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Did you people see the same film I saw?

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The Deep is an extremely dull underwater salvage operation film. Surface level in its content.After Cloche had taken Nolte and Bisset's characters off the road and searched them, Nolte's character right after decides to go searching for the booty, leaving the real booty ashore. This moment is just absolutely absurd to me and completely took me out of the film, so bloody stupid. Nothing you could ever find is going to be more valuable to you than her. Anyway, it was all pointless and so much time is spent just with long slow underwater scenes that obviously don't have dialogue. The characters are poor and the film monotonous.

I love Robert Shaw and Eli Wallach, both two great great actors. Eli Wallach has a small, insignificant role in this. Robert Shaw is good but I love him much more in "From Russia with Love", "Battle of the Bulge", "The Sting" and especially in "A Man for All Seasons". Jacqueline Bisset is young and beautiful. Same Nick Nolte. Here he is not the great actor from later roles like in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" or "Cape Fear". Beautiful underwater filming by Christopher Challis. When I first saw it, about 40 years ago, I liked it more (I was about 20 years old). Watched again in 2018, I find it static, monotonous, boring, does not have the same charm.

Fab on all points. See it, many times, as I have done.

It was based on a Peter Benchley novel and had Robert 'Captain Quint' Shaw but despite these and many other references to 'Jaws' (including a brazenly misleading 'monster movie' styled poster), 'The Deep' was a beached whale. Long, drawn-out and tedious in the extreme, 'The Deep' was everything 'Jaws' wasn't, sporting everything from stunningly dull editing to ropey special effects (the lunging 'moray eel' looked like it was carved out of something very wooden) thinly-sketched and unlikeable characters. Robert Shaw is all shouty and hammy with a wobbly 'Irish' accent, Nick Nolte is as wooden as a barge-pole and Jaqueline Bisset is totally wasted (except as a hot body) in a bimbo-ish part more suited to the talents of Farrah Fawcett (i.e. she's either asking blatantly expositional questions or being menaced as a damsel in distress). The plot is confused and poorly conveyed, as well as the whole thing being a good half hour too long. Not a lot of fun.