The Abyss - Caravan of Garbage

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We're on the road to Avatar 2: The Way Of Water! And on that road there there were three movies from James Cameron's filmography that made it happen, the first of which we'll be looking at is The Abyss from 1989. Starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn among others it tells the harrowing tale of a civilian diving team, a rogue nuclear warhead and aliens of The Deep. I hope you like submarines because boy there's a lot of them. Thanks for listening to our Caravan Of Garbage review!
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  • @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep
    @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Жыл бұрын

    I love the running gag of Maso being represented by Kermit and James being represented by Christian Bale.

  • @teddy-fl6hm

    @teddy-fl6hm

    Жыл бұрын

    i have low respect for the police

  • @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep

    @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep

    Жыл бұрын

    @@teddy-fl6hm Wow that really.... Stings. Hehehe

  • @Materminds187

    @Materminds187

    Жыл бұрын

    @@teddy-fl6hm The band?

  • @DimaJeydar

    @DimaJeydar

    Жыл бұрын

    Wait, what was the video where this gag started? I remember it being incredibly funny.

  • @trevorashlin

    @trevorashlin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DimaJeydarI think about them nodding to each other so much

  • @hada__02
    @hada__02 Жыл бұрын

    “Stop panicking and pooing, ya rat bitch” my new favourite CoG quote

  • @krashkoi2381

    @krashkoi2381

    Жыл бұрын

    James Cameron was going through a divorce with a rat during the filming of this movie

  • @adamFIVE88

    @adamFIVE88

    Жыл бұрын

    I read this at the start of the video, and I was waiting to see how this would ever be a sentance, I laughed so hard once it was finally said lmao

  • @Mister_Clean

    @Mister_Clean

    Жыл бұрын

    BREATHE THE OXYGENATED FLUOROCARBON, RAT BOY

  • @electrodeboy

    @electrodeboy

    Ай бұрын

    Larfed hared !

  • @Apollomasque
    @Apollomasque Жыл бұрын

    My favourite bit of trivia in this film is that after shooting wrapped, James Cameron spent months and months editing and re-editing everything into something that matched his vision, to the point that a producer tracked him down, kicked in his door and told him that he could either release a finished cut in two weeks, or drive around to every theatre in America, stand on stage and explain the plot to the audience.

  • @Viper-dz2kw

    @Viper-dz2kw

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s amazing

  • @mrcritical6751

    @mrcritical6751

    Жыл бұрын

    I want to live in the universe where the latter happened and Cameron ended up having to do Q&A’s for every screening

  • @TheSchaef47

    @TheSchaef47

    Жыл бұрын

    They should have given him another two months. The theatrical release of this film is a pale shadow of the director's cut. It's weird how a few extra minutes of footage can give so much context.

  • @jonasquinn7977

    @jonasquinn7977

    Жыл бұрын

    I was convinced that this was going to be a Blue Harvest joke

  • @Chris-lk9cv

    @Chris-lk9cv

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jonasquinn7977 This just speaks to how much James has ruined his own audiences perceptions of things with this running gag because I immediately thought the same thing after just seeing “my favorite trivia is..”

  • @wahbegan
    @wahbegan Жыл бұрын

    The fact that James and Mason both forgot the name of Underwater while describing it as "That movie with Kristen Stewart and it was underwater"

  • @TheSchaef47

    @TheSchaef47

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it was called The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down

  • @Jllyrol311

    @Jllyrol311

    Жыл бұрын

    You give your movie a generic, forgettable name, and the future writes itself.

  • @shanehudson3995

    @shanehudson3995

    11 ай бұрын

    It was rather forgettable.

  • @tonyanthony5105

    @tonyanthony5105

    10 ай бұрын

    I’ve never even heard of it and I think I’ve watched this episode before

  • @joshuapatrick682

    @joshuapatrick682

    9 ай бұрын

    That’s the joke….or is something that is not subtle at all just “too subtle” for you?

  • @heelmoxley365
    @heelmoxley365 Жыл бұрын

    I love how you can hear the excitement in James’s voice when he’s doing Blue Harvest trivia 😂😂

  • @immaleaf4964

    @immaleaf4964

    Жыл бұрын

    It is Green Trivia

  • @jonbaxter2254

    @jonbaxter2254

    Жыл бұрын

    @@immaleaf4964 RoDnEy!!!

  • @EasyCure0

    @EasyCure0

    Жыл бұрын

    Can't wait for a Blue Harvest supercut on the best of 2022

  • @heelmoxley365

    @heelmoxley365

    Жыл бұрын

    @@immaleaf4964 ….

  • @immaleaf4964

    @immaleaf4964

    Жыл бұрын

    @@heelmoxley365 don't ellipsis me

  • @kapten-awesome
    @kapten-awesome Жыл бұрын

    It's a freaking miracle that no one drowned while making this movie. Alot of brused faces though.

