The Abyss (1989) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!!
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- The Abyss (1989)
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What really is lurking in our oceans!?
We tried to get the special edition of this movie but could not find it available to rent on any platform and even had it say ‘unavailable in our area.’ Regardless, Sam and I really loved this movie!!
Also I accidentally called Michael Biehn John Connor when I meant to say Kyle Reese! My mistake!!
Thank you for the support everyone!
man, wish you could of found the SE version, there is a whole sub plot removed in the theatrical version
It stays in the family... ;)
Unfortunately, the special edition is much better.
Maybe you can find the extended deleted scenes, particularly the ending. The aliens presence was made around the world.
I did read some articles and see a few clips of the special edition! There is definitely a lot taken out so hopefully they make that version more widely available online to rent or buy!
@@TBRSchmitt It is amazing to think that not only is this movie NOT on blu ray yet, but that the dvd we got is not even anamorphic.
The making-of of this movie is very, very good. If you can check out, i recomend you to do so.
Close Encounters of The Wet Kind. The Lindsay drowning/revival scene always makes me cry - so powerful. Underrated in every way.
Yup, and then again when Bud types "Love you wife." And then again when the aliens bow to him. And even a little bit when they're reunited at the end. This is a cry fest.
Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) not John Connor... but we knew who you meant 😉
Hahaha thank you! I tried to prepare for this in my pinned comment cause I didn’t even catch my mistake while I edited this video.... but I expect many more corrections and rightfully so lol
He's also in an episode of Mandalorian. I barely recognized him.
@@Paul_Waller I didn’t recognize him… until he started talking, and then I knew. Hated Mando had to kill him off after just one episode.
I thought the comments would have been flooded with this. 😏
Yo this bothered me lol but yeah it can slide
I've never clicked one of your videos so fast. The Abyss is one of my favorite movies.
Well that’s awesome! Hopefully you enjoy the video and the reaction to one of your favorites! It was a fantastic movie, even if we didn’t see the better version!
@@TBRSchmitt Both versions are good. The extended cut just gives a little more "why" to the aliens' presence.
TBR Schmitt I’d never heard about the extended version until a few days ago. You can watch it on RUclips if you’re interested. To be honest, I found it to be a little heavy handed & I like the theatrical version quite a bit more. I’d definitely be interested to know what you guys think of it.
Sadly along with True Lies one of the most sorely abused on home video for no logical reason I can determine.
In the time since The Abyss last had a DVD (in the very early days of DVD with a master made for earlier LaserDisc) Terminator 2 has had any number of DVD and Bluray releases, and now even a (very bad) UHD Bluray release.
Something is definitely up with Cameron where The Abyss and True Lies are concerned - hopefully Disney resolve it.
@@mnomadvfx The Terminator franchise doesn't belong to Cameron, and so that franchise gets updates on home release because it is done by the studios that own them. Cameron has said that he is working on transferring the Abyss and True Lies into proper upgraded formats, but has been busy with Avatar and so hasn't had the time or money to get it done. One day, hopefully.
The director's cut of this film has additional footage that makes the story so much better.
Yea like 3 hours well worth it though
THEY ARE WATCHING THE WRONG VERSION!
,, Nah! Y'can watch both 🤷 is cool,, 😏
You can't usually get the drowning beany version anymore though !! 🐁🤿🔹🔹🔹
ist rule of james cameron movies, ALWAYS watch the directors cut because his first cut is always too long for most studios to deal with so he has to cut loads of good material that he doesnt want to, watch it the way he WANTED to make it
The breathable liquid scene was just filmed with Ed Harris holding his breath for brief windows of filming.
However, the scene where the rat is submerged (and breathing) in the breathable liquid was using the real thing.
Thanks for the information! I assumed both were practical but from what I heard both the rat and Ed turned out fine!
@@TBRSchmitt I'm trying to track it down but years ago I saw this documentary on the making of the Abyss, yes for the closeups he just held his breath, but for the scenes where he is under water they used an inner glass shield in his helmet. So there was liquid between the two sheets of glass but he was safe and breathing normally in the inner chamber.
@@RajkoK You're referring to Under Pressure: Making The Abyss. And no, Ed Harris didn't have air to breathe in the helmet during the underwater sequences. They had to give him air in-between takes.
@@TBRSchmitt The breathable liquid is actually real, it is used mostly in pediatric medicine but other uses are studied, and deep sea diving is just one of them. The rat was actually fine and did indeed breath liquid
@@TheMrBugio True, but it’s been studied for decades and has real problems being adapted to human applications. A big problem is that our lungs are not able to handle the high viscosity of fluid. It takes much more effort to pump in and out. And to remove enough CO2 most of the lung volume needs to be replaced on each breath. That’s very difficult. Wikipedia has a great article summarizing the problems and applications. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
Ed Harris' hand is blue for the whole movie. I love that detail.
