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Since that time there have been few movies with sharks that have been anywhere close to good. Open Water is one of those few that made it. Not just because of sharks, mind you. The story realizes the isolation aspect that helped make Jaws such a classic, because even though they were on that boat, they were alone out there against the shark. Same applies here with Open Water with many sharks, not Great Whites, but real ones at that! The story is pretty straight-forward and true to life as a married couple take a marduk imago mortis needed vacation to get away from work and try to fix their troubled marriage. All is pretty much normal until the crew mistakenly thinks that everyone has returned from their diving trip to the underwater reef. Dan and Susan accidentally left behind in the middle of the ocean, alone. Now some of you may not be able to relate to that if you have never been to, and in, the ocean, but this film plays on the primal fears of being alone against impossible odds, something that it has in common with the ultimate shark movie Jaws. Also, this film s story plays with your mind to a pretty high degree and needs a level of imagination from the viewer much in the same vein as the classic John Carpenter film Halloween or the more recent The Blair Witch Project. While this story does not contain the level of action of even those films, it is a very intense ride on a very strong wave. Open Water also benefits from focusing on two main characters so it is easy to develop the pair and grow to care for the characters, which makes what happens during the film that much more of an emotional torment. Actors Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis do a magnificent job of playing a married couple on the rocks, troubled because of too much work and too little time together. Each plays up nuances that makes them rather believable as a married couple. Namely, you get the sense from Blanchard that there is trouble lying underneath the surface of the marriage. A bedroom scene, before the main story on the water, shows her troubled inner feelings as she rejects her husband. Easy to relate to and very believable was her performance, the one aspect missing is why their marriage is troubled, is it too much work which is hinted at when Daniel is annoyed with Susan s constant checking up on work, but this is one aspect that should have been touched upon more in the movie the troubled marriage and why it s so bad. Daniel s performance when finally the frustration of being stranded in the middle of the ocean causes him to scream out in frustration, anger and fear, is very easy to relate to because it s just pure frustration, who hasn t felt that and been angry at someone who did them wrong? These two actors make the movie with their performances, sharks or no sharks, the reason to see the movie is for the two main actors. Now if you don t like a slow, character driven Horror movie in the vein of Halloween or The Blair Witch Project, then this movie is most likely not for you. You also need to have an imagination to enjoy this film because it engages your imagination when the characters are in the water. Every wave could be a shark s fin, signaling imminent danger. Now, in comparison to the sequel Open Water 2: Adrift, this movie will definitely scare you, whereas the sequel tells more of a story with it s characters, this one basically puts you in their shoes as much of it is filmed at wave level like Jaws did so you can almost feel the seawater go into your mouth. The Blu-ray is an excellent upgrade from the DVD release which I happen to own. Colors are vibrant with real flesh tones and the wetsuits look nice with Blanchard s purple standing out. Water looks very real with choppy dark waves, and the underwater scenes are pretty much crystal clear. Sounds are improved over the DVD release with 1 HD DTS audio I can hear the waves much better, but with subtle lapping that is constant and not overwhelming though it could make you seasick. Packaging both movies on one disc is kind of cool because you don t have to get up to switch Blu-ray discs, though for hardcore Blu-ray fanatics who want perfection this will annoy most of that small, but vocal, crowd. Ultimately, Open Water is a good movie, not great by any means and some will be put off if they lack imagination to bring to the table. Make no mistake this movie won t appeal to everyone, but if you typically like this kind of film I don t see any reason why you shouldn t like this. I loved the movie If you have yet to see the film I highly recommend a rental first, but for those who saw and liked this film and even own the DVD release this is a pretty good upgrade with extras and also includes Open Water 2: Adrift. Must-buy for those who liked and loved the film! How much more room for progress and improvements in picture quality do we have? A movie source is filmed with a defined quality, are there forseeable advances in increasing the source quality as well? agb90spruce On April 30, 2011 at 7:39 am 35 mm film can be scanned at 2000-4000 line vertical resolution compare to 1080, so there is still room for older movies to be improved past 1080p for digital presentation. Most masters being done now for Blu-ray and HD DVD are done at these resolutions I ve read that one recent movie I forget which one took over a terrabyte of storage, so disk capacity for such formats would still be an issue. Forget Blu-ray, think Digital Hollographic Disk DHD. 1 Colour Space: Blu-ray and HD DVD both use the BT709 colour space that s basically the gamut of colours allowed to describe the images. This is a wider colour space than that used for DVD, but is still narrower than the xvYCC colour space that could be used Sony HDTVs and some others are already being designed to handle this if program maetrial is made available. And since film captured these extra marduk imago mortis they are available to be put on disk. 2 Colour Depth: HD DVD and Blu-ray are 8 bit colour. That means each of the 3 primary primary colours can have 256 different gradiations or 16 million possible colours. While this sounds like plenty it can lead to banding when fine degrees of colour change are required. An increase to 10 bit or more likely 12 bit would give billions of colours solving any possible banding problems. 3 Resolution: As indicated above resolution improvements to 1440p or 2080p are quite possible. The latter is available now in commercial digital cinema projectors starting at 110, 000 each!. I suspect the successor to Blu-ray/HD DVD isn t that far away, in the form of some combination of 1440p resolution and 10 or 12 bit xvYCC colour. In the long term 3D or even holographic imaging is potentially possible.