  • @mrcritical6751

    @mrcritical6751

    Жыл бұрын

    The fact that this didn’t end up as a Twilight Zone helicopter situation is shocking

  • @domhuckle

    @domhuckle

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you think there were 2 bingo cards with all the actors and crew on set - one called "punched" and the other "threw a punch"?

  • @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep
    @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Жыл бұрын

    You can't trick me anymore, James. I knew from the moment you started talking about Ed Harris considering hair transplants exactly where it was going.

  • @xboywizardx
    @xboywizardx Жыл бұрын

    The Rodney Supercut has become my most anticipated weekly occurrence in my life. I’m always surprised at how hard it makes me laugh.

  • @TheTeleporter101

    @TheTeleporter101

    Жыл бұрын

    Same 😂

  • @Bentelligent

    @Bentelligent

    Жыл бұрын

    this, and the blue harvest running joke is what we all look forward to

  • @adamcraig9059

    @adamcraig9059

    Жыл бұрын

    I was really sad that it wasn't in the extended cut. So yes I had to watch the regular cut later... Rodney!

  • @OfAngelsAndAnarchist

    @OfAngelsAndAnarchist

    Жыл бұрын

    Ive seen it four or so times and I’m way over it 😂

  • @thebatman6201

    @thebatman6201

    Жыл бұрын

    @@OfAngelsAndAnarchist Ronney?!

  • @jonahwardell1060
    @jonahwardell1060 Жыл бұрын

    James, I’m proud of you for evolving your content. I may have been drawn in back in the day with your list/Easter egg content, but I’ve stayed for the humor and amazing charisma of the Planet Broadcasting crew

  • @redbarrage

    @redbarrage

    Жыл бұрын

    Plus we're all a cult and can never leave, right m8?

  • @Mungo.Kidogo

    @Mungo.Kidogo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@redbarrage fr

  • @IamBrixTM

    @IamBrixTM

    Жыл бұрын

    @@redbarragecult gang. I miss my family fr 😎👌

  • @coolshirtkid

    @coolshirtkid

    Жыл бұрын

    same

  • @CrowTRobot

    @CrowTRobot

    Жыл бұрын

    MAD GHOST!!

  • @CrowTRobot
    @CrowTRobot Жыл бұрын

    The tsunami scene blew my mind when I was a tiny child, seeing it during an HBO trial. I was very confused when I rented it to show my friends and the scene was completely absent.

  • @star88wars

    @star88wars

    Жыл бұрын

    Everybody called you a liar then.

  • @TheSchaef47

    @TheSchaef47

    Жыл бұрын

    This happened to me. I rented the movie to show my wife, and was boggled when the last fifteen minutes of the movie just didn't exist. He met the aliens, they like him for no reason, and then the spaceship rises, movie over. It's do dumb.

  • @Room-xi6nb

    @Room-xi6nb

    2 ай бұрын

    I liked the theatrical version better. The tidal wave and all that seemed unnecessary and cheesy. I enjoy a movie more when it's more vague and the audience doesn't get more info spoon fed to it. But that's just my opinion. 😊

  • @trenchardjj
    @trenchardjj Жыл бұрын

    I am not ashamed to admit I cheered when James's Blue Harvest bit came together.

  • @rossbarr-scragg4076

    @rossbarr-scragg4076

    Жыл бұрын

    Same!

  • @tskmaster3837
    @tskmaster3837 Жыл бұрын

    The Abyss is a movie about communication and I freaking love it. "Why don't you talk to me? I feel like I'm drowning. Why won't you talk to me? No, I'm REALLY drowning over here." "It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is keep swimming. Just keep swimming..."

  • @mss11235

    @mss11235

    Жыл бұрын

    Is this a half-assed Pink Floyd reference? If so... Well done!

  • @MrJerks93

    @MrJerks93

    Жыл бұрын

    I love this movie. My favorite of his work. Not sure why, but it really stuck with me.

  • @stabbo173
    @stabbo173 Жыл бұрын

    I love how these videos and the podcast have just grown into an endlessly growing collection of "bits" and in-jokes that make it completely incomprehensible for new listeners

  • @DoremiFasolatido1979

    @DoremiFasolatido1979

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah. I'm pretty lost on the whole Caravan of Garbage, thing. Was the movie "garbage" and it's getting roasted? Because that seems stupid with some of their choices. Is it all the "garbage" they prattle on about through the video? I assumed by all the thumbnails and some of the selections that it was implying a given movie just sucks and they're going to make fun of it. There's no consistency to any of it. It's like a hideously out-of-control mutation of the stupidity that is, "everything is subjective".

