I saw THE ABYSS when it opened. I saw it again and again. I bought the big fancy super-expensive laserdisc Special Edition when it came out. I try to watch it whenever it screens. So now that it’s out on 4K, finally, I had to write about it: vulture.com/article/why-wa…
@BilgeEbiri (By the way, big fan of the LaserDisc documentary, which begins with Cameron stating: 'Welcome to a place of cold, deep, unrelenting pressure (pause) the movie business!')
@BilgeEbiri Tremendous piece; many great insights, and beautifully expressed.
@BilgeEbiri Family friend was an assistant editor on this. I was 10 and got to visit the editing room on the Fox lot. He gave me a strip of film from one of the bins as a souvenir. Wish I still had it.
@BilgeEbiri I LOVE this movie. I love Ed and Mary together. Their two big scenes make me cry every time. In the middle and end of a big ol' action movie. It's aweome.
@BilgeEbiri Cameron directed 9 feature movies and 3 of them take place on/under water. This excludes the bridge scene in True Lies. Man just loves shooting around water.
@BilgeEbiri @IFOS9000 I watched it this week for the first time since the early 90s and it’s not that good - I used to think highly of it. It’s not held up.
@BilgeEbiri I didn't watch it in the theaters, watched in VCR and loved it. its kinda Avatar before Avatar.
@BilgeEbiri Same here, always loved it, and was really glad he got the chance to go back and complete the tsunami scene. It might not be perfect but it made for a much better ending. Just rewatched it last week. Outstanding. Truly epic. Biehn’s slow burn unravel is one of my fave perfs.
@BilgeEbiri I got to see this in theaters at a 24 hr. sci-fi movie marathon in the early 90’s and WOW is the director’s cut version GORGEOUS