Netflix: Open Water
This movie is the worst movie I remember having seen, ever. I fell asleep during Kill Bill: Volume I and Anastasia, but those were not as bad as Open Water. In fact, the previous "worst movie I've ever seen," which was Bring It On 3: All or Nothing, was not even this bad.
Open Water is based on a true story, that of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who went on a scuba trip along the Great Barrier Reef and were left behind by the dive boat because a crew member took a faulty head count. Beyond that, the movie is fiction, of course, because we have no idea what happened to the Lonergans - we only know that some of their equipment washed up on beaches after they disappeared.
Open Water is not a horror movie. It is not a psychological drama. It is not about interpersonal relations. It is utterly boring, the acting is wooden, the whole thing is just terrible. Two people trapped in the middle of the ocean could be a really interesting movie, but Open Water is not that movie. The main characters are whiny and annoying and the actors deliver the lines like they're reading the phone book. For some reason there is a sequel being made...I can't imagine how bad that is going to be!
After we watched Open Water, my wife insisted that I had to let her watch something good for the rest of the night. But what turned out to be on TV? Bring It On 3 just happened to be on! So I made her watch that too, and we just had an evening of really bad movies.
Open Water is based on a true story, that of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who went on a scuba trip along the Great Barrier Reef and were left behind by the dive boat because a crew member took a faulty head count. Beyond that, the movie is fiction, of course, because we have no idea what happened to the Lonergans - we only know that some of their equipment washed up on beaches after they disappeared.
Open Water is not a horror movie. It is not a psychological drama. It is not about interpersonal relations. It is utterly boring, the acting is wooden, the whole thing is just terrible. Two people trapped in the middle of the ocean could be a really interesting movie, but Open Water is not that movie. The main characters are whiny and annoying and the actors deliver the lines like they're reading the phone book. For some reason there is a sequel being made...I can't imagine how bad that is going to be!
After we watched Open Water, my wife insisted that I had to let her watch something good for the rest of the night. But what turned out to be on TV? Bring It On 3 just happened to be on! So I made her watch that too, and we just had an evening of really bad movies.
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