UNDERWATER (Cthulhu Awakens) EXPLORED
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Theory: The corporation is Cthulu worshippers and they know what they're doing by mining there.
That's a good point
Both opening and ending sequences seem to hint at that
It’s like the fallout 4 Easter egg haha. A gaint mine quarry that was being dug up and the further you go you get crazy sounds and stuff from under the earth
Was just going to suggest that. They are like Wayland Yutani corp lol, only instead of wanting a bioweapon they keep deliberately blundering about down there, making a bit of money and feeding to poor scrubs they hire to the dark one they worship. Hoping their god will make it to the waking world. Maybe they shouldn't have used a nuke reactor? Lol.
In Lucien's locker(the old drill) when kristen(forgot her name in the movie) is going through the stuff and the camera shows a map in the background, I swear I saw a pentagram on the right side of the map
Ah yes, the emergency water hatch that needs a security code and an access card to activate.
Who ever wrote that probably bike locks their fire escape too.
Reactor controls?
Ah yes 3 sliders on that touchscreen, just hit spacebar for a thermonuclear explosion.
Patric Flück lmao 😂
Probably never heard of the safety exist code.
Well it kinda makes sense you dont wanna just accidentally open a door that leads to miles of water above you
@Thomas Santino It's a horror movie. 90% of horror movies exist around people not having the competence they are supposed to have and having very poor decision-making skills. If they didn't have that security system in place, they probably would have a character opening that emergency hatch just because they heard a noise on the other side.
This was one of the most underrated horror movies I've seen in a long time. I enjoyed this a lot.
Idk what to say...... It wasnt a horror movie??? But cool👍
I agree... This movie is actually really good. I love it
Its REALLY good... its on HBO Max now and i have watched it several times to catch all the little easter eggs.
@@axelpalacios9232 It's what we call sci-fi Horror/Survival Horror or maybe even Cosmic Horror.
With a real strong woman, not the retarded bullshit that you see in captain marvel, she was like Ripley.
The map in Lucien's locker clearly showed that they were looking for something down there, and it had all kinds of weird scribblings too, but it all lead to the roebuck, which was coincidentally where chthulhu was in the movie. I don't think the captain was staying behind to sink with the ship or save everyone he could so much as he just wanted to see Cthulhu before his death. Quite sad for him though that he died halfway there.
It was also mentioned at the end of the movie that the survivors were prevented from telling the story to anyone, and all evidence of what happened was scrubbed, before eventually the company decided to go back down and dig there again which is pretty much the final nail in the coffin here.
They weren't digging for oil, they were digging for Cthulhu, or perhaps his city.
Also look how the map was drawn out. Very occultic
Hell, the scene when they’re looking at Cthulhu, the voice said “we’ve got big things in store for you”, and Tian is Chinese for “Heaven”. God, I love the subtle details.
Don't forget - they also got podded up before the big baddie showed up. As far as they knew, it was just an army of mermen, nothing on the fantastic grand scale.
Bro there was even a symbol in the locker. A star in a circle with some ancient letters,.
Ya I saw and noticed all of that. Was still a shit fucking movie.
Bruh imagine being in a cult trying to awaken a God for centuries then people come mining and wake him up by accident 😂
The cult 😑
By accident... Riiiight...
"Certified Bruh Moment"
Actually, this situation does happen in the short story itself, which is a wonderful nod to the author!
Am I a joke to (Cthulh)U?
this movie combined two of my greatest fears, being trapped in confined spaces underwater and having to listen to TJ Miller’s jokes
I think they could have replaced Kristen Stewart with Leslie Nielsen, and no one would notice a difference :D
Lmfao good one
@Lord7master7mike kristen Stewart is fine
Damn so true ... TJ Miller's is an human trash
@@INBOX69 tj miller isn't the guy that made the emoji movie the cringest movie ever created
I know the movie is about Cthulhu..but I gotta give props to Emily. She was the one who was so scared to walk the ocean floor, everyone had to look out for her..then later she was separated and she had to do it herself for quite some time while dragging Smith. That was amazing.
this has nothing to do with cthulhu
@@pabloperezmoralrelax it's just a comment your gonna fight him over it or something ?
Oh you are offended little baby?
It seems like the whittle baby here is you. Snowflake lmao@@pabloperezmoral
"Tian Industries Mining Company" The company's name is literally the Chinese name for "Heaven". They definitely cultists.
