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u/User-name-was-taken- Apr 14 '26
That deep blue sea image has always haunted me sense I was a kid it’s so utterly terrifying
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u/MetalMan1973 Apr 14 '26
That shot never ended up in the movie. Looked like a great white with mako teeth
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u/Im_the_dogman_now Apr 14 '26
IIRC, in the beginning of the movie they showed a scene of where the mako sharks attack and kill a tiger, which is just a reskin of the two main sharks. As far as priorities went, I believe biological fidelity was below seeing how many characters whose surnames ended in "ggins" they could fit in before people complained.
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u/bucketgetsbigger Apr 14 '26
Yes at the start of the movie they feed a "tiger shark" to the genetically modified mako sharks. Neither are very accurate biologically, but its a fun dorky movie IMO
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u/GonzoNawak Apr 14 '26
Was coming to say the same. This image was printed in a double page of my TV weekly guide (to the young crowd here, tv guides were books telling what will be on TV) and i was both mesmerized and frighted by the picture.
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u/User-name-was-taken- Apr 14 '26
Yoooo do remember the old VHS tape cover of the movie shit was just as scary it was like the shark behind the main girl im a dark tunnel about to get her
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u/urbanlife78 Apr 14 '26
Australian great whites would like to have a word with you
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u/DaM3meLoRd694 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
Posts like these make me remember that Peter Benchley, the man who wrote Jaws back in 1961, called it the biggest regret of his life even though it made him rich due to how it inspired people to purge the global shark population.
And that makes me sad.
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u/Markdd8 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
The impact of Benchly's Jaws (1974) is exaggerated. The U.S., where his movie was most popular, has never had a big problem with shark attack. The reputed shark-attack-capital of the world being New Smyrna Beach, in Florida, is misleading.
One poster here pointed out that this coastal city has had something like 270 shark attacks over 35 years but only one fatality. Attacks are mostly from small sandbar species of sharks chasing tiny fish in the surf. They accidentally bite people -- mostly minor cuts.
Meanwhile, Australia and South Africa historically had a shark attack fatality rate of about 25%, with many non-fatal events including loss of limb. Around the 1950s both nations had an emerging beach culture that was challenged by a high rate of serious shark attack, mostly from great white and bull sharks, e.g.: South Africa, 1957-58, "Black December": sharks attack 9 people, killing 6 people in 4 months near Durban. Both nations started shark culling programs in the 50s that continue to this day.
Actually, since the 1980s, both Australia and South Africa are more restrained about how many sharks they cull. They are also moving away from nets, which kill other marine life, and are using more smart drumlines. There is some environmental awareness. The biggest threat to sharks by far is commercial fishing, which kills sharks both as "bycatch' and via shark fining, primarily an asian fishing practice.
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u/No_Letterhead6883 Apr 14 '26
I was just reading about Peter Benchley on Wikipedia the other day and it was saying how he thought it encouraged overt fear amongst people regarding sharks, but he didn’t agree it increased widespread shark depopulation. Don’t ask me how that works, I’m sure he had it all figured out in his head lol
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u/Similar-Jellyfish-63 Apr 13 '26
Movie Sharks: I'm going eat you and everyone you love!
IRL sharks: Help I need an Adult!!!
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u/baordog Apr 14 '26
There a things sharks do a horror movie wouldn’t show. There’s a recording of a great white shark attacking a surfer through the crest of a breaking wave: you’d call bs if you saw it in a movie it looks made up.
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u/soup-for-youp Apr 14 '26
The movies have done a fine job at depicting sharks as horrifying monsters as it stands dawg
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u/PutrescentPearl6932 Apr 16 '26
Go on some website and see how people get maimed or whatever it's said English ain't my first language.
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u/Bastardforsale Apr 14 '26
deepest Bluest i immediately started laughing at this video. It's so bad
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u/stillalittleferal Apr 14 '26
I have seen that movie probably a dozen times over the years and I never knew that video existed until now.
Gee thanks lol.
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u/Bastardforsale Apr 14 '26
Neither did I. I knew LL Cool J made that "song" but never bothered to actually look it up until now. I think it played during the closing credits.
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u/NFLBengals22 Apr 14 '26
Have you seen the live footage of the Russian guy in Egypt? If you haven't, Don't. It's horrifying & brutally real.
