The Abyss (Special Edition) (1989) Was A *DEEP* Ride! - First Time Watching - Movie Reaction/Review

Dive on into this reaction to a deep and cinematic journey as Cameron and Isaiah sit down together and watch the special edition of The Abyss on Amazon Prime Video for the very first time! James Cameron proves time and time again how good he really is! if you agree and enjoyed this reaction, show some support and leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite scene from the movie "The Abyss"!
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[@pickmeasinner]

Fighting to revive Lindsey is still one of the most intense scenes in cinema for me. Heart wrenching decision, heartbreaking death, heart warming determination that saves her. All in a few minutes. The acting is phenomenal

[@citizensunitednegatingtech9783]

Did you see southpark do it ?

[@pickmeasinner]

@@citizensunitednegatingtech9783 no?! Lol I'll try find it

[@citizensunitednegatingtech9783]

@@pickmeasinner cripple fight is the episode

[@Davaldod]

Cameron is a cinema and storytelling genius and, for me, the entire Lindsey Drowns & Revival idea is Cameron's best idea...ever.

[@misabissett2000]

Per the behind the scenes documentary, this scene almost broke her. If was intense and painful. Cameron was apparently awful this movie. She had to walk off set for a while.

[@EvilHandyman]

not only is the liquid oxygen real, but that rat was actually put into it and breathing it for real for that shot. Cameron got some shit for doing that.

[@Anthony-ss8ob]

Correct 👍😎

[@paulstroud2647]

@@Anthony-ss8ob That's why the film censors in the UK won't let the new BluRay release be sold here... 😞

[@chrisleebowers]

The rat went on to live a long happy comfortable life as his house pet.

[@andbrittain]

Considering the reasons for why we have the term "Lab rats" I'm a little surprized by this fact, not that I advocate animal cruelty, it just strikes me as odd.

[@maddwitch]

@@andbrittain We all know where meat comes from, but that doesn't mean most people want to watch the animal be killed and processed. Most people also feel differently about something being done for a beneficial purpose and something that's solely being done for entertainment.

[@belvagurr403]

The guy with the tremors, and mustache, was Kyle Reese In Terminator and was in Aliens

[@mikelundquist4596]

Johnny Ringo

[@davidlionheart2438]

Try using his name, Michael Biehn.

[@annewoodard6803]

He was also in the Mandalorian

[@MsAppassionata]

@@mikelundquist4596 “Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave”

[@mikelundquist4596]

@@MsAppassionata "okay, lunger..."

[@geneticrex]

This film should be WAY more famous.

[@LukeLovesRose]

I wonder if The Abyss was released in the late 1970s if it wouldve done better. People mightve been starving to see a troubled couple like this find a way back together

[@razorfett147]

Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio brought their A game to this film. Easily one of my top 20 all time favorites

[@spextrekid9410]

Ed Harris still won't talk about the movie, because he almost drowned and felt ashamed that he got scared or something. It was deeply traumatizing to film for almost everyone. Crew and cast during the shoot wore t-shirts with the inscription "The Abuse".

[@LukeLovesRose]

I think The Abyss is their career best

[@Paul_1971]

Glad you done the special edition - is so much better than the theatrical cut.

[@vincentdesjardins1354]

fact

[@goldean5974]

This movie is amazing and is probably Cameron’s masterpiece. It was also the most difficult film shoot in history. Cameron actually used a decommissioned nuclear power plant’s containment vessel and filled it with something like three million gallons of water to do the underwater shots. Half the cast and crew nearly drowned on several occasions.

[@donsample1002]

A never completed nuclear power plant, not a decommissioned one. Construction was stopped long before anything nuclear was installed.

[@3dbadboy1]

Lol, at the end, I saw Bud in the suit and I thought Wow, he looks just like John Glenn. Then later on, I saw him in The Right Stuff and he played ... John Glenn.

[@VolguusZildrohar]

I guarantee that look was exactly what Cameron was going for. He just looks like an astronaut in that suit.

[@DoktorStrangelove]

He should have been cast in every film featuring astronauts or characters who just looked like astronauts made after 1980.

