Saturday, January 18, 2020

Underwater: Glug. Glug. Glug.

The Movie Slut was desperate. It was the third week in January and she'd only seen three movies on the big screen. Withdrawal symptoms were setting in. She hunted through the listings for local theaters. She'd seen all the good ones. That left...

Underwater was the best of the worst and had two attractions. The first was Kristin Stewart. The MS has been a fan since 2010 when she starred as rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways. The second was an absurdly, creepy, slimy, reptilian monster that erupts with clicking sounds a la Alien.

The plot of Underwater is basically 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, circa 2020. Jules Verne's 1870 novel is slightly updated with humans working on drills six plus miles underwater. We never know what they were doing there exactly. And perhaps Kristen doesn't either, because she wonders philosofically if she and the crew were trespassers in a place where they had no right to be. 

Deep!

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