The Abyss (1989) *First Time Watching Reaction!

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  • The Abyss (1989) *First Time Watching Reaction!
    In this video we watch and react to seeing The Abyss for the first time. The Abyss was directed by James Cameron and stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. Watch us watch James Cameron's The Abyss for the first time. We also give our thoughts and rate The Abyss at the end. For more reactions subscribe to Force of Light Entertainment today!
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  • @ForceOfLightEntertainment
    @ForceOfLightEntertainment  Місяць тому +20

    Share your thoughts, subscribe and give the video a 👍🏻💚

    • @uncoolmartin460
      @uncoolmartin460 Місяць тому +3

      This film allowed JC the cgi tech (water tentacle) to make Terminator 2. The filming of this was a nightmare for the actors, although it is a great film imo.

    • @jonboldrey5339
      @jonboldrey5339 Місяць тому +1

      Ed Harris an Michael biehn where I'm the rock together

    • @jonboldrey5339
      @jonboldrey5339 Місяць тому +1

      Ed Harris under the pressure of Cameron filming water had a emotional break down

    • @jonboldrey5339
      @jonboldrey5339 Місяць тому +1

      Director cup adds a lot at the ending

    • @CinoPORakaDjCino
      @CinoPORakaDjCino Місяць тому +1

      I watched this on TV, to bad Michael Biehn be a bad guy in this one... I think people love him acting like a hero in Aliens or Terminator... The Encounters of 3rd Degree is a similar great movie & more fun I guess, and is directed by Steven Spielberg.

  • @geneticrex
    @geneticrex Місяць тому +68

    I've said it for years.....this film should have been FAR more popular. It is excellent from all angles.

    • @ForceOfLightEntertainment
      @ForceOfLightEntertainment  Місяць тому +5

      Agreed!

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Місяць тому +4

      Maybe was just in my country,. but it was showed on TV quite reguarlly in the early to mid 90s.

    • @johnnyskinwalker4095
      @johnnyskinwalker4095 28 днів тому +1

      It remains my second favorite Cameron movie to this day. Cause as much as his other movies are technically well done, this one also had heart.

  • @Cadinho93
    @Cadinho93 Місяць тому +35

    Fun Fact: Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid. Now, the breathable liquid scene was just filmed with Ed Harris holding his breath for brief windows of filming.
    Also, the Special Edition version contains 17 extra minutes that was trimmed out of the theatrical release by the studio against James Cameron's wishes. These scenes are key and totally explain the alien's real agenda. Glad to see you guys doing this version because the director's cut of this film has additional footage that makes the story so much better.

    • @Experiment_6_2_6
      @Experiment_6_2_6 Місяць тому

      I prefer the theatrical cut myself.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Місяць тому

      The stuff is ridiculously carcinogenic, so its as far as i know not used for anything

    • @shawnmiller4781
      @shawnmiller4781 Місяць тому

      @@matsv201at one point it was suggested that premie babies could be put into this fluid while their lungs developed.
      It also allowed better control of the heat around the baby so could create an environment closer to the womb.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Місяць тому

      @@shawnmiller4781 but the risk of the baby dying is probobly a tad to high

  • @brettyeamans
    @brettyeamans Місяць тому +25

    The Abyss is truly one of James Cameron’s best movies, and one of my favorite Ed Harris movies of all time.

  • @LordVolkov
    @LordVolkov Місяць тому +25

    At least no one died during production 😅 and Cameron learned a lot about what not to do when filming in water.

  • @McPh1741
    @McPh1741 Місяць тому +20

    The sub wasn't at a depth of 2.5 miles. That was just the drop off from where it was resting. I'm not sure what depth the sub was but it was only 70 meters below the rig so they would be able to be outside the submersibles. So, it's not ALL science fiction. Saturation divers can reach depth up to 500 meteres (1640 feet). That's about 1/3 of a mile. Going down that far require a decompression time of about 7-8 days.

  • @paulschuckman6604
    @paulschuckman6604 Місяць тому +18

    This is one of my favorite movies. Michael Biehn and Ed Harris are such amazing actors.

    • @ForceOfLightEntertainment
      @ForceOfLightEntertainment  Місяць тому +2

      They are great!

    • @paulschuckman6604
      @paulschuckman6604 Місяць тому +3

      @@ForceOfLightEntertainment if you haven't seen Tombstone yet Michael Biehn is awesome in that too. People say Val Kilmer stole the show but I don't think he could have without Michael Biehn to act off of.

    • @avantegarde7797
      @avantegarde7797 27 днів тому

      ....yes, too bad, they are wasted in this mess !

    • @TheDimeDrawer
      @TheDimeDrawer 17 днів тому +1

      Both are also in The Rock (1996) as well with Nicolas Cage & Sean Connery.

