The Reel Rejects - DEEP BLUE SEA (1999) MOVIE REVIEW - FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:01:00 Top story, the flavor merger of the century between the peanut butter group and Chocolatty Corp. Joining me is a PBC executive. Thanks for having me, Barry. Now, how did you know the merger and the byproduct of it, GIFP peanut butter and chocolate-flavored spread, would be a success? You know, it was a gut feeling, a rumbling, if you will. Besides, there are two titans of taste. Very true. Goes great with pretzels.

Starting point is 00:01:23 And pancakes. Apples, too, I bet. Try GIFPBC today. citizens of the reject nation happy new year to you i don't know when this is going to air this is our first reaction of the new year we are diving into deep blue sea i have not seen this john i'm ready to have a whale of a time coy you know i walked in here and we were talking about how we haven't seen this and the only thing i know about it john didn't even know about it and that there is a song oh the extent i know about this

Starting point is 00:02:00 is there is a lyric, deepest, bluest, my head is like a shark's fin. Okay? What that means, I don't yet know. But L.O. Cool J said it, and ladies love Cool James,

Starting point is 00:02:11 so we're going to find out. And speaking of, who's your favorite rapper, turn, actor, Thespian? Leave it in the comments, people. Now, please do like this video so we know that you enjoyed it

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Starting point is 00:02:58 They do a great job helping us out over at Prepper, so much, much appreciated. Without further ado, it's time to finally discover what LL's been saying all these years. Let's deep, let's blue, let's see. Hey, party boat. Here comes the next shift. We saw the big exploding red wave. Wow. Take me back to the ghetto.

Starting point is 00:03:28 Oh, my God. Amen. Oh, it's Rennie Harlan. This is the song. Three people wrote this. One wrote the story, one wrote that monologue, one wrote the dialogue. One wrote the dialogue. Akeva Goldsman.

Starting point is 00:03:48 Wow. Bleed to death with no arms, short sleeves. Oh, my God. this is legitimately the rap theme to deep blue sea he's will smithing it right now he's he's he must have been inspired by like wild wild west what was that era men of black yeah was this 99 or 90 something oh shark action supervisor there were sharks you got to have a shark action supervisor Deepest, bluest, my head is like a shark spit.

Starting point is 00:04:31 What is that mean? It's the chorus, it's repeated. What does it mean? It means he's tall enough that whenever he goes places, you can see the top of his head over any, like, bookshelves or any high surfaces, yeah. Deep as bluest. I'm just so happy, right? This is literally the last thing I would have expected.

Starting point is 00:04:54 You're getting up in a trailer in 2000-something, and this is just, In the speakers, you don't know how good life is. Guys, listen, if you're listening right now on Apple and Spotify, leave five stars and don't click off this podcast just yet. Because I want to know your favorite music tie-in to a movie as done by an actor in it. Oh, my God, that is a... It's a very small list, but... It's a very broad playing field coin.

Starting point is 00:05:20 I'm curious what your favorite is. Oh, my. Is it a cat in the beat? Maybe. God. This song, I'm sorry Usually we just start talking Right away, but I'm just so mesmerized by this

Starting point is 00:05:34 Leave that five stars And then once you are done with this podcast Go spin LL Cool J's Shark Finn song Like five or six times Just to treat yourself Coy That's a fresh drip you got there This it's bright and red

Starting point is 00:05:53 It would do well in this film to Ler Sharks And that would be what I'd be doing You could dance your pecs. As a member of Rejectation, I'd be like sharks, sharks. Actually, LL. Oh, I'm drawn to motion and bright colors. Oh, join me, sharks. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:06 You too can get one of these or one of these. Oh, this is after you've been bitten by the shark. That's true. That's true. You turn purple. And what's it called? What did he say? The bruising was he was trying to keep it down.

Starting point is 00:06:17 That's right. Yeah, totally. Totally. We're all in spirit of the film. And you can be, too, if you go to rejagnation shop.com. We've got so many great shirt. Just go look at it. Some of the shirts, there will be.