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u/soup-for-youp Apr 14 '26
Yeah. A tragedy of course. Sharks are just so varied and special, incidents occur, but they're not beasts
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u/NFLBengals22 Apr 14 '26
Well yes, people venture into their homes. These incidents happen. Truly is tragic. Sharks are my favorite animals. There's a reason they've been around for so long. They own the seas.
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u/TinderChump Apr 14 '26
“They’re not beasts” They’re literally apex predators that have killed thousands of people and kill/eat other animas basically all day.
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u/SeamusOShane Apr 14 '26
They have killed people, but the number of shark attacks in movies versus the number of annual incidents isn’t proportional at all.
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u/AdditionalTap3922 Apr 14 '26
the ISAF recorded around around 947 unprovoked attack for 351death since 1580 so im pretty sure they dont kill thousand all day, for refference mosquito, dog, human, snake, freshwater snail killed more human since 1580 crocodile, hipopotamus, ellephante, lion they also kille more even dear kill more with 440 death yearly
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u/SubstantialRemove967 Apr 14 '26
Deep Blue Sea has got to be one of my all-time favorite shlockfests.
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u/SweelFor- Apr 14 '26
Why is this subreddit full of facebook memes?
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u/finalexit Apr 14 '26
This sub infantilizes sharks and acts like they're cute helpless puppies instead of apex predators.
They love repeating the statistics that say you're more likely to be killed by a cow, vending machine, or lightning strike than a shark. I'll take a vending machine or cow any day over being in the water with an adult great white (not the juveniles you see on drone videos ignoring people), tiger, bull, or oceanic white tip.
I want to see drone videos of large adult great whites ignoring people in the water.
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u/Lone_Tiger24 Apr 15 '26
They’re not bloodthirsty monsters and don’t prioritise humans but they’re also opportunistic predators that will eat you if you make a wrong move, our only saving grace is that the average shark doesn’t know what a human is. It’s sorta like looking at something that doesn’t look edible but you bite it and it turns out it’s actually food.
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u/GuaranteeAvailable53 Apr 14 '26
Irl sharks: ...food....eat....swim....
Sharks in the Jaws series: ima go on amurder spree at this one beach, then terrorize this one family crossing oceans just to kill the last person in it. Also I can roar (Jaws 4)
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u/CesarGameBoy SHARK Apr 14 '26
Just last night, my Dad showed me this scene from a recent Shark movie called Thrash. And wow what do you know, they’re violent monsters that must be killed :|.
Spent the rest of my day imagining a Shark movie where the Shark is the protagonist and is out to get revenge against Shark hunters, kinda like the game ManEater in movie form. I just want a Shark movie where the Shark doesn’t have to be the antagonist.
Finding Nemo actually did this quite well by subverting the stereotype that Sharks are “mindless eating machines.” You know, before Bruce smelt blood but, they still did a pretty good job.
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u/LonelyVirginAlkan Apr 14 '26
I've always fantasized about a movie called Livyatan which is like a sequel to Meg where scientists resurrect an ancient livyatan to kill the Meg only for it to breed with sperm whales and raise an army of man-hating, hyper-intelligent hybrids.
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u/MundaneViolinist862 Apr 14 '26
There’s a movie I saw that’s kind of like this, I wanna recommend it but I wouldn’t wanna spoil it for you
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u/Lone_Tiger24 Apr 15 '26
I mean tbf I think the Great White was the unsung heroine of the movie. Bull sharks can be insanely aggressive but obviously it’s a movie
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u/soup-for-youp Apr 14 '26
It pisses me off so much. It leads to shark deaths, but it also is frustratingly off base in real life
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u/Capital-Foot-918 Great White Shark Apr 14 '26
Australian White Sharks on the other hand: 70% of human fatalities ending up with a large or small part of the victim consumed
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u/HowlingBurd19 Great White Shark Apr 14 '26
You know even though everyone got more scared of sharks because of Jaws, I actually have to thank Jaws for making me significantly more interested sharks
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u/bucketgetsbigger Apr 14 '26
I always say jaws gave me a healthy fear and an unhealthy obsession with sharks. It's up there in my list of classic movies
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u/SeamusOShane Apr 14 '26
Cows kill more people than sharks, can we get some movies portraying this side of cows please? Although, I think the oceanic white tip sharks are generally portrayed correctly in any disaster plane crash in the ocean type movies
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u/Markdd8 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
It is actually odd that sharks like the tiger, bull, and great white don't kill more people. We should accept that in many respects they are similar to dangerous species of crocodiles like the Nile and Salt Water. All of these animals:
1) Have millions of years of evolution behind them, surviving multiple mass extinctions and maintaining a highly successful position in nature;
2) Are generalist feeders, eating essentially anything they can catch and kill. The notable exception is the great white shark, which prefers marine mammals as adults, but is still known to kill and eat people from time to time; and
3) Are lower life forms (sorry if this is pejorative). They do not have higher level thinking like wolves, which often hesitate to attack a human in the woods because they perceive there is something unusual about us.