  • @DesertHomesteader
    @DesertHomesteader Місяць тому +14

    Sorry, there's no medicine for the bends. You need a hyperbaric chamber and an IV to reduce the gas bubbles built up in the blood. At this depth, you'd probably need to spend days decompressing in the chamber.
    I experienced icy water once in a pool at the top of a mountain waterfall. You lose all capability to think when you hit water that cold. You're running completely on instinct, which doesn't always point you in the right direction.
    Note: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio reportedly suffered a physical and emotional breakdown because she was pushed so hard on the set. Ed Harris once almost drowned and punched James Cameron; once had to pull over his car while driving home when he burst into tears. Gotta give these actors massive props.

    • @thejamppa
      @thejamppa 29 днів тому +1

      My brother was doing younger days scuba diving and working on and off diving. Worst thing according him was doing underwater welding in North Sea. Even with best possible wet insulating suits and we talk just surface water you would get numb in about 40 minutes and they had to rotate every 25 minutes. Still after decades, he still says he has never experience such chill after wards.

  • @matthewrogal1552
    @matthewrogal1552 Місяць тому +26

    Fun facts with this....14.7 psi per 33 feet of ocianic water..typically humans can go about 130 feet deep. At 2 miles down its 330 atmospheric pressures or 4850 psi. Scary!

    • @LordVolkov
      @LordVolkov Місяць тому +2

      Space and underwater are opposite sides of a coin (nothing vs 'everything', both kill horribly in darkness) but the fact that there are numerous things living in the deep makes it instantly scarier.

    • @Pinkielover
      @Pinkielover Місяць тому +4

      The maximum depth reached by anyone in a single breath is 702 feet (213.9 metres) and this record was set in 2007 by Herbert Nitsch. you can go much further if you had a oxygen supply.. 332 m (1,089 ft), is the Deepest scuba dive, anything beyond 1000 is a extreme risk

    • @rustygunner8282
      @rustygunner8282 Місяць тому +2

      Most of the human body is water, which is incompressible so as long as body cavities are pressurized to ambient pressure the body won’t crush per se, that’s how SCUBA works. Your regulator gives you air at ambient pressure. Under pressure, though, nitrogen is a problem and even too high a partial pressure of oxygen is toxic. The deeper you dive the more work has to be done on what you’re breathing.
      A big limit on how deep divers can go is High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, which happens when pressure squeezes the myelin sheaths around nerve fibers against the fibers themselves, causing them to fire randomly. Go deep enough and that affects everyone, not just the villain.

    • @mattp6089
      @mattp6089 29 днів тому +4

      Been to 52m/170ft on air myself. I shouldn't have, but nice little wreck... Massive fan corals near it... Went to 40, sometimes 45m a few times when I was diving regularly. Never dived on anything but air so that is the deepest I ever got.
      You need to breathe gases with a different mix than air to go deep. You need to reduce the oxygen and nitrogen content of the gas mix you are breathing. So long as you are slowly adjusting to pressure changes, the pressure itself is not what kills you, not directly. It is the increased gas transfer in your lungs into your blood of gases which is caused by said increased pressure that is going to mess you up.

    • @rustygunner8282
      @rustygunner8282 28 днів тому +1

      @@mattp6089 The standard replacement for nitrogen is helium, which isn’t toxic at depth but makes you sound like the Munchkinland Lullaby League.

  • @kentslocum
    @kentslocum Місяць тому +9

    Man, you really should have watched the Extended Edition. It filled in a lot of the gaps in the theatrical version. The funny thing is, nearly all of the human technology in this movie is completely real. Not only were all of the underwater scenes actually filmed underwater, but it all really worked, too. The submersibles and ROVs and dive suits and helmets were all functional equipment.

    • @charlize1253
      @charlize1253 Місяць тому +2

      The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood

    • @kentslocum
      @kentslocum Місяць тому +2

      @@charlize1253 Well, the behind-the-scenes bonus features explained that the special effects for the wave sequence were not complete when James Cameron began showing the film to test audiences, and thus audiences rated that section of the film poorly. The studio also wanted Cameron to limit the length of the film, because they feared it was too long. As a result, James Cameron removed the entire subplot about increasing surface tensions and the NTIs showing their power over water. However, because those scenes were so integral to the film, James Cameron re-edited the film after its initial release in theaters to include the missing sequences. He justified the additional cost to complete the wave sequence by counting it as part of the LaserDisc home video release.

    • @CR41489
      @CR41489 29 днів тому

      @@charlize1253 Actually, it’s 32 minutes of additional material and it certainly makes for a better film. 😊 The longer version was actually released in select theaters in February of 1993 before the extended cut premiered on Laser Disc.

  • @NickaliasMaximus
    @NickaliasMaximus Місяць тому +4

    After dozens of times watching this masterpiece, I still get an emotional gut punch when we see Ed Harris just sitting, waiting to die, before the aliens approach him. A most excellent movie.

  • @007fanatic13
    @007fanatic13 Місяць тому +9

    Great reaction! Jim Cameron has been pushing the envelope in terms of visual effects for 40 years...such a great filmmaker!
    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @waynezimmerman1950
    @waynezimmerman1950 25 днів тому +4

    One of Lindsey's(Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) biggest fans was my Dad; of now very beloved memory. As a former military analyst, later a systems engineer, we were watching this movie and all the while people called her Queen Bitch of the Universe he had a big grin on his face. And as the end credits rolled Dad turned to me and said: Lindsey's not a bitch, you know, she's an engineer.