Starting point is 00:06:29 Someday we'll find a reason to do a shark tea. There's a cat or something in this beat. Yeah. Maybe sharks make that sound. What a sharks sound like? Yeah, what do sharks sound? You know, they capture a whale song and you got the dolphin, you know, like, ah! They can talk broadly in the sequel.

Starting point is 00:06:49 Is there a deep blue C2? Where their brains kept growing? Could they call it deeper bluer? Deeper bluer. man what a movie that was a blast and I mean yes this movie obviously has like its own you know like I've never heard any like really detailed description of this no because it's a very straightforward movie for what it's doing Jurassic Park and Shark but yeah Jurassic shark Jurassic shark but is that megal it is that

Starting point is 00:07:23 the that is that the Megaliton that's Jason Statham's in that one yeah Jurassic. They should have fucking called a Jurassic shark. Those fools. Those fools. You can't copyright the name Jurassic because it's a time period. You could make a Jurassic Shark. It is.

Starting point is 00:07:35 You could. Why haven't you made Jurassic Shark? Oh. Hey. Don't give that many inspiration. If you do that, we're going to timestamp this airing and I just want to cut. You go write it. I just want some concept cut.

Starting point is 00:07:48 Jurassic Shark. You can send us $50 out of your $500. Yeah. I think that's fair. We've given you that much. Oh, I mean, yeah. It's funny that this is, it's funny that this. should be a Rennie Harlan movie. I haven't seen all of Rennie Harlan's movies by any stretch,

Starting point is 00:08:02 but I do understand the sort of like interesting mystique that like Rennie Harlan can make some like high production fun, you know, craziness on screen. And oftentimes, I mean, you know, he's been behind some some pretty significant bombs that were expensive and, you know, has often in more recent years. But, you know, like taking on stuff that like clearly might not be like the first, I don't know, I get to, maybe he loves every movie he makes, but like, I get the sense that Reni Harlan is a guy who could be making different kinds of movies if a couple of his

Starting point is 00:08:35 other movies went to different directions. What's he known for? Well, Cutthroat Island was like a really big you know, high production, semi-flop and whatnot, but let's look them up really quick so that I'm not misleading you, because he's done like, I think he did

Starting point is 00:08:51 Die Hard 2, which, you know. Oh, okay, that sounds right, actually, not that you've said it. I wouldn't have pulled that myself. Die Hard 2. Cliffhanger, Deep Blue C. Exorcist, The Beginning. Oh, that's what he's up to.

Starting point is 00:09:07 I think he did some kind of big old action movie recently. So, yeah, like, it's funny. I didn't know who directed it, but I'm like, oh, yeah. That's a totally on brand. That makes some sense right there. Music Supervisor, L.L. Cool J. I love that his agent got him a music supervisor title. Yes.

Starting point is 00:09:23 Oh, that's so good. And what does that mean then? Did he just? did he just choose Deepest bluest Sharks fit The name of the song It's called Deepest Blueish Sharksman

Starting point is 00:09:33 I'm so Many people wrote it It's on DeafJ Okay divine There's one that's not an LL Johnny Nash All right so they're not all So he did yeah

Starting point is 00:09:41 He gathered other Yeah but it's funny That he was able to leverage That on top of the song You know there are some I respect it There's some needle drops There's some needle drop

Starting point is 00:09:49 He did the brick layer He's done a Oh he did skip trace Which is like an action thing yeah some episodes he's done a bunch

Starting point is 00:10:00 the covenant that like I think diehardt too is why I knew his name yeah yeah and so 99 the year of the

Starting point is 00:10:06 matrix the year of fight club the year of American beauty American pie the six cents also brought us oh yeah

Starting point is 00:10:13 deep blue sea deepest blue as shark's fin yeah this was saffron burrows was her name I forgot the actress his name

