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The Reef (2010)
Topic Started: Sep 30 2015, 05:21 PM (241 Views)
GL84
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Killer's Therapist
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Getting stranded in a remote section of water while on a cruise, a group of friends find their journey to sanctuary interrupted by a large rogue shark intent on stalking and eating them one-by-one and must try to get to safety before they all fall victim.

What did everyone think of this one?
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Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

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This is a massively dull and overblown film that never really made an impression one way or the other. The main problem with this one is the fact that it's just way too bland and lifeless for nearly all of what happens in here. The pace here is incredibly off by taking so long to have them stranded and then taking what seems like an eternity to get them into the water away from the wreck, it draws out the first half so deep into the movie there's very little to get invested in throughout here. Once they're in the water, the film sputters even further with the entire time feeling like it consists of the group bobbing up and down on the lapping waves or has so many scenes of the friends looking into the water with their goggles and not seeing anything that it effectively making it seem like ninety-percent of the film has nothing happening. This really tends to play havoc with the kills and body count here by pushing them so far out into the film that there's such a dragged-out pace on display that gives off the feeling of a suspense/thriller over a full-on horror film as it never turns into one until the finale. Almost as much of a total let-down is the utterly disappointing method of the attacks as it's edited in such a way as to make it impossible to tell what happened, who got hit or what was done, and then to have all the attacks finished off-screen is just a huge waste, leaving off the gore which is a real hurdle to get over. As well as the rather curious nature of why the shark is stalking them in the manner here which is quite unlikely and unexplained anyway, these here are enough to hold this down from the only real positive point. That one enjoyable factor is that there's some suspense derived from these attack scenes here as there's genuine tension building up about the shark nearby, as the isolation, lapping water against them and fiddling with the goggles indeed causes a sense of anticipation over what's going to happen and when it'll come out of the darkness. That's what makes the first attack so good as it is with the build-up being rather fun with the shark coming in nicely, while the fact that these all make for a realistic, probable touch that really does do much to help the film. These here, as well as the finale which features the frantic race to get to the reef for protection that gives this another last-ditch positive here that's still mainly within the final half that makes for what really works here. Overall, this was a massive let-down against the many flaws.
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This was a good film, but it was basically a higher budget, high body count rehash of Open Water.

Open Water is much better and scarier, though.
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All I really know about this is that in the real story one of the guys is the sole survivor, but the creators decided men weren't sympathetic enough and changed him into a final girl, which comes off as kind of problematic. That and the reviews are absolutely horrible. So yeah, not much interest in this
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I haven't seen this but film has a 78 % on Rotten Tomatoes and a 5.8 on imdb, those are pretty good reviews for a film like this. And the shifts made from the truth to fiction is something that I understand because I think producers and general audiences prefer to have. It didn't bother me when a certain 2015 horror did the same thing and wouldn't bother me for this either.
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Jun 24 2016, 06:47 PM
And the shifts made from the truth to fiction is something that I understand because I think producers and general audiences prefer to have. It didn't bother me when a certain 2015 horror did the same thing and wouldn't bother me for this either.
My problem is it's completely sexist. And as usual, it's bad for both genders. (I mean, with guys, the "You're more expendable and inherently less sympathetic" stuff is blatantly in your face, but that whole thing kinda has roots with girls being treated as scared damsels that should wait around for men to save them as well) It's one thing to change up an actual movie if you're switching survivors around to make it less cliched, or even to just make things different, but when your basis for the change is sexism and reinforcing stereotypes, I'm less tolerant. Like how Animal pisses me off because it has to be a white girl who lives for no reason beyond she's white.

And a 5.8 is not so good
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I haven't seen this to say how the gender roles are handled but I don't think it's saying men deserve to die because they are men or are expandable in the world, or that woman are damsels in distress. I think that whoever put this together got bits and pieces that would make the most successful movie and frankly just a movie that would sell and be seen. It may conform to the rules of mainstream cinema and be seen as offensive to the original events but I really don't think it is reinforcin any sort of harmful stereotypes.

And a 5.8 is actually a good score considering imdb is harsh towards horror. I mean recent good films around that range include stuff like The Pact, Kristy, We Are Still Here, Honeymoon, Last Shift, Absentia...
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I didn't say you did, I said the filmmakers fell into that trap based on their reasons for changing the real story and survivor

You're not exactly naming great movies there....
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I think we are just going to have to disagree on essentially everything. I do think those are some of the best horror films of their respective years and think a 5.8 is a fine score for a horror film.
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Jun 24 2016, 08:53 PM
I think we are just going to have to disagree on essentially everything. I do think those are some of the best horror films of their respective years and think a 5.8 is a fine score for a horror film.
So... let me make sure I'm understanding you clearly. You don't think the filmmakers saying they changed the survivor's gender because women are inherently more sympathetic/men are more expendable/etc. (their reasoning, not mine) is sexist? I don't usually jump on this stuff, but them defending it was kinda painful
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I kind of do think that you can sympathize with a women easier than a man so I can't necessarily fought them for that to make a film that works as well as it does. I mean I haven't seen this to say if it works for me personally, but judging by the critics and what I have heard about this I believe it does work.
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Just dropping in to say that for a HORROR film, a 5.8 is rather impressive. Most Horror films end up in the 4.0-5.5 range, it seems. I'm always surprised when I'm browsing and I still see that stuff like Green Room, You're Next, and The Devil's Rejects have above a 6.
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