>>219807963
somebody said this the last time it was mentioned here, they forgot to set up the movie, it just starts with all hell breaking loose without establishing characters, location, really anything at all. but still a good movie.

>>219807963
My favourite Kristen flick

it was supposed to be cthulhukino but i don't even remember the movie

>>219808024
>they forgot to set up the movie
If you thought the movie didn’t set things up, wait until you read the script lmao:
https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/underwater-2020.pdf?v=1729115055

>>219807963
male gaze being forbidden so kirsten tight body couldn't be highlighted

>>219807963
T.J. Miller being in it.
Also, Meg 2: The Trench really blatantly copying a bunch of it and getting away with it because of how few people saw Underwater

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>>219807963
>What went wrong?
A lot. The original script was put into production based on the supposed appeal of the general premise, with another writer and then also the director rewriting the screenplay multiple times. However, they never really figured out how to fix the movie. They figured they would work it out during the production, but they didn't manage to do so. The director pivoted towards a Lovecraft/Cthulhu angle last minute and told production designers and craftspeople to make stuff related to that, only to discover that he didn't know how to insert it in the film (pic related, unused wall sculptures related to lore that never made it into the movie). Directing a movie in this setting with these setpieces requires an incredible amount of directorial technical skill and vision, William Eubank did not have that skill (admittedly, very very very few directors do, even directors who've made great films don't).The movie was shot years before it came out and was shelved due to the Disney-Fox merger. In the meantime, one of the main actors, whom the movie was completely rewritten for, became an uncastable Hollywood pariah and box office poison. Finally, the movie got stealth dumped in January of 2020, with Covid lockdowns a few months/weeks later preventing a proper global roll out.

Now somebody please post a webm of Kristen's tummy while she's breathing. If you've seen the movie you know the moment I'm talking about.

>>219807963
nothing, i liked it

>>219807963
>They just fucking HAD TO clarify that her dead boyfriend was black
Disgusting shit

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>>219809252
>Now somebody please post a webm of Kristen's tummy while she's breathing. If you've seen the movie you know the moment I'm talking about.
OK I had to find it myself.

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oh my god, she’s literally me

>>219808121
Wow, this is fucking awful.

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>>219808121
This is exceptionally bad. On every level. This is worse than what gets posted by schizophrenic amateurs on internet forums. Remember this when screenwriters complain that their work got changed.

>>219807963
nothing, i liked it. thats all that matters. fuck critics, fuck budget, fuck box office gross.
:)

>>219810095
I would do this.

>>219808121
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>>219810355
What's wrong with it?

Too reliant on set pieces. It was essentially a disney park ride.

>>219807963
Casting that plank of wood, for a start.

I liked it.

I didn't really mind that it didn't set up the characters, it made it feel streamlined and focused. If anything the little breadcrumbs of backstory they did put in shouldn't have been there. Nobody in The Thing has a backstory. I think backstories SUCK.

>>219810095
this is wrong why? normies get mad at the stupidest things

Nothing. It's the best Alien sequel that actually got made.

>>219808121
>clicking a pdf link on 4chinz

>>219807963
It was fine

>>219809252
>>219809456
>not having this in your quickselection
ngmi

>>219811124
that's because you're an idiot and don't even know what a backstory is. mcready getting fed up with the computer beating him at chess and trashing it is 10x more backstory by itself than any character in underwater has. they couldn't even establish the location with anything other than news clipping bullshit during the credit sequence.

>>219811124
The difference is that in The Thing the characters have personalities and aren’t extremely annoying.

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>>219811425
>mcready getting fed up with the computer beating him at chess and trashing it is 10x more backstory by itself
I don't think YOU know what a backstory is. For one thing, it's a STORY, it's a told, communicated thing.

>they couldn't even establish the location with anything other than news clipping bullshit during the credit sequence.
What do you mean by this?

>>219811438
>aren’t extremely annoying.
Youd probably get into a fistfight with gary or palmer on day 1.

>>219811534
I meant annoying to the viewer.

>>219811586
Fair enough.

>>219807963
Underwater was the most ambitious and "bespoke" Hollywood production of the last 15 years at least. Unfortunately, the movie itself doesn't reflect the amount of effort that was put into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yTh4vz3y0

>>219810095
What's the issue?

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>>219807963
It was just halfassed. Nothing to it, just alot of untalented people trying to make a movie above their grade.

>>219811139
Hollywood people want to belive that they're all artists and that every project they work on is a grand opus into which everyone has poured their blood, sweat and tears, a magnificent edifice culminating out of a synergy of emotion and vision. They don't like it when someone reminds them that it's literally just a job.

>>219807963
The movie was peak woke
She had a black boyfriend in the movie even though he's not in the movie

>>219807963
Nothing.

>>219807963
The first half of The Meg 2 was literally just this movie but replace the elder god and its spawn with le evil drilling company and prehistoric fishies. And it did it much better

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>>219810095
based. it's just a job and she's pretty busy. do they seriously believe she has time to hang out in a dozen group chats at any given time?