Have you seen open water?

[JennyMominRI]

Exactly. I have the movie, I will have to check...but I am almost positive the movie say "based on a true story", it was loosely, very loosely inspired by the deaths of two missing scuba divers. That part is true.

They do not know what happened to them after that. They do not even know that they were killed by sharks, they suspect that sharks ate them..but even that could have been after they died. there is no evidence that they were terrorized by sharks or that they argued the way they did or made decisions that they did. Or even that the man died first.

I think it would have been better told as a totally fictional story because they fill so much of the story...90% of it, with fiction.

I missed the begining of the movie both times. You may be right about that..Tonight though ,they hada *the making of Open water* thing on after the movie,where the filmmakers stated that while it was insired by actual cases,mainly the lonergan case,the events and charactors were fictional

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

How would you know if everything is made up? I mean, if they were eaten by sharks, who's to say that the movie isn't exactly right?
!

Aside from the eaten by sharks which is the most logical conclusion.

From the time they were missing--there are NO witnesses to anything. Everything--every single word....how she reacted....everything...was nothing but artistic license. There is no way to prove anything other than the charter boat forget them is accurate to any degree. Just that it is likely that they were scared and they became fish food.


I meant everything other than being eaten by sharks.

 

[poohandwendy]

It's pretty easy with a deep dive and an empty air tank.

I thought they dumped everything in the beginning...weights and such? (it has been a while, I can't recall)

 

[JennyMominRI]

I thought they dumped everything in the beginning...weights and such? (it has been a while, I can't recall)

Just the weights

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Exactly. I have the movie, I will have to check...but I am almost positive the movie say "based on a true story",
....

I think it would have been better told as a totally fictional story because they fill so much of the story...90% of it, with fiction.

That's where I think they made a mistake.

There is a difference in based on a true story--most of what happens happened, it may not be in the right order like in the football movie about integrating the high school team that I am blanking on right now that starred Denzell Washington. Conversations are recounted but may not be precise, events happened..but in the case of this movie they switched an event around for dramatic affect (the football player injured in a car accident did get to play the final game--he was injured after that while in the movie he is injured before the big game).


Inspired--well...take the law and order shows--they saw a story in the newspaper and the writers go AHA--that would make a good show and they proceed to right a fictional account based on the facts.

Now how much of this is just me being persnickety--I do not know..but in "based" movies--I expect most to be factual and in "inspired" movies--something really happen and either due to lack of details or just for pure artistry--they create what could have happened.

if the writers say it was fictional, then so be it. I do not appreciate how they implied otherwise though.

 

[Honu]

I thought they dumped everything in the beginning...weights and such? (it has been a while, I can't recall)

They truly do not know what they voluntarily may have dropped and what fell away from the bodies. There was a very wide scattering of the equipment, due to the currents. We will never know, but it's doubtful the movie is even close to what happened to the Lonergans.

 

[poohandwendy]

They truly do not know what they voluntarily may have dropped and what fell away from the bodies. There was a very wide scattering of the equipment, due to the currents. We will never know, but it's doubtful the movie is even close to what happened to the Lonergans.

LOL, I wasn't talking about the actual story, because I know there is no way to know what happened with them. I was just was wondering what the actors did, because I could not recall...only that they dumped something (the weights)

I was disappointed in the ending for a few reasons. I felt that the woman gave up on the man too easily and showed very very little emotion for not only losing the man she loved...but her own lifeline. It would take me more than a few minutes to really accept that my DH was truly gone and letting go of his body would take alot longer than that.

I was also disappointed that they really didn't show them trying to formulate ways to live... it just seemed unrealistic for 2 experienced divers to not be talking more about surviving than they did.

Anyone else kind of not like the way they handled some of the details?

 

[AZKathy]

Hated it.

 

[JennyMominRI]

LOL, I wasn't talking about the actual story, because I know there is no way to know what happened with them. I was just was wondering what the actors did, because I could not recall...only that they dumped something (the weights)

I was disappointed in the ending for a few reasons. I felt that the woman gave up on the man too easily and showed very very little emotion for not only losing the man she loved...but her own lifeline. It would take me more than a few minutes to really accept that my DH was truly gone and letting go of his body would take alot longer than that.

I was also disappointed that they really didn't show them trying to formulate ways to live... it just seemed unrealistic for 2 experienced divers to not be talking more about surviving than they did.

Anyone else kind of not like the way they handled some of the details?

I kindof thought he had died during the night and she held onto him until morning..That's just my own interpretation though

 

[poohandwendy]

You could be right...it just seemed sort of cold and like they didn't show that aspect...like something was missing.

Like you said earlier, this movie stayed with me for a while because it was disturbing. I love movies that make me think "What would I do in those circumstances"...but this one sort of frustrated me, kwim?

 

[JennyMominRI]

You could be right...it just seemed sort of cold and like they didn't show that aspect...like something was missing.

Like you said earlier, this movie stayed with me for a while because it was disturbing. I love movies that make me think "What would I do in those circumstances"...but this one sort of frustrated me, kwim?

I think it was her giving up at the end that got to me..

 

[ashjohnson80]

i didn't car for it. i dont like being eaten by sharks.

 

[JennyMominRI]

i didn't car for it. i dont like being eaten by sharks.

Well,It's not high up there on my list of ways to go out

 

[nwdisgal]

Lately, that movie has hit a little to close to home for me.

 

[ashjohnson80]

Lately, that movie has hit a little to close to home for me.

you have zombies??!!??

 

[Honu]

Lately, that movie has hit a little to close to home for me.

Yes, I heard. I hope he moves along before Easter. I'd like to boogie board in peace.

 

[nwdisgal]

you have zombies??!!??

No. Only when I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror.

 

[nwdisgal]

Yes, I heard. I hope he moves along before Easter. I'd like to boogie board in peace.

I think whale season has a lot to do with it and attracting them in. There is rumored to be a great white out by Molokini . A gal had her calf bitten in two feet of water at Big Beach. Then there is the diver that showed up after the fact in bits and pieces - again found near Big Beach. Fortunately, they believe he was already deceased before the sharks attacked him. Not fortunate that he was deceased, but just fortunate that the events happened after the fact. Then there was the guy that had his hand bitten in December. That is three sharks in three months, which is three too many.

 

[ashjohnson80]

No. Only when I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror.

WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT? I'M CONFUSE.D

 

[nwdisgal]

WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT? I'M CONFUSE.D

Zombies in kilts?