[@Replicaate]

I'm pretty sure that's why Ed Harris got to be the hardass admiral in that section of Top Gun: Maverick that was very obviously The Right Stuff-inspired, too.

[@scottallen6160]

This is my favorite performance by Ed Harris. The “Nooo!!” yell when Lindsay drown always gets me. Then his refusal to give up on her at the rig, trying to revive her was absolutely convincing.

[@iangrant3615]

The special effects on this film were unprecedented at the time. We had never seen the kind of CGI in movies like the water 'worm' and it morphing into faces. Imagine back then we were used to seeing practical and makeup effects or stop-motion miniatures, and then this shows up on screen and the entire audience has no idea what the hell they are seeing or how this was being done. It was a breakthrough moment in cinema and Cameron took it to the next level AGAIN 2 years later with the T-1000 liquid metal CGI in Terminator 2, which blew people away even more.

[@danzthename]

That scene with Lindsey having to drown and be revived is incredible.

[@JeshuaSquirrel]

There is a saying in rescue teams around cold environments: You're not dead until you're warm and dead. The theory about letting Lindsey drown and bringing her back is sound, it just doesn't work that often and you don't shock a flatline.

[@danielberg7644]

the first time I watched this was on VHS in my bedroom. During the night I woke up to water pouring out of my closet. I was thinking wow! What a vivid dream until I realized it was really happening. The water heater in the apartment above me broke.

[@dunbardunelm3924]

😂😂😂. Art imitating life (or vice versa)😭😭

[@Slevencolevra]

That drowning revival scenes is one of the best scenes in movie history.

[@chefskiss6179]

"So raise your hand if you think that was a Russian water-tentacle" is the sentence I thought I'd never hear. 😂😂😂 LOVED this watchalong with you both. I hope yer patreon members vote for Hunt for Red October for you to watch some time. That would be a fantastic watch.

[@user-pe9gz8si8k]

I second this

[@KikiH5566]

🤚

[@slytheringingerwitch]

If you watch the making of the Abyss, you will see how hard this was for the actors and crew to film.

[@ScientificallyStupid]

@@InjuredRobot. also, Son of Abyss

[@silikon2]

James Cameron does such a great job creating and developing strong female characters.

[@danterengiil4448]

Ridley Scott gave us Ellen Ripley...James Cameron made her a Sci fi icon. First actor or actress to be nominated for a best actress oscar in a Sci fi movie good

[@kebasor]

What made this movie so amazing to me when it came out was there were a number of undersea 'alien' type monster films in the theaters at the same time (Leviathan being the one I remember), and the trailer for Abyss made it seem like one of those. I left the theater almost in tears of how much greater a movie I had just watched.

[@touchstoneaf]

Honestly Leviathan is gross and disgusting and awful but I love that film too, LOL... for a totally different reason!

[@3dbadboy1]

I believe the production crew hired Raytheon to create special helmets so that their faces could be seen for the cameras.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Yes. Normal "hardhat" diving helmets have a much smaller faceplate. Guys that do that kind of dive work typically wear a helium based breathing apparatus like the Helinaut 500.

[@iKvetch558]

I don't see that anyone else has commented about it, so I will just say that the novel for the film is pretty much a must-read if you want to know what is really going on...especially if you want to really DRILL DOWN into the characters. (pun intended) As a huge bonus, it was written by one of the great writers of science fiction...Orson Scott Card...who is most famous for the Ender's Game series. For real...the more you like this movie, the more you really have to read the film...it will multiply your appreciation by an order of magnitude. Also, the big thing about being down deep and then coming back up is "the bends", which is the nickname for decompression sickness. The issue is that gasses get dissolved into the blood differently when the body is under compression...especially nitrogen...so the decompression process is needed to allow enough time for that nitrogen to work its way out of your blood while you come up from down deep. If you come up too quickly, the nitrogen forms bubbles that are incredibly painful and debilitating.

[@7thsealord888]

Totally second all of this. The movie novelization is exceptional.

[@dneill8493]

Completely agree. I normally dislike movie novelizations but I loved this one. Having a real sci-fi author write made a huge difference.

[@ScientificallyStupid]

@@dneill8493 your comment made me chuckle- because I actually collect film novelizations.

