Dodge_Sniper
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Kick-ass movie. Love it. But there's a lot of plot holes and mistakes that kind of take away from the movie. For one, when Carter asks Scoggins about the fences, he says the bottom is just plain steel, but the tops of the fences above the water are titanium, but they give, so it's just like a net. But what good would that do? Sharks can't jump out of the water and attack the top of the fence.
Also, there's a few other things wrong.
When Scoggins is thrown into the generator by the shark, electricity arcs through the water, but Carter and the shark itself are unaffected by this. I find that slightly odd.
After Preacher is caught by the shark, he uses his cross to poke the eye of the shark; in later scenes, the shark's eye is fine.
Many times we are shown people able to close doors even though copious amounts of water and air are rushing though them. This is clearly beyond the ability of humans. Their ability to do so cannot be explained by other devices attached to the door because those devices would have prevented them from opening the door in the first place.
When Jim's stretcher is thrown at the window, due to drag it should have stopped almost immediately. Also, the motion by the shark when throwing the stretcher is not sufficient to create the sudden acceleration away from the shark.
When they are extracting the protein from the shark, the monitor displays real-time MRI imaging showing the insertion of the probe into the shark's brain. This is impossible, since they removed the imaging device before placing the probe jig.
It is explained that the sharks are smarter and can now swim backwards. However, sharks are not "too dumb" to swim backwards, they are biologically incapable of doing so.
The "tiger shark" near the beginning of the movie is not shaped like a real tiger shark even though the movie shark has similar markings on it's back. A real Tiger shark has a blunt rounded nose, and jagged odd shaped teeth. The Tiger sharks in the movie are re-dressed Mako sharks.
When the door from the sub pen into the elevator shaft is opened, there is a gust of wind into the actors' faces from the shaft into the room. If the sub pen were actually pressurized, the wind would have come from behind the actors and blown into the shaft, as the air pressure in the shaft would have been lower.
After Susan electrocutes the shark while in her underwear, she looks at the research data that has been destroyed by the electricity. It has been burned and shows carbon stains as if it had been in a fire. This could not have happened while in water and the data probably would not have been damaged at all from an electric charge in the water.
When the researchers are extracting the protein from the shark, the shark's ECG (electrocardiogram) tracing is shown on a vital signs monitor. Not only is the tracing being refreshed right to left, i.e. backwards (which is never done on a real monitor), but the ECG pattern itself is not that of a shark.
Shark's intelligence is being enhanced genetically in this movie, so let's assume it is possible, because that is the whole point of the plot. In the end, we learn that the sharks' plan is to flood the facility in order to make an escape, because above water the fences of the facility are "just plain steel", and not titanium. So they flood the whole facility in order to make it easier to make a hole through the fence. OK. But in order to plan that, it wouldn't be enough to be more intelligent than other sharks (like these sharks are), it would be necessary to actually know the difference between titanium and plain steel, and more important, to know that the part of the fence above water is easier to go through. These are facts that this film's sharks couldn't know, no matter how intelligent they are.
And earlier in the movie, it's said that the fencing above the water was titanium, yet at the end, it's said that it's steel. And again, sharks can't jump out of the water and attack the fence, so how can the escape through the fencing above the water?
But here's the biggest thing.
Throughout the entire movie, the sharks are busting through these enormous steel doors. Yet at the end, they have trouble busting through a fence. Isn't that sort of odd?
But enough thinking, all in all, Deep Blue See is a fucking awesome movie!
Also, there's a few other things wrong.
When Scoggins is thrown into the generator by the shark, electricity arcs through the water, but Carter and the shark itself are unaffected by this. I find that slightly odd.
After Preacher is caught by the shark, he uses his cross to poke the eye of the shark; in later scenes, the shark's eye is fine.
Many times we are shown people able to close doors even though copious amounts of water and air are rushing though them. This is clearly beyond the ability of humans. Their ability to do so cannot be explained by other devices attached to the door because those devices would have prevented them from opening the door in the first place.
When Jim's stretcher is thrown at the window, due to drag it should have stopped almost immediately. Also, the motion by the shark when throwing the stretcher is not sufficient to create the sudden acceleration away from the shark.
When they are extracting the protein from the shark, the monitor displays real-time MRI imaging showing the insertion of the probe into the shark's brain. This is impossible, since they removed the imaging device before placing the probe jig.
It is explained that the sharks are smarter and can now swim backwards. However, sharks are not "too dumb" to swim backwards, they are biologically incapable of doing so.
The "tiger shark" near the beginning of the movie is not shaped like a real tiger shark even though the movie shark has similar markings on it's back. A real Tiger shark has a blunt rounded nose, and jagged odd shaped teeth. The Tiger sharks in the movie are re-dressed Mako sharks.
When the door from the sub pen into the elevator shaft is opened, there is a gust of wind into the actors' faces from the shaft into the room. If the sub pen were actually pressurized, the wind would have come from behind the actors and blown into the shaft, as the air pressure in the shaft would have been lower.
After Susan electrocutes the shark while in her underwear, she looks at the research data that has been destroyed by the electricity. It has been burned and shows carbon stains as if it had been in a fire. This could not have happened while in water and the data probably would not have been damaged at all from an electric charge in the water.
When the researchers are extracting the protein from the shark, the shark's ECG (electrocardiogram) tracing is shown on a vital signs monitor. Not only is the tracing being refreshed right to left, i.e. backwards (which is never done on a real monitor), but the ECG pattern itself is not that of a shark.
Shark's intelligence is being enhanced genetically in this movie, so let's assume it is possible, because that is the whole point of the plot. In the end, we learn that the sharks' plan is to flood the facility in order to make an escape, because above water the fences of the facility are "just plain steel", and not titanium. So they flood the whole facility in order to make it easier to make a hole through the fence. OK. But in order to plan that, it wouldn't be enough to be more intelligent than other sharks (like these sharks are), it would be necessary to actually know the difference between titanium and plain steel, and more important, to know that the part of the fence above water is easier to go through. These are facts that this film's sharks couldn't know, no matter how intelligent they are.
And earlier in the movie, it's said that the fencing above the water was titanium, yet at the end, it's said that it's steel. And again, sharks can't jump out of the water and attack the fence, so how can the escape through the fencing above the water?
But here's the biggest thing.
Throughout the entire movie, the sharks are busting through these enormous steel doors. Yet at the end, they have trouble busting through a fence. Isn't that sort of odd?
But enough thinking, all in all, Deep Blue See is a fucking awesome movie!
