I have an assignment to review a film. Plz help me choose...?

Question

The teacher told me to choose one movie to be reviewed. Options: The abyss, heat, the piano, Gosford Park, The hudsucker proxy, go. I was thinking to choose Gosford Park, but my sister who has already watch, said that the movie is very complicated and hard to understand. I haven't watch any of these movies.

Answer 1

The Abyss is a Sfi-Fi movie and an early CGI (computer graphics integratd) type movie so you could discuss that portion of the movie as well as the actual content... The others I do not know much about...just my little opinion

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

I say go for The Piano. I have heard Hudsucker Proxy was good, too.

Answer 3

i actually would say gosford park. i loved it - great ensemble cast and as long as you pay attention you can follow the story of the "upstairs" and the "downstairs".

Answer 4

The Abyss is an award-winning science fiction film from 1989, written and directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. There is a theatrical release version (140 minutes) and a Director's Cut version (171 minutes).

Underwater scenes were filmed in the containment building of Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant, an unfinished nuclear power plant in Gaffney, South Carolina, in the United States. It took 26.5 million litres (seven million gallons) of water to fill the tank to a depth of 13 metres (40 feet), making it the largest underwater set ever. The depth and length of time spent underwater meant that the cast and crew had to go through decompression.

In the beginning of the film, the USS Montana, a fictional American Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine sinks near the edge of the Cayman Trough after an accidental encounter with an unknown object. As Soviet submarines head to the area, and with a hurricane moving in, the quickest way to mount a rescue is for a SEAL team to be inserted on to an experimental underwater oil platform named "Deep Core", which, by pure chance, is situated near the wreck site, and to mount operations from there. Benthic Petroleum, the owner of the platform, volunteers both the platform and its crew of oil workers to the Navy to assist in what they believe to be a rescue operation.

If bad weather and international tensions escalating toward war are not enough, the SEAL team is accompanied down to the rig by the platform's designer, Lindsey Brigman (Mastrantonio). Her estranged husband, Virgil "Bud" Brigman (Harris), is the foreman of the platform. (Also, unknown to anyone on the rig, the SEAL leader, Lt. Coffey (Biehn), has developed High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, and is losing his ability to reason as he sinks slowly into a paranoid state.)

As the oil workers and SEAL team investigate the wreck of the sub, finding no survivors, the oil workers encounter an "Non-Terrestrial Intelligence" (NTI), but are uncertain what to make of it; all they know for sure is that "something" is down there and it is capable of unprecedented speed and maneuverability. Believing the alien to be a previously-uncatalogued Soviet submersible, the SEAL team recovers one of the nuclear warheads from the submarine. Acting upon a pre-arranged contingency plan, the SEALs prepare to use it to destroy the sub, its remaining weapons, and its codebooks to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. This is done without the knowledge of Deep Core's crew or Benthic Petroleum.

The strengthening hurricane causes a catastrophic accident that leaves Deep Core severely damaged, and with several crewmembers (oil workers and Navy SEALs) dead or injured. With its umbilical cable to the surface severed, Deep Core is cut off from surface oxygen, power, and communications, and must struggle by on its insufficient onboard reserves until the weather clears and the Navy and oil company can rescue them from the platform.

At this point, the NTIs decide to explore the rig and in doing so, contact the stranded workers, definitively proving themselves to be an advanced sentient alien race. They clearly mean no harm, but the now totally paranoid Coffey does not see it this way, and prepares to send the warhead to the bottom of the trench, set on a timer to explode. After a brief battle between Lindsey and Bud (in one submersible) and Coffey (in another), Coffey is killed, however, when his submersible falls down a trench and implodes due to the immense pressure build-up; but the bomb is released, strapped to a remote vehicle programmed to maneuver to the mysterious bottom of the trench where the aliens seem to live.

This leaves Bud and Lindsey stranded several hundred meters away from the platform in their slowly flooding submersible. With time running out, and their sole working breathing system hardwired into Bud's diving helmet, Lindsey conceives a desperate plan: he puts the helmet on, watches her drown, and then drags her back to Deep Core's medical facilities in the hopes that the hibernation effects of extreme hypothermia will let her survive long enough to reach air and let her be revived. At first he tries to get Lindsey to put on his diving suit, but Bud ultimately sees no option, as if they were to switch suits, she would not be able to drag his body back in time to save him. He drags her unprotected body across the sea floor back to Deep Core, where Bud eventually succeeds in shocking Lindsey's heart back into beating (the rest of the crew having given up), though she is much the worse for wear.

As Bud (Ed Harris) looks on, Lindsey Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) reaches out to touch a "water tentacle" (called the pseudopod) which is trying to communicate with the crew by mimicking them.Bud realizes that they are the only ones able to stop a nuclear attack on the NTIs, and puts on a secret diving suit that the SEALs had brought aboard. It is designed to protect a diver to extreme depths, and incorporates a liquid breathing system that will let Bud dive to the bottom of the three-mile-deep trench and disarm the warhead, under instructions via modulated ultrasound by the sole surviving (and trustworthy) SEAL, whose broken leg forces him to remain on the platform. Bud must communicate by typing on a keypad, as he cannot talk with his mouth and throat and larynx full of the breathing liquid.

Bud succeeds, but his team is shocked to learn that he does not have enough oxygen remaining in the breathing liquid to return to Deep Core. Bud types back to Lindsey and the rest of the crew that he knew going in that it would be a one-way trip, but that he could not let the warhead detonate and destroy the NTIs. He sends a final message to Lindsey: "LOVE YOU WIFE".

At the bottom of the trench, the NTIs find Bud clinging to life and bring him into a specially-created chamber of normally-pressurized air within their underwater craft. There, the NTIs show him the messages that he sent, and return him and the Deep Core platform to the surface, unharmed, by carrying the platform on top of their underwater craft.

In the director's cut, the NTIs, alarmed by man's warlike tendencies (displayed to Bud as a montage of intercepted news footage showing man's barbarism spanning nearly a century), and now that our violence had spread to their own habitat, prepare to destroy humanity by generating giant megatsunamis and freak waves all over the world. The aliens relent when they examine Bud's final communication to his wife, realizing that mankind still has the potential for good. Some have noticed a similarity between this ending and the ending of The Day the Earth Stood Still.