  • @hdw20

    @hdw20

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DoremiFasolatido1979 you must be fun at parties. They've said so many times that they started out playing bad video games and watching bad movies, but then decided to evolve the series and just didn't change the name, because they preferred it over the working title Blue Harvest (which was also the working title of the original Star Wars from 1977.)

  • @antsmcvey1
    @antsmcvey1 Жыл бұрын

    The use of the Mario 64 jolly Rodger bay music had me in stitches man, especially as the rat was nearly dying during it and casually floating past in a plastic bag. Absolute genius 😭

  • @Avocado11
    @Avocado11 Жыл бұрын

    My dad built movie sets in LA for around 30 years, never worked on a James Cameron movie since all his friends who did would tell him how miserable it was, "He treats everyone on set like a pick of equipment" was the main line that has always stuck with me.

  • @Fluoride_Jones

    @Fluoride_Jones

    Жыл бұрын

    +Avocado11 Is your father familiar with the Skotak brothers, who worked on this film, along with a few other Cameron films? They also helped build minautures with James Cameron for John Carpenter's, "Escape from New York."

  • @Mewchu14
    @Mewchu14 Жыл бұрын

    I really enjoy that you retired the blue harvest bit for like one episode and then clearly enjoyed it enough to bring it back almost immediately.

  • @M4caronii_1
    @M4caronii_1 Жыл бұрын

    Long time fan of you guys, probably one of my first times commenting. I was actually in a movie with Ed Harris right after I graduated High school, and while everyone else was telling him how badass The Rock, the movie was, I told him how much I always liked The Abyss. His face kind of told me the story that you guys just told, but I never knew most of it until now. Keep it up fellas!

  • @JustWandering

    @JustWandering

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s so cool!

  • @Fluoride_Jones

    @Fluoride_Jones

    Жыл бұрын

    +Jess Bowers jUsT tElL uS wHaT tHe DaMn MoViE wAs!! 😁

  • @epicbruhmoment6985
    @epicbruhmoment6985 Жыл бұрын

    I'd never heard of this movie and the more I learn about James Cameron the more I'm starting to think he has a belief deep in his soul either that there ARE underwater blue people that he can find or that there should be underwater blue people that he must create. Either way I'm a little concerned and I'd love to know what he thought of Black Panther 2.

  • @mrcritical6751

    @mrcritical6751

    Жыл бұрын

    I am scared that one day it’s gonna be revealed he’s got a secret lab in his basement where he’s been making real life Na’vi, although what’s more terrifying is Disney would likely seize them and put them in Animal Kingdom

  • @SamiiYou

    @SamiiYou

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm personally convinced that he really wants to bang a giant smurf.

  • @TheJaker5
    @TheJaker5 Жыл бұрын

    This was one of those movies that had a profound impact on me as a kid. The scene where Harris resuscitates his wife was just WOW to me. It’s a scene where acting becomes lost in the moment and I felt like I was watching something real. It put Ed Harris on the map of actors in my childhood mind.

  • @supersayin11178

    @supersayin11178

    Жыл бұрын

    And it was a GREAT movie!

  • @davidkymdell452

    @davidkymdell452

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah me too

  • @Deep_Armageddon

    @Deep_Armageddon

    Жыл бұрын

    Same with me man.

  • @robinnouara3681
    @robinnouara3681 Жыл бұрын

    The sequence of Ed Harris descending into the abyss was for me the by far most harrowing part of the movie, really hard to keep my eyes on lol

  • @artness
    @artness Жыл бұрын

    Great job, editor(s) for finding those two vintage commercials promoting Cameron movies on cable. Also the rest of the video too but mostly those two moments

  • @BlueLiminality

    @BlueLiminality

    Жыл бұрын

    Seriously, how did they get such obscure footage? Commercials from a local Australian TV channel for a 1989's movie? How do you go about even looking for that?

  • @347Jimmy

    @347Jimmy

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@BlueLiminality many people back then were recording films and shows to VHS, if you didn't go to the effort of removing the ads you would end up with a collection of such promos I still have a bunch of VHS tapes of movies from the 80s/90s, with all the whacky commercials included

  • @seth8877
    @seth8877 Жыл бұрын

    The condition Michael Beans character suffers from is actually the wet willies, the deep down crazies, the screaming moist.

  • @seth8877

    @seth8877

    Жыл бұрын

    AKA Ocean Madness, folks!

  • @johnlee7164

    @johnlee7164

    Жыл бұрын

    Space Madness but in the Water!

  • @arashimiyazawa8165

    @arashimiyazawa8165

    Жыл бұрын

    Ocean madness is no excuse for ocean rudeness!

