The Do's and Dont's of underwater ghost movies

habilis

habilis

Ministry of Re-Education
Don't rent Ghost Ship, Do rent Below

At first glance you might not be able to tell the difference between these 2 movies, but the difference is, Ghost Ship is like 'Alien" underwater, minus the Alien, and plus cheesy ghosts that are stuck on this old ship because there is an anti-christ guy who has to collect enough souls to fill the boat then take it to hell. That plot rates a little too high on the cheese-factor. The movie did have some scary and suspensful parts, and the set was awesome, it was woth my time, but I can't recommend you spend you're hard earned dollars on a rent.

On the other hand, we have Below. A more intelligent plot, much better acting, more suspensful and scary. People are trapped inside a submarine during WWII. The difference is in this movie you never actually see a ghost, and the movie could survive weather or not you believe ghosts are responsible for the happenings in the movie, and thats one of the points of the movie. There's a lot of interesting mystery to figure out, and you'll jump out of your seat a couple times too. At any rate, my interest never faultered and I was quite entertained. Worth a rent.
 
I KNEW IT! i told my friend that ghost ship was supposed to be extremely cheesy!
though i usually get movies on my sattelite for a good price ($0.00 US lol), i dont wanna see ghost ship. I'd rather waste my time on a good movie..... i saw the pianist the other day, and i enjoyed it. It was sad though.
I dont like ghost movies, and i dont like underwater movies. Water is practically a cheesy version of space. But below sounds interesting.
 
I hate water movies, but I want to see Pirates of the Carribean...it looks badass. And Finding Nemo. I hear it's AMAZING. Even if it sucked, I have to go just to support Mr. Jobs.
 
Finding Nemo rocked hard.

Ghost ship was a solid 5/10.

Every Pixar movie is instant gold.

Dark Castle movies are cheesy horror with jumpy parts to make you "scared". Fun, but not great.
 
I saw The Abyss with Ed Harris (1989, for reference) yesterday, on the bus ride to Six Flags Marine World. It wasn't about ghosts so much as aliens... basically, a US nuclear submarine disappears mysteriously and these oil miners have to go find out what happened, and they go through hell underwater until these strange water-based aliens save them. It goes on and on and on and on and on, and just when you think it should end, it goes on and on and on some more. If you want to waste some time, go see something else. If you want to waste both time and $$$, then maybe you should see this.
 
The Abyss: Yeah the death scene where Ed harris had to share air with the curly hair chick got really nasty.

Now cocoon on the other hand, now there's a classic.
 
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