[@ITPalGame]

Dolphin rib cages and lungs can compress allowing them to dive deep. Good thing that all happened by random chance on the first try or no dolphins would exist today. 🙄

[@LukeLovesRose]

The Abyss (Special Edition) is a great and underrated Cameron film. To me, The Abyss is James Camerons Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[@miguelvelez7221]

Niiiiice... I remember being very underwhelmed as a kid watching the theatrical cut. In high school a friend said I had to see the director's cut. I was a little older and for many reasons this version clicked with me. Cameron is in Spielberg mode here and it works. It also evokes classic 50's sci Fi like THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. I may love T2, ALIENS and TRUE LIES more but... I think this is his best, most mature film. I think this one is special guys.

[@seekermel3079]

I watched this when it was first released, then again with a theater full of Abyss fans when the director's cut came out. For the entire movie, everyone was talking. It was like watching your favorite movie in your living room with 200 friends. My favorite moment: "Oh! That's why his hand was blue!" The rest of us: "Oh, yeah!"

[@ct6852]

Love how many genres they fit into this. James Cameron movies are always an EXPERIENCE. Can imagine what a pain in the a-- he might be on set, but you can tell he takes filmmaking very, very seriously.

[@jhilal2385]

Oil rig workers are called "roughnecks" Oil well fire fighters are called "hell-fighters" Tunnelers and workers who clear the foundations for bridge towers are called "sandhogs"

[@txtm999]

"Remember when your wife tasted me?" I about lost it!

[@amberaustin3243]

You guys always make my day with your reactions and jokes. I’m going through a really hard time right now. So thank you.

[@ScientificallyStupid]

TY guys so, so much for giving the Special Edition the consideration it deserves. And I will very much look forward to you watching the one-word-titled show Cam referenced that Zay hasn't seen yet, because it's such a wild ride.

[@MrDeadstu]

The big difference between the DC and the theatrical is a lot of character development (Like when they are all singing the song together in the beginning) and almost all of the alien angle. The few sighting of aliens are in the TC, but in the end it basically skips from but Bud disarming the bomb to the 'city' rising to the surface. Cuts the tidal waves, the alien's messages etc.

[@QuayNemSorr]

Making this movie was absolute hell for everyone involved and took a huge toll on the actors. You should watch the Documentary about it.

[@Lebowski55]

Kyle Reese was in nearly every action movie from 1984 - 1989

[@alexis1451]

Decompression crash course: - the deeper you go and the longer you stay down result in the gasses you are breathing being dissolved more and more into your blood/tissues. This is similar to shaking a sealed soda can. - the more gasses that have dissolved into your body, the longer you have to wait (decompress) before you can safely walk about on the surface again. This is similar to... well... waiting for a shaken soda can to settle (it's a little bit more complicated but I'm trying to keep it simple). - if you go up too fast, all that dissolved gas in your tissues (that was being kept dissolved by the pressure) now becomes gaseous again => becomes bubbles => you get the bends (bad). This is similar to opening a recently shaken soda. Your blood turns to foam and you die extremely painfully. Or you "only" get a stroke. There was a horrific incident on an oil rig where a decompression chamber (i.e. an area at high pressure) was suddenly decompressed back to sea level pressure and let's just say the results were not pretty for the men inside the decompression chamber. One twist: - for any given pressure there will be a time after which point you reach a "saturation" state: your body can no longer physically store any additional dissolved gas. From this point onwards your decompression time (which will most definitely be in the weeks for the depths being talked about in the movie) remains constant, regardless of how much longer you stay at that pressure. If you increase your pressure (go deeper), then more gas gets dissolved in your body & your decompression timer continues to increase.

[@dneill8493]

Yeah The Byford Dolphin incident was absolutely horrible. I mean it was instant death for the guys but what it did to their bodies was so gruesome, especially the guy who was forced through a tiny opening in an instant. It's amazing that one guy survived the incident.

[@GoldTop57]

You guys need to research Cameron more. He’s not just a director that makes movies above deep sea stuff. He’s an expert that has designed his own submersibles, and gone to the depths of the ocean many times.

