Watched this last night because I could and I can safely say without a shadow of a doubt that Abyss is STILL James Cameron's best movie ever. Fuck Titanic, T2, and especially fuck Avatar and all the rancid fanboys who freak out over that overrated rippoff of Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. Abyss was not only phenomenal but it was also wholly original.
An amazing and beautiful peace of music to a powerfully dramatic film of the human races first contact with a very moving message also. Like Close Encounters plus a message !
brilliant, i watched this movie 3 times in the theather, and about 18 times on vidio home, i now about every scene out of me head , this music is just brilliant
I just watched The Abyss again today, I hadn't watched it in a while and I was reminded of just how good the score to the film really was. This is some of the best music in films.
"You never backed away from anything in your life! Now fight!"
"You have to look with better eyes than that (Coffey's)"
I mean, these characters are so wonderful, they don't even seem real. But, then again, I haven't felt more engaged by a scene in anyone else's films than I did when they were trying to revive Lindsey. That is some powerful shit.
Outstanding theme, so beautiful and graceful, i still remember the scene, when the little alien takes Bud with him to his huge mothership - unforgettable scene, and i was sitting near the speakers in the cinema - an real eargasm. Kudos to alan Silvestri, and the movie in dhe director's cut is still a masterpiece.
Heavenly. This is the scene where the aliens come for Ed Harris & take him to their city on the ocean bed, as he has proved that humans can be compassionate.
@XenothDragon In his earlier days I would have agreed. Lately though it seems he can't come up with an original story to save his own ass and spends too much time relying on visually stunning graphics to get him his millions. Not grounds for "greatest filmmater in history" by any stretch.
@DathanielTDK I think its great that a director likes to push the boundaries of special effects in every new film he makes.. if you want to watch a film with a good story, watch something else.. if you want to be transported into a unique world unlike anything you have ever seen.. watch a james cameron movie
@DathanielTDK Im with you. but evn in his earlier days he tried to beat others with special effects. His newer movies are just like copies of his old ones. like avatar was like ALL of his old movies mixed. creature designs like the abyss. they were mining like in aliens. the robots were like the aliens ones. the ships were like Terminater. the love story was like Titanic not just cause it was a love story but because the disaster. watch those films and then watch avatar. you'll see.
@DathanielTDK Regurgitated anti-Cameron argument is fail. What do you know about Avatar and why/how it succeeded? Have you paid the slightest attention to the box office results OTHER than simply noting that it was successful? Your "original story" claim is also empty. That is a backlash argument that is almost a year and a half old and still doesn't hold any water. If you are gonna criticize the man, at least say SOMETHING of intellectual and critical value rather than parroting this nonsense.
@torukmakto4 Wow. An entire paragraph which can be pretty much summed down to "ZOMG yur rong lolz" but you haven't said anything on why I'm wrong. Let's take a look at Cameron's last two big successes. Titanic and Avatar. Titanic was a historic event and he added in a love story with two people who were never really on the boat. Nothing much original there. Avatar? Don't make me laugh. Dances with Wolves in Space pretty much sums that up, with a dash of Pocahontas thrown in.
@DathanielTDK And here we have yet another completely empty attack. Your point on Titanic is... well, what? It's historically based fiction, so the hell what? It's a quality story well told. Avatar... oh, MAN.
*headdesk*
Suspicion confirmed. You just spat out the Canned Anti-Avatar Troll Argument No.1, Model of 2009. I really get sick and tired of explaining originality to people like you who obviously mean to blindly attack the film and don't care about the truth, but...
@DathanielTDK ...you have ignored archetype and genre yet again. Avatar, and those works you mentioned are members of a borderline prehistoric class of plots. To attack Avatar as unoriginal and then give Poca and DWW as evidence is hypocritical because DWW and Poca did NOT originate the concepts and are thus equally (or more) unoriginal. They, and Avatar, are members of the genre and were at some point the latest in an infinitely long list of comparable plots. Then you get to...
@DathanielTDK ...the issue of whether there actually IS concrete unoriginality. In both cases here, the answer is no. Short version is that DWW, Poca and Avatar are dissimilar plots. They are structurally and thematically incompatible despite having the similarities that define them as members of the archetype. Trust me, I have deconstructed ALL of these works here IN MINUTE DETAIL for people like you in the past and sometimes that's what it takes.
@torukmakto4 Really? Let's take a look. Outside culture is moving into an alien environment and looking to colonize. They want to steal the region's natural resources but in order to do it they have to combat a native culture living in the area. They employ the main protagonist to help them do this, but instead the main protagonist meets and falls in love with a princess of the native tribe he's enemies with, which makes him switch sides. Is this Pocahontas or is this Avatar? You tell me.
@DathanielTDK Also, you blatantly stated your opinion of The Abyss and Avatar as a fact. Can you keep the two straight? As to your Poca v. Avatar "comparison"... well, you summarized the archetype itself in general terms. That subset can be found elsewhere, and if you go just a little more general in terminology you have defined the archetype itself. It is not a specific or original plot, but a generality.
@torukmakto4 Then lets leave the "genius" title to the ones who created that general archtype and everyone else is simply riding their age old coattails to their own success. This includes whoever wrote Poca, but does this exclude Cameron? No, not really. Put America back instead of Pandora, put the indians in instead of the blue aliens and you just have a remake of Poca, but what it is now is still a reskin of the Mona Lisa. You can deny it, if you want, but it is what it is.
@DathanielTDK Fail. The archetype is as old as humanity. It wasn't "written". It is an emergent pattern derived from historical/current events throughout our existence. Yes, really... you are still looking at the distilled archetype there (and thinking far too generally to prove unoriginality anyway). Put America and Native Americans into Avatar, and you have... well, a small fragment of Avatar's basic plot set on Earth (a lot of what defines Avatar is sci-fi and doesn't translate there).
@torukmakto4 The Archetype is as old as humanity? Ummm...yeah I think I'm just going to call bullshit on that one and accuse you of pulling it out of your ass. Especially with all you've been saying about "fact vs. opinion". Again, that's beside the point. I already explained that Avatar is a patchwork of plotpoints from both Poca and DWW mashed together and still doesn't earn Cameron the genius badge by any stretch of the word. But please keep on with the whiteknight fanboying. :)
@DathanielTDK LOL. Yes, it is. The turncoat protagonist pattern and all its usual elements have been showing up in storytelling from our earliest knowledge. CAN YOU DO THE RESEARCH?