Avatar prequel confirmed.
Except where is ring stops the door closing.
His right hand was blue. Wedding band goes on the left hand...
To quote Ed Harris, "I don't talk about "The Abyss" and I never will."
@@captainhrothgar4637 In the US that's correct :)
The Special Edition version contains 17 extra minutes that was trimmed out of the theatrical release by the studio against Cameron's wishes. These scenes are key, and totally explain the alien's real agenda. A must see.
I hate that they cut Bud’s “WHAT?!” when he’s called on the phone.
War, War never changes :p
Opposite. Studio wanted the scenes, Cameron made the cuts, he had final say. Makes sense if you watch theatrical vs special, one's tight as hell, the latter is more for fans.
17 minutes? More like 30 minutes.
NOT against Cameron's wishes. He agreed to the cuts released theatrically. Watch the documentary "Under Pressure: Making The Abyss."
The script made the point that the wedding rings were made of titanium, which is why they could resist the force of the closing door. But that line got cut.
Michael Biehn is one of those actors I always wished we'd gotten more of. All the big movie roles of 80's and then he fades away slowly during 90's. And being cast as the bad guy and doing such a good job at it shows he wasn't just typecast hero either.
Hes got exactly that 80s hero face, along with Don Johnson, Kurt Russel, Patrick Swayze and few others. I love that they used him on the game Far Cry Blood Dragon.
I agree, he should be in a lot more stuff. Hes got that charysma.
Terminator , Aliens , The Rock he’s good in those.
@@ryans413 and also Navy seals
At least he got a small part in The Mandalorian
Agreed.
He musta had a terrible agent. Because he had all the dominoes lined up, for him.
James Cameron was such a nightmare to work with on this film, that only 3 people from this movie ever worked with him again. Ed Harris punched him in the face on set, and then refused to even talk about the movie for the longest time (comparing it to asking a soldier about vietnam).
Later on, Ed Harris did explain why Mary Elizabeth walked off the set. "In the drowning scene I was screaming at her to come back and wake up, and I was slapping her across the face and I see that they’ve run out of film in the camera - there’s a light on the camera - and nobody had said anything. And Mary Elizabeth stood up and said, 'We are not animals!' and walked off the set. They were going to let me just keep slapping her around!"
I think the animals quote was about them telling her to pee in her wetsuit.
I usually assume in movies the punches and slaps are all fake. Was Cameron really making Harris hit her?
It was actually filmed in a dis-used power plant, water tank, all the cast had to learn how to dive, there's a really good documentary on youtube about it :)
ruclips.net/video/RZTSNQve0rk/видео.html
Agreed. The making of documentary is literally as exciting as the movie! Cameron is simply on another level when it comes to technical film-making. He's always pushing the boundaries and creating new methods of doing stuff. The guy is an absolute taskmaster and literally a "general" on set, but everyone respects him because they know how good he is.
It still blows my mind that they were building the underwater set as they were filling the tank up with water. That's just insane!!!
I guess there was alot of tension, partially because the potential hazards of putting a bunch of actors in diving suits underwater and filming it and partially because the actors were always wet and cold. Also the shoot was long and grueling.
Fun fact: the drowned sailor that has the crab crawl out of his mouth is James Cameron's brother. Also have to reiterate the director's cut widescreen version is the superior way to watch this movie.
Michael Biehn definitely deserved an Oscar as Coffey in this film. He really put everything into that role.
He was my childhood favorite actor. Guy is a legend.
Hes got exactly that 80s hero face, along with Don Johnson, Kurt Russel, Patrick Swayze and few others. I love that they used him on the game Far Cry Blood Dragon.
I agree, he should be in a lot more stuff. Hes got that charysma.
@@chermebrownsauce8049 “Rex Power Colt” ... I freakin loved that game it definitely needed a sequel. Loved how he kept getting mad at the tutorials.
Same with Aliens and his short role in The Rock was epic
some of his best roles i love are Kyle Reese from terminator, hicks from Aliens , his role here as Coffey, and his Role as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone i also liked Him in the art of War i thought his Fight scene with Wesley Snipes was Epic
On the show “Inside The Actors Studio”, Ed Harris said that filming this movie wasn’t acting. Basically every actor in this was put through the hell they endured.
For historical context, this was one of the earlier uses of CGI in a big film, and the alien probe in this seems like almost a prototype for some of the T-1000 effects Cameron would use shortly after.
That's exactly right.
They took the "water" CGI from this movie and used it in T2.
The first use of CGI in a film was the original Westworld I think also I remember seeing it used in a American TV show called Manimal which was brilliant 😂
@@MichaelSmith-bn6hm I wouldn't call that CGI. They used a computer to recreate a computers graphic, but the first use of CGI as we understand it today, to actually create its own graphics as representation of something real, would be Tron and/or Young Sherlock Holmes. But that is just my two cents.