[@MB-oc1nw]

He's also insufferably arrogant and self important.

[@GoldTop57]

@@MB-oc1nw Might be true, but doesn’t negate what I said

[@williambryan3346]

@33:55 That’s what I call “The Hammer” moment, and it’s one of my favorite moments in this movie. It’s the ultimate payoff of the earlier scene where Catfish (Leo Burmester) said “they used to call this ‘The Hammer’”. The earlier scene could have easily been a throwaway scene where someone’s just bragging about his younger days, but James Cameron brought it back around to show that “The Hammer” is still pretty powerful and useful in a pinch.

[@ghostfaceninjakilla1]

Thank you for taking the effort to find and watch the special edition.

[@AndrewSmithArt]

The dead guy with the crab that crawls out of his mouth. James Cameron‘s brother.

[@VBSuper]

Does he not like his brother? LOL

[@red-stapler574]

This was the production from hell. Ed Harris refuses to talk about this movie in interviews, Mary Mastrantonio had a nervous breakdown and Cameron almost died.

[@mglmouser]

BTW, that pink liquid thing, is actually a thing. Dont know if it's ever been tested on humans, but the rat demoed breathing it, was not practical effect. It's the real deal. It is said to be a rather thick sludge, as far as "breathing" is concerned. It is probably very tiring to use.

[@menotyou8369]

Keep in mind that if they started swimming while she was still conscious, they'd be half way there before she "died". Also, if you stop CPR after less than an hour of hypothermia, it was you that killed the patient, not the cold water.

[@pjp_renaissance]

As true as that is a drowning person is unpredictable and dangerous. Doing it in a confined/controlled area eliminates the risk of her breaking free and floating away.

[@FredtheDorfDorfman1985]

Great reaction guys! The cast hated making this movie. They were in serious need of therapy it was that bad. Risks were taken, people almost drowned including James Cameron himself. You guys should watch the documentary about the Byford Dolphin rig accident. It’s a good example of why deep saturation divers make so much money. It involved four divers and an explosive decompression from nine atmospheres to one in less than a second. Let’s just say, if it shows aftermath pics, I wouldn’t recommend looking unless you can handle real gore, the holy crap kind.

[@charlieinslidell]

The drowning scene is so traumatic and panic-inducing and the resuscitation part is not much better but well done to the actors for make it so believeable.

[@openfor45]

Abyss is a Wonder of Water! If you two are interested in another visit in the deep blue water; suggest adding 'Sphere' - 1998 film to your future watch list.

[@jamesmarciel5237]

The movie Sphere was eh… read the book, it’s monumentally better (of course)

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

I was going to mention SPHERE. The book is much better, but the movie is worth a watch.

[@andressousa9006]

The liquid oxigen shit its real but not used like that, I dont know now, but back then at least, it was used as a treatment for like newborns to help develop their lungs or something like that, also a fun fact about the subject of a missing sub and the goverment hiring civilians.... Thats how they found the Titanic in 1985, Robert Ballard a civilian was hired by the gov to find the wreck of a nuclear sub, and was hired for a certain amount of time, he manage to find the submarine wreck 4 days before the deadline, and as he was close to the area where he suspected the Titanic's wreck might be, he went and looked for it... and found it.

[@citizensunitednegatingtech9783]

Find the DVD extras , it was a live rat on screen breathing the fluid, not a puppet or a doll or a robot.

[@nathanburr]

The liquid-oxygen “dilemma”. Long before the Internet existed we would argue for hours about whether the liquid-breathing was in fact real. I just want to say to all my childhood friends: Suck it! I was right! Also… they’re working on a sequel. Bud and Lindsey have a kid. It’s gonna be called… Son Of Abyss. 😂🤪

[@Shango]

God dammit! You had my hopes up for that sequel. What a let down, you son of abyss!

[@touchstoneaf]

This film is also kind of a master class in how editing can change the entire theme of a movie, or at least significantly alter it (or water it down)... for better or worse, which is really interesting, it makes you really wonder about agendas sometimes.

