Yup, I was all hopped up to see Star Wars but it was sold out so we all went to see The Deep. Still, I ended up liking the movie and even Star Wars didn't have Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T shirt.
Polls... One of the Main Stream Media's Jedi Mind Tricks.
My memory of THE DEEP is that my parents were fighting at the time of its release and not speaking to one another. Mom took me to see this movie opening day at the first show and dad took me that night around 7. I remember thinking how cool it was to be out on a Friday night seeing a movie and how we had to wait in a long line because the movie next door (it was a twin) was A BRIDGE TOO FAR and it started first.
shareOriginal poster: OMG, ME TOO!!! I was a kid and so looking forward to seeing Star Wars; little did we know, the line was around that theatre twice and sold out all night. We drove down the street to another movie theatre where this movie was playing. Too funny!
(BTW, I wasn't able to see SW until Jan 1978!)
That was the case with a lot of folks, as I recall. Frankly, I think you came out ahead because I'm just not a "Star Wars" fan, and at this point, I don't think I ever will be.
shareIt was only in 2008 that I finally sat and watched The Deep from beginning to end on DVD, but my memories of it go back to it's opening in 1977, and having seen bits of it broadcast on ABC's Sunday Night Movie for years.
What I learned as a kid in 1977:
- It was my introduction to Bermuda, which I hadn't heard of before. In fact, my parents had taken a vacation there a few years earlier, and I think that's how the subject came up around the house. So this film is always tied in to learning my parents went there once.
- It was my introduction to Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset, who I would always associate with that wet t-shirt she wore when diving!
- Jaws (from two years earlier) was a big pop culture subject in my house, even as talk about Star Wars was growing. I understood this film had a connection to Jaws somehow, and realized they were written by the same author, Peter Benchley.
- The Marvel Comic adaptation was passed around my classmates in grade school, so even without seeing the movie I saw the dramatic end with Treece breaking the surface with the dragon necklace.
- Robert Shaw will always be associated with this kind of film in my mind, playing the tough bounty hunter of the seas in a way, because of this and Jaws coming out so close together.
"Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not!" - Harlan Ellison
Meh... I'd already seen Star Wars several times by the time I went to see The Deep... my mother and I went to it because it looked pretty interesting... and it was... loved the movie, loved Robert Shaw and Lou Gossett, Jr., and it made me fall in love with Bermuda so much that I promised myself one day I'd go there... as yet, I haven't made good on that promise... but, I will... I will.
... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...
Good trade - The Deep is a great film, whereas star wars is a decently made puppet show.
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