@torukmakto4 Probably as far back as Moses, I would say. He was a turncoat protagonist when he turned from the Eqyptians who raised him back to the Hebrews he was born from and became their prophet, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's far, far more in common between Disney Poca and DWW vs. Avatar than there is with Avatar and Moses, or any other of those ancient turncoat protagonist patterns that you can name. Feel free to try though, if you feel the need.
@DathanielTDK What's important, though, is that even that distilled fragment would be definitively, structurally Avatar. You can't swap settings and get Poca, because Poca is a distinct plot with its own structure and themes. How about you have a look at the third acts of each... should settle that definitively.
@torukmakto4 Truth is that whether or Poca or DWW, were original themselves is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is you're saying Cameron is genius, but Genius, true genius, takes originality. It's about making something new instead of just taking what was before and putting a new coat of paint on it, such as it is with Avatar. Calling James genius for that is like saying someone who takes the Mona Lisa, makes her blond, and puts her in a modern background is genius. Insulting really.
@DathanielTDK Yeah, if Poca/DWW were truly unoriginal, my argument would be undermined slightly. Slightly, because that would mean an entire genre stretching back to the beginnings of written language was suddenly classified as entirely unoriginal... which is preposterous. None of these stories from ancient mythology to DWW to Avatar is an unoriginal work... except perhaps Pocahontas which is often reworked (Disney Poca, Malick's The New World...). Primary point there was not to imply that...
@DathanielTDK ...the other works were unoriginal, but simply to demonstrate a flaw in your argument: any perception that holds Avatar as an unoriginal work over these similarities MUST logically also hold DWW and Poca as unoriginal because these works contain THE SAME ARCHETYPE and have parallel similarities to other works of the genre. I never claimed that it was correct to view all works of the genre as unoriginal.
@torukmakto4 First thing, you're mistaking the use of the word "genre". Avatar's genre is science fiction. Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves are both historical fiction. Get it right. That's beside the point though, so let's replace the word "genre" with "story". I'm not sure how old Poca is or where it originated. I'm using the Disney version because that's the one that's similar to Avatar. Pocahontas = Neytiri, John Smith = Sully, Disney badguy=Quaritch, New World=Pandora.
@DathanielTDK "Genre" is not such a rigid term... but nitpicking my choice of words is beside the point. Poca originated in history and has been fictionalized. Your character associations only identify the roles required by the archetype: the protagonist who shifts loyalties, their best known member of the other side (teacher, possible love interest, gateway to the other faction), and the antagonist.
@torukmakto4 Except the fact that Jake Sully is doing the exact same thing as John Smith was right up until it got to the conflict part between the natives and the colonists, where he started being John Dunbar instead. The only thing that sets Jake Sully apart from them is that he's a guy in a wheelchair and he's meeting the aliens through a VR controlled alien/human hybrid. I give Cameron props for setting, don't get me wrong, he just falls flat on story and fails on being genius with Avatar
@torukmakto4 And the story? Pretty much the same. You have your Sully/John Smith being hired by Disneybaddie/Quaritch to undermine the natives/naavi in the NewWorld/Pandora. He ends up meeting Poca/Neytiri, learns the culture, falls in love. After this the similarities in story are in with DWW since John Dunbar goes native and turns on the US. Army like Jake Sully did. Bottom line, Avatar isn't "taking from an archetype" as much as it's patching together plotpoints stolen from two sources.
@DathanielTDK Man, you're hopeless. Once again, you fail archetypes forever. What you just posted? THAT IS THE ARCHETYPE. That skeleton plot is found in ALL relevant works. DWW and Poca are relatively VERY recent implementations of that pattern. Those supposed details you mentioned are disguised generalities: protagonist goes native, turns on former allies... Oh yeah, and military forces in Avatar are not US. They're mercs. Homework, please.
@torukmakto4 No, it's alot more than simple archetype, pal. Cute that you keep trying to convince me of it but it seems like you're trying to convince yourself of that as well. It doesn't save Avatar's story from being a plotpoint by plotpoint copy and paste job from both Poca and DWW. There's no opinion anything about it either. That's a fact. I know, it burns. It might make you rage and fume and scream and spit, but it is what it is. And Cameron's no genius. At least not with Avatar.
@DathanielTDK Nope. Man, you really think I'm naive enough, don't you? You think I'm gonna fall for this trollish shit? Well, I'm sorry to say, I am not new to this game. In my time of being a die hard fan I have seen it plenty of times.
I'll dig up and post my detailed analysis of that later. I am not carrying on a flame war after going to said effort, because to do so is retarded and unproductive. You can't waste my time forever, troll. For now, it's too freaking late. Out.
@torukmakto4 Bingo. I've gotten you so pissed off that you've resorted to the "lol troll" retorts, in other words, ad hominum. Always happens when you slap a fanboy's favorite thing with the truth fish long enough they eventually get so pissed that it comes to this. Trust me, I make habit out of making faboys' lives hell simply by putting their obsession under a microscope, and it always comes to this. All it ever takes is some facts mixed with subtle doss of opinion to form total rage.
@DathanielTDK Resorted? I haven't resorted to anything... notice that I clearly called you out on your trollishness first and foremost. It's also no ad hominem, just an informed observation. Trust me, I used to make a habit out of making trolls' lives hell on earth simply by putting their obsession under the microscope, and it always comes to this. All it takes is some fact to turn them to total rage and lead them to try their hardest to provoke some flames out of me.
@torukmakto4 Wow. You. Are. Pathetic. Not only did you just take what I said, copy and pasted it it then switched a few words around James Cameron style, but you're going into this childish "Nuh uh, You Are!" type of argument. I can clearly see why you would think that Avatar is the best movie ever. You're a fanboy who simply doesn't know any better. It's like trying to show a twelve year old child who's totally into ninja turtles why ninja turtles are kind of dumb.
@torukmakto4 You know what the difference is between a fanboy and a true fan is? A true fan can love the thing they love but also accept that their favorite thing isn't perfect. That's clearly not you. I'm pointing out the fact that Avatar's storyline is a carbon copy patchwork of Poca and DWW and you're throwing this raging hissy fit, and label anyone who points out those shortcomings as "Troll". You are a total fanboy and you have my utmost pity. Hope you grow up soon.