[@mikeljenks]

James Cameron used what he learned from the water tentacle effect in this movie on the Liquid Metal in Terminator 2. For some good behind the scenes information watch the Critical Drinker’s Abyss Production Hell video.

[@miller-joel]

Imagine making a movie today that will still hold up 35 years from now.

[@TheHitmann069]

Great reaction fellas. I remember seeing this at the movies with my best pal on release week here in England. We're both in our late 50's and still talk about how good this film is today!! Thanks for sharing. 👊🏻

[@hackbyte]

13:00 Yes, this scene with the rat in the breathing fluid was totally real... ;)

[@TimWellard]

Love your reactions guys. You’re doing some of my favorites!

[@TrentRidley]

Please correct me if you have more accurate information, but as far as I know the top 200m of the ocean is known as the euphotic (sunlight) zone and it is here that photosynthesis is possible. Between 200m and 1 000m is the dysphotic (twilight) zone. There is rarely any significant sunlight penetration beyond 200m, so photosynthesis is typically impossible here, though a small number of photosynthetic plant/algal species have been recorded at depths of up to around 270m. The region below 1 000m is called the aphotic zone, where no sunlight penetrates. Given the depths this movie is set at, I have to assume that the "plants" we see are actually deep sea sponges. These are animals that come in a great variety of species with a great variety of colours, sizes, and forms. Some do look very much like plants, but they rely on filter-feeding, not photosynthesis.

[@jamesmarciel5237]

The ocean actually has 5 zones for depth. The sunlight zone (epipelagic), the twilight zone (mesopelagic), the midnight zone (bathypelagic), the abyssal zone (abyssopelagic) and the hadal zone (trenches). But for the most relevant part, you are correct.

[@TrentRidley]

@@jamesmarciel5237 Yeah, I kept it simple below 1 000m as it wasn't really relevant to break it up into it's 3 component zones for a discussion on sunlight penetration, but thanks for the added detail and alternative terms used for each zone. What do you think of my accessment of the "plants" in the movie? Do you think they were sponges or did James Cameron screw up and put photosynthetic plants in his deep sea environment?..... Surely Cameron wouldn't make such a basic mistake, would he?

[@blkbirdrook]

I'm so glad you guys watched this one. One of my favorite movies. That death scene was the best. Thanks guys.

[@AndrewSmithArt]

The pseudopod sequence was the birth of photoshop. A couple of the guys at ILM took a whole bunch of photos of the set and then created a computer program (became photoshop) so they could stitch them together to create the reflections on the tentacle.

[@unclerobin]

Orson Scott Card wrote the novelization of this film (his only film adaptation) the first 3 chapters were about each main character during thier childhood years. They were so good that Ed Harris, Elizabeth Masterantonio, and Micheal Biehn used them to base their performancers off of. The Aliens were much more prevelent in his story, they have the ability to actually read minds and save memories, our being in their eyes alone is horrifying to them. But it's a few chars that change thier minds about us. The called us polluting land slugs. The special edition cut added many additional scenes with the aliens, also added to the standoff developing between the Russian and American Navies, and the escalating international response. If you can find the book I would vehemently recommend reading it. Great reaction, and keep at it fellas

[@donsample1002]

In deep water there are a whole lot of animals that look like plants. They attach themselves to the bottom and filter food out of passing water currents.

[@williambryan3346]

@26:04 The “Roger Ramjet” reference always gives me a chuckle. It’s too bad that a lot of the younger generations don’t understand it.

[@VBSuper]

The Abyss, Avatar and Titanic. Cameron loves the sea.

[@LukeLovesRose]

And the T and A

[@JsscRchlDrsy]

From what I recall, the special editions biggest difference is the ending message about us destroying ourselves, and the aliens sending the tsunamis were also added. These things weren’t in the theatrical cut. The special addition is a much different film, and it’s better for it.

[@chrisegnoto]

The Fluid Breathing System is real, btw. The scenes with the rats breathing it was real and got banned in Europe

[@BobS-mv5fl]

This is such a great film. It paved the way for CGI effects for future movies. I'm glad you watched this version vs the theatrical cut. The biggest difference the two versions is the scene where Virgil is inside the alien ship @48:26 was edited a lot. There was no huge tidal wave or the aliens showing all the nuclear bombs and war scenes on to him. It didn't really make sense in the theatrical cut. I heard that James Cameron edited it to the TC on his own, not due to pressure from the studio. I believe he was worried about the run time.

