes. Still after decades, he still says he has never experience such chill after wards.
Man, you really should have watched the Extended Edition. It filled in a lot of the gaps in the theatrical version. The funny thing is, nearly all of the human technology in this movie is completely real. Not only were all of the underwater scenes actually filmed underwater, but it all really worked, too. The submersibles and ROVs and dive suits and helmets were all functional equipment.
The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood
@@charlize1253 Well, the behind-the-scenes bonus features explained that the special effects for the wave sequence were not complete when James Cameron began showing the film to test audiences, and thus audiences rated that section of the film poorly. The studio also wanted Cameron to limit the length of the film, because they feared it was too long. As a result, James Cameron removed the entire subplot about increasing surface tensions and the NTIs showing their power over water. However, because those scenes were so integral to the film, James Cameron re-edited the film after its initial release in theaters to include the missing sequences. He justified the additional cost to complete the wave sequence by counting it as part of the LaserDisc home video release.
@@charlize1253 Actually, it’s 32 minutes of additional material and it certainly makes for a better film. 😊 The longer version was actually released in select theaters in February of 1993 before the extended cut premiered on Laser Disc.
That scene with the crane and the crane operator breaking off of the ship was intense. Some great scenes in this film
Yes!
The Abyss is a true underrated film and it's one of my favourites
Agreed!
The early CGI effects used in this film for the alien manipulation of water, etc. was sort of a dress rehearsal for Cameron to be able to do all the effects required for Terminator 2 and the liquid metal nature for the T-1000 model.
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"knew this was a one-way ticket, but you knew I had to come" always gets me a little bit 😢
You guys are great! 😊😊
Thanks!!
When they were checking the sub, humans can go that deep with proper equipment, but it's near the limit. That's why they had to pressurize before getting in the rig and would normally need to depressurize to go back up to the surface. The main sci-fi in this is the beings and the liquid breathing thing. If you want to get another video out of this, you could also react to the Director's Cut Special Edition which has an entire sub-plot that was cut out of the theatrical version. Director's Cut is a much better version and it could be a fun video to compare them.
I'm glad we the general public started with the simpler theatrical version. But the extended version gives more context with the aliens, and also a little more backstory on Bud and Lindsay.
They couldn't leave the bomb down there because Coffey set it to blow on a timer. It wouldve killed them all. Someone had to go down and disarm it before it detonated. Thats the reason for Buds sacrifice
After dozens of times watching this masterpiece, I still get an emotional gut punch when we see Ed Harris just sitting, waiting to die, before the aliens approach him. A most excellent movie.
*** The Abyss title is from a book by C.P.Idyll ,1964 and denotes the deepest region of the Ocean between 20-30' thousand feet called the Hadal zone after Hades tne Greek name used in Dantes " The Divine Comedy " journey into the underworld and Dantes guide was the poet Virgil .That's the protaganonist "Bud's " name in the film .!!...***
Great watch ladies! I looked it up and the fastest submarine on record went a max of 44.7 knots, which is just over 50 mph. And apparently we've only explored 5% of the earths ocean. The deepest crewed dive was 10,927 metres into the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench. Keep up the good work, Michelle and Natalie! 5 Hoots to you ladies!
They couldn't just leave the nuke down there because the detonator was set on a timer. Three hours when Coffey set it, and just about an hour left when Bud suited up to go down to it.
Even if the explosion wouldn't have completely obliterated the rig and any vessels on the surface within a few miles, it surely would have wiped out the entire NTI community. Disarming it was the only option
This is one of my favorite movies. Michael Biehn and Ed Harris are such amazing actors.
They are great!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment if you haven't seen Tombstone yet Michael Biehn is awesome in that too. People say Val Kilmer stole the show but I don't think he could have without Michael Biehn to act off of.
....yes, too bad, they are wasted in this mess !
Both are also in The Rock (1996) as well with Nicolas Cage & Sean Connery.
@@TheDimeDrawer Yep, with Michael Beihn again playing a Navy SEAL, and again with him losing to Ed Harris' character!
Fun facts with this....14.7 psi per 33 feet of ocianic water..typically humans can go about 130 feet deep. At 2 miles down its 330 atmospheric pressures or 4850 psi. Scary!