@torukmakto4 This will be my last response to you, but let me depart by trying to share this link with you. YouTube is kind of anal about posting links in comments it seems. Nah, won't let me. So just google "You are now pregnant Jake Sully". Hilarious.
@DathanielTDK What a hilarious little tantrum you have spewed. Hell, you even threw in the derogatory link that I will never follow because I'm not dumb enough. And as to your originality claim, you have still failed. All you have ever done is RESTATE your position and pray that it somehow comes off as more factual. It doesn't, and you have just shown me yet again how RETARDED the backlash is with your storm of juvenile anti-fan flames.
@DathanielTDK And finally, whatever you think of the particular archetype, comparing works on generalities and elements of archetype proves nothing as far as "poor creativity" on the part of the writer. To do so is to fail to comprehend genre. Bashing Avatar on that basis is like attacking Star Wars for being a hero's journey derivative (yet another HUGE archetype) with some medieval influences and elements of sci-fi such as space travel, alien worlds and futurism. It's nonsense...
@DathanielTDK ...because stories are what they are genre-wise. It makes no sense to fault a work for doing so... you might as well flame Romeo and Juliet for being a tragedy and conforming to said classification as needed. You also COMPLETELY MISSED MY POINT ON BOX OFFICE SUCCESS. I was NOT referencing the success in itself, but its STRUCTURE. Avatar's performance was VERY clearly distinct from sell-out, hype driven, low quality blockbusters which universally open big, then crash and burn...
@torukmakto4 There's a difference between "Taking from an archetype" and just taking an entire plot and changing the setting. Avatar IS Pocahontas in space. The plot is the same, the story is the same, it's just replacing indians with blue aliens and American with Pandora. Just face the fact that if the movie did not have as many special effects as it did, it would have been a commercial flop. Also face the fact that it doesn't come close to the goodness of Cameron's previous, like The Abyss
@DathanielTDK False. Pocahontas and Avatar are far from structurally identical. They have some similarities (that they share with many other members of the genre) but these two plots just don't line up event-wise. Can you think for yourself enough to actually compare them on the level you claim the similarity to exist on, or do you need me to waste my time rewriting or digging up and copying my old analysis? Oh, and "just face the FACT"? I will face no such fact... because no such fact exists.
@DathanielTDK You have absolutely NO ground to stand on in making radical claims like "If the movie did not have as many special effects as it did, it would have been a commercial flop." Um, evidence? That is an unprovable statement. However, there IS compelling evidence that audiences were not driven by special effects (namely the repeat viewership and incredibly long run that cannot be explained by hype or marketing due to audience reaction and word of mouth becoming more and more significant.
@DathanielTDK ...The numbers on Avatar tell a very different story, a very similar one to Titanic. Repeat viewership and word of mouth influence SET RECORDS on this film.
Finally, I see you just HAD to compare Avatar to that pop culture trash and go on to implicitly insult its fans...
Obvious troll? Oh yeah. Obvious. Shame on you, that you turn to responding in the most childish ways.
@torukmakto4 Also, Why So Mad Brah? You're honestly getting your panties in this much of a twist because of some random YouTube comments criticized your favorite movie director? Here's a friendly piece of advice. Don't fanboy rage so much. It's bad for your health. Here, try this: watch?v=Kmv3WlKa6U8
@torukmakto4 Also, please don't make me laugh about "box office success". You actually think that means as much as you think it means? I suspect that you think that the Twilight books are awesome because they were on the New York Times lists and were made into movies? Is Britney Spears or Justin Beiber considered "good" because they have armies of teen followers who don't know any better? Your argument would be epic fail but that would imply you had an argument to begin with, which you don't
@XenothDragon no he isnt. I lost all respect for him when he made avatar. It was basically all his movies mixed. they went there to mine like in alien. The love story like titanic. the robots like alien. the flying ships like terminater. the creature designs like the abyss, and much much more. I like his old movies but Avatar just showed that he copied himself. cause he wrote it in 1991 AFTER the abyss came out and after all those other movies. and the abyss although it was good. was like alien.
@ZooTycoonZilla James Cameron did NOT direct Alien. That would be Aliens that you are referring to, and the colonists were not specifically there for a mining operation. Titanic and Avatar love stories NOT very similar. Creature designs mostly unrelated to those of The Abyss. Avatar was written in 1994, not 1991 (take note of that date still rendering your Titanic argument invalid). So... we have VTOL vehicles, exoskeletons, other worlds, soldiers? Uselessly general. Obvious flamer is obvious.
@VeldinJoe Though a part of me agrees with your comment, but there is more to be seen from Cameron. He always outdoes himself and I cannot wait to see his next masterpiece. Not saying you're wrong, but I believe Titanic still holds dear to him more so than Avatar.
@VeldinJoe Correct, plus the reason I mentioned Titanic over Avatar is because he is deeply fascinated by the sea and its wrecks. In the 12 year absence all he did was basically explore and film documentaries about wrecks. In the next two Avatar films he is going to dive into the moon's oceans, he actually stated that in an interview.
Everyone hates Cameron's politics, his writing, his this, his that... when the hell will people start asking smart questions as oipposed to childish, bias remarks?? Here's a great question for you. Why don't you ask what the hell Cameron does so right in every film that he creates iconic images and characters??
Actually if you've ever read or listened to an interview with Cameron, you'd know that's not true at all. He's not anti-military, he just likes to highlight the expectiations of supremacy expressed by technology and firepower, and the irony of nature still kicking ass. Go watch Aliens if you need further proof.
Hm, I'm trying that idea on for size with the Terminator movies . . . (which was what I primarily had in mind). Stuff like Terminator avoiding actually killing anyone was a result of the fact that he/it was actually stronger.
You're right, Terminator is an even better example. He's a techno-nut, but likes to show how tech is nothing compared to nature, etc. I think his movies are generally misunderstood in this sense.
Well you can give him the benefit of the doubt like that. BUT remember what group of people gave you that right to say that. Go to China, they wont let people have a Facebook, Myspace. Its literally so bad Google really doesn't want anything to do with them. How can you say he's not anti military. Shoot on this movie the Abyss one of the characters go's to a Navy captain "Looks like your gonna be out of a Job" Makes me friggin sick to hear that shit. Cameron is a Utopia nut back.