O9
How the hell is that a chines name for heaven
@@Azrael42016 Tian is the pinyin for 天, the Chinese character for "Heaven".
The name apparently comes, according to the director, from "LovecrafTIAN." Yeah, he's a HUGE Lovecraft fan.
Also Pontus is the god of the sea. Pretentious much?
Will someone just let Guillermo Del Toro make his Mountains of Madness movie already!?
This this this!!!!!
With Tom Cruise in the lead like he wants? No thanks.
Now if Robert Eggers was writing and directing? Fuck yah
@@atreacherouspath After what he did with the Lighthouse and the VVitch, *YES PLEASE!*
Wait the what??
If we get Guillermo Del Toro this movie must have Pacific Rim Jaegers.
It's Alien meets LEVIATHAN meets The Abyss. Even though this film is considered a box office disappointment, it's an amazing and visually stunning film.
I honestly think the marketing was off. When I saw the first trailer/teaser I didn't even know it was a monster flick, thought it was just another natural disaster movie.
@@bmann78 How did you not known the film was a monster flick though? The trailer literally showed the crew being stalked by something underwater, with one shot where the monster appears for a good 1 second.
Have to see it
Shaine White bingo I was supposed more didn’t think of leviathan in regards to this movie
Giving it a pg-13 rating didn't help either
So I’m a bit late to the party I just want to talk about my experience watching this movie
I was the only one in the theater.
I felt like I was in the movie making the trip with the crew.
I can not tell you how scared I was when a staff member walked in and just stared at me with no orange light. I nearly yelled.
LMAOOOO amazing, huh?
@@Andromedon777 yeah amazingly tense, there was no distractions from the movie just me in a giant nearly empty room watching a horror movie.
😂
The true experience of watching a horror movie
Not the only one but me an my gf were in there basically alone nearly empty like you said , we didn’t even know it was a horror movie the movie we were gonna see was sold out so we saw this one while trippin on acid 😂😂 kinda made it better made it feel more like we were there an it was actually real
The idea of the corporation is actually Cthulhu worshipers would be a great reveal like how the reveal of Cabin in the Woods took that movie up another level.
2:10, this film was on the shelf for 3 years!! Jesus!
Should've sat for a few more 😂
This movie actually surprised me, I thought it’s gonna be another dud survival horror movie but I enjoyed it.
Same here. I thoroughly enjoyed this
Same, good flick
yup! it sure did! Kirsten Steward did aswell... actually enjoyable to watch her in this movie
beautiful flat chested angel lmao best line so far
@commiesarentpeople and she was hot as hell
Had a nightmare about this movie. Even though I'm a great swimmer & I love marine biology.... I am terrified of the ocean. At the beach i only go in deep enough to where i see my feet. In the nightmare I was at the bottom of the ocean and creatures were just coming and taking members of the diving team I was with. The impending doom of being next was mortifying. It all felt so lucid. And then I woke up. I'm more comfortable swimming in lakes or pools.
All I'm gonna say is same, that is why I prefer swimming pools rather then the ocean.
Maybe it’s not a dream, maybe he’s calling to you
Then you should play SOMA its a perfect game for you
Yeah it's 100% normal to like swimming and marine creatures but be scared of the ocean. That thing is fucking scary
Dont do drugs😂😂
This move was far better than it had any right to be
Cthulhu constructed the city of R'lyeh, a place composed of structures so complex, the human mind would be unable to fathom them. However, a change in the stars caused Cthulhu to fall into a deep slumber, his city and the majority of his race sinking to the bottom of the ocean with environmental changes. Cthulhu still lies dormant at the bottom of the sea, immune to the changing of the universe. H.P. Lovecraft's works were fascinating and truly ahead of his time.
He called his cat N*ggaman
@@pfannerjesus funny cat name
@@pfannerjesus I'm kinda getting tired of people bringing this up on every video related to Lovecraft, Yeah the man was flawed (like very flawed) but can we Just praise his work and imagination without the need of bringing up his cat?
@@pfannerjesus
Is that legit? He called his cat Niggaman? Why lol?
Love his work to be honest though. Interesting.
@@pfannerjesus so what? It doesn't change or diminish his genius.
C'thulu doesnt "Wait to spread madness" etc. Its simply an effect of being something our minds cannot understand, it does not spread madness deliberately, its simply something that comes with being a creature of mindbending reality.
