THE WORST MOVIE OF 70s!
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Hancock_the_Superb — 13 years ago(April 23, 2012 05:22 PM)
Jesus H. Christ, are you seriously using the "go watch Transformers" over beep Orca? There really is no shame on IMDB.
I really like the implication that "youngsters" are too stupid to enjoy this movie. This isn't a classic whose reputation faded over time: it was roundly detested in its day and remains so now.
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captgage-1 — 14 years ago(September 19, 2011 07:18 PM)
far worse films than this, I'm afraid, have been made by people that recognized in a mercenary instant, an opportunity to turn a buck using some other hack director's work about killer wild animals.
You mean Spielberg's a hack (I know that's some people's opinion), or the directors of all those other killer wild animal movies? We know THEY'RE hacks!
That said, I know Changing Lanes would come out years after Orca, but it occurred to me awhile ago that Orca was kind of like that but with a killer wild animal LOL.
Take a body of water, throw in a shark, a whale, a lion, a bear, a big fluffy dog, and a human being. The only monster in there is the human being, the rest are just animals.
Point taken there.
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lm362 — 9 years ago(September 13, 2016 11:49 PM)
Apparently, you do not know much about orcas. There have been many reports of mother orcas following boats and those on the boats in fear because of thinking she would seek revenge on them for disturbing/harming her calf. This movie has parts that are very believable, if you have done the proper research. This movie told a good story, had great lessons like showing respect for other living things.
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DarkSideOfTheMoonriseKingdom — 19 years ago(October 01, 2006 11:49 AM)
OK. This was a great movie (finally one i like with Richard Harris) but, don't diss it. Go talk to your friends how much i sucked, not to people who like it. This board is to discuss great movies, not dissing and hating them.
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Etherdave — 15 years ago(August 20, 2010 01:05 PM)
Actually, the thread title suggests that this is not a fanboy site. If you cannot bear to see a film that is beloved to you held up to the harsh, bright light of cinema critique, then this discussion is not for you. If you feel you can arrange a defense of this film by means of a coherent argument, then by all means go for it.
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hecklejecklelove — 19 years ago(December 15, 2006 01:41 AM)
I watched this movie as a kid, and loved it. I was rooting for the whale all the way.
Its no classic, but it never tries to be. Its just plain emotional fun.
Every now and then, when I feel like it, Ill put the VHS in the machine and watch this litle 1977 gem.
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Flowbeer — 19 years ago(January 20, 2007 02:54 AM)
You are being so silly. There were PLENTY of WORSE films of the 70's than poor old 'Orca' was! Get real!
Like, try JAWS II?
Or Humanoids from the Deep?!
Too many BAD movies back then to "worry" about! Just see them in time, whenever!
Other great 70's films to see:
Piranha
Slithis
Grizzly
Its Alive
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raymond-x-jacobsen — 19 years ago(February 03, 2007 06:46 AM)
Good job, flowbeer, I agree with you. I actually love this movie, and "White Buffalo"I thought both were very well-made, and there are certainly worse movies out there from that eraremember "Tentacles", with Shelly Winters and the giant Octopus? Lordy, now THERE'S a bad movie. And I agree with your other reccomendations, alsoand there was also "Day of the Animals", and "The Pack", and so many others.
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Flowbeer — 19 years ago(February 03, 2007 11:18 AM)
Yea, some people just like to trash movies to piss people off! I remember Tentacles, as an add, but never saw it! But with Shelly Winters in it, how good can it be?
I think they were running out of underwater 'creatures that kill' ideas! Piranha, Baracuda, Piranha II: The Spawning (flying piranha!).the '70's was also the era of adding "environmentalism" into plot lines, as in "Man is bad and is polluting nature, so Nature will STRIKE BACK against Man!" etc.
Day of the Animals, I think, was blamed on AERESOL SPRAYS! Cut a couple of years later, and you couldn't buy canned deoderant anymore, you could only find Tussy! (LOL, I'm exaggerating to make a point!) That's how damn influential Hollywood was in getting our "awareness" up on "envirnmental issues".
I mentioned 'Slithis'. This flop, like the Humanoids from the Deep creatures, was a big green thing, spawned by "man's radioactive waste"!
There was 'Nightwing', about the Native Americans and how "white man was ruining the land" and so the bats started attacking at night! Wow!
By 1979, there was 'Prophecy', which was about, again, the poor Native Americans, and how BAD "the white man" was for having a logging company, and their polluting the water lead to "deformed" babies and a monster bear that ATTACKS Man (again). I just got this on DVD, it's one of the better of that era.
There were other ones.I'm sure 'The Pack' was based on dogs that went wild by some "government/Army site" or "experiments"! There have been tons of movies, where animals are "engineered" to be "killling machines".it's on the tip of my brainoh yea, Piranha, "the Army" was developing these "weapons" to "kill our enemies" and by pt. II, they "altered" them genetically to FLY! As if they could "command" them to kill specific people! Laughable!
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lm362 — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 12:05 AM)
You have not described accurately the movie, The Pack. It was about dogs that were abandoned by vacationers on an island and the dogs turned wild and started attacking animals and people. Good and sad movie.
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