The Abyss (1989)
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
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#011522
Selects: Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub
"It would have a docking leg system... Like that ship in the abyss."
— Chuck
Chuck compares the recovery ship's moon pool design to a similar feature in James Cameron's The Abyss.
Jan 15, 2022
#061221
Selects: How Sea Monsters Work
"I finally saw that movie, by the way. Hardcore, man. That's good, though."
— Chuck
Chuck mentions watching The Abyss (implied as 'the diving bell' reference) and praises it as a good film.
Jun 12, 2021
#012220
Short Stuff: Byford Dolphin Incident
"like in the Abyss. Right, right. They come back up to the ship, but the whole journey"
— Josh
Josh compares saturation diving chambers to the movie The Abyss, thinking divers lived underwater like in the film.
Jan 22, 2020
#070718
SYSK Selects: Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War?
"Like a wormhole of fellowship. Yeah, like from the abyss. That's what it sort of looked like."
— Chuck
Chuck compares their connection to a scene from The Abyss involving something coming out of water.
Jul 7, 2018
#040518
Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub
"it would have a docking leg system, like that ship in the abyss, a moon pool"
— Josh
Josh compares the recovery ship's moon pool design to a similar feature in the movie The Abyss.
Apr 5, 2018
#081612
Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War?
"Yeah, like from the abyss."
— Josh
Josh compares the visual connection he feels with Chuck to imagery from The Abyss.
Aug 16, 2012
#061411
How Military Snipers Work
"It looks like the abyss, the little blob from the abyss, traveling through the air"
— Josh
Josh compared the appearance of a bullet's vapor trail to the water creature effects from The Abyss.
Jun 14, 2011
#041211
How Molecular Gastronomy Works
"it's like something out of the abyss"
— Chuck
Chuck compares the visual effect of liquid nitrogen moving on a plate to something from the sci-fi movie The Abyss.
Apr 12, 2011
Cast
Ed Harris
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Lindsey Brigman
Michael Biehn
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Leo Burmester
Catton ‘Catfish’ De Vries
Todd Graff
Alan 'Hippy' Carnes
John Bedford Lloyd
Jammer Willis
Kimberly Scott
Lisa 'One Night' Standing
Chris Elliott
Bendix
J.C. Quinn
Arliss 'Sonny' Dawson
P
Pierce Oliver Brewer, Jr.
Lew Finler
G
George Robert Klek
Wilhite
C
Christopher Murphy
Schoenick
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