Space and underwater are opposite sides of a coin (nothing vs 'everything', both kill horribly in darkness) but the fact that there are numerous things living in the deep makes it instantly scarier.
The maximum depth reached by anyone in a single breath is 702 feet (213.9 metres) and this record was set in 2007 by Herbert Nitsch. you can go much further if you had a oxygen supply.. 332 m (1,089 ft), is the Deepest scuba dive, anything beyond 1000 is a extreme risk
Most of the human body is water, which is incompressible so as long as body cavities are pressurized to ambient pressure the body won’t crush per se, that’s how SCUBA works. Your regulator gives you air at ambient pressure. Under pressure, though, nitrogen is a problem and even too high a partial pressure of oxygen is toxic. The deeper you dive the more work has to be done on what you’re breathing.
A big limit on how deep divers can go is High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, which happens when pressure squeezes the myelin sheaths around nerve fibers against the fibers themselves, causing them to fire randomly. Go deep enough and that affects everyone, not just the villain.
Been to 52m/170ft on air myself. I shouldn't have, but nice little wreck... Massive fan corals near it... Went to 40, sometimes 45m a few times when I was diving regularly. Never dived on anything but air so that is the deepest I ever got.
You need to breathe gases with a different mix than air to go deep. You need to reduce the oxygen and nitrogen content of the gas mix you are breathing. So long as you are slowly adjusting to pressure changes, the pressure itself is not what kills you, not directly. It is the increased gas transfer in your lungs into your blood of gases which is caused by said increased pressure that is going to mess you up.
@@mattp6089 The standard replacement for nitrogen is helium, which isn’t toxic at depth but makes you sound like the Munchkinland Lullaby League.
I only remember the movie because of the intentional drowning scene, i thought about that for years after and in fact ever since i saw it way back in 90'
One of my favorites... filmed in an abandoned nuclear facility in Aiken, SC. So they were all dive qualified including Cameron. A really hard film to shoot but quite memorable. The Director's Cut shows additional scenes where the 'aliens' demonstrated that they could create 1,000 foot high tidal waves to destroy coastal cities. They were about to do it but after Bud disarmed the warhead they changed their mind.
The story is that the cast and crew called the move The Abuse. Ed Harris nearly drowned.
Dang!
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Yeah, while a great movie producer, James Cameron is kind of an a hole.
Fun fact, the reason that the door didn’t crush his hand is that the wedding band was made from titanium, according to the novel Lindsey designed the ring in her engineering class.
Gee, you think they might have worked that (significant) point into this shit script ?
What was up with this “lose consciousness” stuff? Lindsey said that she was going to DROWN and then Bud could tow her back to the rig. There’s only one definition for “DROWN” and it ends in death.
Also, directly after that, Bud is shown swimming with Lindsey in tow, heading back to the rig and they say it’s impossible? THEY WERE JUST SHOWING YOU HOW “POSSIBLE” IT IS!
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!
She said "Be useful creature!" I spit coffee laughing! haha
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26:00 "Has anybody discussed how they are going to get out of this predicament?"
They are stuck.
Lindsay got them enough air from the outside tank that they can breathe until rescue comes.
That's it.
If they get in their little subs right now and go the the surface WITHOUT taking three weeks to decompress in a hyperbaric chamber they will pop like bloody balloons.
The only place with that kind of chamber for them to survive is their ship (the one that lost the crane) but it ran away from the hurricane.
So there is literally nothing to do until the hurricane goes away and their ship comes back.
Which is why they are all just sitting around waiting.
Ain't got nothin else to do.
I'm a physical media fan and this just came out on 4k and it looks amazing. The last release was on regular dvd, it never got a blu ray release. I'd never seen the movie before and it was really good.
I was only waiting for the BluRay since BluRay came out in 2006 and I realised DVD was actually pretty low quality. You can bet that I bought the 4K/BluRay double pack instantly. Still can't quite believe Cameron finally did it.
Initial contact with Mary Elizabeth reminded me of Close Encounters the way they moved around. Great duel reaction.
Thank you!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment I forgot to ask if you made it through the storms O.K.