Starting point is 00:10:18 she was like in that late 90s early 2000s she had a little heyday saffron burrows the richest sounding name I know

Starting point is 00:10:25 that is an old money right there. Your first name is a spice. Your last name is like a verb like burroughs, Saffron Burroughs. And not just any spice but like a spice that like fancy as spice. You use sparingly and is costly. Yeah, no, she sounds like Saffron

Starting point is 00:10:40 Burroughs. Yeah. I've also never seen this. Oh, goodness. Well, hey. The Hoff. I've not seen I feel like they showed us like clips from it in high school science. But yeah. Not like the actual complete movie. Let's not watch it so close to 2020. I feel

Starting point is 00:10:56 Like, we just lived outbreak. So, yeah. With my impression of Rennie Harlan, this makes perfect sense that he would make this movie. That was a fun reaction, though. I'm actually really glad. It's usually, uh, there's a moment during a watch where I'm like, either I didn't need to see this or I wish I'd seen this in the theater. Sure. This should be seen this way.

Starting point is 00:11:19 No, no, like reacting to it was a better experience than any other way I could have seen it. This is, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like this was a party. Perfect. reaction movie because it's like it's always moving at an enjoyable pace and for whatever reason the blend of like yeah the script in terms of the characters is often like kind of wacky and like an action movie and it's like everyone's making they water puns and stuff but yeah like the actual

Starting point is 00:11:46 nuts and bolts of the movie it's like it doesn't have to be this super deep rumination on anything if it doesn't want to be as long as it's blue as long as it's deep and it's blue and it's at the sea somewhere and yeah it's like the action you know punches and the suspense is pretty good and like the things this movie is here to do it's good at doing and the cast

Starting point is 00:12:07 yeah the cast you know showed up so no matter how wacky some of the dialogue can be like I still bought everybody and I still liked the general crew and I like that you didn't need too much nonsense or melodrama really

Starting point is 00:12:23 and even initially when it was just LL on his own I was like oh damn like you know yeah I was bomb to he was on his own separate movie and then he wouldn't get to and then they made it a second way for him and it was like it was great and he lived and yeah and you have you know Sam Jackson who always even though this is earlier on you know he's still well established by now and brings a certain amount of weight uh to a role like that monologue was so good was so good and then for him to get I like I would have loved to be in a theater during that moment because that moment I think again I would imagine that at the time this came out, you wouldn't have expected that because of the casting of Samuel Jackson, like, is a loaded thing.

Starting point is 00:13:04 Again, he's clearly, you know, of the Sam Jackson, you know, status that we know, and it's only grown since then. So that effect only gets better if you don't know what's going to happen because then it's like, well, it's Sam Jackson. He's got to be great. Yeah, it's the rich guy at the end that goes like, I shouldn't have done this. Yeah, exactly. I thought he was going to be Richard Atmarrow. I thought he was going to, like, close the park. And this had that really,

Starting point is 00:13:29 they've had that, like, old-timey, almost like haze code-esque quality where it's like, okay, like everyone involved with this in the most sort of morally dubious ways gets eaten or killed in some way, shape, or form. And it's like you expect that the main, you know, doctor lady who's on the poster is going to survive to the end. And she almost does. But then, like, it almost feels like that moral periphery magic

Starting point is 00:13:54 has to come back and be like, no, this is you, like, abusing these sharks at creating this situation and violating all kinds of, you know, human laws as well. So, like, you don't get to, you know, triumph, which is funny to me because, and there's no, like, canned romance between her and Thomas Jane. They didn't have to Jurassic Whirl us into having them, you know, somehow come around to a romance. It's a little flirtation with intimacy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like I bought the, on.