@@Dacre1000 **FACEPALM**
doesn't matter what YOU would call cgi
@@MarCuseus Never said it did, you moron.
"Life's abyss and then you dive."
It Flies under the radar now because they left a HUGE plot point out of the theatrical version. The Director's Cut makes way more sense and is much more satisfying.
Tried to get my hands on it with no luck! But I did look into the changes and see some of them online and loved it!
I was just about to say the same thing. The theatrical version is confusing and just okay, while the director's cut is excellent.
Maybe a future reaction video one day! 😉
Can you explain what HUGE plot point? I don't think i have ever seen directors cut. Is it about "the Hammer" who drowns but is then back alive later on?
I agree,Bud's extended conversation with the N.T.Is is so much better in the directors cut
Special Effects FACT: This was the very 1st movie to have a full on CGI Liquid material creatures which they used the same Technology for Terminator 2 Judgement Day for T-1000
**Judgment*
Such an intense scene when Lindsey drowns herself to save Bud. Imagine drowning with the hope that someone can revive you in time. As the Greyjoy's would say. What is dead may never die.
She doesn't drown herself to save Bud per se.
She acknowledges that Bud is the stronger swimmer and that she might have a chance of survival because of the low temperature of the water slowing her metabolism rather than stopping it.
GoT reference with The Abyss! You did it!
Kenny Hill Last time I checked when you allow your lungs to fill up with water you drown. The fact that Lindsay willingly allow herself to drown is even more mind blowing. It goes against every know aspect of human physiology.
The body the human body is meant to stay alive at every level, even at the neurological level. The fact that she talks her self with logic into drowning herself. With the hopes of resuscitation, due to the low water temperatures is a mind trick. Lindsay knows there's a low chance that she will recover, but it's the only chance.
@@m2c_tave689 its an easier conscious choice to make when there is still air and its currently only an upcoming hypothetical.
After he suited up her body had no option when the water came and im sure she likely held her breath as long as she could...
Also also this scene was one of the first times kid me saw some boobies... 🤣🤣😝
That whole thing from Harris sneaking up behind Beihn, to reviving Linsey was intense.
You really couldn't get away with making a film like this today. You hear a lot recently about directors such as Joss Whedon reportedly being abusive to their casts, but Cameron pushed people so far on this film that the two leads both suffered nervous breakdowns on set and refused to even discuss the film in subsequent years. Even his long-time go-to guy Michael Biehn pretty much quit working with Cameron after this film, only returning to film one short dream sequence for T2 that ended up in the extended cut. Actors trashed their dressing rooms en masse just from the stress. The crew took to wearing "You can't scare me-I work for James Cameron" T-shirts. The production of that film was one of the most notorious in history.
The idea that you have to abuse your cast to create great art has to just die.
"I'm used to him being a good guy, and he's SUCH a piece of shit (in this movie)!"
😆👍Truth.
I guess they have not seen M. Biehn in Tombstone (Johnny Ringo - a complete psycopath) 😆
James Cameron built the largest underwater movie set in the world by flooding the massive reactor chamber of an unfinished nuclear power plant. This world record stands to this day and, In the age of CGI, will remain forever.
Cameron really rode the crew hard on this shoot. Ed Harris was in tears under the pressure. Cameron's brother had to hold that crab in his mouth and only let it out when he got the signal.
26:21, in the Director's Cut, the aliens we're going to destroy Earth's cities in retaliation for having humanity destroy each other. It's a very touching scene, as the aliens knew from Bud's perspective not all humans are bad.
I thought the aliens were trying to demonstrate to humans that we were not the ones in power. That they never intended to destroy the cities but merely to show that they could.
@@MessOfThings They made too much of a thing him basically sacrificing his life to save them. I therefore also think they were going to destroy us, but decided just to warn us this time after Bud´s actions.
The aliens were going to destroy Earth in retaliation for Cuties, you say?
Based and squidpilled.
I always thought this was stupid logic. “Don’t destroy each other or we’ll destroy you!” What?
@@WallyHartshorn There is nothing stupid about it. They understand the difference between running towards death and confronting it. There is hope of waking them up. And judgement. Logic does only work as well as its premises.
According to the cast...filming this movie was a torture fest.
Yep. Ed Harris said it was definitely one of the hardest and most intense filming experiences he's ever done still to this day.
Actors deserve it.
@@porflepopnecker4376 Then don't watch movies, dickhead
Still sounds like an understatement...apparently the actors basically went through hell filming this...fantastic film though
They used the remains of nuclear power plant that was never got passed the concrete for the foundation for the under water scenes. The actors were almost drowning repeatedly every day while James Cameron was screaming at them to be more authentic. The guy makes good movies but I doubt most actors wanna work with him a second time after a project like this.
