Shinokun Horor Movie Quotes I

Shinokun Horor Movie Quotes I

Movie quotes I live my life by: Life moves pretty fast, if you dont stop and look around once in a while - you might miss it.

The film made over 100million on its slim 17million budget, rekindled our collective faith in the human vs.

The Nice Guys was an endearingly over the top buddy cop comedy strengthened by fine performances of a tight script.

Fede Alvarezs Dont Breathe was a masterpiece of bottling tension and giving genre tropes a good kicking (something The Shallows also does very well) these are the film that offered us something different.

In among new versions of Tarzan, The BFG, Independence Day, the latest issues of the comic-books properties Jaume Collet-Serras lithe, direct film made us afraid to go back into the ocean, but made it feel safer to step into uncharted cinematic waters.

Sharknado, Two-Headed Shark Attack, a Jurassic shark, a ghost shark, sand and snow sharks its fair to say that were way past the moment where the genre jumped the.well, you get the idea.

The social media reach of its star, combined with some canny media partnering (such as the link with Discovery Channels Shark Week), certainly helped the film overcome that all-important financial hurdle so early on.

But the word of mouth that it was a solid film, one which refused to strap on the facetious trappings of the zeitgeist is what carried this one into more comfortable financial waters.

The role necessitates a brute physicality which not only increases our attachment to the character of Nancy, it provides an important undercurrent of vulnerability related to her situation, rather than her gender.

Its a simple directorial decision: if all you want to do is look at an actress in a swimsuit were going to give you an image youre not used to seeing.

It reinforces to us that it is a person up on screen, torn flesh and leaking blood.

It works perfectly with the story and something that we should see more often.

Nancy needs no-one but herself; she is not looking for a saviour nor does the initial conversation with the two male surfers teeter over into lasciviousness.

It is a crucial element of the film that makes us want her to succeed.

Much like Joss Whedons premise for Buffy, the blonde swimmer who ventures too far out (on her own importantly) is usually nothing more than fish food.

The barely-concealed sexist reaction to the all-female Ghostbusters team this summer is testament to that.

While director Paul Feig and the stars of that film had to address the backlash directly, The Shallows doesnt care for your prejudices, it is what it is and we need more of this in the big summer films.

Key to the films effective nature is the total isolation of Nancy and through a neat use of the projection of video-calling her world is expanding through her calls to her family yet we never leave the beach, nor the sea once were in deep water.

We had our bite of family backstory, but the film would have worked perfectly without it.

Its all about her.

We dont need a dozen hapless teens to be slaughtered in darkened school corridors to feel afraid for the remaining victims, Collet-Serra understands that the fear is of an irrational being, Terminator-like it is inability to be reasoned with.

Theres no wasted time on backstory (the shark didnt need to be abandoned by its father, or humiliated at the school prom), nor is there much in the way of MacGuyer-esque plans to survive.

The spiraling characters arcs of this years Marvel and DC blockbusters were of huge detriment to the films themselves.

Shark: Shallows 2 any time soon, but as long as we see more unashamed genre films determined not to bow to commercial pressure The Shallows will have done its work.