Starting point is 00:14:24 ensemble of them in the way you would like an alien movie like it's just enough of that like alien movie thing where it's like okay you've got an ensemble in some remote lab yeah and then it's jaws and then it's drastic park should we have done this is this you know a crime against nature and it's like the B movie version of all that stuff but like it's yeah well effective and it gets the right things I think pretty right that's why asylum hasn't done this yet because it's close yeah it's like this is asylum's Jurassic Park it is Jurassic shark it totally is I had a lot of more fun than I expected I hadn't known much. I knew the theme song because it's iconic. But that's all I knew. And then when the cast kept popping up, I kept thinking like, oh, this is a bigger movie than I thought it was. I kept thinking this was a smaller film.

Starting point is 00:15:08 But the cast kept stacking. And even though Scars Guard wasn't big at the time, it's still, L.L. was huge at the time. I think Saffron Burroughs is probably like the height of her powers. Thomas Jane was like right around the mist era. This was like the ascension of Thomas Jane. So this was like a stacked cast. And I love SWAT.

Starting point is 00:15:24 SWAT has LL and Samuel Jackson in it so that's also around this era So I was really that's all I kind of knew was the song So I knew LL was in it But I had so much fun discovering the fun of it And I think the best thing this movie does is It's one of the best ticking clock Slash dynamite lit movies I've ever seen

Starting point is 00:15:43 Like the adventure is constantly level up Level up level up the water is the villain The Sharks of the villain Man versus Self there's so much going on But the tension is palpable And it really makes you feel like you're in it. Like, I got cold at points. I felt like I was, like, in the

Starting point is 00:15:57 claustrophobia. So, like, the script is rough. But, the story is good for what the movie is. Like, the story allows you to keep ramping up that tension. And then when they needed a good writing, they gave him a monologue. But, like, it was, uh, I had a blast. Like, and I'm glad to watch it this way. I think this

Starting point is 00:16:14 format, like, sharing it and yelling was way more fun than, like, catching it on TV even. Yeah, it's Hollywood. It's like Hollywood pulpit its finest, because, yeah, like, I'm fascinated by movies like this. It's funny. It's nothing like Silent Hill,

Starting point is 00:16:28 but the most recent time I watched that movie, I had this fascinating experience with it where I was like, this is beautifully a midnight movie, you know, for reasons that could, you know, like there are things that could be better about this that make it kind of fun and cheesy.

Starting point is 00:16:43 But also, like, the other half of what it's doing, it's actually like pretty good at doing and is really effective at. And so it's like, it's one of those movies that has that meme-like quality that has that sort of B-movie exploitation quality but without feeling like anybody like

Starting point is 00:16:57 it's like even though the script is kind of wacky and the dialogue's kind of wacky I don't feel like anybody just didn't care you know like I feel like you know people had fun or at least like wanted to you know make something punchy and and you know easily consumable but yeah it's like it's had just the right amount of like turning the screws and yeah it's like you get a guy like running Harlan who is a bit of a vet who can you know take that and elevate, like you said, all those ticking clocks and all those proximal things of, yeah, it's like this part's collapsing and there's fire above us and there's water

Starting point is 00:17:30 down here and it feels like you're watching some kind of classic disaster movie. Like, it's a bunch of stuff all rolled into this, yeah, like fun blockbuster monster movie package and it's like, it's one of those movies where like any of the flaws almost improving. Enhance it. Yeah. It's really got its own like, well, that made it better. This is a movie full of bugs that are features. Yes, yes. A hundred way. In the best way.

Starting point is 00:17:53 Man, they did, in fact, die hard. Now that I know the director, that really does allow for that ticking clock to feel. Like, yeah, that was so, that part is so impressive. Yeah. And all we needed was a naked workout scene. I mean, we were so close, you know, right there next time.