CPR scene makes me cry... every damn time.
Me too. Mastrantonio’s acting is superb.
I spent a lot of time analyzing this movie when it came out because the vfx were so groundbreaking at the time and that was my industry. The details of how it was made are just as thrilling. The one thing that impressed everyone on the crew was the acting in that scene. Ed Harris was so intense and he was acting to a camera lens through a plywood board with a hole cut in it. That scene makes me sob ever time and I’ve seen this movie dozens of times. The skill it takes to pull that off to a camera is astonishing to me.
it makes me cry the bitch didn't die
I never understood why they did it that way. They decided to have her deliberately drown right there and then tow her all the way back and hope they can revive her. Why not have her swim along with you as far as she can? If she drowns 5 minutes away from the revival attempt that has to be better than drowning 10 minutes away.
@@fxbear That's also because Mastrantonio walked off set during the scene and refused to come back for it. If you watch the 'making of' documentary you'll wonder how apparently nobody got PTSD from the shoot.
The breathing liquid MAY be real, but Ed Harris was under water and only pretending to breathe!!
The actor, that nearly drowned wasn't Ed Harris but Leo Burmester ("Catfish").
The scene with the rat under water was cut in the British version, because it was considered "animal cruelty".
The director's cut of "The Abyss" is a true masterpiece and I'm waiting for YEARS for a blu-ray release. Still no signs of it. :-(
Wow thanks for the information! Yeah not sure why the director’s cut is so hard to get your hands on!
Not true Tom. Both James Cameron and Ed Harris had very close calls making this movie. The making of the Abyss has an entire section on Ed Harris almost drowning. James Cameron literally had to punch a diver to free himself in the case of his accident. Google "Shooting 'The Abyss': The day James Cameron nearly died" You should find an L.A. Times article that details it.
@@ryankramer ...or just watch "Under Pressure": ruclips.net/video/YctOKgWVn9E/видео.html
@@Bleckman666 Indeed! The documentary is nearly as fun a watch as the film. I was just giving a shortcut to the story in question.
You guys need to watch the documentary that shows the behind the scenes on how Cameron was able to shoot the Abyss. Just like how the characters had to deal with one set of problems after another in the movie, shooting the movie itself was actually harder by comparison. CGI was still in its infancy and aside from the water alien it was all practical underwater stunts/effects. The production and technical skill required to shoot this movie would blow your mind.
The nuke they brought on board was actually perfectly safe. Arming that thing manually is a multi step process. If any of those steps arnt followed-the thing may as well be a 100 pound paperweight.
In real life yes, in a movie, 50/50 shot it explodes instantly from one mistake
Brah, the behind the scenes documentary on the Making of the Abyss is about 3 hours long. It is AMAZING the lengths they went to to film this. Highly recommend you check out that documentary. Cameron is really cutting edge. He pushes all the limits.
Michael Biehn is also excellent as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone. Highly recommend it.
I was thinking the same while watching this.
Might be the mustache that makes him a bad guy. This, Johnny Ringo…😂
@@Steve_Blackwood he was also a villain with a mustache in jade
@@marlonclark1896 That’s one I haven’t seen. If I see him in a mustache, I’m gonna start assuming he’s the bad guy. 😂
@@Steve_Blackwood the only villain role i saw him in where he didn't have a mustache was in the Wesley snipes film art of war
Finally, someone reacted to Abyss! You are the first!
My two favorite 'death scenes' in movie history.
That scene is so good, personally I think it's one of the best acted scenes in movie history. To this day I get choked up, even knowing what happens. And then the 2nd "death" (if you mean the submersible getting crushed) is also quite good, but you kinda feel bad after all.
@@LordLOC How do you explain - even to yourself - the high emotions that fill re-watchers? We know what's going to happen - it doesn't matter, though. It's like a rollercoaster ride to me - I know where the rails take us - but the feelings are still too profound. I don't know why. My other favorite (and horrible) death scene is in 1947's BORDER INCIDENT where li'l George Murphy is slowly, slowly run down by a field harvester.
Can't lie, as someone who used to work on submarines I always kind of enjoy seeing peoples reactions to films like this. The worst case scenario is kind of scary I guess but there's a lot of safeguards, in saying that rescue isn't always possible which is a grim thought. Only issue I ever had at sea was I started to get night terrors of being buried alive, especially since I rarely ever have dreams (or at least never remember them).
I saw this in a theater and was impressed by it. I’ve considered this to be a very underrated movie.
It's highly rated, actually.
James Cameron and his brother invented some of the deep sea technology they used in this and Titanic. It's crazy how technical he is and passionate even.
