What’s your favorite ocean movie?

[Ocean’s Piece]

Yesterday, I watched Puff for the first time on Netflix and it was very interesting. A lot of things I already knew, but some things I had never even known. A week ago, I watched My Octopus Teacher, and that one was fascinating as well. I want to watch some more of these movies, and unfortunately they’re few and far between. What are your favorites?
P.S. I hope it’s not just Finding Nemo lol
Happy New Year!

 

[davidcalgary29]

The Poseidon Adventure (1972), of course. And apropos for tonight.

But Beyond the Poseidon Adventure was one of the worst movies I've ever seen -- almost completely unwatchable.

ooh, I almost forgot about The Neptune Disaster (Factor), which was nearly as bad. They had the original SeaLab module beached, on land, at the Seneca College campus where I went to camp in the early '80s. We kids used to play around in it.

 

[Ocean’s Piece]

The Poseidon Adventure (1972), of course. And apropos for tonight.

But Beyond the Poseidon Adventure was one of the worst movies I've ever seen -- almost completely unwatchable.

ooh, I almost forgot about The Neptune Disaster (Factor), which was nearly as bad. The had the original SeaLab module beached, on land, at the Seneca College campus where I went to camp in the early '80s. We kids used to play around in it.

I’ll make sure to watch the good ones and steer clear of those others lol

 

[MaxTremors]

Are we talking documentaries or scripted/fictional movies? For documentaries the Blue Planet series is hard to beat. I find a lot of ocean related documentaries depressing these days, Blackfish, The Cove, etc, so I don’t watch too many.

As far as ocean related movies, The Abyss, Underwater, The Shallows, The Life Aquatic, Sanctum, Open Water, and of course the best worst ocean movie ever made: Waterworld (just barely nudging out Sphere for the top/bottom spot).

 

[ZoWhat]

The one where a cruiseship full of reefing newbies get eaten by Jaws

 

[JNalley]

The one where a cruiseship full of reefing newbies get eaten by Jaws

are you the crotchety old ship captain? or the waiter that goes missing alerting everyone to a possible issue? :-D

 

[rtparty]

Waterworld

But being serious, Puff might be the best one they've done. I think it was called Our Planet but there is a crazy one with a night time dive and a shark feeding frenzy. That is a fun watch

 

[Mr Cypher]

The life aquatic lol

 

[ZoWhat]

Ocean's Eleven

 

[WheatToast]

There is something I find so charming about the music and atmosphere of IMAX Deep Sea (2006):


But this masterpiece is a close second!:

 

[Karen00]

The Poseidon Adventure (1972), of course. And apropos for tonight.

But Beyond the Poseidon Adventure was one of the worst movies I've ever seen -- almost completely unwatchable.

ooh, I almost forgot about The Neptune Disaster (Factor), which was nearly as bad. The had the original SeaLab module beached, on land, at the Seneca College campus where I went to camp in the early '80s. We kids used to play around in it.

How is it possible I was going to say The Poseiden Adventure as well?! I love that movie and will have to watch it again now. I guess it's a good thing I didn't see the sequel. Haha. I also liked Deep Blue Sea. That had some surprising moments where I actually said "gee I didn't see that coming". LOL

 

[Grapefruit509]

The life aquatic with Steve zissou

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

Full of inspiration, and information.

 

[LAReefer4Life]

The little mermaid is my all time favorite kid movie and puff I watched recently was well done.

 

[Karen00]

Anything with David Attenborough.

 

[Shon]

Godzilla vs The Sea Monster

Not a movie, but a tv cartoon episode.
Johnny Quest- Undersea Urgency

 

[davidcalgary29]

How is it possible I was going to say The Poseiden Adventure as well?! I love that movie and will have to watch it again now.

It's simulataneously both total camp and completely exciting, is full of "incredible" dialogue, and is therefore totally amazing. It's like that movie exists on three different planes of reality, all at once! Sometimes I find myself wandering around the house, muttering (and irritating the family to no end) "get to the Christmas tree!, I'm going under, I'm going under!", "in the water , I'm a very skinny lady!", and my favourite snippet of dialogue:
"She's got nothing under it!"
"Just panties, what else do I need?"

One of my regrets about leaving the city is that I once missed a screening of The Poseidon Adventure at a rep theatre that was featuring a Shelley Winters lookalike contest. I so would have won that one.

 

[homer1475]

Dolphin reef, and My octopus teacher is really good.

 

[NS Mike D]

another vote for Life Aquatic here.

 

[Utubereefer]

This and Deadliest Catch even tho not a movie it’s wild!