Beautiful girl stuck on rock, bleeding, scared!
There is a new Hollywood shark film named The Shallows debuting right before the WSL’s J-Bay Open. Apparently it is about a girl (Blake Lively) stuck on a rock in what may or may not be Western Australia.
There are two trailers out. Here is the first one:
And here is the second:
I like the minimalism of the first better. It seems like it could even be good. Very moody. Quiet with moments of panic. The second suggests strange Hollywood variations on our dear surf. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a surfer wear a GoPro like a Teletubby. Have you?
It’s fun, in any case, that sharks are having a horror renaissance. They deserve it after all the work they’ve put in this year. But what is the scariest shark film ever? What is the scariest horror film for that matter? When I saw The Ring it really undid me. Is that embarrassing? I suppose it is.
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Scariest film I ever saw was “the eye”, I think it was Korean. One of the worst films I ever saw was “Open Water”, that was until I saw “Open Water 2: Adrift”. This new film looks like it’s going to be shite really doesn’t it?
Watched the 1999 classic Deep Blue Sea last night, severely underrated.
From the ages of about 7-10 my parents used to make me watch ‘Fern Gully’. Movie still scares the shit out of me to this day. That weird, creepy oil spill thing is fucked. Guess I’m kinda against pollution now though
nope nope nope no sharks nope
Blake Lively????
Flake Deadly. Fuck I’m a lame cunt.
Don’t say that Wiggs – I like your use of “flake” !
OK how much can a shark eat? Like surely that hippie would have filled it up for a while. Maybe it didn’t want to eat Blake Lively, maybe it just wanted to talk.
Rip Curl product placement??
they’re obviously not working on any anti-shark tech i guess
Blake was using one a local GC shapers board too – that was weird.
The shark just wants some poosay. It’s only fair. I hope this is one of the movies where she is horrifically eaten in the end. Go-Pro footage of her screaming dismembered in its gut. Real gore. I’m tired of survival cliches.
Me too! How happy would you be if a movie pulled out the rug and straight up ate its star? Last scene, camera pulls back on a blood slick. The end. I would buy another ticket!
Don’t the Yanquis just stay in the cinema cordoned off area and go see another movie too? Bogans here buy a ticket and box of pop corn for their kid in the morning and use it as a day care centre. Some probably don’t even come back.
Oh but one already has, and it was a shark movie no less… 1999’s Deep Blue Sea, starring both LL Cool J and Sam Jackson among others. Spoiler alert… everybody dies.
Guys – these ads are just amazing – I’m intrigued by what this old boy is planning to do with his “weird old tip”
Just to clear the air about those ad’s. Head office threw me a bone and thats how olde Neg’s gets his dollar dollar bills yo. But It is literately dollar bills… paid as a percentage of hits on this site. Luckily one mighty US dollar will feed a family of 4 for a week here… and I will drop them in a instant if the Bossman cracks his whip.
Haha STAB has them too. Who is the beneficiary of those dorra bills you reckon? No one does a good job there.
Now that I know its putting money in your pocket, It’s all good Negs!
No surfer watches these fucking movies. I just forced myself to watch the trailer and regretted it instantly. Now I’m going to be sitting out the back in some fucking empty lineup thinking about this movie instead of how weird it is to be in an empty line up.