Apparently, that same brother played the drowned navy submariner that had the crab crawling out of his mouth.
*payed people to research/invent it.
Same as the fuzzy PR over Cameron inventing the tech used in Avatar.
As opposed to the reality that his money funded the development.
Which is akin to crediting all of Pixar's work to Steve Jobs because he funded it.
There's a point at which hero worship of big named narcissistic individuals just obscures everyone else involved and that is plain wrong.
James Cameron’s brother Mike is in the film. He’s the guy where the crab crawls out of his mouth.
He also invented the facial recognition technology to develop Avatar, and was used also in Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, he has cimented himself in film history.
James Cameron's whole family (except for him) are scientists and engineers. He started along the same path in college, having the same kinds of interests, but he couldn't handle the level of math required, so he dropped out and turned his career interest toward making movies. Naturally, his first interests have most often been the subjects of his movies, and he remained a highly technically inclined person in general, especially for a filmmaker.
Acting in this rocked me as a kid.
Ed Harris's acting is amazing in the scene where Lindsey is supposedly dead. Mary Mastrantonio is not even actually there, he is acting against an imaginary person.
(You can't set off a nuclear bomb with bullets.)
But you can with cherry snow cone.
@@phillipsuttles1926 Or was it the water heater.
Ed Harris is a beast of an actor. Always been one of my favorites
Fun fact: 1989 was the year of underwater horror/thrillers.
From the wiki for DeepStar Six: "DeepStar Six was the first release of several underwater-themed feature movies released during 1989, including Leviathan, The Evil Below, Lords of the Deep, The Rift (Endless Descent) and The Abyss. With the exception of The Abyss, none of these films were box office hits."
Not sure what was going on in Hollywood at the time, but I remember these films popping up one after the other all year long. Aside from The Abyss, the only one that would be worth reacting to is Leviathan (1989), starring Peter Weller, but if you want to check out a more modern take on underwater horror, I'd recommend Underwater, released in 2020, starring Kristen Stewart.
Great reaction! Enjoying the channel.
It’s been ages since I saw Leviathan but I remember liking it, and that it came out at the same time as The Abyss.
Wasn't that around when the "Sea Quest DSV" series got airtime, too?
@@jean-paulaudette9246 I think SeaQuest was early to mid-90s. I know it was a big deal that they had cast Jonathan Brandis but he hadn't been a household name before the It mini-series in 1990.
HELL YEAH!! Was not expecting this! You guys keep knocking em out of the park!!
Awesome! Thanks so much for the kind words!!
The extended cut for this, one of my fave movies ever, adds more of an emotional impact.
"looks like he still had his ring on" ... that little detail is what makes James Cameron so good at crafting stories.
Please, please! for the love of all that is good and right in the world, seek out, and watch the documentary 'Under Pressure - Making The Abyss'. (You may be able to find it on RUclips) If not for a reaction, just for your own education. You'll gain a whole new appreciation for James Cameron as a filmmaker...
ruclips.net/video/RZTSNQve0rk/видео.html
One noteworthy thing about The Abyss and James Cameron's innovations is that the water tentacle was the first CGI that begat the T1000 in T2 and the dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK.
If Star Wars created big-budget "special effects", then that water tentacle created big-budget CGI.
OMG I love this movie The Abyss directed by James Cameron starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn and music by Alan Silvestri. Thank you so much great reaction👍☺
A few details:
- Guy who has a crab slip out of his mouth underwater - J. Cameron's brother, who 'volunteered', and had actually crab crawl out with 'dead' make up on and no oxygen (a tube used).
- After the few shots of 'falling down', Ed has been handled an air tube wrongly, so he got some water with it in his lungs and started drowning for real, and when he signed for 'cut the scene', Cameron asked for a couple more shots, before emerging. Right after it, Harris punched Cameron in the face and when day wrapped up, he nearly crashed, stopping on the roadside towards the motel, weeping and sobbing for half an hour or so.
- Funnily enough, Mary Elizabeth got smacked around hard for real by Ed during CPR (Ed is a method actor after all), and at some point she couldn't take it, so she sauntered off the scene, with them doing POV shot from her position, since she couldn't bring herself to continue on with the scene.
- Also, she was for real dragged through water with Ed, since puppet couldn't really give the reality of the underwater drowning (as per Cameron).
- Funnily enough, Cameron spent most of the time underwater, up to 14 hours, before going dry and eventually moving towards the scenes 'on the shore'.
- Place where they were filming, was actually an unfinished nuclear powerplant base (basically the building pot for all the concrete), where they filled it with water and covered whole top with black rubber foam, to create ocean floor darkness effect. At some point during the shooting of the 'rescue the sub' scene power went out, so Michael Biehn ('stached seal leader) had to stand in the dark for nearly twenty minutes in the opaque water, afraid to move. And oh, that rig they're all on for the most part - real thing, built from scratch.
