Did anyone else not like "Open Water?"

[FunBobbyMucha]

I'll tell ya why I didn't like it--it has been touted as this year's Blair Witch, the little indie that could, but the glaring aesthetic difference between the two is that BWP had a valid reason to look cheap, OW does not. Regardless of whether you did or didn't like BWP, the built-in premise of unearthed "home movies" allowed you to accept the cheap, on-the-fly, at times glaringly unprofessional quality of the filmmaking (I still think it's a classic, btw).

Open Water offers no such conceit. The film isn't meant to be a vacation video (though that would been derivative of BWP, it would've at least incorporated the cheapness of the production), so instead we're just seeing a cheap, cheap movie, at nine bucks a ticket. I for one am getting a little sick of the digital transfer thing--it generally looks awful onscreen.

Also, there's little going on in OW, dread or no dread. If you're gonna be cheap, at least give us some subtext (their dilemma as a metaphor for their marriage, that sort of thing). Seemed half-baked to me.

Hot actress, though.

[calico1]

1. I hated the ending. n/t

[ampster]

2. I liked the movie

I thought it was cheap, but the story line - two people literally an ocean away from civilization - left to ponder their lives and their relationship. Its a sad movie, remember the night before they refused one last shot at intimacy.

The actress was hot!!!

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. I liked the original Bradbury story better.

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