I saw the Abyss before seeing The Terminator. It was the first Cameron movie I watched and I loved the movie. The rat scene was totally impressive and relevant to the story. No animals were harmed in the making of the movie.
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I loved how Cameron did The Abyss authentically, filming actually underwater instead of faking it with wires and smoke like the other three underwater movies that different studios rushed into theaters that year to compete with The Abyss. (Which were all horror movies, because that's what the filmmakers expected the next film from the Terminator/Aliens guy to be.) And I loved the credible tech and the realism of how the underwater stuff was handled. Unfortunately, the realism and grounding of most of the film just made it hard to swallow the sheer fantasy of the alien stuff and the physical impossibility of what the aliens did in the climax.
The Abyss is a great movie, but the Special Edition was a distinct improvement that represents the finished film. It's extremely unfortunate that such controversy over one scene can bury such a significant and important work.
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I actually walked out of the theater thinking to myself that I had just watched 2001: A Sea Odyssey. They're not one to one comparisons, of course (such as 2001 introducing the alien element right at the beginning), but that was my immediate first reaction when the movie was finished.
The moving reflections on Ed Harris's helmet when he's taken into the ship seem to be a direct allusion to 2001.
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