  • @rexholmes6142
    @rexholmes6142 Місяць тому +6

    Fun fact, the reason that the door didn’t crush his hand is that the wedding band was made from titanium, according to the novel Lindsey designed the ring in her engineering class.

    • @avantegarde7797
      @avantegarde7797 27 днів тому

      Gee, you think they might have worked that (significant) point into this shit script ?

  • @2ndTim3_1-6
    @2ndTim3_1-6 Місяць тому +4

    massively underrated, love this movie when it came out, big fan of Michael Bien and Ed Harris

  • @therealstephentv
    @therealstephentv 28 днів тому +6

    Great watch ladies! I looked it up and the fastest submarine on record went a max of 44.7 knots, which is just over 50 mph. And apparently we've only explored 5% of the earths ocean. The deepest crewed dive was 10,927 metres into the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench. Keep up the good work, Michelle and Natalie! 5 Hoots to you ladies!

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise Місяць тому +6

    11:15 Fun Fact: These diving helmets with the BIG face glass were designed by James Cameron so the actors could be seen to show US that the actors were really doing the diving and they were stunt doubles.

  • @Experiment_6_2_6
    @Experiment_6_2_6 Місяць тому +6

    One of Cameron's underrated movies. Lucky enough to see this in the theater last year.

    • @mattp6089
      @mattp6089 29 днів тому

      They didn't bring that release celebrating the new film to digital transfer to Australia or I would have been there with bells on for sure.

  • @razorfett147
    @razorfett147 Місяць тому +5

    They couldn't leave the bomb down there because Coffey set it to blow on a timer. It wouldve killed them all. Someone had to go down and disarm it before it detonated. Thats the reason for Buds sacrifice

  • @guitarbo1
    @guitarbo1 Місяць тому +2

    "knew this was a one-way ticket, but you knew I had to come" always gets me a little bit 😢
    You guys are great! 😊😊

  • @Jumpman67
    @Jumpman67 Місяць тому +7

    I'm a physical media fan and this just came out on 4k and it looks amazing. The last release was on regular dvd, it never got a blu ray release. I'd never seen the movie before and it was really good.

    • @mattp6089
      @mattp6089 29 днів тому

      I was only waiting for the BluRay since BluRay came out in 2006 and I realised DVD was actually pretty low quality. You can bet that I bought the 4K/BluRay double pack instantly. Still can't quite believe Cameron finally did it.

  • @BigGator5
    @BigGator5 Місяць тому +8

    "When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand?"
    Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Kimberly Scott.
    Technological First Fact: The first feature film to have used an early version of Adobe Photoshop.
    Music Enthusiast Fact: The music heard in the scene where Bud (Ed Harris) and Coffey (Michael Biehn) have a man-to-man showdown was reused in the theatrical trailer of The Fugitive (1993).
    Movie Magic Fact: The striped wire scene (blue with white stripe and black with yellow stripe) was filmed with two black and white wires to ensure that they looked identical under the colored lighting.
    US Navy Enthusiast Fact: The Trident submarine at the start of the film is the USS Montana, designated SSBN-741. In reality, SSBN-741 became the USS Maine. The Maine, the 4th ship bearing the name, was laid down in 1990, launched in 1994, and officially commissioned in 1995. The designation of USS Montana would not be assigned to a submarine until May of 2018 when the hull of the Virginia-Class Submarine USS Montana, SSN-794, was laid. She would not be commissioned into the fleet until June of 2022.
    Science Rules Fact: Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid. Ed Harris did not actually breathe the fluid. He held his breath inside a helmet full of liquid while being towed 30 feet (10 m) below the surface of the large tank. He recalled that the worst moments were being towed with fluid rushing up his nose and his eyes swelling up.

  • @luislora9204
    @luislora9204 29 днів тому +3

    *** The Abyss title is from a book by C.P.Idyll ,1964 and denotes the deepest region of the Ocean between 20-30' thousand feet called the Hadal zone after Hades tne Greek name used in Dantes " The Divine Comedy " journey into the underworld and Dantes guide was the poet Virgil .That's the protaganonist "Bud's " name in the film .!!...***

  • @THOMMGB
    @THOMMGB 25 днів тому +1

    The reason Ed Harris had to go down into The Abyss is that the nuclear warhead was on a three hour timer, so it had to be defused.
    Also, Virgil and Lindsey were separated and were almost divorced. Lindsey mentioned, "Not for long." early on when Virgil mentioned they were still married and why he was still wearing his wedding ring.

  • @Uncle-Charlie
    @Uncle-Charlie Місяць тому +2

    She said "Be useful creature!" I spit coffee laughing! haha

  • @captaincaveman-mr9sd
    @captaincaveman-mr9sd Місяць тому +6

    The phrase slicker than snot is an old phrase. That I heard a lot when I was a kid.