I like when she played Tony’s sister in Scarface Gina
The parts you're assuming are sci-fi are realistic. The sci-fi is that a radio signal could reach to the bottom of the ocean
Haha, but true! In real life, the military uses special high-power ELF ("extremely low frequency") radio waves generated from huge antenna arrays powered by millions of volts to communicate with submarines because regular radio waves quickly die in the ocean
@@charlize1253 Oh, and the sea aliens may not be totally, scientifically accurate
massively underrated, love this movie when it came out, big fan of Michael Bien and Ed Harris
Great reaction! Jim Cameron has been pushing the envelope in terms of visual effects for 40 years...such a great filmmaker!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks! It was good!
The reason so many of you reactors have never heard of a lot of great movies is because, like this one, they were probably made before, or nearly before, you were born. The Sting, Godfather, & Green Mile are 3 of the best I think you haven't reacted to.
Thank you for sharing your reaction to "The Abyss." I've liked it since I first watched it in the theater.
Thank you!!
The diving element is pretty realistic until the deep dive into the abyss (other things, like the ring holding open the hydraulic door are not so realistic). That dive into the abyss is based on a theoretical way a diver could survive at much greater depths than normal. Anyone who goes even as deep as the realistic parts, though, requires days of decompression to go back to the surface.
The director's cut adds an element similar to _The Day the Earth Stood Still._ It's an interesting watch.
The phrase slicker than snot is an old phrase. That I heard a lot when I was a kid.
The filming of this was so bad the actors called it the abuse.
The water was freezing cold, they had to put chemicals in the water to stop algea forming which stung their eyes.
James Cameroon nearly drowned, the water as you can imagine played havoc with the electrics.
Ed Harris refused to do any promotion or marketing for the movie he was so done with it by the end.
Imagine trying to blow up a balloon that someone was squeezing - that was the sub's issue trying to pump out sea water at that depth.
I love this movie so much, such an underrated gem, I watched it way back in the day when it first came in theaters and loved it… For many years I only saw the theatrical version, but then I bought it on DVD and saw the extended version and loved it even more… This will always be a classic for me and I watch it at least 1-2 times a year, I have just bought the new 4K release with both the 4K and the Blu-Ray and with both the theatrical and the extended version on it… Great reaction ♥️
It's almost like they witnessed a "Force Of Light" in the abyss
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Where's that "groan" emoji? Is there a "groan" emoji?
10:00 "It's like being astronauts in the ocean."
Aquanauts.
Seriously though, NASA trains astronauts in large pools so they can get used to their space suits, but in water.
To be clear, the pools of water are for TRAINING - when they're done training they go up to real space and do space things up in real space.
So real astronauts train by doing basically the same thing these actors are doing: putting on suits and doing stuff in a pool with cameras filming them.
That makes sense! ❤
Recreational diving is usually down to about 130 feet. Commercial saturation divers go to a little over 1700 feet. Special suits are required below that depth, with some dives going past 2000 feet.
9:35 "There could be survivors because they sealed themselves off in a compartment."
Tragically, no. Not a chance.
Once a sub hits "crush depth" it all crushes. All of it.
Ever see a guy crush a beer can?
Same thing, but it's a human can and none of the humans survive.
But even if they did.
There is not a single diving suit on that sub. Not for this depth.
So no survivor is safely suited up and ready to be saved.
That means these Navy SEALs need to open the door to that sealed compartment which will instantly flood AND crush it.
Any survivors not crushed will immediately drown and freeze in this 35 degree water - it would be pretty much impossible to put them into a diving suit, even if the Navy SEALs brought one.
Which they didn't.
This was never a rescue.
It was ONLY about getting the nuclear launch codes off of that submarine before the Russians send a diver to get them.
They lied about rescuing the men so these oil drillers and their bosses would agree.
Most humans agree to save other humans, immediately, as fast as possible.
They wouldn't be nearly as excited about saving nuclear launch codes and definitely not in a hurry to do it.
They would tell the Navy to send their own divers because there is no real hurry to save a piece of paper in a safe.
James Cameron and his brother invented some of the deep sea technology they used in this and Titanic. It’s crazy how technical he is and passionate even
Yea, he really loves that stuff!
No one is as deep as James Cameron :)
"When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand?"
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Kimberly Scott.
Technological First Fact: The first feature film to have used an early version of Adobe Photoshop.
Music Enthusiast Fact: The music heard in the scene where Bud (Ed Harris) and Coffey (Michael Biehn) have a man-to-man showdown was reused in the theatrical trailer of The Fugitive (1993).
