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I finally saw Ford v Ferrari, and one of the shorts opened with a team of people working seven miles under the ocean.
My immediate, very excited, thought was that they've made Peter Watts amazing novel, Starfish, into a film. Starfish is the first in Watts' Rifters trilogy, and I loved it. Watts' assumes adults read his novels, so I assumed a movie would be equally gritty and aggressive.
Sadly, as the trailer progressed, it became obvious it was for yet another locked-box monster mystery. And it also became apparent that science has been sacrificed yet again for...
Well, I'm not sure what for, as I've not yet seen the movie, but the trailer has one of the cast walking a corridor in the hab (this is miles under the sea, remember) after the thumping noise of something hitting the hab when she notices a drip. The drip is a leak and if your structure springs a leak at that depth, that's it, you're dead. At the depth, the 16,000-odd psi would inject seawater at the speed of bullets and once structural integrity is lost, that's it. You are crushed before you'd have time to blink. This being a movie, that isn't how it goes, the character runs faster than the hab collapses. <sigh>
The trailer is here if you're interested. I probs won't see it at the cinema...and I remain hopeful that Starfish one day gets the Hollywood treatment, though I'll admit I'm not very confident that it will.
My immediate, very excited, thought was that they've made Peter Watts amazing novel, Starfish, into a film. Starfish is the first in Watts' Rifters trilogy, and I loved it. Watts' assumes adults read his novels, so I assumed a movie would be equally gritty and aggressive.
Sadly, as the trailer progressed, it became obvious it was for yet another locked-box monster mystery. And it also became apparent that science has been sacrificed yet again for...
Well, I'm not sure what for, as I've not yet seen the movie, but the trailer has one of the cast walking a corridor in the hab (this is miles under the sea, remember) after the thumping noise of something hitting the hab when she notices a drip. The drip is a leak and if your structure springs a leak at that depth, that's it, you're dead. At the depth, the 16,000-odd psi would inject seawater at the speed of bullets and once structural integrity is lost, that's it. You are crushed before you'd have time to blink. This being a movie, that isn't how it goes, the character runs faster than the hab collapses. <sigh>
The trailer is here if you're interested. I probs won't see it at the cinema...and I remain hopeful that Starfish one day gets the Hollywood treatment, though I'll admit I'm not very confident that it will.