    • @levenkay4468
      @levenkay4468 Місяць тому +1

      The whole simile, as I recall from high-school days, was "slick as snot on a door-knob".

  • @guitarbo1
    @guitarbo1 Місяць тому +2

    That scene with the crane and the crane operator breaking off of the ship was intense. Some great scenes in this film

  • @richardwani2803
    @richardwani2803 Місяць тому +2

    The Abyss is a true underrated film and it's one of my favourites

  • @chrisbate9956
    @chrisbate9956 27 днів тому +1

    The Abyss was filmed in an unfinished nuclear power plant! They had to fill up the tank with loads of water and then it leaked! It wasn't a fun time for the actors during filming, but it was also a test for the T-1000 special effects that would come a few years later in T2.

  • @kb4342
    @kb4342 Місяць тому +9

    Natalie Thank You for being you!

  • @charlize1253
    @charlize1253 Місяць тому +1

    The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood

  • @bryanb3352
    @bryanb3352 Місяць тому +3

    The story is that the cast and crew called the move The Abuse. Ed Harris nearly drowned.

  • @AllegedlyElPresidente.
    @AllegedlyElPresidente. Місяць тому +11

    *BONUS FEATURES: UNDER PRESSURE **_"THE MAKING OF THE ABYSS"_*
    *EVERYTHING WAS REAL! THE SUBS/THE DIVING SUITS/THE RIG/THE WATER/THE MOON POOL, EXCEPT FOR THE ALIEN CONCEPT, EVERYTHING WAS THE REAL DEAL*

    • @avantegarde7797
      @avantegarde7797 27 днів тому

      Great, now if only the script made ANY degree of sense.

    • @DMichaelAtLarge
      @DMichaelAtLarge 26 днів тому

      @@avantegarde7797 I think that reflects the level of your intellectual capacity more than the intellectual integrity of the film.

  • @jeffthompson9622
    @jeffthompson9622 Місяць тому +3

    Thank you for sharing your reaction to "The Abyss." I've liked it since I first watched it in the theater.

  • @CoolCoyote
    @CoolCoyote 27 днів тому +3

    I only remember the movie because of the intentional drowning scene, i thought about that for years after and in fact ever since i saw it way back in 90'

  • @michaeltodd2012
    @michaeltodd2012 Місяць тому +3

    One of my favorites... filmed in an abandoned nuclear facility in Aiken, SC. So they were all dive qualified including Cameron. A really hard film to shoot but quite memorable. The Director's Cut shows additional scenes where the 'aliens' demonstrated that they could create 1,000 foot high tidal waves to destroy coastal cities. They were about to do it but after Bud disarmed the warhead they changed their mind.

  • @meadmaker4525
    @meadmaker4525 Місяць тому +3

    Recreational diving is usually down to about 130 feet. Commercial saturation divers go to a little over 1700 feet. Special suits are required below that depth, with some dives going past 2000 feet.

  • @thegorn68
    @thegorn68 Місяць тому +3

    The early CGI effects used in this film for the alien manipulation of water, etc. was sort of a dress rehearsal for Cameron to be able to do all the effects required for Terminator 2 and the liquid metal nature for the T-1000 model.

  • @bobbyclarkston8836
    @bobbyclarkston8836 29 днів тому +3

    What was up with this “lose consciousness” stuff? Lindsey said that she was going to DROWN and then Bud could tow her back to the rig. There’s only one definition for “DROWN” and it ends in death.
    Also, directly after that, Bud is shown swimming with Lindsey in tow, heading back to the rig and they say it’s impossible? THEY WERE JUST SHOWING YOU HOW “POSSIBLE” IT IS!
    WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!

  • @guitarbo1
    @guitarbo1 28 днів тому +2

    I'm glad we the general public started with the simpler theatrical version. But the extended version gives more context with the aliens, and also a little more backstory on Bud and Lindsay.

  • @jonathancruz5932
    @jonathancruz5932 27 днів тому +3

    The finest sci fi movie ever

  • @blakewalker84120
    @blakewalker84120 29 днів тому +1

    38:25 "They said he can cut the weights off and float back up but I don't know how."
    The same way a helium balloon floats to the sky.
    No matter what the pressure is, everything that contains a gas will move toward lower pressure.
    That means up.
    That suit basically has liquid oxygen that turns to a gas in Bud's body. It's more complicated than that but that's a simple explanation.
    That gas in his body is in his suit and will lift him up.
    He's only going down because of external weights heavier than his gas.
    Drop the wait, and up he goes like a hot air balloon.

  • @duanetelesha
    @duanetelesha Місяць тому +3

    Initial contact with Mary Elizabeth reminded me of Close Encounters the way they moved around. Great duel reaction.

  • @Blackgrimreaper2024
    @Blackgrimreaper2024 26 днів тому +2

    I like when she played Tony’s sister in Scarface Gina

  • @terrylandess6072
    @terrylandess6072 29 днів тому +1

    Imagine trying to blow up a balloon that someone was squeezing - that was the sub's issue trying to pump out sea water at that depth.