He’s like religion: just fairy tales.
tigerace43 not true but ok
I think you wrong. This is from the short story: "Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.”
Sasqe nah he’s speaking facts
@@tigerace43 I love how atheists can only muster the most basic insults.
80% of atheist humor is calling religion a fairy tail and 20% is hitting a book with a dumb ray and having it turn into a bible
First time I watched the movie, when we saw cthulhu rise through the water, I thought it was so freakin awesome. It was an epic scene.
I really enjoyed the first mainstream cinema appearance of mighty C and I'd love to see a sequel expanding on the world.
Terraria players: "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, Old Man?!"
Vega Gyarados 1.4 update comes out next month. Can’t wait.
S. D. M. G loaded with chlorophyte bullets: *YEET*
Moon Lord: You can't just hit me while you hide inside your house
Me: haha Solar Eruption goes *foosh woosh wshwww wshwww foosh*
@@jockseethe9300 I think that was like one of the three videos I uploaded to youtube before the purge. The pain box for the win.
I thought the Moon Lord is Cthulu's relative... I read it somewhere.
I went into this movie completely blind, expecting a disaster movie and thrilled when it turned out to be Lovecraftian. I agree with you on the "missing" first act but really don't agree with the desire to explore more of the lore. It's written as a disaster from the crew's point of view. They don't know about Cthulu and aren't aware of anything except the quakes until the very end. It would feel really out of place to shoehorn in tons of backstory.
Kind of makes me want a sequel where the company gets what they're looking for and humanity suffers the result...
hawk 7886 I would be more interested in discovering a world that does not know of Lovecraft and Cthulhu, the same way the Walking Dead universe knew nothing of Romero and zombies.
im just happy some people survived. ^^
(hawk 7886) agreed.
@hawk 7886 The ending hinted at a possible sequel.
@@marcushosmer1856 I always thought that the concept of undead doesn't exist in the WD universe. Makes me wonder what they're history/mythology is like
Ever since I saw this movie I feel like it was so underrated, not just cause I’m a Cthulhu fan but the movie was pretty good and suspenseful.
Love the little hints throughout this film indicating Cthulhu. With the characters displaying signs of mental stress as the film goes on to maps and other images etc. Love those Easter egg type films.
"And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare." - H.P. Lovecraft
he enjoying torture all human and mind break them
@@mihimanindo3564 what?
Honestly? I scream with nightmare at the idea of paying rent too...
What story is that from?
@@kiryukazuma8089 "Nyarlathotep" it was a dream Lovecraft had.
I just couldn't help noticee that her suit could take being swallowed whole and survive an explosion and being smashed around, but cant take a fire extinguisher.
Given how deep sea pressuized diving suits are made they are incredibly weak to sudden shocks in small areas
Yh somehow an alien rips one of the suit leg of and then literally rips his body out of the wall of the suit which is stupid because of how strong those suits would have to be to resist the pressure and two why was the pulley attached to his body not the suit?
exactly and the pressure at that depth is equal of Boeing 747 standing on an 1 milliliter so its so massive
Cris is 110% correct. Why are you people so desperate to explain awful writing and poor logic?
Jolly Plague Doctor convenient writing maybe but not poor. It’s not like ppl question why Tony Stark can breath on an alien planet in Infinity War. Some things you just gotta take at face value.
What works in UNDERWATER afar out weighs the bad (it’s a fantastic movie)
No way in hell that tiny explosion was able to kill Cthulhu.
it didnt it knocked him back into sleep cthulhu can not be injured or killed but enough concussive force to his head will make him go unconscious be it a boat mast to the forhead at full speed like in the orginal short story or a underwater shockwave produced by a close radious nuclear bomb
@@wilmagregg3131 it looked pretty much that his body GOT VAPORIZED
also in the movie, i don't think he had wings and the insanity effect on people who see him
In an interview with the director he explicitly stated that 1: it was indeed Cthulhu and 2: no, the blast did not kill it.
@@zcgamerandreacts2762 no not dead
I give this movie a 10/10 score. Character development was actually perfect. Screenwriters don't always have to spoon feed us all the information. This movie was brilliantly done.
