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I Hate It But I Love It

116: The Abyss

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Discussion, Comedy, Ihibili, Film, Tv & Film, Ihateitbutiloveit, Tv, Lovehatepodcast

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Get yelled at for a million months straight by a tyrannical director and then watch as water makes a face, cause we're talking about Water Makes A Face, AKA The Abyss! Kat and Jocelyn discuss the horrific process of making this movie, completely unnecessary plot devices, but surprisingly cute aliens.

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0:00.0

So, I hate it but I love it. Hi High Bylai everybody.

0:27.0

I High Bylai.

0:28.0

This is I hate it but I love it. I'm Jocelyn Giddy.

0:30.0

I am Kat Angus and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously

0:34.0

this week water makes a face we're doing the abyss the abyss

0:38.0

the abyss now this was you wanted to do this one jostlin yes I did

0:41.8

why is that well this is the first DVD my family ever

0:45.0

owned oh wow so I have a weird affection for it for that reason I think it's such a

0:49.7

weird entry into James Cameron's filmography in general because the movie was famously

0:54.5

very difficult to make.

0:56.3

Its reception was not very good as a result and the film itself is a really weird

1:01.0

milange of different tones and styles that I don't think fully comes

1:04.4

together at the end.

1:05.5

But I also think there are moments of it that are very affecting.

1:08.6

And whether you like it or not, as I sort of suspecting you wouldn't, but whether you like it or not I think it is a good

1:14.2

thing to discuss in terms of how difficult the making of the film was it raises a lot

1:18.3

of questions about the ethics of filmmaking and the ethics of James Cameron's

1:22.2

approach to directing.

1:23.5

So I'm curious, what did you think of it?

1:25.4

I mean, I thought it was fine.

1:26.7

I think I really had to remind myself

1:28.8

that this movie was made in 1989.

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