  • @DJDOLO76

    @DJDOLO76

    Жыл бұрын

    Coral Reefer Madness

  • @seth8877

    @seth8877

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DJDOLO76 hahahaha coral reefer

  • @JM-qm7ju
    @JM-qm7ju Жыл бұрын

    I work for a portapotty company, so I can tell you from experience, that the blue tablets we put in the tanks that make the water blue, stains like nothing else. You can wash your hands 50 times and still be blue. There’s been a few shifts where I’ve run out of gloves and even just grabbing the clean tablets from the bag can stain your hands but obviously sticking the whole hand in the toilet itself will do the same thing

  • @manicpixiefangirl4189
    @manicpixiefangirl4189 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve grown to like Ed Harris more and more over the years. Now knowing he punched James Cameron in the face is just another plus.

  • @rutwickgangurde3247
    @rutwickgangurde3247 Жыл бұрын

    I'm afraid of being under water, it scares me. The lack of breath and vision, the vaccum around your ears, everything about it. This movie made me claustrophobic more than once. Most importantly when Ed is drowning slowly, I almost threw up. But this movie is phenomenal. One of the best I have ever seen.

  • @RaoulDuke77
    @RaoulDuke77 Жыл бұрын

    The random clip of "So I Married an Axe Murderer" made me laugh very, very hard, literally made my night, thank you guys 😅

  • @JoeyPeligro69
    @JoeyPeligro697 ай бұрын

    Ok I just wanna say that this video has been in my “watch later” playlist for an entire year because I wanted to hear you guys talk about it but I’d never seen the thing and, like you mentioned, could not find it anywhere. Now, I’ve just finished the 4K remaster in theaters and, at long last, I could watch this video. And boy was I not disappointed! I can’t believe how quickly I’d forgotten about caravan of garbage staples like “guy who screams rodney” and “James puts blue harvest into every episode”. I love you guys.

  • @drew6524
    @drew65249 ай бұрын

    The Abyss holds a huge spot in my child cinematic universe. I love it I think I’ll watch it now.

  • @Hyraethian
    @Hyraethian Жыл бұрын

    12:16 that was the most primal sort of brutality. The water didn't just cause his death, it erased him.

  • @OfficialAndies
    @OfficialAndies Жыл бұрын

    The Abyss really borrowed a lot from Peter Hyams' 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the exact same Cold War tension while isolated characters are having an alien encounter

  • @princessozmaofoz5242

    @princessozmaofoz5242

    Жыл бұрын

    Sheesh it's nice to see someone that remembers 2010. I love this movie!

  • @adventuresinportland3032
    @adventuresinportland3032 Жыл бұрын

    Abyss is one of my favorite movies. Saw it in the theater as a 6 year old. Oddly enough one of my first memories is seeing Aliens in the theater as a 3 year old.

  • @ayrtonbraam916

    @ayrtonbraam916

    Жыл бұрын

    How?

  • @TechnologicallyTechnical

    @TechnologicallyTechnical

    Жыл бұрын

    Who the hell let a three year old into the theater to see Aliens?

  • @Flint-Dibble-the-Don

    @Flint-Dibble-the-Don

    Жыл бұрын

    I saw an alien movie at the Theater when I was 3 as well. E.T. ever heard of it? Way more traumatic IMO

  • @adventuresinportland3032

    @adventuresinportland3032

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Flint-Dibble-the-Don Yeah. As a kid ET running through the fields and shrieking near the beginning of the film terrified me.

  • @adventuresinportland3032

    @adventuresinportland3032

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TechnologicallyTechnical My parents. I ended up loving it though. Yet anytime there was ever a nipple on screen or a sex scene in any movie had to "cover my eyes." Pretty odd in hindsight.

  • @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep
    @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Жыл бұрын

    The sub implosion....... whew.

  • @michaelantonyaustin
    @michaelantonyaustin Жыл бұрын

    I love all JC’s movies but this is my constant ‘go to’ every year. The extended cut is great but either version works. The ‘resuscitation’ scene between Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is insanely tense and some of the best acting ever! And yes it’s 100% the most JC movie.

  • @POKExxxSMOT
    @POKExxxSMOT Жыл бұрын

    love how Mr. Plinkett's house set is the example shown as flammable

  • @beqi4254

    @beqi4254

    Жыл бұрын

    I had to rewind just to see it for myself and I'm CRYING! 🤣☠️ Thanks for pointing that out. Even Jay and Mike building it! LOL!!

  • @Peeps7468

    @Peeps7468

    2 ай бұрын

    I’m embarrassed to admit that I never really thought that Mr. Plinkett’s house would have been a real set. I just figured it was a ramshackle broken down house. The magic is kind of gone now. 😂

  • @chikenbagdotcom9305
    @chikenbagdotcom9305 Жыл бұрын

    You know, this may have been the greatest trivia segment yet.