Honestly, I felt the movie had enough to keep itself afloat. They held back just enough on the monsters, that as soon as you started to become comfortable with one scenario, they hit you with another escalation (From dodging one, to finally killing one, to finding out they were nothing more than fleas to the true monster) It was well done, and kept me interested through the entire thing. Kinda wish they made it a little longer the flush out the characters, or maybe even dive into the connection the company has with cthulu, but otherwise, very well done.
They should make another movie keeping the same framework-ish, and yeah, expand a little into cthulhu and his abilities to cause madness by proxy, and... the ceo who heard his call lol
edit: my comment here exists because a someone I know recently shared a 'nightmare' they had after watching this movie recently. The dream was:
They wished Donald Trump would be a Monarch, not just for America, but the world. Aliens granted his wish. Some scientists were trying to open dimensions to another world... So Trump said: "Do that for me!" - and they succeeded. Then a huge tentacle came out and wrapped itself around the world until it was squashed.
yeah, glad it wasn't my dream 😅
*anyways. this move was WAY better than the one with Nicolas Cage 🤭- " a color out of space" or something
Gonna point out, at the first sign of anything bullshit Gunner Wright's character (voice actor for Isaac Clark) goes straight for the industrial bolt gun. My man knows just how to deal with horrifying lovecraftian monstrosities.
Damn skippy, aim for the limbs
Blood for the Blood God! Grab those bolters!
Nice Dead Space reference my man.
Better to have a gun and not need it than not have a gun.
@@disintegr8er_232 GO FOR THE LEGS
despite the film's faults like you mentioned regarding character development, i quite enjoyed this film and would be open to seeing a sequel. This film should have been released on streaming services rather than in theatres. The film lost money at the box office but it could of been a plus on a streaming service.
I mean hell if they called it UNDERWATER with LOVECRAFT I think it would've sold a lot more tickets, but would've totally spoiled the whole thrill of the film. I'm hopeful that it'll blow up in streaming so interest drives studios to do more lovecraft horror in mainstream movies.
@@BeauregardHall keeping lovecraft out was a great idea... that reveal at the end SHOOK me. It was awesome to see in theaters.
@@neoarchangemon3460 the reveal was sublime
@@BeauregardHall the film itself is more of a emoge or insprational fan adaption then anything direct to the source material. lovecraft has been a real hit or miss IP because of the source material dark genre, it would self if it was done right and actually marketed itself confidently as a direct or lose adaption of his actual writings.
Lovecraft quote at 1:35 is so damn brilliant! Pure magic of a profound
thought that transcends time. Hats off to you for bringing that up.
A extra thirty minutes at the start would have definitely rounded the film out more I think a two hour run time was more than called for with this film
Always leave them wanting more
I do wish we got more time with crew but the movie getting right into the action was cool
@@SirBearization But what’s the point if you aren’t going to give them more. Just to make the audience ache?
@@theucheao Nearly a year later but laughed so hard at your comment. Also agree.
Color out of Space and Underwater coming out within a year of each other: Lovecraft fan’s wet dream
Within the same month actually. I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, and it was indeed a thrill.
Colour Of Space was dreadful tho
@@andrewquick4176 yeah it was especially when I had only recently read the short story for the first time
More coming soon yo!
This!!
We actually do get to explore the culture of the cult from the outside: The mining company. They wouldn't go back once, let alone twice, unless they intended to wake him.
The crew are sacrifices.
The humanoid creatures do resemble the Deep Ones, maybe a different species than Cthulhu 'imself! (and there is that Octopus creature too)
The Deep Ones kind of acted like Cthulhu's followers.
I think some of the crew of Sheppard-Station were startin' to theorize somethin', based on the CoC page in the locker, i think Lovecraft exists as a writer in this universe, meaning 'is stories could have been visions send to 'im in the dreamlands.
In the end, the bomb did kill all of the Deep Ones (in the area) but i'm sure Cthulhu lived.
I really want a sequel, damn i loved this movie.
This movie was dope man.. I seen that octopus creature too didn't dawn on me that was like a species, also it seemed like they were dealing with confusion too was that because of the monsters or lack of oxygen u think?
trae tha god I also want a sequel, specially because of cthullu’s design, and at the end of the next movie he just appears in like a beach and like the books say, everybody just goes mad, and he starts killing people. Think about how awesome that would be
With a runtime of only 94 minutes, i have a hard time believing there isn't a lot of footage that got cut just to get this movie out the door. If that's the case then I would love to see a director's cut of this film.
