All the things stolen from Deep Rising
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Virus
kevfent — 18 years ago(March 13, 2008 03:28 PM)
- Small boat crew arrives on a large ship
- No one is there, save for one/few survivors
- They tell the rest of the people what is going on, about the monster
- Mamooli
- One of the older characters has an agenda of their own
- Their previous boat is rendered, for the most part, unusable
- The monster is defeated by having the entire ship blown up, with two characters narrowly escaping on a small vehicle.
Feel free to add your own.
The main difference here is that Virus sucked, while Deep Rising is awesome. Highly recommended.
"Now What?"
-Treat Williams, "Deep Rising"
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Megatonwhale — 17 years ago(July 16, 2008 11:43 AM)
I see what you mean but I'd hardly say stolen, creature features (I know its more sci-fi but for the sake of this point) are a lot like slashers in the way that there one of few genres or sub genres with conventions, all these things have to happen so it can be considered a part of the genre.
you need the cast to be somehow incapable of fleeing
discover a warning of sorts, basically a taste of things to come and the beasts power, survivor is a bonus as he can do the whole "itit was horrible..it killed em all!" line
the creature revealed and they find a moments peace to come up with a plan and throw around lines like "we're all dead!" and "holy beep man, it just ripped her in two!"
they throw there plan into action, it goes balls up cuz one of them is a coward/traitor/greedy son of a bitch or the equipment is broken, basically this happens so the heroes find some other crazy improvised way to kill the thing.usually with a great big fat explosion
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LinkfxTBP — 17 years ago(July 17, 2008 07:39 PM)
I agree, Deep Rising is very cool, but the stuff you've written down could easily be attributed to any science fiction horror film or horror film. Seriously, think deeply into the recesses of your mind to imagine what other films you could think of where monster is killed with the entire ship destroyed and two crew members survive. "Jaws", "Deep Blue Sea", "Event Horizon", "Pitch Black", etc.
The things you mention are just genre cliches. All of the movies for the most part, do them.