- Also, the longer cut of the movie - Director's Cut - expands on the nuclear threat and in the end it turns out that whole storm thing is an alien warning to "play nice, or else", turning point being Bud's compassion for everyone, when he disarmed the bomb, no matter the race or nation.
Everyone else has probably already mentioned this, but in the script Bud's wedding ring is described as been made of titanium. That's why it's able to withstand the hydraulic force of the door.
RE: His obsession with the ocean - his brother is a Navy SEAL. The other thing Cameron movies are obsessed with are guns and all the technical knowledge he has about guns and squad tactics and whatnot he gets from his brother. (He wrote the script for the second Rambo movie, which has no ocean or sci-fi but a wholotta guns)
I'm STILL waiting for this to be released on blu-ray. C'mon James!! It's one of my favorite movies, and I'm glad you guys are reacting to it. The score is amazing too.
He’s supposed to be working on the Blu-ray’s for The Abyss and True Lies...finally.
The Abyss and Kung Fu Hustle are some of the most underrated movies that few people react to on RUclips.
Thanks for breaking that trend.
Along w/ the special edition, I highly recommend also checking out Under Pressure: Making The Abyss. This production is notorious for being perhaps the most difficult in the history of cinema.
ruclips.net/video/RZTSNQve0rk/видео.html
I love that doc
I think the documentary Under Pressure is the best documentary on and DVD I have seen.
Will they able to get Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio to give an interview about the film for the eventual Blu Ray release? She hates Jim Cameron for what she went through. So did Ed Harris initially and you can see in the DVD he had his moments.
In 2012 James Cameron set a record for the deepest dive ever. In the Challenger Deep of the Marianas Trench, almost 36,000 feet below the surface.
Well deepest solo dive. Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard in the submersible Trieste, also reached this depth in 1960. Being the first ever to reach that depth.
@@tsogobauggi8721 metric system (most of the world) versus standard(USA). 1'(1foot) = approximately 30 cm.
@@tsogobauggi8721 those things at the end of your legs?
A great (non-scifi) adventure movie on diving with great underwater scenes is "The Deep" (1977) which like Jaws is also based on a P. Benchley novel.
Thanks for the suggestion!
It was filmed under real deep die conditions and all the actors had nightmares, but it paid off. They should all have gotten oscars for this
I love this movie, so underrated in Cameron’s career. This is definitely Cameron moving away from the horror of Aliens/Terminator and toward the adventure/survival/hopeful storytelling of Titanic and Avatar
Sad you couldn’t get the special edition. But I love this movie. It’s a special movie for me just because it was the very first movie I ever saw in theaters.
That's one heck of an introduction to the cinema experience. 8)
This is one of my favourite films from the 80s, Watching it at the movies was great.
Michael Biehn played kyle Reese in Terminator, John Connors father.
We know less about the bottom of our oceans than we do about outer space.
I remember watching this in a theater when it was new. The best part was at the end. People were literally taking in deep lungfuls of air as if they hadn't breathed properly the whole time they were watching.
I remember this movie coming out on a summer late night drive-in theater and Jesus my gf at the time just ate the entire time lying to our friends that she was watching the film the entire time. Good thing I didn't pay a thing.
Damn I’m sorry... when you go to see a movie you need to watch the movie!
I love drive-ins and miss them, but I don't think open air is a good venue for this movie. I was fortunate to see it in 70mm in a theater with big THX speakers. That was the way to experience The Abyss at the time. Really enhanced the feeling of being thousands of feet under water.
Breathing oxygenated fluid is a real thing.
Wild!
I've always loved this movie especially the special effects, not to mention this was made in the 80's 👍
I'm not bothering to look up the release date, I'm just going to assume summer release. So as of today (4/14/21) I just realized that this movie is almost 32 years old! I turned 16 in Aug '89. NONE of these GREAT 'old' movies SEEM to have been that long ago, and STILL stand the test of time!
I loved this film as a kid, literally everything about it is amazing.
I guess thats why JC is so obsessed with underwater exploration to this day.. he put a lot into this one as did all the actors.
Such a good movie. This is one of my favorites.
It’s a good favorite to have!
The filming of this movie was insanely dangerous; James Cameron and several of the cast nearly died. In hindsight, Cameron was crazy to put his cast and crew in this much danger.
Cameron always said when the actors complained that he was in the water a lot longer and the crew then stoped complaining. Cause it was true he was in the water as the director like everyday
@@ryans413 I believe that someone (maybe an actor) said that when filming was done for the day after 14 hours or so in the water...everyone would get out except James Cameron, who would still be underwater, checking out footage and editing on the fly as he slowly decompressed.
