Open Water - spoiler if not watched??

'Tis said that the human being is incapable of drowning him/herself in the same way that it's impossible to hold your breath until you're dead... (i.e. if there's a possible way to breathe, your body will force you to take it.)

Never tested this theory myself, though...

BTW, thought the film was complete rubbish!
 
I think she drowned herself rather than wait to be eaten by the sharks. I enjoyed the film. It was tense all the way through with a non-hollywood ending. No last minute rescue.
 
After watching an hour of this film I turned it off because it was so bad. I took it back to blockbusters and told them it was that bad that they gave me a free rental :D
 
I dont know what people thought so bad of this film. Was it because most of it was just dialogue between the couple? I found it pretty good and very interesting to watch. I'm 'glad' (I guess) that it dind't have a typical Hollywood ending (ie. they both get saved and live happily ever after).
 
And if you didn't leave the cinema (or stop the DVD) right as the credits roll, you'd see a scene of fishermen cutting open a dead shark and finding the couple's underwater camera in its belly... (i.e. presumably they had the film developed and realise it's of/by the two missing people...)
 
I was going post a similar reply, i always watch film credits to the end, theres loaRAB of stuff that can be missed, if you stop the film as soon as the credits roll.
 
I also enjoyed it and am quite surprised by the comments both on here and also the thread on here when it came out, it's not that bad, OK no action fest but it certainly put me off diving!
 
I love diving and it never stopped me. In fact, 3 months ago I went adrift off the coast of an Indonesian island. The current had carried 3 of us about 4km oRABhore in the wrong direction and the boat couldn't find us or hear us, even though we could see it in the distance. I had a weak ankle and after 40 mins of kicking to try and get nearer the boat, I had to stop, and drifted about 1 km further away from the other 2 divers, on my own. I have to say I did start panicking after an hour and a half on the surface in the baking heat, I had terrible sunburn on my hanRAB and had to float with my head in the water using my snorkel so my face didn't burn any more, but the water kept coming into the snorkel because of the waves, which was making me thirstier, and light headed. It wasn't a pleasant experience.

And the worst of it was that "Open Water" kept starting to pop into my head and I started imagining it happening to me.

But thank goodness we did get rescued in the end, and I still dive, but I do tend to stick around the divemasters more now...
 
The ending took me by surprise, I didnt realise it was such a short movie (77min) so when she took off her diving kit and dropped under the surface, the last thing I expected was the credits to roll.............quite enjoyed the film though
 
It looked like she was killed by sharks to me. The thing about being possible to drown yourself is probaly not quite true, you probaly could if you wanted to enough. I saw after the credits, was it real footage? I thought the film was quite good and liked the ending. You can't expect too much of it though, it had pretty much no budget and was done with a personal video camera. Suprised at the nudity, was this to make sure they didn't get a 12A/PG13 rating (the film was american wasn't it?).
 
I cant understand why people are slating this movie. The fact that it was based on a true story. What do people want to see here?
Awww no blood and guts, no scenes of sharks tearing them apart!! Well without the fact that no one actually can witness the final fate of the 2 stranded divers only presume. I thought the film was real eerie. It sent a shudder down my spine. A nice relaxing holiday and you get deserted in the middle of the ocean.... GREAT....... How do you get out of this one?

I just remember sitting there waiting for this Jaws like attack on them both. It never came. I just gathered that at the end the girl removed all her oxygen supply and went under hoping not to come back up. The sharks probably had them after they were dead. If you think about it they would be pretty weak from exhaustion and dehydration.

Anyway I liked the film for a low budget. Better than The Blair Witch Project anyway.
 
I don't know wether everyone realises but they were real, grown sharks in the film, there was no CGI or anything, so I don't know how an attack could have been filmed.

I think some shots, like when they look underwater and it's full of sharks are trickshots and they were done in a tank.
 
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