Movie Magic Fact: The striped wire scene (blue with white stripe and black with yellow stripe) was filmed with two black and white wires to ensure that they looked identical under the colored lighting.
US Navy Enthusiast Fact: The Trident submarine at the start of the film is the USS Montana, designated SSBN-741. In reality, SSBN-741 became the USS Maine. The Maine, the 4th ship bearing the name, was laid down in 1990, launched in 1994, and officially commissioned in 1995. The designation of USS Montana would not be assigned to a submarine until May of 2018 when the hull of the Virginia-Class Submarine USS Montana, SSN-794, was laid. She would not be commissioned into the fleet until June of 2022.
Science Rules Fact: Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid. Ed Harris did not actually breathe the fluid. He held his breath inside a helmet full of liquid while being towed 30 feet (10 m) below the surface of the large tank. He recalled that the worst moments were being towed with fluid rushing up his nose and his eyes swelling up.
One of Cameron's underrated movies. Lucky enough to see this in the theater last year.
They didn't bring that release celebrating the new film to digital transfer to Australia or I would have been there with bells on for sure.
The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood
The two water tanks used in the filming of The Abyss were specially constructed to hold large amounts of water. The first tank, based on the abandoned plant's primary reactor containment vessel, held 7.5 million US gallons of water and was 18 m deep and 70 m across. At the time, it was the largest fresh-water-filtered tank in the world. Additional scenes were shot in the second tank, an unused turbine pit, which held 2.5 million US gallons of water. As the production crew rushed to finish painting the main tank, millions of gallons of water poured in and took five days to fill. The Deepcore rig was anchored to a 90-ton concrete column at the bottom of the large tank
Great reaction. I enjoyed it. I'm not sure I'd call the underwater creatures "aliens," since they seem to be native to Earth.
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This is a fantastic film. Michael Biehn, who played Kyle Reese in Terminator and Corporal Hicks in Aliens is fantastic as the films antagonist. Ed Harris is great in this film as well. If you want to see another great film with Ed Harris, I recommend "Radio" a true and wonderful story from 2003 of true friendship. It is about the famous James "Radio" Kennedy and his friend Coach Harold Jones in 1976 South Carolina. Ed Harris plays Coach Jones and Cuba Gooding Jr. Plays "Radio". A great story you do not want to pass up. Great reaction to a great film
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The Abyss was filmed in an unfinished nuclear power plant! They had to fill up the tank with loads of water and then it leaked! It wasn't a fun time for the actors during filming, but it was also a test for the T-1000 special effects that would come a few years later in T2.
11:15 Fun Fact: These diving helmets with the BIG face glass were designed by James Cameron so the actors could be seen to show US that the actors were really doing the diving and they were stunt doubles.
Great reaction to this James Cameron sci fi classic ladies.
Thank you! ☺️
@@natalieRGrace You are welcome ! Keep these videos coming !
Thank you!!
This movie is one of my favorite kinds of movie where you know that no one will ever attempt to make a movie like this again. A lot of danger was involved in making it and delays ultimately hurt its chances at the box office, but most directors would have faltered or caved or generate a lesser film as a result, yet James Cameron was able to wrangle everyone and everything to get it done.
As with most James Cameron's works, this film did a lot to progress film and science as they had to invent new diving, lighting, audio, and special effects tech to get what they needed which would all be utilized some way later on for the film and diving industries.
*BONUS FEATURES: UNDER PRESSURE **_"THE MAKING OF THE ABYSS"_*
*EVERYTHING WAS REAL! THE SUBS/THE DIVING SUITS/THE RIG/THE WATER/THE MOON POOL, EXCEPT FOR THE ALIEN CONCEPT, EVERYTHING WAS THE REAL DEAL*
Great, now if only the script made ANY degree of sense.
@@avantegarde7797 I think that reflects the level of your intellectual capacity more than the intellectual integrity of the film.
Good sci-fi adventure movie. I was 11 when this came out. I liked it but it wasn't what I though it would be at the time. This came out at a time when underwater "Alien" ripoff movies were all the rage. Movies like "Deep Star 6" , "Leviathan", "Lords of the Deep", and "The Rift" were all out around the same time. I thought this movie was going to be another deep sea horror movie, not a big budget sci-fi movie. I love the deep dive scene and have always found deep sea saturation diving interesting.
