They don't make 3hour submarine dramas like they used too... Could spend any autumn afternoon watching u-boats. The Abyss is a serious guilty pleasure. Ed The Head in hero mode and i'll admit i get a little weepy for husband/wife teams at the end. Sidenote; a commercial diver acquaintance says they sometimes takes naps in the mud when working underwater to ride out hangovers, cant even fathom it. [ouch -ed.] Anyhow, love the wedding band in the door scene. You know the one; where Bud gets pissed at Lindsey and throws his ring into the oil-rig chemical toilet (Seiko 6309-7049, talking to you Nick...) then has to dig it out...
...then 2 minutes later his wedding band stops the hydrolic door from closing and trapping him in the backfilling sub... that part. Claustrophobics need not apply.
As well as featuring Reese (Michael Biehn, from Cameron's previous Terminator) going off as a scenery-chewing bugged-out Marine, The Abyss has my favourite movie punch of all time. RopesOfSilocon did a bit on greatest movie punches a year or so ago and the below is the first thing I thought of -WHAM!.
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The scene where he's doing CPR and slapping her yelling "Wake up bitch!" is hands down one of the most dramatic film scenes ever in my opinion. Classic. Great post.
I always wanted a Yankees cap like the one Ed Harris rocks. Never been quite able to get it right though.
An aside, recently I had taken to calling my basement cubby of an office "das boot" and everyone looked at me like I had two heads.
i have about 5 michaels commenting on 10e... but i know this isnt MV... dasboot is there w/ star wars/pulp fiction separating those who have/haven't seen. can promise this will be the last time you see a NYY cap on 10e though.
I guess it is time to differentiate myself then...would hate for someone else to take the blame for some lame comment of mine. Being a Yankee fan in Boston certainly makes for some interesting situations...
More great yankee caps on film...
Short Round - Indy and the Temple of Doom
and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think at some point Basie (malkevitch) in Empire of the Sun is seen wearing one too. Perhaps my imagination, or what I would have done if I were directing that movie.
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