[@roguedravidan2746]

It still blows my mind that Cameron shot a full on underwater chase scene with submersibles in 1988-89.

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thank you, Cameron! Thank you, Isaiah! 🪼

[@jasonericson]

I'm sure someone mentioned this already, but as I recall from the book, Bud's wedding ring is titanium, which is how it was able to survive the door crush.

[@headrushindi]

This film , as many of Cameron's films was trailblazing , groundbreaking in many ways , especially for the first time CG was used to such an extent with the stellar water snake scenes. Many , many awards for this film . Cameron is among the Geniuses of film making.

[@patrickfoster8335]

The difference between the theatrical version is the water "aliens" didnt try to threaten to destroy the planet. They were there and recognized him for stopping the nuke and said hey... dont fuck up the planet. but no tidal waves.

[@kellymoses8566]

The deeper you dive the more pressure water exerts on your body. The body is mostly water. The higher the pressure the more dissolved gasses water can hold. If you rise up too fast the dissolved gases will form bubbles in your blood and tissues. This is called the bends and is VERY painful and can be lethal. Decompression is simply rising slow enough to allow the dissolved gasses to diffuse out of the body without forming bubbles. This takes longer the deeper you dive. Deep divers actually breath a mixture of oxygen and helium, which makes you sound funny. This is because nitrogen at high pressure causes people to act drunk. Due to how long decompression takes the only practical way to work at deep depths is for long periods of time. This is called Saturation diving. Divers spend weeks working at depth and living in a pressurized chamber at the surface. Fun fact, the Brooklyn Bridge tower foundation was supposed to be built on bedrock but when they tried to dig down to it people kept getting sick and they didn't know why so they just stopped and one tower actually rests on sand.

[@ScarlettM]

Thank you so much for watching Special Edition! It makes so much difference!

[@80Jay71]

The liquid breathing system is very real. They actually used it on the rat.

[@samswords9993]

The Cayman Trench (where this is set I think) is 26,216 feet deep.

[@citizensunitednegatingtech9783]

@cam&zay the rat in the breathing fluid is real and the shot from the movies is 100% a live rat breathing the fluid, and 192 warheads that "each one" are 5x Hiroshima

[@garypasquill2355]

He cuts himself to stay alert,pain has,a,way of reminding you it's there,also when he elbows the cassette player he wasn't supposed to break it hence the look of surprise

[@michaelconnor1542]

Not only were tye helmets made special for the cast, but the filming crew were also outfitted with them. Filming went on for long stretches underwater, and the helmets helped with comfort and safety.

[@Shango]

May I suggest a reaction for They Live (1988) or Total Recall (1990). Those are on my list of favorites.

[@w1975b]

I'd watch both reactions :)

[@KikiH5566]

This is a really good movie. I haven't seen the director's cut in a long time! Thanks for sharing!

[@jamesmarciel5237]

34:27 Zay, shooting a nuclear warhead will not set it off. It has its own electrical trigger that has to set it off. That’s why when the Air Force lost a nuclear bomb off the U.S. eastern coast and lost another nuclear bomb of the coast of Spain, they didn’t go off. Those were dropped from bombers around 30,000 feet or so. Interesting fact: the U.S. has literally lost about 6 nuclear weapons since 1950 and NONE have been recovered. It’s also why C4 will not detonate from being shot by a bullet, despite what the movies would have you believe. I know C4 is a plastic explosive and not nuclear. Just a pet peeve of mine about all the times C4 blows up from being shot by the hero in the movies.

[@menotyou8369]

Continue the string of awesome Cameron movies, with the Cameron written, Bigelow (Cameron's Ex, and dual Academy award winner) directed, Strange Days.

[@touchstoneaf]

Also he got to develop a lot of the special effects that he got to use later on in Terminator 2, so there's that.

[@chocolate-teapot]

I heard Cameron put the actors through hell making this movie. It must have been a nice paycheck.