A lot of studios prefer an hour and a half runtime over 2 hours, especially with thrillers like this. I don't know why
@@fartquaviasdingle7876 Right? I don't get it... I want a lot more build up and suspense in movies like this
@@fartquaviasdingle7876because you can get more presentations in a day in a movie theater. More turnover = more butts in the seat$
I just saw the film today; I feel as if the movie was too short, just rushing along to the final act. The movie itself is barely an hour and a half long and you can feel it. I think if they'd added on another 30-40 minutes for character development and setting at the beginning it could've really helped the film with pacing.
The Sauce I actually think that the “shortness” works, it’s fast paced and you feel the urgency
Yeah exactly how I felt after the movie, it was good but ending didn’t make much sense and there was not much character development
It was also hard to see the action in the dark
you know before LOTR and the marvel movies most movies were around 90 minutes unless they were some kind of matineé
That’s expensive tho
In the scene where Stewarts character opens the locker in the Shepard, there is an occult symbol drawn on the map. Shocked you didnt mention that at all.
I love how much lore the film actually has aside from Chtulhu and Lovecraft-inspired themes. For example, the articles at the beginning and at the end of the movie really sell the feeling of bigger events than being showed to a viewer. And the mural depicting Deep Ones! It's such a small detail I didn't even noticed it during my first watch. That's just all around good worldbuilding.
This is more like “Dagon”, then “Call of Cthulu”.... those are deep ones and he is the big.. one.
Exactly what I was thinking
Okay doomguy.... What do you know about interdimensional creatures?
jay boyer-hilton@ not much, I can never get along with them long enough to find out. I do know Thulu doesn’t look like a giant fish man. Dagon does though. All you gotta do is read his books to know that.
Actually Cthulhu is the father of his own species the Cthulhians, they worship him and not Dagon, Dagon has he bipedal walking fish known as Deep Ones to worship him, Cthulhu has the Cthulhians, so theyre the Cthulhians, not Deep Ones, I'm an Lovecraft mythos nerd and thus I know that the creatures the crew encounter along with Cthulhu, are Cthulhians because Deep Ones are bipedal fish, the Cthulhians are humanoids with squid heads and they also worship Cthulhu, and they slumber in R'lyeh, the underwater city, the Deep Ones slumber in Atlantis and worship Dagon.
Daniel pp I hand the torch to you, but honestly they kind of look like a mixture of both in that case, or not at all because they have squid legs. And are they both in the Atlantic Ocean? Doesn’t dragon worship cathulu his father? Now that I think about it I do remember the aliens race who changed to look like Cthulhu who has a squid face not a fish face, as you said.
So ACTUALLY I’m taking the torch back.
And there are no depictions of Cthulhu‘s worshipers. in the stories they are said to be exactly like him, and he’s bipedal.. in a weird way it plays out like shadows of esmouth or the Degon story exactly but reveals something similar in location or look of what you describe, any pre-notion made about thuluian though is during a time before humans.
The most surprising fact is that it was released during the throwaway month, When it's actually decent.
Production value is decent, writing however is a fucking mess.
Devafrog i agree, i didn’t hate it
It definitely was not a good movie at all in my opinion. Id personally rather watch alien, which this seemed like a fast-paced ripoff of to me 🤷♂️. If you guys liked it though, good on you! I spent $6 on apple TV to rent it 😂
@@thefriar8883 Gosh did you really need to add your life story?
Well it wasn't going to beat any serious box office contenders.. Might as well let it pick on the movies worse than itself, so you can claim it was a number 1 box office smash
I loved underwater I had no idea that this was about Cthulhu his scared the absolutely bejeezus out of me
Though I completely agree with this review, the only statement I feel should be added is that the movie feels like it's very aware of the fact that it lacks a rising first act. I actually really enjoyed the sudden jump into the action after nothing but a brief monologue. It very much presents itself as a depiction of an interaction with the cthulu mythos from the perspective of an outsider; someone not intimately familiar with the intricacies of the eldritch horror story. It almost better connects with a modern audience that likely fits that very description. The love for its inspiring works is very evident, and I found myself really enjoying the ride.
Agreed, it was interesting seeing it jump straight into the action instead of taking 20 minutes to set up the characters to give us a slightly more emotional reaction to their deaths.