  • @shanenolan5625
    @shanenolan5625 Місяць тому +2

    Thanks ladies, haven't received the notification on this , but saw it on twitter.
    This movie was said to be the hardest movie to make , for the cast and crew , months of freezing cold water and being wet , people started getting sick . Snd it took much longer than a normal movie

  • @k1productions87
    @k1productions87 Місяць тому +3

    They couldn't just leave the nuke down there because the detonator was set on a timer. Three hours when Coffey set it, and just about an hour left when Bud suited up to go down to it.
    Even if the explosion wouldn't have completely obliterated the rig and any vessels on the surface within a few miles, it surely would have wiped out the entire NTI community. Disarming it was the only option

  • @blakewalker84120
    @blakewalker84120 29 днів тому +1

    26:00 "Has anybody discussed how they are going to get out of this predicament?"
    They are stuck.
    Lindsay got them enough air from the outside tank that they can breathe until rescue comes.
    That's it.
    If they get in their little subs right now and go the the surface WITHOUT taking three weeks to decompress in a hyperbaric chamber they will pop like bloody balloons.
    The only place with that kind of chamber for them to survive is their ship (the one that lost the crane) but it ran away from the hurricane.
    So there is literally nothing to do until the hurricane goes away and their ship comes back.
    Which is why they are all just sitting around waiting.
    Ain't got nothin else to do.

  • @AllegedlyElPresidente.
    @AllegedlyElPresidente. Місяць тому +2

    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

  • @GMac2776
    @GMac2776 28 днів тому +2

    The filming of this was so bad the actors called it the abuse.
    The water was freezing cold, they had to put chemicals in the water to stop algea forming which stung their eyes.
    James Cameroon nearly drowned, the water as you can imagine played havoc with the electrics.
    Ed Harris refused to do any promotion or marketing for the movie he was so done with it by the end.

  • @AlbertusMagnus_44
    @AlbertusMagnus_44 Місяць тому +2

    I’m with you, Natalie. Even in movies I have tired of watching death and tend to avoid movies that feature it. I saw “The Abyss” in 1989 with my wife. We enjoyed it. The theatrical version is a good adventure story but the “cable version” is longer and adds a lot of social commentary that was originally edited out. But overall, a good movie.

  • @WretchinWilson
    @WretchinWilson 28 днів тому +1

    Love this movie. Saw it when I was a kid. I think the reason it's been "lost" for so long is that Cameron is sitting on all his old releases and won't put them out in current formats unless he approves them. I think he's sort of a perfectionist, so this movie only recently came out in HD, along with ALIENS in 4K and others. That's why it recently got put on Hulu -- finally a digital HD release approved by James Cameron.

  • @tisdue
    @tisdue Місяць тому +4

    a true accomplishment in film. Even though everyone despised Cameron on set.

    • @shawnmiller4781
      @shawnmiller4781 Місяць тому

      And to be honest Cameron earned the hatred

  • @Uncle-Charlie
    @Uncle-Charlie Місяць тому +2

    This was fun to watch! Great job ladies always entertaining!

  • @ryanhart8740
    @ryanhart8740 Місяць тому +1

    I love this movie so much, such an underrated gem, I watched it way back in the day when it first came in theaters and loved it… For many years I only saw the theatrical version, but then I bought it on DVD and saw the extended version and loved it even more… This will always be a classic for me and I watch it at least 1-2 times a year, I have just bought the new 4K release with both the 4K and the Blu-Ray and with both the theatrical and the extended version on it… Great reaction ♥️

  • @BudhagRizzo
    @BudhagRizzo Місяць тому +1

    You couldn't make a film like this today. Safety precautions were taken, but it was still a pretty dangerous shoot.

  • @jdupre7877
    @jdupre7877 Місяць тому +3

    It's almost like they witnessed a "Force Of Light" in the abyss

  • @blakewalker84120
    @blakewalker84120 29 днів тому +2

    9:35 "There could be survivors because they sealed themselves off in a compartment."
    Tragically, no. Not a chance.
    Once a sub hits "crush depth" it all crushes. All of it.
    Ever see a guy crush a beer can?
    Same thing, but it's a human can and none of the humans survive.
    But even if they did.
    There is not a single diving suit on that sub. Not for this depth.
    So no survivor is safely suited up and ready to be saved.
    That means these Navy SEALs need to open the door to that sealed compartment which will instantly flood AND crush it.
    Any survivors not crushed will immediately drown and freeze in this 35 degree water - it would be pretty much impossible to put them into a diving suit, even if the Navy SEALs brought one.
    Which they didn't.
    This was never a rescue.
    It was ONLY about getting the nuclear launch codes off of that submarine before the Russians send a diver to get them.
    They lied about rescuing the men so these oil drillers and their bosses would agree.
    Most humans agree to save other humans, immediately, as fast as possible.
    They wouldn't be nearly as excited about saving nuclear launch codes and definitely not in a hurry to do it.
    They would tell the Navy to send their own divers because there is no real hurry to save a piece of paper in a safe.

