Just how much influence does pop culture have on regular culture? Take the great state of Texas for example. Everyone knows that Texas is known for big things, or doing things big. But now there is a bit of a sense that there is this sort of big craziness that goes along with Texas. The notion is that when they go crazy there, they go crazy big. Would it be that way without cultural monsters like Leatherface and J.R. Ewing? Or, is it that those abominations come from Texas that make it seem crazier than other places. More importantly, would Texas matter without them. The problem with pop culture and it’s influence is that while we can see where it starts (sometimes), and we can often see where it ends. The real conundrum is why it ever started in the first place. And so, there are other places that have achieved that sort of mythical like status, even when they don’t exist.
The Bermuda Triangle is just that sort of place. It isn’t a place at all. It’s just an imaginary line running between geographical points that has been attributed with paranormal like powers, mystery, and other spooky shit. The problem is that all of the hype has gone. For me it left back in 1977 when NOVA did a special proving that more stuff went missing outside of the Triangle than in. But look, even if they were wrong and Aliens with other mystical forces are at work in the Triangle, lets celebrate that we’ve got the buggers contained to one area. It’s not like you can’t vacation in Jamaica instead.
The Bermuda Triangle is just that sort of place. It isn’t a place at all. It’s just an imaginary line running between geographical points that has been attributed with paranormal like powers, mystery, and other spooky shit. The problem is that all of the hype has gone. For me it left back in 1977 when NOVA did a special proving that more stuff went missing outside of the Triangle than in. But look, even if they were wrong and Aliens with other mystical forces are at work in the Triangle, lets celebrate that we’ve got the buggers contained to one area. It’s not like you can’t vacation in Jamaica instead.
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The Main Players
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Trip Oliver
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Admiral Linda Hansen
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Mya (as Mya Harrison)
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Lt. Plummer
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President DeSteno
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Synopsis:
The President of the United States of America is forced to jettison in an escape pod from Air Force One as it flies through a severe tropical storm over the dreaded Bermuda Triangle, but the massive naval strike force and unknown extra-terrestrial forces from the deep hamper a special operations team sent to rescue him (they don’t seem interested in other survivors).
Review:
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I love B movies. Sadly, this isn’t one of them. I don’t even have a rating for this one other than I wanted to call it Bermuda Testicles, but someone beat me to it on IMDB. It is a fitting title because when you look at the concept for the script:
President ejects over the Bermuda Triangle.
Navy goes in to get rescue him.
Special rescue team called in.
Giant space/alien/monster tentacles rise from the deep immune to all weapons.
Special team told to stand down - they go anyway.
Special team finds giant alien storage container full of all the missing crap in it.
They find POTUS and get away, or something like that.
Just imagine how big a pair you’d have to have to seriously go forward asking for development money to put this turd into production. If that isn’t a ballsy move, I don’t know what is.
A lot of reviews on line are sort of mean when it comes to Linda Hamilton. They seem to focus on the way she looks and the mere fact that she is in this movie, which should speak for itself. I don’t know how actors get roped into these things, but we have to keep in mind that they are doing a job. It’s a bad movie, but not because of her. She did a great job and even Vivian Leigh could not have saved this one. I’m just surprised that none of the reviewers touched on John Savage showing up. Tentacles from space is no Deer Hunter. Savage couldn’t do anything for this one except that I will admit that I watched it to see the both of them in it. Everyone needs a reason/excuse.
Lets be honest here, I watched the entire thing, but I did it in stages thanks to the PVR. This movie was painful to watch and I just don’t remember how it ends. I know they make it, I just don’t know why, nor do I care. The cast should be dead. The aliens should have gone back to their home world and deleted us from their stellar maps. Those giant tentacles should have got out a huge jug of white out and blanked out our solar system. If they had been like Columbus the Queen would have been entitled to a full refund. These poor guys didn’t find anything worth writing home about.
Just imagine if you had been one of the aliens getting back to your world and trying to explain how things went on this new planet you discovered. They would be like, “Let me get this straight. They can make machines that fly. They’ve been to space. They’ve learned to harness most of the power from splitting the atom. And they think where you park is magic, and they shoot at you whenever you try to shake tentacles with them?” Hard to believe isn’t it. I’d probably blow us up too.
Lessons Learned:
- The only thing worse than tentacles are tentacles coming out of tentacles.
- The Bermuda Triangle is way deeper than we thought.
- They have a special day in the Navy when you can wear the uniform of your choice and you get to make up the ranks of others.
- Everyone in the Navy has a gun just in case.
- Take your best shot means something different in the Triangle.
- Old actors don’t die, they join the Navy.
- I don’t know if you’ve been told, Navy wings just fall out of the sky.