This video has been the best bit of advertising this movie has had I will definitely give it a watch now
Grim Reaper just watched the flick! It was a fantastic watch! Hope you have the same experience :)
Backpacking With Marco thank you
It's a great movie but they just tell you the whole movie here.
The movie was trash.
Indeed I'm gonna check it out too.
I thought Slim Shady was really good in this film.
fuckin eh
@@redmudpei shes hot
@Mr I its okay to be gay
Crabmaster it’s okay to simp.
@Mr I you tell me you are the maestro it seems
Emergency hatches that need key-cards to close, but the thermal reactors is accessible from the life-pod bay and can be overloaded without any special access? Odd.
The other biggest issue I found was the parts in the movie where Nora and the other Women would periodically pause, while traversing the open ocean, while being hunted, for overly long, overly emotional interactions they didn't have time for, but for some reason the monsters are never around when these emotional scenes drag on.
Or the fact they survived their habitat failing where the water pressure is over 1000 bar. They would be dead before their brains could register that anything was wrong.
monster detect emotions and feel empathy. just kidding, yeah, kind of annoying.
Personally I like it when movies have a beginning like this. Start with the deadly situation and go from there.
Surprisingly enough, this is actually a pretty good movie
You probally like it because there are EXPLOSIONS
@Francisco O Nope. People like it because it adds its own Lovecraftian twist instead of just being an underwater Alien.
Dub lover Alright that’s your opinion.
@@dmin5782 you dont get my joke because his profile picture is an anime character from konosubarashi and that certain character likes explosions or maybe you do get the joke and you had to lecture me which was very unnecessary because lovecraft is awesome and if the movie was a bout some alien the plot wouldvof bored me to death.
Wow.
I've never actually read Lovecraft. But just that lone opening paragraph already has its hooks in me.
I think it's either free or super cheap on kindle.
Bought all his works for 2.99 on kindle!!
It's amazing horror that still holds up today, but some parts are really hard to read in the present. Lovecraft was intensely racist, and imo it's important to acknowledge that those themes exist in his work. So, please be mindful while reading, but do enjoy the horror :)
@@scapegoatmiller9110 i never read any of his works, so what's wrong in that book?
@@volcanocollins9845 Lovecraft is public domain, so feel free to have someone read it to you on YT without guilt.
This was a fantastic movie and the Deep Ones and Cthulhu reveal is the icing on the cake! I loved this movie! The interview Mr. H has with the director gave me pretty much all the answers to the questions I had and some extra cool details.
Never realized that was Cthulhu. Very good breakdown. Makes me wish for a sequel, maybe even a prequel to make up for the mythos they did not explore.
it's not necessarily THE cthulhu. it is similar type of creature,
me : after watching the movie
me : it was interesting
my friend : cthulhu r'lyeh goyevjddjs
me: dude are you okay ?
G'seundheight.
@@BeauregardHall the taking of pelham 123
10:30, this the perfect example of staying home and watching this during quarantine.
I’d like to think there WAS a first act when this movie was originally filmed back in 2017. Just that they had to sacrifice it (via streamlined editing) in order for this story to see the light of day.
The world building in this movie is so awesome, I have experience working in isolated camps for long periods of time and this film captured it perfectly
"When Cthulhu wakes, he shall consume the sun to make his flight home" -Call of Cthulhu
Commander since when are you a lovecraftian worshiper?
Thank you for keeping us entertained during quarantine.
I saw this movie and it was INCREDIBLE, it always has you on the seats edge and tense, there wasnt one moment I could be calm
10/10
I questioned the realism of "leaking" deep sea stations. Wouldnt such a weakness cause an implosion so fast you wouldnt even have time to blink?
Yes
Yeah... the Byford Dolphin accident is a great example as it is the exact same systems of operations as what is shown in this movie, a drilling rig.
Yeah it would, but... movie
I just watched this film a couple days ago and I honestly thought “FilmComicsExplained should do a video on this movie!” I totally agree with you. A little bit of character exposition goes a long way. This film would have benefited greatly from some sort of mess hall style of opener.
What streaming service?
I said the same, I wasn't invested in the characters at all. This could have been a really good movie
Stellvia Hoenheim k-stew is an amazing actress.
And I appreciate the all in approach. That way you get to know people by what they do or their reaction and not how they interact over a meal.
Then it’d be VERY alien and I think this split second approach actually helps the movie differentiate itself.
