Great nostalgia

Showing my age here, but when cable TV first came to our town, The Deep was the big offering that month from HBO -- and they offered it over and over again for months and months for the next year or two (I think cable was such a new concept, they couldn't get rights to lots of movies back then).

Anyway my siblings and I -- enamoured with cable -- must have watched it a zillion times. After about six months of repetition, it became a little campy, even to a bunch of kids/teens, and we'd throw the lines back and forth at each other in all kinds of odd situations and laugh hysterically. Like once, when I was heading down to the beach for one last swim as the sun was setting (a time of day when we believed the shark risk was high -- Jaws had only been out a few years before), my sister said in her best attempt at an English accent -- "If the sharks don't get you it will be the cold embrace of the sea."

As a result of all this, Robert Shaw felt like a member of the family to us and we were devastated when he died.

Watching the movie again for the first time in almost 30 years was a lot of fun -- and I think the movie holds up pretty well for what it is -- no classic, but a good yarn, well acted, with great scenery.

Clementine: I'm a vindictive little bitch, truth be told!