[@jeanine6328]

The Garfield stuck to the window was a popular item. People would put them on the back or rear windows of their car.

[@w1975b]

yep, I remember having one on our car in the late 80s or early 90s. I would have been a teen at the time.

[@marieevelanoie8350]

Ed Harris said it was the hardest shoot of his life. He almost died.

[@m.hreels9822]

Fun fact this film was the test film to see if CGI was good enough to make the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park! I think 🤔 this was the first movie ever to use CGI too!

[@mystisith3984]

One of the most stressful movies ever made. You hold your breath then hyperventilate like the characters & at the end you want to take a walk outside & touch grass. Cameron is the Tension Master. The actors did a fantastic job too, skin in the game & all.

[@Smileybeeblevrox]

There are plants that are very deep that don't need sunlight. Weird but true

[@touchstoneaf]

This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and it makes me so angry that we only got the theatrical version at first, because this was his vision, and the backstory about that is that they used to have a length of script you were allowed to write in films, and if you went past that no one would even look at your script until you edited it down, because films were only supposed to be an hour and a half to two hours long at most... and so Cameron sort of messed with the margins of the script to make it so that he could fit it into the length he was required to fit it into and get the script passed. But that of ourse meant that he shot more movie than they wanted him to have, and they believed that nobody would stay inside of a theater for that long to watch a film, and so they wouldn't let him release the original version, and they made him cut out basically the entire point of the film. The theatrical version doesn't have the same message really. I mean, it kind of does, but it misses so much that it really loses a lot of the punch. It's still a great movie, but it's not the same film, and that's probably why it didn't win best picture. They basically neutered it, and thus I'm SO glad you guys watched this version, because this is the way it was supposed to be. Especially cuz these people suffered so much to make this film, & they deserve to have their full performances put on there. And of course everybody else involved should have all their work shown. Everybody in here is a fantastic character actor. Obviously Ed Harris, whose other great performances include Apollo 13 and others, Michael Biehn, whose other great performances include the Terminator, Aliens, and Tombstone, of course. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was fantastic as Maid Marian and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, among others... Everybody is great in this thing. The novelization is fantastic as well, based off the original script and gives you a couple of ideas that didn't manage to get across even in this Extended Cut, about how the aliens/undersea civilization could understand our thoughts and feelings, and how it helps to preserve people in memory, (which is an interesting concept, that if you remember somebody they never die) ... but yeah. This movie was very high concept, and really fantastically done, and it was really kind of cool that James Cameron got to come back later with another water-based film and prove that the studios were wrong, and people will definitely sit through a 3-plus hour movie just like they used to back in the day, even without an intermission, when he proved it with Titanic (and obviously he proved it again with the Avatar films, but this one was kind of really redeemed by Titanic). So that was in a way kind of his way of saying, screw you guys; look! You didn't have to neuter The Abyss! I could have had the whole movie in there and people would have sat and watched it. So yeah. There's a lot going into that.

[@AndrewSmithArt]

Decompression is to avoid Nitrogen narcosis or the bends. The deeper you go and the length of time at that depth determines how long you have to decompress for. If you come up too fast, the nitrogen in your blood expands too quick, creating small air bubbles in your bloodstream, which can cut off blood flow and potentially kill you The only fix is a hyperbaric chamber, Putting your body back under pressure (causing the nitrogen to dissolve back into the blood) and then slowly decompress back to atmospheric pressure. Basically, if you come up too fast, it’s like opening a soda bottle. All the pressurized carbon dioxide in the soda suddenly releases and creates bubbles in the soda. So it’s that, but with nitrogen in your blood

[@vincentpuccio3689]

The ring didn’t crush in the door because it’s made of titanium in the novelization

[@4MINGTHOUGHTS]

Coffee was the ONE in twenty. Dude had the bends. Phenomenal movie 🎬 🎞 🎥. Thanks for the reaction. Also, the movie with the best score ever is The Untouchables. Must see movie.

[@dport9563]

All subs are nuclear-powered and nuclear weapons stations.

[@jamesmarciel5237]

Slight correction, all U.S. subs are nuclear. There are still other nations that use Diesel-Electric subs.

