Have you seen open water?

[JennyMominRI]

I just watched this movie fot the second time and it really bothered me..It's one of those movies that just sticks with me for a while

 

[grinningghost]

I saw it at the theater. I thought it was really scary. Alot of people thought it was seriously lame, but it had me freaked out totally.

 

[hpygrll]

I love this movie - DH and I are SCUBA divers so it freaked us out quite a bit. I thought it was scary.
Jenny

 

[JennyMominRI]

I think the woman in the film said it bes.t I don't like bebing able to see what's under me..I've never liked the ocean.I mean I like it from the shore. It's beautiful and all,but I don't want to be on it really.. I don't even like flying over it..This movie touched on every primal fear I have..And the ending really bothered me.I think it bothered me more the second time because I knew what was coming

 

[grinningghost]

The ending was disturbing.

 

[Mad4Mickey]

I remember a thread we had going when it first came out and I said then I wouldnt see it . I still have not ! I Dive and I would be freaked , you know when I started diving I used to say I didnt want that whistle you hang on your vest I wanted a bullhorn . LOL

Nope NOT doing it NOPE

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

No and I do not plan too. It is not based on a true story (as I believe it implies). It is inspired by a story. Aside from that biologically they got eaten by sharks--everything that happened out there is made up.

 

[raammartin]

The thought of deep dark ocean water sends me into a hyperventilation fit, but that movie didn't bother me at all. To me it wasn't a very good movie.

 

[JennyMominRI]

The thought of deep dark ocean water sends me into a hyperventilation fit, but that movie didn't bother me at all. To me it wasn't a very good movie.

I saw that the director said that they were *inspired* by that case and by others,but this was not meant to be any sort of recount of their experience..

 

[ktpool]

No and I do not plan too. It is not based on a true story (as I believe it implies). It is inspired by a story. Aside from that biologically they got eaten by sharks--everything that happened out there is made up.

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?

Anyway, the movie freaked me out - cross deep sea scuba diving off my list!

 

[Honu]

Yep, I've seen it. Darwinism at work. Diving is safe if you respect the ocean and know your own personal limits.

I was rooting for the sharks about 20 minutes into this movie though.

 

[annie1995]

I saw that movie and it totally freaked me out. I am not a diver and after seeing that movie, If I ever did consider it, I would only do shallow diving .

 

[azgal81]

Yes and I am still confused about the ending. It ended kinda weird.

 

[Honu]

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?

Anyway, the movie freaked me out - cross deep sea scuba diving off my list!

It was based on a case of a couple that were left off the coast of Australia. In the search of their belongings, police found a diary where the husband had written of ending his and his wife's life. The theory is he drowned her, and himself, and the bodies were eaten after they died. Very sad, if true.

People do get left behind by those cattle call dive boats though. We don't dive with operators that we don't know for that reason.

 

[raammartin]

I used to want to be a MARINE BIOLOGIST, people! My parents even went so far as to take me to visit the Texas A&M Marine Bio. school in Galveston. I took one look at the dark water and said this ain't for me. Now I can't even look at the satellite pictures of the oceans on Google Earth without freaking out.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

The last image of the movie is what sticks with me. It's probably been about a year since I've seen it and it creeps me out thinking about it.

 

[ktpool]

I guess drowning would be better than the pain of being eaten by sharks

But how do you drown yourself? That would be tricky...

 

[poohandwendy]

No and I do not plan too. It is not based on a true story (as I believe it implies). It is inspired by a story. Aside from that biologically they got eaten by sharks--everything that happened out there is made up.

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 who were accidentally left in the water when the boat went back to shore. 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 the way they portrayed them. 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.

 

[JennyMominRI]

I guess drowning would be better than the pain of being eaten by sharks

But how do you drown yourself? That would be tricky...

Just like it happened at the end of the movie?

 

[Honu]

I guess drowning would be better than the pain of being eaten by sharks

But how do you drown yourself? That would be tricky...

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