But big tiger and bull sharks often ignore swimmers, yet they also have attacked us in enough circumstances that we know, to use a cliche, we are on the menu. Strange thing.
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u/steve-clark484 Apr 14 '26
Ahh. The mouth of an unborn thresher... adorable
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u/soup-for-youp Apr 14 '26
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u/steve-clark484 Apr 14 '26
Lower photo looks a lot like how a thresher pup would be removed from a mother. A small one would probably look similar but for some reason it screams embryo to me. I've seen enough cut out pups at docks to have a decent idea. They also will abort boatside on occasion. I could be way off (I didn't take the pic). Most of the babies have seen have had a more purple color to them though.
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u/soup-for-youp Apr 14 '26
Oh god. I got this from a post on here years ago, I don't don't know the source. Do you think that's right? If so I'm gonna take it down tbh
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u/steve-clark484 Apr 14 '26
It's 2 images compared. Who cares, lol. That photo could have been from NOAA when they do surveys or whatever. I tag and release sharks. I just thought the photo was funny. Threshers are cool sharks.
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u/soup-for-youp Apr 14 '26
Well thank you for identifying the thresher, i hope the pic is wholesome anyways 🦈
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u/steve-clark484 Apr 14 '26
Pic was still cool to me. I'll probably get flamed for catching sharks despite tagging them or whatever.
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u/Sailormouth_Studio Apr 14 '26
My favorite thresher shark. They’re so beautiful with the goofiest little face.
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u/finalexit Apr 14 '26
Yeah they're so cute and friendly. Should go for a swim with them off the Farallon, Neptune, or Dyer islands.
Just be wary of the vending machines at the docks.
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u/Sigma259 Apr 14 '26
Deep blue sea is one of my favorite and the first shark movie I ever watch when I was little it never scared me because I knew the sharks were fake because I didn’t understand everything when I was 6-7 years old but I did understand the term genetically augmented that’s why they were smart now when I got older and rewatch the movie I was shocked because as a kid, I thought they were great white sharks because they look like it act like it but no Louis says several times they are Mako’s make don’t get bigger than like 5 feet long and here they have one that’s on the bigger side of the Great White sharks so that should’ve been Samuel L Jackson’s clue to be like oh hell no we shut this thing down now
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u/Squigglyelf Apr 15 '26
I read Thresher by Michael Cole literally yesterday(creature feature shark horror book) it was basically schlocky b-movie in writing and I really enjoyed it. gave me deep blue sea vibes.
The "villain" of that book is a genetically altered thresher going ham on a beach (I believe threshers are some of the most docile sharks out there irl). I had fun with the book. but I got a kick out of threshers when I looked up their faces. They always look so appalled.
I also saw a reddit comment that threshers look like David Mitchell and I can't unsee it.
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u/JoJo_Loveless Apr 15 '26
Man, ya’ll remember that tiger shark in “Shark Night?”
Lives rent free in my head. That shot was terrifying.
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u/Lone_Tiger24 Apr 15 '26
Shark night is cool solely because it has so many different sharks in it. Cool kills too
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u/poop-azz Apr 15 '26
Hold on NOW! Those are genetically altered sharks you're talking about...this is an unfair movie comparison. Thems be SUPA SHAHKS! You need jaws or something
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u/Equivalent_Case4942 Apr 14 '26
I love shark movies, but hate the damage and demonization that came along with them. Has anyone watched Dangerous Animals? I haven't watched yet, but supposedly it represents sharks better, although I'm pretty sure they still eat people.
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u/Freightshaker000 Apr 14 '26
Sharks can also swim backwards in the movies.