Official Score = 3 1/2 Devils[/caption]This may seem like an odd question folks, but, has there ever been a movie that you just really liked and would watch frequently for years?
The reason that I ask is because there was about 2 or 3 dozen movies that I would watch more often than most movies for years at a time when I was a kid, and one of those movies that I used to watch a lot was the movie, The Abyss (1989)…
Now you might be wondering why I would watch this movie quite a bit… Well to tell you the truth, a lot of these types of movies that I saw, I either saw on the recommendation of my Dad, or with my Dad (I can’t say for certain, but I think periodically throughout the 80s and early 90s my Dad may have been going through a kick of watching Science Fiction/Horror movies that took place in areas where people could not easily escape from…)
Anyway, this movie, which tells the tale of an American submarine that sinks to the bottom of the Ocean during the cold war by a passing Alien submersible (I use the term, ‘Alien’ loosely, can’t say why for those who haven’t seen the movie yet, except to say that if you haven’t seen this movie yet, then I think you might find this concept of, ‘UFOs’ and ‘Aliens’ to be quite fascinating…)
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The crew of the underwater mining base as they first notice the larger sized Alien vessel![/caption]Well after the sinking of the American Sub, the U.S. government hires a group of underwater drillers and send down a SEAL team to try to recover any surviving crewmen (little does the company know that this sub is a nuclear sub, and the SEAL team has also been sent down not just to recover any survivors but also to make sure that the sub does not get in to the hands of the Soviets…
In the end though this crew and the rest of the world will end up getting more than they bargained for when the SEAL team and this crew of Undersea drillers go out and search for survivors of the downed sub and end up coming back with something completely different!
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The Aliens trying to make contact with the Humans![/caption]Anyway in the end I thought that this movie was a great one and I would end up coming back to it rather often over the years… (as a matter of fact, the reason that I decided to do the review for this movie now instead of later is because I ended up seeing this movie again recently with my Wife and my Dad and enjoyed it as much this last time as I did the first time!)
I know I know, I have been harping a lot now on the fact that it is a true classic, but not on why it is a true classic (My apologies,) honestly this movie is great because it is just a fantastic example of a great story, and amazing FX, and even great acting can come together in perfect harmony! (Sorry if that sounds weird, but it is amazingly quite true!)
Now for all of that I really have to say that on the crew side, that this was due to the amazing vision of James Cameron (The Terminator) and the amazing crew that he had on this award winning movie, as well as the talented cast of actors and actresses which include, Ed Harris (Apollo 13), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantino (Scarface), and Michael Biehn (Aliens) to name a few!
And to tell you the truth folks, you honestly don’t see such a well done movie these days like this one, I mean sometimes you will see movies with one of these traits but almost never with everything just perfectly meshed together like this, so if you’re looking for a truly classic movie that is a timeless, that you will enjoy for years to come, then I highly recommend this one, it is a good one!
http://youtu.be/WYPcLYPoaxo