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise Місяць тому +1

    45:40 All the machinery used is REAL machinery. The only sci-fi stuff in this film was the whole alien concept.

  • @InstigatorDJ
    @InstigatorDJ Місяць тому +3

    We can go deeper with rebreathers, but not by much. Our bodies are too soft to withstand the pressure.

  • @James_Ford4815
    @James_Ford4815 Місяць тому +9

    Ed Harris in the fight fight scene , one of the best acting scenes i've ever seen.

  • @pistonburner6448
    @pistonburner6448 Місяць тому +1

    I hope they made a documentary on the making of this film called: Apiss in the Pool.

  • @HorrorFan-WrestlingFan
    @HorrorFan-WrestlingFan Місяць тому +5

    I have the Special Edition of The Abyss on DVD Fantastic film

  • @charlesbarnes6912
    @charlesbarnes6912 Місяць тому +2

    "better use my strong hand"😂😂😂 iykyk

  • @coldflamebluedragon196
    @coldflamebluedragon196 Місяць тому +3

    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

  • @blakewalker84120
    @blakewalker84120 29 днів тому +1

    39:30 "Let the warhead stay down there - nobody can get it."
    Coffee armed it on a timer.
    It will blow up.
    The blast will kill everybody above it so Bud, Lindsey, everybody on the rig will be killed in the blast.
    And maybe some aliens too.
    Bud is not going down there to get it.
    It's too heavy - he can't float up with it anyway.
    He's going down to disarm it and stop the explosion.

  • @randall-king
    @randall-king Місяць тому +1

    I would see this on TV growing up from time to time, late at night. It was always one of those movies that would grab my interest, and I'd have to finish the movie. It was years before I finally sat down an watched the whole thing from the beginning.
    I think it's an average movie. I'd probably give it 3.5 out of 5 or something like that. I'm glad y'all liked it. God bless!

  • @jameswilliams-zr8co
    @jameswilliams-zr8co Місяць тому +2

    great movie, james cameron is a genius, the special edition is even better.. you should watch the making of the abyss, cameron put those actors through hell ! Ed harris never talked about the movie for years, harris almost drown filming one scene and punched cameron in the face lol

  • @user-sy5vv4ze3h
    @user-sy5vv4ze3h 4 дні тому

    This is one of my 15 favorite science-fiction movies. It also has sentimental value to me because it was the last movie that my parents, brother, and I saw together, in the theater when the Director’s Cut was released. The cold-water drowning effect, called the “mammalian diving reflex,” is true. It was announced to the public by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in a 1974 press release (I have an original copy), but weirdly it is still little known by the public. Many people have survived up to half an hour after “drowning,” and I think the record is nearly one hour. The rule is you are not necessarily dead until you are warm and dead.

  • @little-wytch
    @little-wytch Місяць тому +1

    When they were checking the sub, humans can go that deep with proper equipment, but it's near the limit. That's why they had to pressurize before getting in the rig and would normally need to depressurize to go back up to the surface. The main sci-fi in this is the beings and the liquid breathing thing. If you want to get another video out of this, you could also react to the Director's Cut Special Edition which has an entire sub-plot that was cut out of the theatrical version. Director's Cut is a much better version and it could be a fun video to compare them.

  • @DalilahR
    @DalilahR Місяць тому +1

    The reason so many of you reactors have never heard of a lot of great movies is because, like this one, they were probably made before, or nearly before, you were born. The Sting, Godfather, & Green Mile are 3 of the best I think you haven't reacted to.

  • @blakewalker84120
    @blakewalker84120 29 днів тому +1

    31:55 "Do you want to shoot towards a warhead?"
    Doesn't matter.
    It's not dynomite.
    Bullets cannot set off a nuclear weapon.
    It's impossible.
    That's kind of like expecting a bullet to start your car. Without the key. You can shoot a car all day long and the bullets cannot start the engine.
    Same with nuclear weapons.

  • @doberski6855
    @doberski6855 Місяць тому +3

    Have seen the Abyss many times over the years starting in the theater. Glad you ladies enjoyed it and yes consider this one of Cameron's best movies.

  • @georger.3489
    @georger.3489 Місяць тому +1

    Wasn´t very successful when it came out in 1989 but became very famous over the years. Glad you both liked this classic :)

  • @TomCat777
    @TomCat777 Місяць тому +4

    I'm the extended cut they explain much more, and dive deeper into the Brinkman's marriage

    • @charlize1253
      @charlize1253 Місяць тому

      The Extended Director's Cut adds 15 minutes that explain the aliens' mission, and their motivation in saving Bud, much more clearly and more powerfully. When I watched the longer version (which was not released in theaters), I wondered why it was cut at all because everything makes so much more sense, but that's Hollywood

  • @miamicool666
    @miamicool666 15 днів тому

    “Are they in a submarine?”
    Although she had seen one 2 minutes before.

  • @matsv201
    @matsv201 Місяць тому +3

    36:00 i done this in a sharp situation once, with no equipment, just my hand and mouth. The victim just staired out blank, look pretty much dead.
    One blow in, and the victim just snapped into life and was like "what happened?"