Starting point is 00:18:06 That's in deeper, blue, or seeer. Yes. This was fun. We hope that you enjoyed our zeal because I was way more cheery, loud, excited than I expected that. I had a lot of fun with that. I'm now going to crank that on the way home along with Headsprung,

Starting point is 00:18:17 which I love, I love going back to Cali, but I'm a Cali person. That song's actually about, L.L. hating Callie if you listen to lyrics. Because I'm not going back to Cali. He doesn't like Cali. It was the West Coast East Coast Beef. So at the time, he was not in the West Coast side. He was a New York guy. There's a lot

Starting point is 00:18:32 of history about that song. But I do like Headsprung because it is when LL has come back to hip hop. And I did like that he had that beautiful arc as an actor still acting, but Headsprung felt like he was like, by the way, I can do it both. So that was the era of LL. I like, but Rock the Bell's is one of

Starting point is 00:18:48 Eminem's favorite albums and Eminem considers LL the greatest of all time. So I to end this video by saying listen to some LL, put some respect on his name, he's one of the goats that doesn't get appreciation. I'd say him and Buster Rhymes, all you kids don't love to the scale you should. A lot of people know the classics. Those are like

Starting point is 00:19:04 right after the classics, right before the modern, and they fell somewhere off the goat list, and that's wrong. Buster Rimes and Lickle J. Icons. And they're both in the Halloween franchise. I've never seen the one with Busta. Oh, it's fun. I will say this.

Starting point is 00:19:20 There are two very very prominent appearances by notable rap artists in the Halloween franchise and one is a good performance and the other one is a highlight I mean they're both highlights one of them is actually like a decent solid performance and the other one is

Starting point is 00:19:38 Buster Rhymes because I'm worried it's not definitely Buster Rhymes great rapper Buster Rhymes I'm so excited for you to see that Excellent rap artist Halloween Resurrection is peak Is it in Resurrection? It's in resurrection.

Starting point is 00:19:53 Who's in H2O? L.L. is in H2O. Okay. I think I saw that in theater, so I was like, sad. And he's like an actual performance. Right. Because it's Joe's Corrin-Levinson that one. Yay.

Starting point is 00:20:03 Or Josh Hartnett. H-2-O I saw in theater, so I was like, I was way too young. Snuck into that. Jiggle might be in it, but I know Hartnett is like Jamie Lee's kid. Oh. Who's in the boarding school and all that stuff. Which is like the faculty era of heartnet, which is a favorite heartnet era of mine. And then Buster rhymes, they just put the camera on him and they were like,

Starting point is 00:20:20 See, the thing is, to close us out, to make the Deep Blue Sea review about Halloween rapper appearances. Yes, please. L.O. Cool J is like an actual character and they're like, okay, cool. We're working with you. Obviously, you have your appeal,

Starting point is 00:20:32 but you're going to be the security guard and you're going to be a character. Then you watch Resurrection, and it's like, we got Buster Ryan. What do we do? A camera on him and just let him do his thing. Just let him do whatever he wants. And that's the budget right there.

Starting point is 00:20:45 You know who was good at Daredevil? Have you seen the Culeo cut? The director's cut? Yes. He's so good. Speaking of rappers that can actually act Coelio's good in Daredevil. Yes.

Starting point is 00:20:53 Justice for the Coilio cut. The next Coy comic corner is actually just going to be a rapers turned actors that are good. Yes. Busta at the top of the list. Buster rhymes, you're a great rapper. Well, that's going to do it for this episode

Starting point is 00:21:06 of John and Coy discuss rap unexpectedly at the end of Deep Blue Sea. Please let us know in the comments below who your favorite rapper turned actor is and who your favorite actor turned rapper is because that's another conversation. Also, I haven't seen Twisters since V8 And the new Twisters coming out this year.

Starting point is 00:21:23 That'd be a fun rewatch. Oh, boy. Because I haven't seen that. I think it would almost count as a first time watch because that was like 97. Coaster. I would have been nine. So, yeah, let us know below what you want us to watch. This is always fun.

Starting point is 00:21:36 Teaming up with John. This one was a roller coaster ride. Oh, yeah. With sharks. Much love, Reject Nation. We'll see you soon. Shark. Shark, shark, shark, shark, shark.

Starting point is 00:21:46 Shark, shark, shark, shark, shark, shark, shark. Thank you.

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