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The Abyss 1989

★★½ Watched by Smidvin 18 Mar 2021 9

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

1. Obviously I want to star in every film I watch. This one made me go No - not worth it for a semi-dumb action movie. The disaster scenes, e.g. when the hurricane hits and their compartments flood, must have been terrifying to shoot.
Then again, for a few million dollars...
2. Whereas diegetically speaking, "three times normal dive pay" does not sound nearly enough. Kinda classist to assume, dumb worker crew is unanimously up for it??
3. Me: Oh…
Alien Resurrection 1997

★ Watched by Smidvin 16 Mar 2021 9

My God, this movie is actively stupid. I don't normally say this but I could feel entire sections of my brain go dark while watching, and believe me, that is a cause for alarm because I have no grey matter left to spare. Joss Whedon is such a fucking hack. When I checked how much runtime was left and saw I'd only made it HALFWAY through, I was ready for Ripley to point her gun at me and blow my…