  • @alexkaen1701
    @alexkaen1701 Місяць тому +3

    The parts you're assuming are sci-fi are realistic. The sci-fi is that a radio signal could reach to the bottom of the ocean

    • @charlize1253
      @charlize1253 Місяць тому

      Haha, but true! In real life, the military uses special high-power ELF ("extremely low frequency") radio waves generated from huge antenna arrays powered by millions of volts to communicate with submarines because regular radio waves quickly die in the ocean

    • @alexkaen1701
      @alexkaen1701 Місяць тому

      @@charlize1253 Oh, and the sea aliens may not be totally, scientifically accurate

  • @CFWhitman
    @CFWhitman 29 днів тому +1

    The diving element is pretty realistic until the deep dive into the abyss (other things, like the ring holding open the hydraulic door are not so realistic). That dive into the abyss is based on a theoretical way a diver could survive at much greater depths than normal. Anyone who goes even as deep as the realistic parts, though, requires days of decompression to go back to the surface.
    The director's cut adds an element similar to _The Day the Earth Stood Still._ It's an interesting watch.

  • @shanenolan5625
    @shanenolan5625 Місяць тому +2

    Yes those people last year were crushed trying to look at titanic.
    Jim Cameron making this got very interested in deep sea and diving, he decided to make titanic, based on his research, he did go and film footage for titanic, and did several documentaries, after that accident he announced he is going to do it again, go back down . .
    He pushed to get new technology , equipment, underwater cameras, lighting, and those little subs . He became very interested in the oceans , and shipwrecks.

  • @pedroV2003
    @pedroV2003 Місяць тому +1

    Wonderful movie. Extremely entertaining. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio drowning scene is so hard to watch even after all these years.

  • @alancoy5305
    @alancoy5305 Місяць тому +1

    This is a fantastic film. Michael Biehn, who played Kyle Reese in Terminator and Corporal Hicks in Aliens is fantastic as the films antagonist. Ed Harris is great in this film as well. If you want to see another great film with Ed Harris, I recommend "Radio" a true and wonderful story from 2003 of true friendship. It is about the famous James "Radio" Kennedy and his friend Coach Harold Jones in 1976 South Carolina. Ed Harris plays Coach Jones and Cuba Gooding Jr. Plays "Radio". A great story you do not want to pass up. Great reaction to a great film

  • @sharkdentures3247
    @sharkdentures3247 Місяць тому +2

    Everyone talks about the amazing special effects & such, but I really like the Love story & the INTESNE acting!
    The whole pre & post drowning scenes just bring tears to my eyes!

  • @unclerobin
    @unclerobin Місяць тому +1

    Orson Scott Card wrote the novelization of this film (his only film adaptation) the first 3 chapters were about each main character during thier childhood years. They were so good that Ed Harris, Elizabeth Masterantonio, and Micheal Biehn used them to base their performancers off of. The Aliens were much more prevelent in his story, they have the ability to actually read minds and save memories, our being in their eyes alone is horrifying to them. But it's a few chars that change thier minds about us. The called us polluting land slugs. The special edition cut added many additional scenes with the aliens, also added to the standoff developing between the Russian and American Navies, and the escalating international response. If you can find the book I would vehemently recommend reading it. Great reaction, glad you liked it ladies. Keep it up

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise Місяць тому +2

    25:38 Fun Fact: These CANADIAN special effects of the shape shifting water were the precursor to the liquid Terminator.

  • @blakewalker84120
    @blakewalker84120 29 днів тому +1

    10:00 "It's like being astronauts in the ocean."
    Aquanauts.
    Seriously though, NASA trains astronauts in large pools so they can get used to their space suits, but in water.
    To be clear, the pools of water are for TRAINING - when they're done training they go up to real space and do space things up in real space.
    So real astronauts train by doing basically the same thing these actors are doing: putting on suits and doing stuff in a pool with cameras filming them.

  • @christanner8765
    @christanner8765 Місяць тому +6

    Just watch Critical Drinkers Production Hell on The Abyss.

    • @doberski6855
      @doberski6855 Місяць тому +1

      Yeah that was a great video!

    • @christanner8765
      @christanner8765 Місяць тому

      @@doberski6855 how it ever actually got made is astonishing!

  • @DougerSR
    @DougerSR Місяць тому +3

    One of my top 3 fave Cameron movie. Saw it the summer before my senior year of high school!!! Michelle saying that she had never heard of this movie killed a piece of my ancient heart a bit. LOL!!!

  • @cjpatz
    @cjpatz Місяць тому +7

    FYI: Filming was an nightmare. At one point during filming Ed Harris punched James Cameron. Michael Biehn almost died because of a power outage while underwater and the set went pitch black. And till this day, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Ed Harris refuse to talk about it.

    • @avantegarde7797
      @avantegarde7797 27 днів тому

      You're certain it's not because of the shit script they had to perform ?