The cast and crew began calling the making of this film “a son of abyss”! One of the hardest shoots to survive, ever!
Another great reaction. If u like Micheal beihn with a mustache u should watch Tombstone. He’s awesome in it.
I was thinking that too. 👍
yeah he and Val Kilmer are two of the best actors in that movie
He was also absolutely the bad guy in that movie.
He’s so good in Tombstone. 🥰🥰
@@mena94x3 Now that I think about that movie again, that final show down was really foreshadowed by that first confrontation between Doc and Ringo.
You know, when they start throwing 'insults' in Latin and show off their dexterity with a gun/teacup.
But when I watched it the first time, that final duel took me completely by surprise.
Michael Biehn and Val Kilmer were truly the shining stars of Tombstone. But the 'supporting cast' was great also, like that low-life Ike played by Stephen Lang.
And of course Powers Boothe while Sam Elliot and Bill Paxton, to their credit, giving understated performances. The look on Paxton's face after his character realizes shooting and killing a man isn't a game.
One of my all time faves! I just now realized James Cameron was responsible for so many precious childhood movie memories 💖
I cannot fathom the age of this movie. It still is breathtaking. One of the best scifi movies I ever saw!
'fathom'
You saw the shot and you took it. Nice.
@@Geth-Who or did he? Maybe you got it first....
If you've ever seen those beer mugs that are empty but they have a thin layer of liquid in between two layers of plastic that's probably how they filmed the helmet scene.
Some scenes, mostly the close ups, were made with the helmet full of water. Ed Harris had to keep his breath during the shot, one diver was next to him outside the frame with a regulator. He had to fast remove the helmet and take it before being out of air
One time, Harris took the regulator upside down and almost drowned
One of the most underrated movie.
A lot of filming of The Abyss took place at the abandoned Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant in South Carolina.
Two specially constructed tanks were used. The first one, based on the abandoned plant's primary reactor containment vessel, held 7.5 million US gallons (28,000 m3) of water, was 55 feet (18 m) deep and 209 feet (70 m) across. At the time, it was the largest fresh-water filtered tank in the world. Additional scenes were shot in the second tank, an unused turbine pit, which held 2.5 million US gallons (9,500 m3) of water. As the production crew rushed to finish painting the main tank, millions of gallons of water poured in and took five days to fill. The Deepcore rig was anchored to a 90-ton concrete column at the bottom of the large tank. It consisted of six partial and complete modules that took over half a year to plan and build from scratch.
Then to cut out the sun light & give the illusion of being at 2’000ft under water, a thick layer of beads was floated on the water & a huge tarpaulin was suspended over that.
Also, during filming, James Cameron and the 26-person underwater diving crew sank to 50 feet (17 m) and stayed down for five hours at a time. To avoid decompression sickness, they would have to hang from hoses halfway up the tank for as long as two hours, breathing pure oxygen.
The two water tanks used in the filming of The Abyss were specially constructed to hold large amounts of water. The first tank, based on the abandoned plant's primary reactor containment vessel, held 7.5 million US gallons of water and was 18 m deep and 70 m across. At the time, it was the largest fresh-water-filtered tank in the world. Additional scenes were shot in the second tank, an unused turbine pit, which held 2.5 million US gallons of water. As the production crew rushed to finish painting the main tank, millions of gallons of water poured in and took five days to fill. The Deepcore rig was anchored to a 90-ton concrete column at the bottom of the large tank
Same experience here! Miles off Hawaii and swam from one ship to another, half way there I looked down (with a mask) and saw the sunlight twinkling into the deep blue. Michael Phelps had nothing on me as I hydro-jetted to the boat! :D :D :D Great movie and great reaction, as usual, from y'all!
The ending may be a little cheesy, but you have to remember that James Cameron is huge nerd for deep sea exploration. I guess that is why the 'unknown' is shown as something friendly and magical instead of threatening monsters.
Well, director's cut make more sense in ending
@@serhio4275 never seen it. Some spoilers please?
@@cemaciek Try to find it.
Here
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2 fun facts Michael Biehn has his hand bit in three Cameron movies and the movie Grey Lady Down (1978) shows how you can rescue crew in a downed sub
Fun Fact: National Geographic recently discovered life forms underwater that have their own phosphorus and glow. They live in the deepest part of our oceans
6:45, yeah, creating a mushroom cloud the size of Nebraska.
I'll have to write this so I can sleep tight: this was not John Connor from The Terminator, this was Kyle Reeds from The Terminator and also Corporal Hicks from ALIENS. :D
* Kyle Reese
From the trivia I've read, apparently that actually was oxygenated fluid the rat was submerged in, and she actually was breathing it.
It's true. The scene with the rat was legit with the breathable liquid.
I'm suprised you're able to show so much actual footage. I love it and the 30+ minute vids. keep it up.