  • @TheSchaef47

    @TheSchaef47

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, The Abyss had no shortage of stories you won't hear from any other movie set. There's a reason the cast and crew began referring to it as The Abuse.

  • @CD-hy6fg
    @CD-hy6fg Жыл бұрын

    James and Maso absolutely dialed in on this one. Had me bursting out laughing, great stuff!

  • @baxtersonline
    @baxtersonline Жыл бұрын

    My biggest excitement from this video is right at the top realising Maso is finally gonna watch Titanic (and probably hate it)

  • @BK_gamez
    @BK_gamez Жыл бұрын

    I love James’s summary of the ending to Mission to Mars: “where the aliens are like ‘hello’”

  • @unretrofied619
    @unretrofied619 Жыл бұрын

    LMAO at Maso not understanding The AABYSS.. the name of the movie they’ve been discussing! 23:00

  • @irlikingpie
    @irlikingpie Жыл бұрын

    The Abyss is unironically my favorite movie of all time. Seriously.

  • @grennbalze

    @grennbalze

    Жыл бұрын

    not my favorite, but i do love it. the most important thing to any story are the characters, and James Cameron is so good at that

  • @manydirt2600

    @manydirt2600

    Жыл бұрын

    I was shocked that they didn't love it, great movie.

  • @grennbalze

    @grennbalze

    Жыл бұрын

    @@manydirt2600 right!?!

  • @luckyspurs
    @luckyspurs Жыл бұрын

    When you know the Ed Harris' blue hand references are going to be used for the Blue Harvest joke.

  • @BR-jw7pm
    @BR-jw7pm Жыл бұрын

    My recommendation for Caravan of Garbage is Kangaroo Jack (2003)! It’s in Australia, you two are Australian, it just makes sense

  • @MattMcIrvin

    @MattMcIrvin

    Жыл бұрын

    That's unnecessary cruelty.

  • @BR-jw7pm

    @BR-jw7pm

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MattMcIrvin they’ve reviewed all the Transformers and Twilight films… Forgot where I was going but it’s fun to see then suffer (joke)

  • @YesterdaysMoose
    @YesterdaysMoose Жыл бұрын

    The fact that The Abyss is still not available on Blu-Ray or 4K is a crime! I've been eagerly waiting for its release. Just do it, James Cameron!

  • @mapesdhs597

    @mapesdhs597

    Жыл бұрын

    Still looks good on special edition VHS and laserdisc. :D

  • @YesterdaysMoose

    @YesterdaysMoose

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mapesdhs597 I have the special edition with the theatrical and extended cut on DVD. It's pretty good, but I'd prefer Blu-Ray.

  • @mapesdhs597

    @mapesdhs597

    Жыл бұрын

    @@YesterdaysMoose Cool! I got lucky, a long time ago (I'm an old git) I found a rental place selling never-used VHS rental masters (which would originally have been very expensive), they had the extended special edition widescreen for just 6 UKP. Pounced instantly. :D Still remember walking back home quite mindblown. I have numerous movies on bluray of course, but a high quality VHS looks remarkably good all things considered (helps to have a decent player, which I do; modern VCRs are junk). FYI my laserdisc special edition box set lists the run time as 171 mins. Amusingly, one of the little screenshot pics on the back is specifically of the giant wave. :D Hmm, I wonder if Cameron is less keen on doing a revamp 4K or whatever because the sales might not justify the expense? Who knows. It's certainly not as well know in his repetoire as Avatar or Titanic. I'm sure the actors involved wouldn't be too keen on a 4K release, bring back bad memories (by which I mean, for example, something like 4K anniversary edition would be great if it had fresh commentaries, etc., but I doubt they'd want to be involved). I read MEM still refuses to discuss the shoot to this day. Pity as it's a great movie. And given what these people earn, I'm not so bothered that they sometimes suffer for their art. :D

  • @dominantprime

    @dominantprime

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mapesdhs597Abyss has been available in HD on streaming in the past, but got yanked at some point. We also know a 4K version already exists, but Cameron says he hasn't had time to go and do the color correction for each scene. Both Abyss and True Lies are waiting on Cameron approval for blu-ray release. True Lies recently returned to Hulu who have the HD version. Maybe Abyss will surface somewhere as well, meanwhile there are copies of the previous online releases out there.

  • @mapesdhs597

    @mapesdhs597

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dominantprime All of which just makes me glad I have the above versions on physical media which streaming services can't mess with. :D Lost count of how many times something I've added to my Amazon watch list has been removed from Prime later. It's available in the UK on various DVD releases, all of which are described as the special extended edition, but their 164min run times are not as long as the 171min laserdisc. Hmm, I'm sure the film did used to be on Prime, but it's not available atm where I am.