    • @cjpatz
      @cjpatz 27 днів тому

      @@avantegarde7797 who knows. They refuse to talk about it. Michael Biehn though, doesn’t say it was.

  • @Johne.8250
    @Johne.8250 Місяць тому +1

    I just dig it when reactors pick good movies…
    That wifey portrayed sexy sister in Scarface and boat captain in The Perfect Storm

  • @McPh1741
    @McPh1741 Місяць тому +4

    Good sci-fi adventure movie. I was 11 when this came out. I liked it but it wasn't what I though it would be at the time. This came out at a time when underwater "Alien" ripoff movies were all the rage. Movies like "Deep Star 6" , "Leviathan", "Lords of the Deep", and "The Rift" were all out around the same time. I thought this movie was going to be another deep sea horror movie, not a big budget sci-fi movie. I love the deep dive scene and have always found deep sea saturation diving interesting.

  • @Pinkielover
    @Pinkielover Місяць тому +1

    fun facts The maximum depth reached by anyone in a single breath is 702 feet (213.9 metres) and this record was set in 2007 by Herbert Nitsch. you can go much further if you had a oxygen supply.. 332 m (1,089 ft), is the Deepest scuba dive, which is unprotected skin basically .. anything beyond 400 is pretty risky

    • @uncoolmartin460
      @uncoolmartin460 Місяць тому

      You might be thinking of heliox/trimix for depths below approx 180ft, otherwise if your just using oxygen you run the risk of oxygen toxicity. (this doesn'i apply to free divers, who use atmospheric air at atmospheric pressures.)
      True, the deepest scuba dive was very impressive but he was a very experienced diver and the dive was 15 mins to depth, then approx 13 hours to resurface without doing anything at depth. Not something that most sane people want to mess around with. so anything beyond 180ft is pretty risky on oxygen.

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise Місяць тому +1

    45:25 They were just separated. You might not remember when Lindsey arrived on "Deep Core"...Bud said "Hey, Mrs. Brigman." and she replied "Not for long."

  • @BuccWylde
    @BuccWylde Місяць тому +3

    Ed had to wait for her to drown first before swimming back with her because had she been conscience and starting to drown during the swim, her body could've had survival instincts kick in and start thrashing around causing much bigger issues for him trying to tow her, which woulda slowed their progress and every minute counts. Irreversible brain damage starts to occur at around 4 1/2 min. Vegetable status at 6 min.

  • @coreyhendricks9490
    @coreyhendricks9490 Місяць тому +1

    Cool reaction as always Michelle & Natalie, you both take care and have a nice day and a good night 🥰❤️😊

  • @stpetie7686
    @stpetie7686 Місяць тому +2

    Just for the record, this movie on a theater screen has some freaking gorgeous scenes. If anyone gets the chance (unlikely) to see it that way, I'd recommend checking it out.

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise Місяць тому +1

    31:22 Way to go girls. I like to think I'm good at predicting the next scene in films but I NEVER figured that other guy was gonna show up. Nicely done.

  • @davidw839
    @davidw839 Місяць тому +1

    The Abyss is really good, but I haven’t watched it in a long time. Your reaction made me want to re-visit it. Glad you two enjoyed!

  • @lloyderc
    @lloyderc Місяць тому +1

    This is my fav movie. Ed’s best part . Not sure why more people don’t react to it . Tgere missing out. Another great one is . Last of the dogmen

  • @mattp6089
    @mattp6089 29 днів тому +1

    One of Cameron's best and one of my favourite movies. But then I am somewhat enamoured with all things underwater.
    80kts is mindbendingly fast. A US attack submarine can do 30-35 I think. But the Russian VA-111 Shkval (Squall) torpedo can do in excess of 200kts.
    The depth of Deepcore is not out of the question. Lindsay and the SEALs spend 8 hours on the way down becoming accustomed to the pressure at depth as they make the trip. During that time they are adjusting the mixture of the gas they are breathing. The amount of oxygen and nitrogen in standard air will kill you at depth, so they need to drop the content of these and replace them with something inert like helium. They'd be talking hilariously high-pitched in a real deep sea habitat if they were at ambient pressure. Lindsay also says they will need to spend 3 weeks later slowly getting back to surface pressure.
    BUT your body can handle pressure if you are equalizing the pressure in your airspaces like lungs, sinus and ears as you go. I've been to 52m and I was lightheaded from narcosis from too much nitrogen on an air dive but you don't feel the pressure if your air spaces are pressurised. So if you could adjust what you breathe so the gases aren't toxic, you should be okay.
    The deepest suit dive on a gas mix called trimix is 1090 feet, and I think that's just a dive, down and back. Not sure. If you adjusted slowly and had a habitat so you could live near the depth you were diving? Possible? I think the naval commander says he needs them to go below 2000ft. So Deepcore might be at something like 1500ft?
    Further, the net effect of pressure changes are less the deeper you go. You add one standard atmosphere per 10m/33ft depth, so going from the surface to 10m underwater doubles the pressure you are under. But going from 90-100m only increases the total pressure from 10 atmospheres to 11, so only by 10%.