Nothing is original. Everything borrows from somewhere. Deep Rising is no exception, but the old pans that today comprise the bulk of the filmâs 28% Rotten Tomatoes score missed what a boisterous, bloody good time it is, monsters at sea mixed with Sommersâ love for adventure and snappy humor. âHilariousâ is hardly the first word one might reach for to describe a movie where people get sucked up like spaghetti by colossal oceanic worms that âdrinkâ their prey rather than eat them. Itâs yucky. Itâs gooey. Itâs gory. Itâs the reason we go to see monster movies in the first place, which is the same reason we appreciate B-movies at all: the pleasure of pedigree colliding with the grimy thrill of watching hideous creatures consume the secondary cast.
100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News
On 4/11/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
Like most movie genres, science fiction goes back almost as far as the medium itself, all the way to 1902 to be exact. That was when Georges Méliès an innovative genius of many talents unleashed his 14-minute masterwork: Le voyage dans la lune, better known to American audiences as A Trip to the Moon. Inspired by the written works of Jules Verne, among other things, and laced with satirical jabs toward the scientific community, the surrealist short follows a group of astronomers as they embark on a trip to the moon. While not scientifically accurate by any means the astronomers do travel by way of cannon shot, after all the film did kick off a cinematic trend of depicting hypothetical ideas in anticipation of future realities.