# Anyone watch the movie "Open Water"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-the-movie-open-water/288513 "2005-02-05T12:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-the-movie-open-water/288513/21 "2005-02-07T00:25:18Z")
We had a thread about this when the movie was first in theatrical release. My input (not especially original) was that the movie wasn’t about sharks, any more than Balzac is about boarding houses. I saw this movie as an allegory about marriage. It could have involved mortgage default or cancer or Soviet tanks instead of sharks, but the theme was the dynamic of how couples act together in crisis. Of course, the commercials billed it as the “scariest shark movie since Jaws,” so maybe I’m wrong and it wasn’t about married couples, but just about good chums (sorry). ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-the-movie-open-water/288513/22 "2005-02-07T18:33:10Z")
> [@Loopus](#): > > Well, they could probably have avoided it if, during the initial dive, they had kept some other divers in sight and/or gone back to the boat early. The husband later admitted that he knew of divers being left behind in the past, so he was foolish to entirely rely on the crew getting a correct head count. When diving, you often find the most interesting things if you separate from the main group and go off by yourselves (you and your buddy). A group tends to make a lot of noise, and inexperienced divers always stick with the group. My buddy (who is usually my wife) make it a point to get out of sight of the other divers as soon as possible underwater. And someone has to be the last one back to the boat - it’s usually the most experienced divers since they use the least air. I always make sure to stay within the bottom time limits imposed by the crew though. Every outfit I’ve been diving with does a roll call back on the boat, not just a headcount. I remember one trip where a divemaster berated someone for answering “Here” for someone else who was in the head, so they were pretty conscientious. I’ve always made it a practice as well to spend a few minutes speaking to the dive crew ahead of time so they remember me, and drop a comment that I like to tip at the end of the trip 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-the-movie-open-water/288513/23 "2005-02-07T18:54:52Z")
Yeah, that nude was essential. . .essential for the director to go home and spank it to the dailys. You know – I think stuff shot on digital still looks like crap. Faces and lights look washed out. The water didn’t look so rich. Digital just isn’t there yet. The movie. Passable. At least it was short. I didn’t think it was so tension-filled. I really didn’t put myself into it. If you were able to, I think it would have been excellent. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-the-movie-open-water/288513/24 "2005-02-07T19:03:23Z")
I liked it. The sharks didn’t scare me as much as the shots of the horizon. I don’t like being on a boat that’s so far out that you can’t see the shore, so the two of them bobbing out there in the middle of all that water gave me the creeps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-the-movie-open-water/288513.md?page=1)