Plus the nature of the story is that many of them only meet because of this event. The place is so big and many crew die at the very beginning. It’s a really cool way of driving up the stakes.
Stellvia Hoenheim shes the only American Actress to have ever been awarded a Cesar, an acting award WAAAAAAAAAY more prestigious than an Oscar.
I like how the characters act like the monsters being awakend was a consequence of their actions even though they were not the Crew that actually woke them up since it technically wasn't our characters just their co-workers
@Patrick Starbut that still means the Main cast didn't actually Release the monster so the we released them we kill them stuff is bs except for the captain
UnderWater hit ground running. It was a rollercoaster of a film. Good and exciting. No one really cares or remembers how the cast that gets picked off one by one until only the final girl or couple is left to survive until the sequel.
I love the movie. It's a great live action call of cthulu game. You can see where roles failed, sanity was loss and that being an engineer is always a useful class.
Nyarlathotep: "We are similar you know, Satan, only difference is that I am a good son."
I feel like I've heard this somewhere
But according to their myth, Satan is an angel made by their god
Technically Satan is Nyarlathotep.
@@dmin5782 Not really
Cthulu may be the reason why till this generation we only discovered 5% of the ocean.
Or maybe because exploring the ocean isn’t easy and requires technology which hasn’t been available for older generations
@@eliasjussila3302 or cthulhu
@@eliasjussila3302 why are they more interested in trying to leave earth? Why don't they explore the oceans?if they can't make rockets they can make things to go to the depths
@@laaa210 because space is cooler than looking at fucking planktons
@@noble14 opinion
I really loved this film.
It even started straight away without much pointless build up.
I ACTUALLY LOVED THIS FILM. It wasn’t no Alien but shit i was surprised.
Ya know what’s scary, is we don’t even know what is really down there, and we just recently discovered another ocean under the earths crust, imagine... the creatures or diseases we would run into down there?
Probably some ancient organisms
...probably nothing other than maybe planktons and micro-organisms. Yall realize that physics still exist right? The immense ammount of pressure down there would not allow organisms of whatever size you're thinking to exist. Im sorry but there most likely isn't an ancient giant sea creature on earth.
@Yoda _ ...well yeah all complex organisms need oxygen to even function and if we're talking about a monster, im pretty sure it would need oxygen XD. The probability of giant(or even human sized) sea creatures living deep in the ocean is so low that it's not even worth imagining it nor taking it into account. But hey if you want to believe such fairy tales, who am i to stop you?
@Yoda _ “pressure only matters if you breathe oxygen”. Man, that is amazingly wrong.
@Yoda _ ahh Steve Alten, I see you are a man of culture
I went into this movie not knowing, or expecting, much. And absolutely loved it.
Don't forget about DEEPSTAR SIX. That was the campiest of the late '80's underwater ALIEN wannabees, and my favorite.
All three of them came out in 1989. Hmm. 🤔
DEEPSTAR SIX was an awesome movie! !!!👍
far better movie than this one-
Is that the one where the dude explodes while rushing an escape to the surface?
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I liked that it was the first film to try to do a serious job of bringing Lovecraft to the screen and using his star creature to do it.
This movie is kickass! The soundtrack and audio tracks really contribute to its appeal!
This movie was pretty good!!! I was shocked how this movie didn’t get a lot of advertisement.
The best thing about Underwater is that it has no 1 act. Straight to the action all else left to imagination. Loved it
"...beneath the pacific ocean."
Are you seriously telling me that Pacific Rim is a freaking _Lovecraft_ reference?
Yes
It’s also inspired partly by neon genesis evangelion. Guillermo del Torro was winding up to make an evangelion movie back in the 2000s but it fell through
@@Scragg- to be fair NGR is a little lovecraftian itself. At least the Angels are
@@Scragg- And it was a good thing that he made Pacific Rim eventually. Eva was a pretentious mess.
Thanks to this channel I know more about horrors than I would've ever had.
Everyone making essays about Lovecraft
Me:Good vid
I disagree I really appreciated the lack of character background and fluff. They got right to it and we went from an A to B to C to D and that was a pleasure. It was a good ride. If character development is necessary and adds to the story that all right but extra is just extra. no fluff no politics no BS no unnecessary character development
Thank god they didnt add a love story
@@anodosarcade7355 amen!
character background is not fluff...who are these ppl? why should we care about them? I certainly don't....