[@m.hreels9822]

This was allegedly one of the most cursed films ever on set to make! James Cameron almost died! Some of the actors suffered PTSD! And it was one of the hardest shoots in Hollywood history! 😅

[@jamesmarciel5237]

When Bud is falling down the wall of the Trench, the set was only like 25-35 feet tall. The entire “fall” was all filmed at the same time. The “fall” was made to seem longer because of multiple cameras shooting from multiple angles.

[@andrewsawyer1375]

There are plants in parts of the very deep ocean that can survive with out light.

[@multifoiled5850]

6:30 More people really should expect "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" elements in movies!

[@DoktorStrangelove]

Been waiting for this one. In April 1993 I drove from Laramie, WY-I was in my last semester at U-Dub-to see this at the old Continental 70mm auditorium in Denver. It was worth cutting a day of classes and driving through the end of a blizzard east of town to see its rerelease in a massive theater.

[@Keenergetic]

The most difficult time to shoot for all the film crew ever is the entire movie.

[@AndrewSmithArt]

YES!! I have not watched the reaction yet, but this is one of my all-time favorite movies.

[@hollywhite7449]

this is one of my fave movies. I'm so excited to see you guys react!!

[@GaryCain-qf5vi]

I had hyperbaric oxygen treatment at UCSD Hospital San Diego, they put us in the hyperbaric chamber 10 people plus 2 attendants, they brought the pressure down 3 times lower than normal, you had to hold your nose and pop your ears like on a plane, then the attendants put on our oxygen helmets and we would breathe pure oxygen for about an hour, then we would do the decompression. This treatment helped to heal wounds faster, they occasionally brought in divers to help them decompress, the chamber took us 35 feet below sea level 😊Gary

[@mitzifrancis9843]

May I ask the reason for the treatment? I had three hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatments (as well as three surgeries and massive amounts of IV antibiotics) over a five day period and survived flesh eating bacteria. It was like entering a submarine inside the hospital and donning a space suit! Huge scar but I did heal pretty well. Interesting experience... Hope you're doing well.

[@w1975b]

@@mitzifrancis9843 if you want to reduce the scar, applying vitamin E oil might help

[@jamesmarciel5237]

I had Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO) therapy as well. Significantly longer multiple times. Three times a week for 14 weeks each 3X. Mine was for wound care of a diabetic ulcer. Both of the locations I used had individual chambers for each patient. But, yes also 3 surgeries and massive amounts of antibiotics, Clindamycin, I can’t do the other two of the three big antibiotics (Vancomycin caused an allergic reaction in my kidneys and Daptomycin caused rhabdo)

[@jhilal2385]

For Cam: James Cameron has said that one of his biggest influences was the "Barsoom" series of sci-fi novels from the 1910's by Edger Rice Burroughs. (along with most of the other sci-fi authors and movie makers of the last 60+ years, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Gene Roddenberry, Arthur C. Clark, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Ayn Rand, Katheryn Bigalow. The novel series also inspired Superman, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers). You should watch the movie "John Carter" (2012) based on the 1st "Barsoom" novel, "A Princess of Mars" (written 1912)

[@nicknoga564]

Allegedly the actors refused to promote the movie afterwards because of the hardships they endured filming it with James Cameron. Several near-drownings and repeated takes getting slapped with Mary Elizabeth Mastriantonio's revival scene make that all the more understandable--- but it's still an amazing movie.

[@suelynch]

You lads need to watch "The Making of the Abyss" . The youtube video is "Como se Hizo Abyss - Documental (Subtitulado)". It is about an hour long. After watching the documentary you will have the greatest respect for the actors and what they went through to make the movie. Please check out the documentary.

[@DoktorStrangelove]

Finally, I believe that if this film were released finished in 1989, with everything removed from the theatrical edit, that it would have been nominated for the big Oscars, not just the tech stuff.

[@scottallen6160]

“..coming out of the theater asking how can I be better?..” That reminds me of a quote from another movie, one of my favorites,.. “How can a man die better, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his ancestors and the temples of his gods?..” Oblivion starring Tom Cruise. Few reactors have covered that film, but I think it’s worth it.