  • @chrissullivan6572
    @chrissullivan6572 Жыл бұрын

    I've never seen this movie but yes, it seems like the most James Cameron movie ever. I think Bad Boys 2 is the most Michael Bay mover ever. That would be a great video or podcast if you haven't. Director's most quintessential/style defining movie(s)

  • @LauraSusanJohnson
    @LauraSusanJohnson Жыл бұрын

    The condition Lt. Coffey (Biehn) was suffering from is real. High Pressure Nervous Syndrome. My understanding of this illness is limited, but from what I've read, it manifests as soon as a susceptible person is submerged at extreme water depth, and begins to wreak havok on the central nervous system, causing nausea, vomiting, severe headache, the shaking/tremors, behavioral issues such as agitation, anxiety, and even paranoia. I was amazed at how Biehn portrayed this. Even though he was already a prick for real, I also felt that the illness wasn't understood by the audience because a lot of people don't know about it. He was cutting himself because his brain was literally being crushed by high water pressure and the physical pain coupled with the stress that the "Russians might have a secret installation at the bottom of the Cayman Trench" (when you're already afflicted with HPNS, and you've been ordered by a superior to retrieve a warhead from the sub because the world thinks WWIII is imminent, it's like pouring gas on to a burning outback). Coffee and Lindsay were at each other's throats because she, as much as she claimed to know about HPNS, epic failed to recognise those signs and symptoms. Coffey's own team didn't grab him and say, "You've got the shakes, yo! Lay down and we'll call Topside to get you out of here." I also realise Coffee was doing his best to hide what was happening to him, perhaps as not to disappoint his superior, the real villain IMHO, safe up on the Benthic. He was ordered to retrieve the nuke, and soldiers obey. Coffee's brain was being crushed long before that last sad glimpse of him being destroyed. TCFox asked the Academy here in the States to nominate Biehn for an Oscar, but they didn't. It's alright though. It's still definitely a hell of an acting example.

  • @Acpes452
    @Acpes452 Жыл бұрын

    Ben, Laurence..As always, fantastic editing. You guys really make these episode's amazing.

  • @senselessbabble1996
    @senselessbabble1996 Жыл бұрын

    I worked as a projectionist in a small theater when I was a teen. I saw the beginning and the ending of this movie dozens of times. #GoodTimes

  • @whoisspencer
    @whoisspencer Жыл бұрын

    Someone made an amazing fan edit using the open matte for The Abyss, it's called "The Special Hybrid Edition." It's in really high quality and is like 30GB.

  • @SkellingtonGirl98
    @SkellingtonGirl98 Жыл бұрын

    I've gotta be honest, the thing I look forward to the most in every new caravan of carbage is how james is gonna make the blue harvest joke

  • @seanledden4397
    @seanledden4397 Жыл бұрын

    I saw the Abyss on it's release - having recently returned from living in Japan for 2 years. I had heard nothing about the movie, so the "water face" scene really, really blew me away. I was able to experience genuine wonder, and I'm glad I saw the movie cold.

  • @saintniccage2818
    @saintniccage2818 Жыл бұрын

    I feel like James Cameron just makes movies to fund his hobbies. 4:15 is outstandingly funny

  • @VariablePenguin
    @VariablePenguin Жыл бұрын

    There was this period of time in the summer of 1996 where my family was moving houses and my brother and I would watch movies late at night while packing up the house. We for some reason watched The Abyss and Iron Eagle something like 4 times each.

  • @STRANGEANATOMYBAND
    @STRANGEANATOMYBAND Жыл бұрын

    Maybe it was growing up watching it again and again, but for me The Abyss is easily Cameron’s best movie. Truly underrated. You guys might want to give it another watch. Or five.

  • @rob9943
    @rob994310 ай бұрын

    Had an honest-to-god spittake when James Cameron called a drowning rat a "rat-bitch"

  • @chrisdemetriou8593
    @chrisdemetriou8593 Жыл бұрын

    If James is Mr Sunday Movies does that mean that Claire is Mrs Unday Movies

  • @rdptll
    @rdptll10 ай бұрын

    Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Ed Harris are both really great in this. Their acting and presence onscreen make the movie work. Plus, it's an underwater alien movie.

  • @davezombie9056
    @davezombie9056 Жыл бұрын

    I can somehow believe James Cameron yelling direction at a rat

  • @cheapshotninja
    @cheapshotninja Жыл бұрын

    Holy crap. I forgot about that water face thing. I have a vague memory of being upset by that thing and trying to hide in a kitchen corner. I also have a strong fear of the open ocean. Not even drowning but simply being surrounded by that much empty water is unsettling. I think I'll rewatch this one.

