Here is another review of the movie "The Cave" originally posted by
John Lyes to the New Mexico caver email list.
Mark Minton
Years ago, the 2 popular flicks which were immortalized and shown at my former
grotto's Christmas parties were:
Cave In (Irving Allen film, of Posidon Adventure, Burning Inferno, etc)
What Waits Below (filmed in Cumberland Cavern, TN I think)
Both were horribly done, B flicks, but still they attracted some of us to
watch, more out of curiosity if for no other redeeming reason. Will this one be
the next 'cult' classic, at least among anebriated cavers at parties? Sort of
like Rocky Horror Picture Show. People would be shouting out the lines, and
throwing popcorn, no better yet, drooling, all over the sofa and TV screen?
I saw it today with our 10 year old. It certainly had a monster every minute,
once it got rolling. I saw a LOT of resemblence to Aliens, the original one,
when they first went to the planet to mine whatever it was.... Caving wise,
they sure didn't give a crap about that cave, only wanted to scoop booty, but
so what if a little while sloth-like mole creature ran into them and scared the
bejesus out of them at first. I think Myles is having a hard time getting to
sleep tonight, waiting for the boogey man to come out of the closet. He said he
might not want to go caving with me for a while.
And what about the first 5 minutes, the team of mean and nasty looking
(solders?) blasting in, did I miss the explanation of this? Besides setting up
the situation for the cavers later? Finally, is there going to be a sequel? The
Cave II? I liked the tough blonde chick ("this cave ROCKS"), who just climbed
up a 300 foot wall in minutes, and did that pendulum thing with the blowtorch!
Hey, what about that statement that it was a mile deep and 3 miles horizontal
to their basecamp? I seemed to remember them showing a 300 foot deep decent to
the water. What decompression?
Have fun with this one, it sure has lots of scary monsters and lots of really
poor technique, climbing, diving while hanging on to a tank with one hand,
taking Dr. Nicoli on a 2.4 mile cave dive without training, caving without
decent lights (except those everready flashlights strapped to their wrists) and
the pseudo helmets. Hey who cares about the stals, they made for nasty
impalements. Well, a few of them got broke too.....
At least Wes Skyles had a part in the underwater shots. I rate this one a 2 out
of 5 chunks of carbide.
jtml
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