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Great underwater filming

posted 17 years ago by scorpio19th
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Not a memorable movie by any means, except it had some of the most beautiful and realistic underwater filming I've ever seen.

Don't bother telling me that I haven't seen such-and-such movie, because I probably haven't because I don't like surfer films.

But in the ones I've seen, all the underwater stuff looks identical, and man-made, and pointless. Like it's thrown in just to prove it's a surfer film.

But this IMHO was great.

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[–] sudothrottle 17 years ago

I agree with you, it was great!

[–] cbundoc 17 years ago

I agree. This movie came out the same time as another surfing movie came out and that was a documentary called "Step Into Liquid" (check it out ig you liked BLUE CRUSH) and while that doc had great underwater footage...BLUE CRUSH's footage was by far superior. Again, not memorable, but the footage of the water curling and splashing all around was just INCREDIBLE in Blue Crush!!!!

[–] obbie 15 years ago

Phenomenal underwater footage, and great use of the subwoofer on those shots.

Now if only they used penguins instead of girls...

[–] eisshaus1 14 years ago

Highly reocmmend this one as well...

Globe Presents: NEW EMISSIONS OF LIGHT & SOUND, "The Dark Side of The Machine"

The footage is amazing, all to the soundtrack of legendary DJ artist, Sasha (of Sasha and Digweed, Global Underground, etc). Amazing soundtrack.

[–] wab-3 14 years ago

There's a reason the underwater and in-the-surf footage looks the same in both films: it was shot by the same guy.

[–] michaela_myers87 14 years ago

It was pretty awesome. I'm looking to take surfing lessons, and it was cool to see all of that stuff from a surfer's perspective without being able to get into the water yet. I'm ordering the special edition, and it has a featurette on how they did all that camera-work. Should be interesting.

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[–] mom2wolf-1 14 years ago

Definately get out there and take surfing lessons! I am way past the age to learn to surf any real waves, just keep me in the kiddie pool.

I didn't know that about the special edition featurette. It sounds like it's worth a look. Thanks for mentioning it!

[–] Vforvendetta200 14 years ago

Exactly, the underwater scenes were even better than the surfing scenes.

[–] sugar22 13 years ago

there was that one great scene where they're all training when kate is holding onto the rock running underwater while michelle rodriguez is holding on to her shoulders being dragged in the with the other girl holding onto michelle's ankles.

[–] rwsmith29456 13 years ago

I found it a great movie to watch, but it sure was hard to listen to all that yacking. The synopsis says you can't miss getting great photography in Hawaii, but this was VERY well shot and the underwater parts were amazing. I've seen movies purely about surfing that weren't this artistically filmed.