38:25 "They said he can cut the weights off and float back up but I don't know how."
The same way a helium balloon floats to the sky.
No matter what the pressure is, everything that contains a gas will move toward lower pressure.
That means up.
That suit basically has liquid oxygen that turns to a gas in Bud's body. It's more complicated than that but that's a simple explanation.
That gas in his body is in his suit and will lift him up.
He's only going down because of external weights heavier than his gas.
Drop the wait, and up he goes like a hot air balloon.
36:00 i done this in a sharp situation once, with no equipment, just my hand and mouth. The victim just staired out blank, look pretty much dead.
One blow in, and the victim just snapped into life and was like "what happened?"
You need to see the director's cut.
39:30 "Let the warhead stay down there - nobody can get it."
Coffee armed it on a timer.
It will blow up.
The blast will kill everybody above it so Bud, Lindsey, everybody on the rig will be killed in the blast.
And maybe some aliens too.
Bud is not going down there to get it.
It's too heavy - he can't float up with it anyway.
He's going down to disarm it and stop the explosion.
Have seen the Abyss many times over the years starting in the theater. Glad you ladies enjoyed it and yes consider this one of Cameron's best movies.
Wasn´t very successful when it came out in 1989 but became very famous over the years. Glad you both liked this classic :)
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One of my top 3 fave Cameron movie. Saw it the summer before my senior year of high school!!! Michelle saying that she had never heard of this movie killed a piece of my ancient heart a bit. LOL!!!
It’s really good!
The Abyss is really good, but I haven’t watched it in a long time. Your reaction made me want to re-visit it. Glad you two enjoyed!
It’s on Hulu if you have that! Thanks!!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment I do! Thank you.
One of Cameron's best and one of my favourite movies. But then I am somewhat enamoured with all things underwater.
80kts is mindbendingly fast. A US attack submarine can do 30-35 I think. But the Russian VA-111 Shkval (Squall) torpedo can do in excess of 200kts.
The depth of Deepcore is not out of the question. Lindsay and the SEALs spend 8 hours on the way down becoming accustomed to the pressure at depth as they make the trip. During that time they are adjusting the mixture of the gas they are breathing. The amount of oxygen and nitrogen in standard air will kill you at depth, so they need to drop the content of these and replace them with something inert like helium. They'd be talking hilariously high-pitched in a real deep sea habitat if they were at ambient pressure. Lindsay also says they will need to spend 3 weeks later slowly getting back to surface pressure.
BUT your body can handle pressure if you are equalizing the pressure in your airspaces like lungs, sinus and ears as you go. I've been to 52m and I was lightheaded from narcosis from too much nitrogen on an air dive but you don't feel the pressure if your air spaces are pressurised. So if you could adjust what you breathe so the gases aren't toxic, you should be okay.
The deepest suit dive on a gas mix called trimix is 1090 feet, and I think that's just a dive, down and back. Not sure. If you adjusted slowly and had a habitat so you could live near the depth you were diving? Possible? I think the naval commander says he needs them to go below 2000ft. So Deepcore might be at something like 1500ft?
Further, the net effect of pressure changes are less the deeper you go. You add one standard atmosphere per 10m/33ft depth, so going from the surface to 10m underwater doubles the pressure you are under. But going from 90-100m only increases the total pressure from 10 atmospheres to 11, so only by 10%.
31:22 Way to go girls. I like to think I'm good at predicting the next scene in films but I NEVER figured that other guy was gonna show up. Nicely done.
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I also agree with this message. Natalie is awesome!!!
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Thanks ladies, haven't received the notification on this , but saw it on twitter.
This movie was said to be the hardest movie to make , for the cast and crew , months of freezing cold water and being wet , people started getting sick . Snd it took much longer than a normal movie
Thanks for sharing!!
We can go deeper with rebreathers, but not by much. Our bodies are too soft to withstand the pressure.
This was fun to watch! Great job ladies always entertaining!
Thanks so much!!
This was such a great adventure that Cameron took us through. I just bought the 4K dvd for this movie. It is okay Michelle I have been on a Sub it is not that bad. Thanks for reviewing this. Cameron was in his prime here.😊
It’s really good!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment Yes it was such a thrill to watch it 👍
I hope they made a documentary on the making of this film called: Apiss in the Pool.