If...character development adds to the story? did my nigga just say "If"? 99% of the time character development is neccessary and this aint one of the times it isnt. Character development is the backbone of any good movie, the only reason you care about the outcome of the movie, otherwise you do not feel fear for the characters and therefore for yourself.
I agree. I do love a nice build-up, but there's an overload of horror right now that goes too slow. It was really cool in 2017 with It Follows, VVitch, Babadook, but every new horror movie that's not pure reboot sequel garbage leans too heavily on slow pacing. I loved this one for just going straight into it. And yeah - DEFINITELY wanted to know more about the characters, but it wasn't a team, (like narrator wished it was). It was actually a bunch of people thrown together due to the catastrophe; who seemed to kind of know each other but not too well. I really liked it.
I got a lot throwback alien vibes in this movie. I had no expectations n enjoyed it. Great channel! Subscribed. ❤
What a good film. The sound design and sound track are amazing.
" a watered down alien" lol..pun intended? You talking about the movie or Cthulhu?
Yes
it was a good movie, interesting, great acting, effects and the suits were insanely good. you are right about character development.
Excellent evenhanded unpacking of this film.
Niyat. I first saw this movie just a few months ago on TV.
I have to say I quite like it.
Pretty much everytime it's been on repeat, I sit down and watch it
I literally just watched this movie & it was an amazing film.
I enjoyed it. When it comes to character arcs, I couldn’t care less. We basically know who’s going to die anyway and you almost always know who will survive. Maybe I’ve been watching horror movies for too long.
It's always the idiots too that die in the films and they always ha e to have the main person with a love interest and they both survive, it's boring and unimaginitive
Fun fact: Gunner Wright the person who plays Isaac Clarke in Dead Space had a small voice role in the movie
I love all of your videos and watch them in their entirety :-)
Having never read anything about the film,that was my holy sh1t moment,wondering if that was Cthulhu. Damn i thought that was pretty cool having H.P Lovecrafts monster come to life.
If you have ever read H.P. Lovecraft or listend to his telling of "The Call of Cthulhu." Then you would know that Cthulhu is locked away in his magical sunken city. You will also know that looking at him will always drive a person insane. Kristen Stewert would have gone mad, just at looking him. This is just like a Leviathan monster and its children.
I was so pleasantly surprised by this film, especially the creature design. I doubt it'll happen but I'd be up for a sequel that delves deeper into the lore.
It was better than I anticipated, worth the watch. As far as the opening scene I kinda liked how they jumped right into it, I also understand your point with no setup to the characters, alien leviathan and event horizon did that very well
I've seen this movie 4 times last year.
When at end I've see the monster my brain automatically begin to say : Cthulhu
I've seen other covers on this movie and maybe it's my pragmatic nature but on the having to close the doors on her co-workers part I don't see how it's any 'choice' and I don't mean that she should have closed the doors immediately, no.
What I mean is that it's obvious that they didn't make it at all because by the time the decompression overtook them they'd have been blasted from at least three sides with the force of a fire hose and no human is going to be able to stand, much less run, under those conditions.
Had they been running with the water nipping at their heels then it would've been a decision but as is the moment the water overtook them they were either dead already or thrown to the ground and unable to escape.
At those depths the pressure would cut you in half.
I remember listening to submarine stories from ww2.
People wouldn't even noticed a micro fissure and when they would walk bye it parts of there body would just fall off.
I doubt that, I've been around water jet cutters and those things are LOUD. You'd hear the noise from high-pressure water spraying into the sub before you got near the leak.
i actually enjoyed this film, wouldn't mind seeing a sequel
Or turned into a series of movies :)
I absolutely loved this movie and it left me wanting so much more when we got to the end.. I really hope future horror movies can Cthulhu as good as this did.
I was looking for the best Cthulhu movie and was astonished at the sight of your review. It's primarily intricate straight to the story, and even included attention to the historical myth. I think you've helped me find the (sci-fi horror) movie I was looking for even if it's a variation of Cthulhu. No hurt in trying something different, thx and keep up the good work.
Thanks Don!
@@filmcomicsexplained no problem, gotta give credit when due :)
I geeked out some much when the big guy appeared at the end !!! Had no idea it would look like that hahahaha
Thanks for reminding me, I gotta go finish "The Sinking City."