# Underwater (2020)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [February 27, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-2020/933858 "2021-02-27T00:38:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-2020/933858/1 "2021-02-27T00:38:59Z")

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Maybe I’m just out of it but that movie didn’t hit like most others.

I couldn’t remember the characters much beyond their note, I didn’t know where they were going, what they were doing or why beyond survival. It felt messy.

But something tied it together. Every shot was the “cool shot”. You could have taken any 30 second stretch out of the movie and turned it into a TV ad for a AAA video game.

Is this the type of movie that’s best experienced while high in IMAX/3D and just let it wash over you? It looked so cool but it felt numbing after a while.

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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-2020/933858/2 "2021-02-27T04:14:22Z")

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I paid attention for a good 40 or so minutes of that movie, and then I just put it on background while I surfed the Internet. It did have a few little touches I liked, but it had many touches that were highly familiar. It did get pretty goofy at the end as well.

I’m not sure that being high would’ve made it any better.

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**Author:** ![YamatoTwinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/cc9497/32.png) [@YamatoTwinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YamatoTwinkie)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underwater-2020/933858/3 "2021-03-01T15:25:10Z")

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I think I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. It had a lot of potential: The crushing isolation at the bottom of the ocean, abandoned derelict stations, suicidal descents into the literal abyss, cool looking diving suits, Lovecraftian “deep ones”.

There were underpinnings of a good movie there (even if a little derivative of _Alien_) , but perhaps I’m just a sucker for anything in the sci-fi horror genre.