  • @Yoshimitsu4prez
    @Yoshimitsu4prez Жыл бұрын

    Aliens imo also slots into the James Cameron water canon. Everything in that movie, especially the xenomorphs, is SHOCKINGLY wet. Those things are drenched in liquid, dripping everywhere at all times

  • @jeffkadlec8264
    @jeffkadlec82648 ай бұрын

    I find it so interesting that the working title of every movie ever made was "Blie Harvest"

  • @TheSchaef47
    @TheSchaef47 Жыл бұрын

    "Visual effects" /cut to clips from Captain Alex I am loving that

  • @W411Y93
    @W411Y93 Жыл бұрын

    That blue toilet water or blue juice as it’s called in my job, is unbelievably difficult to remove. Ed Harris having to wear it the rest of the movie is hilarious because I still have a blue juice stain from 2 years ago on one of my shirts

  • @McDonald_Mando
    @McDonald_Mando Жыл бұрын

    This sounds like 2 separate movies, like the tense underwater insane man thing. And then aliens

  • @MattMcIrvin

    @MattMcIrvin

    Жыл бұрын

    The plot threads didn't really fit together, and that was part of what made it seem kind of disjointed and exhausting. The water tentacle was the big showstopper effect of the movie, but it came from the aliens plot that really didn't seem to mesh well with the rest of it.

  • @tanner4280
    @tanner4280 Жыл бұрын

    No better way to prepare for Avatar 2: Wet Avatar, than a wetapalooza

  • @adventuresinportland3032
    @adventuresinportland3032 Жыл бұрын

    Oh man. I love all the exterior shots in this. Sets the mood.

  • @cugoman
    @cugoman5 ай бұрын

    Ed Harris should have won an oscar for his performance in this movie.

  • @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317
    @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317 Жыл бұрын

    ‘They built a big set which could catch fire.’ “I think that’s true of all sets.”

  • @ThePorpoisepower
    @ThePorpoisepower Жыл бұрын

    So glad you have the special edition... the standard cut is missing a ton of super important plot/theme content.

  • @dwerggalago
    @dwerggalago Жыл бұрын

    I unequivocally love this film. Must have been awful to shoot, but when watching this for the first time, you'd never know.

  • @ThumbSipper
    @ThumbSipper Жыл бұрын

    I've just been suggested this video. Say what you will but the KZread algorithm has a dark sense of humour...

  • @godlikemonolith
    @godlikemonolith Жыл бұрын

    I love this film. The original cut. Never seen the extended version. The drowning scene is one of the best scenes in cinema.

  • @bennybbergeron
    @bennybbergeron Жыл бұрын

    I enjoy that James has already forgotten what the name of the swamp creature that killed the guy yelling Rodney is.

  • @Tymbus
    @Tymbus Жыл бұрын

    ABYSSMAL? Once seen NEVER missed again. The Abyss is a good movie with incredibly gripping scenes. One, sees the two leads confined as freezing water pours in. The only way out - one of them has to die. However, the enclosed space and dramatic dialogue must have led to the camera lense steaming up. So the cameraman takes matters into his own hands- literally. Watch the KZread clip titled "The Abyss- Most dramatic scene" and spot the moment about 1.05 (just after Ed Harris says, "put this on") he wipes the camera lense with a cloth! And this was USED but i didn't spot it when I saw the film in the cinema!

  • @NATESOR
    @NATESOR8 ай бұрын

    "Avatar 2: We're in the water, everyone" is such a fucking banger of a title.

  • @PanzerMold
    @PanzerMold Жыл бұрын

    It's crazy that a bomb threat was the least shocking thing that happened during filming.

  • @mb3558

    @mb3558

    10 ай бұрын

    Where at the box office?

  • @PanzerMold

    @PanzerMold

    10 ай бұрын

    @@mb3558 Ha! Good stuff...

  • @goodlucktom
    @goodlucktom Жыл бұрын

    16:29 “Everyone tried to drown him.” 🤣🤣🤣

  • @theonlybilge
    @theonlybilge Жыл бұрын

    I can't believe James Cameron sent SEVERAL species of rat, some endangered or critically endangered, extinct.

  • @joshkaid
    @joshkaid Жыл бұрын

    The trivia segment has become a bizarre beast. The title "Green Trivia", the "Rodney" bit, the "Blue Harvest" joke. It's all nonsense if you haven't watched this before.

  • @memeone3043
    @memeone3043 Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact about oxygenated perfluorocarbon. The drowning sensation doesn't go away after the first breath, you're in a perpetual state of your body convinced that it's drowning with every breath! It's essentially voluntary waterboarding.

  • @lippy22
    @lippy22 Жыл бұрын

    16:20 that cut with both of them in the same shirt hurt my brain.

  • @brandonprice6619
    @brandonprice6619 Жыл бұрын

    I was thinking that the Blue Harvest was just one of the very clever secret hidden running jokes, however the connection this week makes to much sense that now I figure that all the Blue Harvest trivia must be true and I should probably go update a bunch of IMDb trivia sections with this important information.

