Nick Stevens: Krakens Released Since 1974.

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Recently for the AMC Movie Blog (where my “column” runs every other Wednesday and nice people allow me to expound on my ridiculous cinematic tastes, loves and obsessions) I expounded on a movie I’m not sure many of you have seen. A movie that some of you have never even heard of. A movie I’ve even heard some people say they didn’t get, or didn’t like. Which made me upset. Almost ashamed to be a fan of movies. To be an American. It’s a movie that, given its concept, might have lead people to believe it was going to be headier, thinking-man’s action. Especially when you realize the budget was so big. But this is B-movies dressed inA-cinema clothes with a fancy Hollywood pedigree…one of my favorite kinds. This movie begins by tilting the Absurd-o-Meter, then pushing it to 11, then going deeper than the mighty ocean it claims as a setting. DEEP BLUE SEA is such a wonderfully bad movie, such a guilty pleasure, such a great example of (what I hope was) a bunch of talented people having a great time turning crap into entertainment, that I love it. LOVE IT. It’s high up on my “Whenever I Pass By It On Cable I Have To Stop What I’m Doing And Watch The Damn Thing” list, and, just on premise alone, firmly-entrenched on my Top 10 list of “So Bad It’s Good” movies. It’s like one of those fancy, gourmet, overpriced cheeseburgers you see on menus of some restaurants now; sure it may be made from higher quality ingredients, and plenty of time might have been spent on it, but at day’s end we know it;’s bad for us and that it’s core it’s still a friggin’ cheeseburger. Which we know and still keep going back for more of. Well, DEEP BLUE SEA is one of the best cine-burgers in recent memory. And the (*spoiler alert!*) Sam Jackson death scene? Greatest on-screen Disco Fries ever. Zoom

Recently for the AMC Movie Blog (where my “column” runs every other Wednesday and nice people allow me to expound on my ridiculous cinematic tastes, loves and obsessions) I expounded on a movie I’m not sure many of you have seen. A movie that some of you have never even heard of. A movie I’ve even heard some people say they didn’t get, or didn’t like. Which made me upset. Almost ashamed to be a fan of movies. To be an American. It’s a movie that, given its concept, might have lead people to believe it was going to be headier, thinking-man’s action. Especially when you realize the budget was so big. But this is B-movies dressed inA-cinema clothes with a fancy Hollywood pedigree…one of my favorite kinds. This movie begins by tilting the Absurd-o-Meter, then pushing it to 11, then going deeper than the mighty ocean it claims as a setting. DEEP BLUE SEA is such a wonderfully bad movie, such a guilty pleasure, such a great example of (what I hope was) a bunch of talented people having a great time turning crap into entertainment, that I love it. LOVE IT. It’s high up on my “Whenever I Pass By It On Cable I Have To Stop What I’m Doing And Watch The Damn Thing” list, and, just on premise alone, firmly-entrenched on my Top 10 list of “So Bad It’s Good” movies. It’s like one of those fancy, gourmet, overpriced cheeseburgers you see on menus of some restaurants now; sure it may be made from higher quality ingredients, and plenty of time might have been spent on it, but at day’s end we know it;’s bad for us and that it’s core it’s still a friggin’ cheeseburger. Which we know and still keep going back for more of. Well, DEEP BLUE SEA is one of the best cine-burgers in recent memory. And the (*spoiler alert!*) Sam Jackson death scene? Greatest on-screen Disco Fries ever.


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