I think those who argue about the aliens being hypocritical and such need to see the extended version. Where they go into much more detail then the original which cut out the huge Waves that floated above all the major cities that were off the seas, and threatened to wipe out all the major populations, and that the different countries weren't getting along and threatening each other to have access to the nuclear weapons down bellow. So the Aliens, or whatever they were. Were like ENOUGH
Thanks for this, just recently watched this movie, absolutely love the score. This sounds like when the alien ship is ascending and sweeps up all the other ships. Awesome, and thanks again.
I first need a working tape deck as the one have a JVC has worn-out motors! If I wanted second hand deck I wouldnt mind one with Dolby S wasnt The Abyss realised in Dolby stereo SR or was it type A as I only heard it in type A 20 years ago as the cinema only had type A cards in screen 1
this doesnt sound like the original it sounds like one of those composer score clone soundtracks unless it is original? there are other versions of The Abyss on youtube that I could vouch as original.
Hold on this isnt the original score its a different composer and its lacking what the original is. Good god who strangled in the cat with this one! I have the original on compact cassette and this isnt the original!
IntermittentSprocket is right. This is not the original version (original is much more amazing). You can compare the sample on amazon.com, track 11. Bud On The Ledge. Or ask Google: abyss soundtrack chomikuj eangel
@IntermittentSprocket this is the original, douchebag. Knock a hole in your head and let some brains in. Yeah, I'm sure some random dude made this post on ProTools in his parents basement.
@IntermittentSprocket I have this track. It appears on a CD called "The Disasters! Movie Music Album", released in 1998 on Silva Screen Records Ltd. The City of Prague Philharmonic. Conducted by Nic Raine and Paul Bateman.
I'll give them credit for a good job overall, but whoever decided to slow the tempo should have had their knuckles rapped. ;-)
@IntermittentSprocket and @RMN007 I'm not saying you guys are wrong but I can't find any info on this phantom score you speak of. Not on wikipedia, not on IMDB, not on Google....perhaps you would like to elaborate on this? I just watch the Abyss a couple of weeks ago and this music was definitely in the film.
Same composer, maybe even same orchestra... but different recordings.
The soundtrack in the movie is slightly faster, all accents are definitely more passionate, has a wider range of low frequencies compared to the album version... and I agree, I like the movie version much better...
Nevertheless, the theme is wonderfull to me, even when performed in this way...
Thats BS! This IS the original version, composed by Alan Silvestri! I know there is a another (longer) version out there, its in a double-dvd version.
Music is beautiful:) Actually the tidal wave wasn't included in the original movie because the company that did the special effects wasn't able to pull it off realistically. Also it was a controversial scene - some people said it was their favourite, others said it was their least favourite. Obviously I thought it was my favourite:)
If you haven't seen the special edition, do. It changes the whole movie.
Well the guy saved them. If it wasn't 4 him sacrificing himself 4 them. Descending in2 the freezing, crushing, dark depths of the Abyss, Alone. He went through Hell saving those Aliens that not only did he not know, they also were not even his kind. So when the Aliens show how bad we can b & were gonna wipe us out, YET HE MORE THEN PROVED WHAT GREAT GOOD WE WERE ALSO CAPABLE OF. So the Aliens looked like utter assholes who prove ther r n fact no better from that very obvious contradiction.
A very good post, however, I don't think he went down there for the aliens. You remember Monk saying the shock wave of the bomb would "crush this rig like a beer can." Bud went down there for the people in the submersible. The aliens saw how he sacrificed himself for them, so they let him live:)
Either way how you look at it he still Sacrificed himself and they saw first hand what he did. Those things aren't stupid they know what he went through. Seeing him lying their suffering dying having cut the wires of the bomb. HE SAVED ALL OF THEM. So the Aliens contradicted them selfs. That could have been something James Cameron could have implemented into the story. Bud bring up what he did and making the Aliens realize they are not perfect even with all the advances.
I think this is one of the very best movies ever made. I cannot understand why it did not do well at the box office. I have the movie and have watched it so many times, I know half the dialogue by heart. When I watch the movie, I can recite half the dialogue.
I think you and I have a similar interest in this film:) You know in the original release though it didn't have the bit with the tidal wave? All that end bit was left out. So maybe that's why it didn't do so well.
@Jokhalli - Agreed. What intelligent being would want to get in the middle of a domestic dispute? Humans will never be contacted peacefully until we stop killing ourselves.
@unitypunk79 - What pisses me off is that every time I see this movie on TV, they cut out the most important part where the aliens almost decide to take us all out with the massive global tsunami wave.
Truly one of the best movies James Cameron has done.
uscgjake22 1 week ago
anyone know the title to the song One Night played? sounded like a country song, but I can't find it
BullMikus 1 week ago
@BullMikus Its called Willing by Linda Ronstadt
uscgjake22 1 week ago
AMAZING music from Cameron's best picture EVER!!!
badbook1 3 weeks ago
BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECE!!!!!!
Zzzzember 1 month ago
Great movie!!! I watched this movie as a kid, and I just watched it this time.
SerbianDutchman 1 month ago
Watched this last night because I could and I can safely say without a shadow of a doubt that Abyss is STILL James Cameron's best movie ever. Fuck Titanic, T2, and especially fuck Avatar and all the rancid fanboys who freak out over that overrated rippoff of Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. Abyss was not only phenomenal but it was also wholly original.
DathanielTDK 1 month ago in playlist Movies Trailers
An amazing and beautiful peace of music to a powerfully dramatic film of the human races first contact with a very moving message also. Like Close Encounters plus a message !
Ceateneo 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
brilliant, i watched this movie 3 times in the theather, and about 18 times on vidio home, i now about every scene out of me head , this music is just brilliant
azertyqwerty40 3 months ago 2
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this movie is AMAZING it made me feel claustraphobic!
abc12319525 3 months ago
this is just amazing and even better when your stoned
briank05 3 months ago 2
me pone los pelos de punta esta banda sonora
sigmar555 3 months ago
Amazing film, amazing soundtrack!! the music inmerse you in the deep sea with only close the eyes.