This was filmed in my home state of SC. The underwater scenes were filmed in the cooling tower of an unfinished nuclear facility. The special edition adds so much. Especially about the aliens. The alien agenda is similar to that of the alien in The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Special Edition includes a scene where the aliens let the world know how powerful they are. BTW, Bud's wedding ring is made of titanium. His wife had it made because she thought he would bang up a regular gold ring.
That’s awesome thanks for sharing! And for some more backstory on the special edition!
I don't know if you have already watched "Arrival" or "Contact". Similar movies but quite different messages and approaches.
Both are super cool classic movies
23:29- The helmet was filled with fluid and Ed Harris held his breath. Turns out one take took too long. Ed almost drowned in that helmet. He was so pissed, he punched out Cameron. Those actors took a lot of shit on that movie. Chlorine burns, drown risks. Super risky film making. A lot of those shots were actors, not stunt men. The rat in fluid scene--- there were five rats used to shoot various takes. They are actually breathing liquid oxygen. You never see it, but many of the rats took a shit in the bag while going thru the process.
God bless this cast for going through what this movie took to be made, and for dealing with Cameron throughout. Holy shit, I'd have lost it lol.
The most horrifying part was when the senile woman threw the Heart of the Ocean overboard into the water - crazy old biddy, that jewel was priceless!
Oh, wait - wrong Cameron film.
I like your reaction channel because you guys provide actual intelligent commentary unlike most other reaction channels.
Yea one of the very few channels that give more input than just laughing and small talk,
Well, the way they did the trick about the suit with liquid is that they used a double glass helmet, the liquid was only in the front glass, that is why you can see that his face magnifying instead of looking normal size.
A notoriously tough shoot for the actors, who nicknamed it Son of Abyss. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio walked off set when a technical problem spoiled a take of the intense CPR scene.
These Saturday night movie reactions are great really enjoy the heck out of them
I wish I could lend you my Director’s Cut DVD! This version is a solid 8, but the longer cut is a 9 or higher. It started the whole CGI explosion that followed. A groundbreaking film in many ways.
The behind the scenes documentaries are also superb, as this film was a notoriously troubled movie. Cameron was such an abusive taskmaster, that the actors won’t discuss this film to this day. The methods to his madness always pay off film-wise, but he used to be a real asshole. Genius filmmaker and innovator, and apparently has mellowed quite a bit. Hope so. Great reaction, guys!!
Ed Harris 100% makes this movie work so well. He is an underrated actor and presence in film.
on the subject on how they filmed the liquid breathing scenes (if i recall correctly):
1. The Rat breathed the real stuff
2. For the suiting up scenes, he had indeed his helmet filled with colored water, and he had only a limited time per shot
3. For the underwater scenes, his visor could be flipped up so he could be given an oxygen mask between shots. His face was painted orange for these scenes.
This is one of the most underrated movies by James Cameron, it's pretty long but very good. Just like in Aliens the director's cut is the recommended choice.
this is one of the few movies that the directors cut is way better
Understatement of the year, the director's cut isn't "way better" it is the only version that actually makes sense. They literally cut out the most important parts of the film to "save time" like WTF... 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I prefer the shorter version by far. The longer version felt overly preachy in a rather cliche way. The “You must all get along or we aliens will destroy you” trope is tiresome.
I don't know if it's "better", but it certainly explains more.
@@WallyHartshorn I agree. I think the longer version is worth seeing because it answers a lot of questions, but it is super preachy.
@@WallyHartshorn Except how do you explain why the aliens decide to do something so drastic as revealing themselves to the world if it wasn't for the parts they cut. It literally doesn't make any sense if you really think about it without the parts that were cut. And don't reveal what it is because they haven't seen it yet and I want them to watch it. Also, remember this movie is 1989, that only became a "trope" after many other movies did it. And you can't argue that an alien race wouldn't see our actions in a negative light especially after the fact that they just tried to nuke them...
Michael Biehn is awesome in the movie Tombstone... definitely check it out if you haven't.
i agree
This entire film was shot underwater for real they flooded an old reactor cooling tower and put tones of black beads in the water to cut out the sunlight to make it really dark underwater. They lit the set with under water lights and rigged up cameras to work underwater. The interior sets where in a sound stage but anything shot outside those sets was under the water. All the actors had to learn how to scuba dive and the water was cold cause they could not heat the tank cause it caused to much fog. Pretty epic what they achieved on this film
i haven't seen this movie in like 15 years, i need to watch it again
More like an "Underwater Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
This movie is one of my absolute favorites ❤ It's plain awesome. Also Ed Harris and Michael Biehn are always great to see.
11:53 the ring is strong! My dad has a ring just like that. It's made out of a very strong titanium.
That’s epic!