> Did you see the movie "Open Water"?
>
> I saw it when it first came out, and I thought it was really really
> stupid. I mean, it could have been an okay hour long made for tv
> movie (which are really just forty minutes, once you cut out the
> commercials) but with all the filler, such as extreme closeups of
> animal eyes endless shots of endless expanse of oceans, and
> completely gratuitous nudidity, as they say on M*A*S*H*, I thought
> it was extremely stupid.
>
> Did I miss something?

I'm neither knowledgeable nor a cinephile, but I did see "Open Water".

In a way, it did seem to stretch a tiny amount of story over a large number of minutes. But mostly I didn't mind that, because the situation the characters were in made me really tense. So at least I wasn't sitting there bored. (Instead, I was sitting there with my stomach in knots, imagining myself out in the ocean about to be eaten by sharks. I never said I was brave, folks.)

And I liked a lot of the dialog, as the two people passed blame back and forth as a sort of emotional reflex action, the emptiness and futility of which made the whole thing even more bitter.

"Open Water" was good for one viewing, though it's probably not a movie I'll ever want to rent again. Too many scary sharks!

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