Pepoxable 3 months ago
@stevejobsmustdie That's what your mom said after I told her all that pillow talk was just to get hers.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
I have literally been looking for this for 2 years!!! Alot of marching bands play variations of this song!!!! This is awesommme!
MrSanDiesel 5 months ago
I think this score/theme was greater than the film itself!!
DetroitLove4U 8 months ago
yes, this track sounds a little different than the one in the movie (not refering to the added parts...:)
siguebrillandocosmos 9 months ago
My most favourite movie of all time. It arouses all kinds of emotions in me. This score also, very well executed. I cannot praise it enough.
awferfuksake 11 months ago
che cazzata di video sei un testa di cazzo tu che lo hai publicato
MrForzact46 11 months ago
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utado1 1 year ago
I just watched The Abyss again today, I hadn't watched it in a while and I was reminded of just how good the score to the film really was. This is some of the best music in films.
pacifistattack 1 year ago
What an amazing score to an amazing movie.
"You never backed away from anything in your life! Now fight!"
"You have to look with better eyes than that (Coffey's)"
I mean, these characters are so wonderful, they don't even seem real. But, then again, I haven't felt more engaged by a scene in anyone else's films than I did when they were trying to revive Lindsey. That is some powerful shit.
LukeLovesRose 1 year ago 10
@LukeLovesRose couldn't agree more, most powerful scene I have ever watched by a brilliant actor
dilus13 10 months ago
I love this movie !
DuHastMichRammstein 1 year ago
Outstanding theme, so beautiful and graceful, i still remember the scene, when the little alien takes Bud with him to his huge mothership - unforgettable scene, and i was sitting near the speakers in the cinema - an real eargasm. Kudos to alan Silvestri, and the movie in dhe director's cut is still a masterpiece.
rudolfdkaat 1 year ago
von peter tÄtgren
daniela12101980 1 year ago
Heavenly. This is the scene where the aliens come for Ed Harris & take him to their city on the ocean bed, as he has proved that humans can be compassionate.
Dristarg 1 year ago
Alan Silvestri is one of the best composers. Love his work and this is no exception!
lizmorganjake 1 year ago
One of the most beatiful themes I've heard in my whole life.
Amazing film
gibsonpowa 1 year ago
this choir is amazing :)
NaunachteTauri 1 year ago
PELIKULON!
SrNutritivo 1 year ago
If we finally make contact......I will play this song
MrHolkop 1 year ago 2
This movie is one of Cameron's best despite the box office let down
teta809 1 year ago 12
@teta809 yea i totaly agree-people are allways liking on him for the wrong reasons!
this film should have given an oscar not titanic!
dionstap 1 year ago 2
Can someone put up the entire end credits?
Lizfan2 1 year ago
@Lizfan2
youtube (dot) com/watch?v=-BgZZet4mGM
:-)
AmurG2 1 year ago
@AmurG2 Thanks!
Lizfan2 1 year ago
I'm still tripping to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
skf1408 1 year ago
sorry to double dip here, but the thing is, this music reminds me of the "life" and string portion of Rachmaninoff's Isle of the dead.
buffalocrotch 1 year ago
This is one of my all time favorite movies, and this track is so damn beautiful and ethereal, also one of my favorites.
buffalocrotch 1 year ago
JESUS COMING
66agosto 1 year ago
@66agosto didn't know he was away....
gyreenedoc 1 year ago
Alan Silvestri, doesn't surprise me the greatness.
Fuck James Horner after Avatar!
cloudani 1 year ago
And people say Berklee graduates have no future...
musicmanfelipe 1 year ago
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Luisma206 1 year ago
James Cameron is an alien.
dsob11 1 year ago
Or something.
1PostPoMoMaN1 1 year ago
In the year 5000 when Earth Humans will leave for colonies, this music will still not get old.
1PostPoMoMaN1 1 year ago
Made me feel unconditional love.
1PostPoMoMaN1 1 year ago
James Cameron - the greatest filmmaker in history. He's a genious.
XenothDragon 1 year ago 40
@XenothDragon Agreed.
lolzatyahoo2 7 months ago
@XenothDragon In his earlier days I would have agreed. Lately though it seems he can't come up with an original story to save his own ass and spends too much time relying on visually stunning graphics to get him his millions. Not grounds for "greatest filmmater in history" by any stretch.
DathanielTDK 6 months ago
@DathanielTDK I think its great that a director likes to push the boundaries of special effects in every new film he makes.. if you want to watch a film with a good story, watch something else.. if you want to be transported into a unique world unlike anything you have ever seen.. watch a james cameron movie
rockyfan94 5 months ago
@DathanielTDK Im with you. but evn in his earlier days he tried to beat others with special effects. His newer movies are just like copies of his old ones. like avatar was like ALL of his old movies mixed. creature designs like the abyss. they were mining like in aliens. the robots were like the aliens ones. the ships were like Terminater. the love story was like Titanic not just cause it was a love story but because the disaster. watch those films and then watch avatar. you'll see.
ZooTycoonZilla 5 months ago
@DathanielTDK Regurgitated anti-Cameron argument is fail. What do you know about Avatar and why/how it succeeded? Have you paid the slightest attention to the box office results OTHER than simply noting that it was successful? Your "original story" claim is also empty. That is a backlash argument that is almost a year and a half old and still doesn't hold any water. If you are gonna criticize the man, at least say SOMETHING of intellectual and critical value rather than parroting this nonsense.
torukmakto4 4 months ago in playlist More videos from NorskTorsk
@torukmakto4 Wow. An entire paragraph which can be pretty much summed down to "ZOMG yur rong lolz" but you haven't said anything on why I'm wrong. Let's take a look at Cameron's last two big successes. Titanic and Avatar. Titanic was a historic event and he added in a love story with two people who were never really on the boat. Nothing much original there. Avatar? Don't make me laugh. Dances with Wolves in Space pretty much sums that up, with a dash of Pocahontas thrown in.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK And here we have yet another completely empty attack. Your point on Titanic is... well, what? It's historically based fiction, so the hell what? It's a quality story well told. Avatar... oh, MAN.
*headdesk*
Suspicion confirmed. You just spat out the Canned Anti-Avatar Troll Argument No.1, Model of 2009. I really get sick and tired of explaining originality to people like you who obviously mean to blindly attack the film and don't care about the truth, but...