  • @AndrewNienaber
    @AndrewNienaber Жыл бұрын

    I loved this movie so much when I was in high school that I went to see the director's cut at a special midnight showing. MIDNIGHT. SHOWING.

  • @TheSchaef47
    @TheSchaef47 Жыл бұрын

    The surprising part of filming The Abyss wasn't that there was a bomb threat, it's that there was *only* one bomb threat, amirite?

  • @johnm.withersiv4352
    @johnm.withersiv4352 Жыл бұрын

    I live near Abyss was partially filmed in the remnants of a never completed nuclear reactor that was taken over by a nearby movie studio. Earl Owensby Studio, outside of Shelby, NC, mostly made movies straight to HBO to fill in late night hours. Owensby was also rented out to other movie productions. Parts of the film were shot on location. Other parts were in a giant water tank.

  • @ethanthefrank2973
    @ethanthefrank2973 Жыл бұрын

    Even telegraphed, the Blue Harvest jokes are hilarious

  • @sarahsue123
    @sarahsue123 Жыл бұрын

    The Abyss is one of my favorite scifi films and the best James Cameron I think.

  • @corneliusmaze-eye2459
    @corneliusmaze-eye2459 Жыл бұрын

    Oh man, I envy him. He's never seen Titanic. He's going to friggin love it. Hopefully he gets filled with emotion at the end and cries. It's definitely one of those movies, and of man, the Score!

  • @Markenny2001
    @Markenny2001 Жыл бұрын

    Please never stop doin the Rodney montage. I wake up to that as if it were a blackbird singing in the dead of RODNEY! CHEFS KISS, bravo Roberto! 💪🙏😘✌️🤌

  • @Markenny2001

    @Markenny2001

    Жыл бұрын

    Your editing makes these boys coherent sirs/ladies/thems

  • @strawberrysoup1
    @strawberrysoup1 Жыл бұрын

    Great Video, would've been better if you had covered BMX Bandits (1983) though.

  • @JoshuaSkaar
    @JoshuaSkaar Жыл бұрын

    I’ve been meaning to buy and watch The Abyss for years. I saw it once years ago on TV and I only remember the face-to-face moment with the water and the deep-diving suit and them putting in the contacts.

  • @myballsneedscratchin
    @myballsneedscratchin Жыл бұрын

    I will riot if we ever lose the Rodney and Blue Harvest gag.

  • @BevansDesign
    @BevansDesign Жыл бұрын

    On the topic of "some people are too dumb to realize that this isn't what it's going to look like in the final version", I think you just described my entire career in web design. Frequently the only way to get people to see what you're going for is to actually FINISH it and THEN see how they like it (or more likely, see how they can ruin it). The idea of being able to rely on a "mockup" is a cruel, time-wasting lie.

  • @ShumaniTatankaOwachi
    @ShumaniTatankaOwachi Жыл бұрын

    I've always loved this movie, it's one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time. I've held on to the special edition for over twenty years. You can't find this movie anywhere.

  • @believeinmatter
    @believeinmatter Жыл бұрын

    The water creature freaked me out as a kid, I remember wondering how they made water do that and look like a face lol

  • @HurricaneDDragon
    @HurricaneDDragon Жыл бұрын

    Some of the coolest alien designs. I love the bioluminescence.

  • @domhuckle
    @domhuckle Жыл бұрын

    Punching and Drowning - the working title for this movie

  • @joshoshea3194
    @joshoshea3194 Жыл бұрын

    Growing up in England I never understood why you weren't allowed to see Michaelangelo or Bruce Lee using nunchucks when it was so much easier to get hold of a kitchen knife and pretend you were Raphael. I mean who the hell had nunchucks?

  • @bigkmoviesandgames
    @bigkmoviesandgames Жыл бұрын

    One of the more underrated Cameron films.

  • @bort7147
    @bort7147 Жыл бұрын

    That clip of Ed Harris explaining what violence is on the press tour of A History Of Violence is so weird I wonder what was going on in his head

  • @SWProductions100

    @SWProductions100

    Жыл бұрын

    Doesn't he like get really into character? This is unconfirmed on my part, but I did read that during his time promoting 'The Rock,' he got really intense at an event promoting the movie.

  • @MusizKanuck
    @MusizKanuck Жыл бұрын

    This movie is SO underrated. A shame that it has almost been forgotten. I had a chance to talk to Michael Biehn at a Comicon and he didn’t have too bad of an experience on this movie, but yes, he wasn’t on set as long as the other cast. We both discussed that the movie was a fantastic thriller…until Biehn’s character died. 😆

  • @347Jimmy

    @347Jimmy

    Жыл бұрын

    Considering James Cameron's rep as THE director, it's crazy how much this film gets overlooked

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