list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Open Water 2: Adrift on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Open_Water_2_Adrift/288710/default.aspx Title: Open Water 2: Adrift
Year: 2007
Director: Hans Horn
Plot: A seafaring birthday celebration takes a turn for the terrifying when the passengers of a luxury yacht forget to lower the automated ladder before jumping into the ocean for a playful swim. It was a perfect setting for a relaxing weekend at sea, but sometimes even the best-planned trips can take an unexpected turn for the worst. After diving into the ocean and realizing to their horror that they have forgotten to lower the safety ladder, the friends who had set out for a simple weekend getaway realize that they have become helplessly stranded in the middle of the ocean. The sheer sides of the yacht are impossible to climb, and now the group is growing increasingly desperate. As the grim reality of their helpless situation slowly begins to dawn on the doomed friends, hydrophobic Amy (Susan May Pratt) struggles to maintain her composure after realizing that her baby daughter Sarah is helpless and alone aboard the boat. Now treading water as panic begins to set in, the once inseparable friends fast begin to turn on one another as exhaustion begins to set in and the vast ocean threatens to swallow the entire group without a trace. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:39:32 GMTOpen Water 2: Adrift2007Hans HornA seafaring birthday celebration takes a turn for the terrifying when the passengers of a luxury yacht forget to lower the automated ladder before jumping into the ocean for a playful swim. It was a perfect setting for a relaxing weekend at sea, but sometimes even the best-planned trips can take an unexpected turn for the worst. After diving into the ocean and realizing to their horror that they have forgotten to lower the safety ladder, the friends who had set out for a simple weekend getaway realize that they have become helplessly stranded in the middle of the ocean. The sheer sides of the yacht are impossible to climb, and now the group is growing increasingly desperate. As the grim reality of their helpless situation slowly begins to dawn on the doomed friends, hydrophobic Amy (Susan May Pratt) struggles to maintain her composure after realizing that her baby daughter Sarah is helpless and alone aboard the boat. Now treading water as panic begins to set in, the once inseparable friends fast begin to turn on one another as exhaustion begins to set in and the vast ocean threatens to swallow the entire group without a trace. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide111http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u09020xyvuw.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Open_Water_2_Adrift/288710/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/9/29/35681.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Olly Blackburn’s sexy thriller Donkey Punch premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and we caught it as part of Fantastic Fest, where it was paired with a “Hipsters Overboard!” Donkey Punch Boat Party on Town Lake in Austin, which sadly did not involve the actually tossing overboard of any hipsters. Austin has tight jean, rakish-angle hat-wearing party rats coming out of the woodwork, and it probably would have been a benefit if some had slipped into the dark water, never to be seen again. The film is what you would get if you mashed Dead Calm and Open Water 2 together and sprinkled it liberally with heavy doses of ecstasy and trance club music. I know that it probably doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in a review when you reference Open Water 2: Adrift in the second paragraph, but that film should have had a title of its own and not been a sequel, because it’s not a bad Saturday afternoon thriller itself. Plus, it also involves a gaggle of young hipsters who shouldn’t be out on a luxury yacht. The plot of the film is fairly basic: three London girls visiting Mallorca on vacation meet up with three boys in town who crew on a yacht. Before long, they’re all out partying on the yacht, now with the addition of a 4th boy who was keeping an eye on the boat. Liberal amounts of drugs, alcohol and music lead to storytelling, where we all find out what a “donkey punch” is, and then, of course, to some donkey punching. It’s fairly graphic orgy-style sex, which is why the film landed an NC-17 rating for the States. Of course, the young and impressionable brother decides that he needs to impress, and he dishes out a donkey punch. This doesn’t really have the same desired result as the urban legend, and it results in one very dead blonde partygirl. The rest of the film concerns the boys trying to decide what to do about the situation. When they decide to dump the dead body overboard and say she fell off while drunk, the other two girls don’t take it too well. Suffice it to say there’s plenty of screaming, pleading, bleeding, and dying. While the film doesn’t feel like a groundbreaking new indie or cinematic breakthrough, what’s impressive is that Blackburn manages to make this feel like an extremely expensive film, even though the budget was only a million pounds. The actors, pretty much unknown to American audiences, all give solid performances, although Tom Burke stands out among them as the antagonizing Bluey. The film looks gorgeous and has an ambient moody score that is reminiscent of Michael Mann’s Heat. Blackburn has only directed three small films and an episode of a television series in the UK, however Donkey Punch manages to feel like a slickly produced studio movie with at least ten times the budget. If you’re in the mood for a Shallow Grave-esque thriller with a bit more sex and drugs, then you’ll probably want to check out this movie. Let’s just hope that it doesn’t give rise to Dirty Sanchez: The Movie. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:19 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com9/29/2008 12:01:19 PM Olly Blackburn’s sexy thriller Donkey Punch premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and we caught it as part of Fantastic Fest, where it was paired with a “Hipsters Overboard!” Donkey Punch Boat Party on Town Lake in Austin, which sadly did not involve the actually tossing overboard of any hipsters. Austin has tight jean, rakish-angle hat-wearing party rats coming out of the woodwork, and it probably would have been a benefit if some had slipped into the dark water, never to be seen again. The film is what you would get if you mashed Dead Calm and Open Water 2 together and sprinkled it liberally with heavy doses of ecstasy and trance club music. I know that it probably doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in a review when you reference Open Water 2: Adrift in the second paragraph, but that film should have had a title of its own and not been a sequel, because it’s not a bad Saturday afternoon thriller itself. Plus, it also involves a gaggle of young hipsters who shouldn’t be out on a luxury yacht. The plot of the film is fairly basic: three London girls visiting Mallorca on vacation meet up with three boys in town who crew on a yacht. Before long, they’re all out partying on the yacht, now with the addition of a 4th boy who was keeping an eye on the boat. Liberal amounts of drugs, alcohol and music lead to storytelling, where we all find out what a “donkey punch” is, and then, of course, to some donkey punching. It’s fairly graphic orgy-style sex, which is why the film landed an NC-17 rating for the States. Of course, the young and impressionable brother decides that he needs to impress, and he dishes out a donkey punch. This doesn’t really have the same desired result as the urban legend, and it results in one very dead blonde partygirl. The rest of the film concerns the boys trying to decide what to do about the situation. When they decide to dump the dead body overboard and say she fell off while drunk, the other two girls don’t take it too well. Suffice it to say there’s plenty of screaming, pleading, bleeding, and dying. While the film doesn’t feel like a groundbreaking new indie or cinematic breakthrough, what’s impressive is that Blackburn manages to make this feel like an extremely expensive film, even though the budget was only a million pounds. The actors, pretty much unknown to American audiences, all give solid performances, although Tom Burke stands out among them as the antagonizing Bluey. The film looks gorgeous and has an ambient moody score that is reminiscent of Michael Mann’s Heat. Blackburn has only directed three small films and an episode of a television series in the UK, however Donkey Punch manages to feel like a slickly produced studio movie with at least ten times the budget. If you’re in the mood for a Shallow Grave-esque thriller with a bit more sex and drugs, then you’ll probably want to check out this movie. Let’s just hope that it doesn’t give rise to Dirty Sanchez: The Movie. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/ocean/MemberTagFilms.aspxocean
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