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK ...you have ignored archetype and genre yet again. Avatar, and those works you mentioned are members of a borderline prehistoric class of plots. To attack Avatar as unoriginal and then give Poca and DWW as evidence is hypocritical because DWW and Poca did NOT originate the concepts and are thus equally (or more) unoriginal. They, and Avatar, are members of the genre and were at some point the latest in an infinitely long list of comparable plots. Then you get to...
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK ...the issue of whether there actually IS concrete unoriginality. In both cases here, the answer is no. Short version is that DWW, Poca and Avatar are dissimilar plots. They are structurally and thematically incompatible despite having the similarities that define them as members of the archetype. Trust me, I have deconstructed ALL of these works here IN MINUTE DETAIL for people like you in the past and sometimes that's what it takes.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Really? Let's take a look. Outside culture is moving into an alien environment and looking to colonize. They want to steal the region's natural resources but in order to do it they have to combat a native culture living in the area. They employ the main protagonist to help them do this, but instead the main protagonist meets and falls in love with a princess of the native tribe he's enemies with, which makes him switch sides. Is this Pocahontas or is this Avatar? You tell me.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK Also, you blatantly stated your opinion of The Abyss and Avatar as a fact. Can you keep the two straight? As to your Poca v. Avatar "comparison"... well, you summarized the archetype itself in general terms. That subset can be found elsewhere, and if you go just a little more general in terminology you have defined the archetype itself. It is not a specific or original plot, but a generality.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Then lets leave the "genius" title to the ones who created that general archtype and everyone else is simply riding their age old coattails to their own success. This includes whoever wrote Poca, but does this exclude Cameron? No, not really. Put America back instead of Pandora, put the indians in instead of the blue aliens and you just have a remake of Poca, but what it is now is still a reskin of the Mona Lisa. You can deny it, if you want, but it is what it is.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK Fail. The archetype is as old as humanity. It wasn't "written". It is an emergent pattern derived from historical/current events throughout our existence. Yes, really... you are still looking at the distilled archetype there (and thinking far too generally to prove unoriginality anyway). Put America and Native Americans into Avatar, and you have... well, a small fragment of Avatar's basic plot set on Earth (a lot of what defines Avatar is sci-fi and doesn't translate there).
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 The Archetype is as old as humanity? Ummm...yeah I think I'm just going to call bullshit on that one and accuse you of pulling it out of your ass. Especially with all you've been saying about "fact vs. opinion". Again, that's beside the point. I already explained that Avatar is a patchwork of plotpoints from both Poca and DWW mashed together and still doesn't earn Cameron the genius badge by any stretch of the word. But please keep on with the whiteknight fanboying. :)
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK LOL. Yes, it is. The turncoat protagonist pattern and all its usual elements have been showing up in storytelling from our earliest knowledge. CAN YOU DO THE RESEARCH?
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Probably as far back as Moses, I would say. He was a turncoat protagonist when he turned from the Eqyptians who raised him back to the Hebrews he was born from and became their prophet, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's far, far more in common between Disney Poca and DWW vs. Avatar than there is with Avatar and Moses, or any other of those ancient turncoat protagonist patterns that you can name. Feel free to try though, if you feel the need.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK What's important, though, is that even that distilled fragment would be definitively, structurally Avatar. You can't swap settings and get Poca, because Poca is a distinct plot with its own structure and themes. How about you have a look at the third acts of each... should settle that definitively.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Truth is that whether or Poca or DWW, were original themselves is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is you're saying Cameron is genius, but Genius, true genius, takes originality. It's about making something new instead of just taking what was before and putting a new coat of paint on it, such as it is with Avatar. Calling James genius for that is like saying someone who takes the Mona Lisa, makes her blond, and puts her in a modern background is genius. Insulting really.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK Yeah, if Poca/DWW were truly unoriginal, my argument would be undermined slightly. Slightly, because that would mean an entire genre stretching back to the beginnings of written language was suddenly classified as entirely unoriginal... which is preposterous. None of these stories from ancient mythology to DWW to Avatar is an unoriginal work... except perhaps Pocahontas which is often reworked (Disney Poca, Malick's The New World...). Primary point there was not to imply that...
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK ...the other works were unoriginal, but simply to demonstrate a flaw in your argument: any perception that holds Avatar as an unoriginal work over these similarities MUST logically also hold DWW and Poca as unoriginal because these works contain THE SAME ARCHETYPE and have parallel similarities to other works of the genre. I never claimed that it was correct to view all works of the genre as unoriginal.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 First thing, you're mistaking the use of the word "genre". Avatar's genre is science fiction. Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves are both historical fiction. Get it right. That's beside the point though, so let's replace the word "genre" with "story". I'm not sure how old Poca is or where it originated. I'm using the Disney version because that's the one that's similar to Avatar. Pocahontas = Neytiri, John Smith = Sully, Disney badguy=Quaritch, New World=Pandora.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK "Genre" is not such a rigid term... but nitpicking my choice of words is beside the point. Poca originated in history and has been fictionalized. Your character associations only identify the roles required by the archetype: the protagonist who shifts loyalties, their best known member of the other side (teacher, possible love interest, gateway to the other faction), and the antagonist.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Except the fact that Jake Sully is doing the exact same thing as John Smith was right up until it got to the conflict part between the natives and the colonists, where he started being John Dunbar instead. The only thing that sets Jake Sully apart from them is that he's a guy in a wheelchair and he's meeting the aliens through a VR controlled alien/human hybrid. I give Cameron props for setting, don't get me wrong, he just falls flat on story and fails on being genius with Avatar
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 And the story? Pretty much the same. You have your Sully/John Smith being hired by Disneybaddie/Quaritch to undermine the natives/naavi in the NewWorld/Pandora. He ends up meeting Poca/Neytiri, learns the culture, falls in love. After this the similarities in story are in with DWW since John Dunbar goes native and turns on the US. Army like Jake Sully did. Bottom line, Avatar isn't "taking from an archetype" as much as it's patching together plotpoints stolen from two sources.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK Man, you're hopeless. Once again, you fail archetypes forever. What you just posted? THAT IS THE ARCHETYPE. That skeleton plot is found in ALL relevant works. DWW and Poca are relatively VERY recent implementations of that pattern. Those supposed details you mentioned are disguised generalities: protagonist goes native, turns on former allies... Oh yeah, and military forces in Avatar are not US. They're mercs. Homework, please.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 No, it's alot more than simple archetype, pal. Cute that you keep trying to convince me of it but it seems like you're trying to convince yourself of that as well. It doesn't save Avatar's story from being a plotpoint by plotpoint copy and paste job from both Poca and DWW. There's no opinion anything about it either. That's a fact. I know, it burns. It might make you rage and fume and scream and spit, but it is what it is. And Cameron's no genius. At least not with Avatar.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK Nope. Man, you really think I'm naive enough, don't you? You think I'm gonna fall for this trollish shit? Well, I'm sorry to say, I am not new to this game. In my time of being a die hard fan I have seen it plenty of times.