Awesome
I have very few 4k movies. This is one of them. (3 others are also Cameron productions)
I would see this on TV growing up from time to time, late at night. It was always one of those movies that would grab my interest, and I'd have to finish the movie. It was years before I finally sat down an watched the whole thing from the beginning.
I think it's an average movie. I'd probably give it 3.5 out of 5 or something like that. I'm glad y'all liked it. God bless!
You ladies came upon a good one. I saw it in the theaters when it came out, then bought the dvd soon after.
31:55 "Do you want to shoot towards a warhead?"
Doesn't matter.
It's not dynomite.
Bullets cannot set off a nuclear weapon.
It's impossible.
That's kind of like expecting a bullet to start your car. Without the key. You can shoot a car all day long and the bullets cannot start the engine.
Same with nuclear weapons.
Love this movie. Saw it when I was a kid. I think the reason it's been "lost" for so long is that Cameron is sitting on all his old releases and won't put them out in current formats unless he approves them. I think he's sort of a perfectionist, so this movie only recently came out in HD, along with ALIENS in 4K and others. That's why it recently got put on Hulu -- finally a digital HD release approved by James Cameron.
The finest sci fi movie ever
a true accomplishment in film. Even though everyone despised Cameron on set.
And to be honest Cameron earned the hatred
25:38 Fun Fact: These CANADIAN special effects of the shape shifting water were the precursor to the liquid Terminator.
You couldn't make a film like this today. Safety precautions were taken, but it was still a pretty dangerous shoot.
Yes those people last year were crushed trying to look at titanic.
Jim Cameron making this got very interested in deep sea and diving, he decided to make titanic, based on his research, he did go and film footage for titanic, and did several documentaries, after that accident he announced he is going to do it again, go back down . .
He pushed to get new technology , equipment, underwater cameras, lighting, and those little subs . He became very interested in the oceans , and shipwrecks.
I enjoyed watching you see this. for me I have said that it was a 5-star film that had a bad ending. I would have simply not had Harris returned for a happy ending. rescued the survivors and end the film with the audience seeing that he was umm like taken to Atlantis. for me it was an emotional rollercoaster with her nearly dying from the worst plan ever and then his heroic death... by undoing that I felt it was a letdown.
Ed Harris in the fight fight scene , one of the best acting scenes i've ever seen.
FYI I was in the line of Fredrick . Walked outside in the eye. That was a really bad storm
I have the Special Edition of The Abyss on DVD Fantastic film
I'm the extended cut they explain much more, and dive deeper into the Brinkman's marriage
The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood
Orson Scott Card wrote the novelization of this film (his only film adaptation) the first 3 chapters were about each main character during thier childhood years. They were so good that Ed Harris, Elizabeth Masterantonio, and Micheal Biehn used them to base their performancers off of. The Aliens were much more prevelent in his story, they have the ability to actually read minds and save memories, our being in their eyes alone is horrifying to them. But it's a few chars that change thier minds about us. The called us polluting land slugs. The special edition cut added many additional scenes with the aliens, also added to the standoff developing between the Russian and American Navies, and the escalating international response. If you can find the book I would vehemently recommend reading it. Great reaction, glad you liked it ladies. Keep it up
Everyone talks about the amazing special effects & such, but I really like the Love story & the INTESNE acting!
The whole pre & post drowning scenes just bring tears to my eyes!
Same!
Happy Thursday! Awesome reaction! I enjoyed the video! 😊
Thank you Matthew!!
You're welcome! 😊
They are still married.... It's mentioned two or three times when Lindsey gets aboard the rig.
Great film and a major sleeper... more people need to see this film !
One of my favorites. James Cameron is such a fantastic writer & director. I know he can be a bit tough on set, but man does he make some incredible films.
You should watch the making of this movie (I believe it's on youtube), as it was one of the most difficult film shoots of all time. It's a fascinating and eye opening documentary.
Will do!
45:40 All the machinery used is REAL machinery. The only sci-fi stuff in this film was the whole alien concept.
39:49 Little Geek imploded because of the pressure of that depth.
Wonderful movie. Extremely entertaining. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio drowning scene is so hard to watch even after all these years.