I'll dig up and post my detailed analysis of that later. I am not carrying on a flame war after going to said effort, because to do so is retarded and unproductive. You can't waste my time forever, troll. For now, it's too freaking late. Out.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Bingo. I've gotten you so pissed off that you've resorted to the "lol troll" retorts, in other words, ad hominum. Always happens when you slap a fanboy's favorite thing with the truth fish long enough they eventually get so pissed that it comes to this. Trust me, I make habit out of making faboys' lives hell simply by putting their obsession under a microscope, and it always comes to this. All it ever takes is some facts mixed with subtle doss of opinion to form total rage.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK Resorted? I haven't resorted to anything... notice that I clearly called you out on your trollishness first and foremost. It's also no ad hominem, just an informed observation. Trust me, I used to make a habit out of making trolls' lives hell on earth simply by putting their obsession under the microscope, and it always comes to this. All it takes is some fact to turn them to total rage and lead them to try their hardest to provoke some flames out of me.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Wow. You. Are. Pathetic. Not only did you just take what I said, copy and pasted it it then switched a few words around James Cameron style, but you're going into this childish "Nuh uh, You Are!" type of argument. I can clearly see why you would think that Avatar is the best movie ever. You're a fanboy who simply doesn't know any better. It's like trying to show a twelve year old child who's totally into ninja turtles why ninja turtles are kind of dumb.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 You know what the difference is between a fanboy and a true fan is? A true fan can love the thing they love but also accept that their favorite thing isn't perfect. That's clearly not you. I'm pointing out the fact that Avatar's storyline is a carbon copy patchwork of Poca and DWW and you're throwing this raging hissy fit, and label anyone who points out those shortcomings as "Troll". You are a total fanboy and you have my utmost pity. Hope you grow up soon.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 This will be my last response to you, but let me depart by trying to share this link with you. YouTube is kind of anal about posting links in comments it seems. Nah, won't let me. So just google "You are now pregnant Jake Sully". Hilarious.
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK What a hilarious little tantrum you have spewed. Hell, you even threw in the derogatory link that I will never follow because I'm not dumb enough. And as to your originality claim, you have still failed. All you have ever done is RESTATE your position and pray that it somehow comes off as more factual. It doesn't, and you have just shown me yet again how RETARDED the backlash is with your storm of juvenile anti-fan flames.
I might as well argue with a ZOMBIE.
NO MORE.
OUT.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK And finally, whatever you think of the particular archetype, comparing works on generalities and elements of archetype proves nothing as far as "poor creativity" on the part of the writer. To do so is to fail to comprehend genre. Bashing Avatar on that basis is like attacking Star Wars for being a hero's journey derivative (yet another HUGE archetype) with some medieval influences and elements of sci-fi such as space travel, alien worlds and futurism. It's nonsense...
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK ...because stories are what they are genre-wise. It makes no sense to fault a work for doing so... you might as well flame Romeo and Juliet for being a tragedy and conforming to said classification as needed. You also COMPLETELY MISSED MY POINT ON BOX OFFICE SUCCESS. I was NOT referencing the success in itself, but its STRUCTURE. Avatar's performance was VERY clearly distinct from sell-out, hype driven, low quality blockbusters which universally open big, then crash and burn...
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 There's a difference between "Taking from an archetype" and just taking an entire plot and changing the setting. Avatar IS Pocahontas in space. The plot is the same, the story is the same, it's just replacing indians with blue aliens and American with Pandora. Just face the fact that if the movie did not have as many special effects as it did, it would have been a commercial flop. Also face the fact that it doesn't come close to the goodness of Cameron's previous, like The Abyss
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK False. Pocahontas and Avatar are far from structurally identical. They have some similarities (that they share with many other members of the genre) but these two plots just don't line up event-wise. Can you think for yourself enough to actually compare them on the level you claim the similarity to exist on, or do you need me to waste my time rewriting or digging up and copying my old analysis? Oh, and "just face the FACT"? I will face no such fact... because no such fact exists.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK You have absolutely NO ground to stand on in making radical claims like "If the movie did not have as many special effects as it did, it would have been a commercial flop." Um, evidence? That is an unprovable statement. However, there IS compelling evidence that audiences were not driven by special effects (namely the repeat viewership and incredibly long run that cannot be explained by hype or marketing due to audience reaction and word of mouth becoming more and more significant.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@DathanielTDK ...The numbers on Avatar tell a very different story, a very similar one to Titanic. Repeat viewership and word of mouth influence SET RECORDS on this film.
Finally, I see you just HAD to compare Avatar to that pop culture trash and go on to implicitly insult its fans...
Obvious troll? Oh yeah. Obvious. Shame on you, that you turn to responding in the most childish ways.
Out.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Also, Why So Mad Brah? You're honestly getting your panties in this much of a twist because of some random YouTube comments criticized your favorite movie director? Here's a friendly piece of advice. Don't fanboy rage so much. It's bad for your health. Here, try this: watch?v=Kmv3WlKa6U8
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@torukmakto4 Also, please don't make me laugh about "box office success". You actually think that means as much as you think it means? I suspect that you think that the Twilight books are awesome because they were on the New York Times lists and were made into movies? Is Britney Spears or Justin Beiber considered "good" because they have armies of teen followers who don't know any better? Your argument would be epic fail but that would imply you had an argument to begin with, which you don't
DathanielTDK 4 months ago
@XenothDragon no he isnt. I lost all respect for him when he made avatar. It was basically all his movies mixed. they went there to mine like in alien. The love story like titanic. the robots like alien. the flying ships like terminater. the creature designs like the abyss, and much much more. I like his old movies but Avatar just showed that he copied himself. cause he wrote it in 1991 AFTER the abyss came out and after all those other movies. and the abyss although it was good. was like alien.
ZooTycoonZilla 5 months ago
@ZooTycoonZilla James Cameron did NOT direct Alien. That would be Aliens that you are referring to, and the colonists were not specifically there for a mining operation. Titanic and Avatar love stories NOT very similar. Creature designs mostly unrelated to those of The Abyss. Avatar was written in 1994, not 1991 (take note of that date still rendering your Titanic argument invalid). So... we have VTOL vehicles, exoskeletons, other worlds, soldiers? Uselessly general. Obvious flamer is obvious.
torukmakto4 4 months ago
@ZooTycoonZilla avatar was the sum of his work
VeldinJoe 1 month ago
@VeldinJoe Though a part of me agrees with your comment, but there is more to be seen from Cameron. He always outdoes himself and I cannot wait to see his next masterpiece. Not saying you're wrong, but I believe Titanic still holds dear to him more so than Avatar.
1king4all 2 weeks ago
@1king4all i definitly i liked titanic the best out of all his films, cameron is one of the most talented and innovative film makers
VeldinJoe 2 weeks ago
@VeldinJoe Correct, plus the reason I mentioned Titanic over Avatar is because he is deeply fascinated by the sea and its wrecks. In the 12 year absence all he did was basically explore and film documentaries about wrecks. In the next two Avatar films he is going to dive into the moon's oceans, he actually stated that in an interview.
1king4all 2 weeks ago
Everyone hates Cameron's politics, his writing, his this, his that... when the hell will people start asking smart questions as oipposed to childish, bias remarks?? Here's a great question for you. Why don't you ask what the hell Cameron does so right in every film that he creates iconic images and characters??
LukeLovesRose 1 year ago 8
No, the problem with ALL of Cameron's film is how he is all "anti-war" and yet still resolves conflict with violence.
Oops. It's just that the "good guys" aren't military. That's pretty much it.
Sephiroth1984 1 year ago
Actually if you've ever read or listened to an interview with Cameron, you'd know that's not true at all. He's not anti-military, he just likes to highlight the expectiations of supremacy expressed by technology and firepower, and the irony of nature still kicking ass. Go watch Aliens if you need further proof.
stinkypoon 1 year ago 7
Hm, I'm trying that idea on for size with the Terminator movies . . . (which was what I primarily had in mind). Stuff like Terminator avoiding actually killing anyone was a result of the fact that he/it was actually stronger.
Nevertheless, I (probably) stand corrected.
Sephiroth1984 1 year ago
You're right, Terminator is an even better example. He's a techno-nut, but likes to show how tech is nothing compared to nature, etc. I think his movies are generally misunderstood in this sense.
stinkypoon 1 year ago
Well you can give him the benefit of the doubt like that. BUT remember what group of people gave you that right to say that. Go to China, they wont let people have a Facebook, Myspace. Its literally so bad Google really doesn't want anything to do with them. How can you say he's not anti military. Shoot on this movie the Abyss one of the characters go's to a Navy captain "Looks like your gonna be out of a Job" Makes me friggin sick to hear that shit. Cameron is a Utopia nut back.
shaneryanbenton 1 year ago
@Sephiroth1984
Aliens - the colonial MARINES were the good guys
budokai140 1 year ago
Yes, Aliens really sticks out. (I think it's his best film).
Sephiroth1984 1 year ago
Completely agreed, you earned this cookie. *presents cookie*
budokai140 1 year ago
it's abyss
beathhmv 2 years ago
That gives me the creeps!
triumphator666 2 years ago
I think those who argue about the aliens being hypocritical and such need to see the extended version. Where they go into much more detail then the original which cut out the huge Waves that floated above all the major cities that were off the seas, and threatened to wipe out all the major populations, and that the different countries weren't getting along and threatening each other to have access to the nuclear weapons down bellow. So the Aliens, or whatever they were. Were like ENOUGH
jabs22usa 2 years ago
they were aliens they go into them WAY deeper(no pun intended) in the book some of the book is from their POV
CaptRedJack 2 years ago
sin duda una musica increible vi esa peli en el cine siendo peque y cuando la oi junto con las imagenes alucine
Mahotisa 2 years ago
Epic Song
silverrangerxxx 2 years ago
EPIC.
B00linutza 2 years ago
EPIC
teamforteress 2 years ago 4
Alan Silvestri is a master!
Mackingster 2 years ago 45
Dude, I'm totally trippin' to this music!
skf1408 2 years ago 5
@skf1408
lol!
TheSkepticalIdealist 2 years ago
ich see so viel in dir weisste dat potenzial is da lightrider okeeeeeeeeeee
houseboatxy 2 years ago
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houseboatxy 2 years ago
this makes me feel like I'm in space traveling through the stars with higher beings.
dsob11 2 years ago 4
masterwork・・
winchesterjack 2 years ago 6
AHHH thx. A timeless classic
InFromTheVoid 2 years ago 2
I need this on my Ipod when I'm workin', Lol
CanadianWorkDivers 2 years ago 2
Thanks for this, just recently watched this movie, absolutely love the score. This sounds like when the alien ship is ascending and sweeps up all the other ships. Awesome, and thanks again.
budokai140 2 years ago
good song :(
Zobi1360 2 years ago
Thank you ever so much for posting this
cachaslokas 2 years ago
This movie was very good and thanks for putting the theme up here.
ravenquirk 2 years ago
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The knife was made by John Rambo
Foulestfawn 2 years ago
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Foulestfawn 2 years ago
Anybody know who made the knife Michael Biehn used in this movie?
53rdtird 2 years ago
Wait, i mean, i wanna hear what you have heard.
theredstarritual 2 years ago
I first need a working tape deck as the one have a JVC has worn-out motors! If I wanted second hand deck I wouldnt mind one with Dolby S wasnt The Abyss realised in Dolby stereo SR or was it type A as I only heard it in type A 20 years ago as the cinema only had type A cards in screen 1
this doesnt sound like the original it sounds like one of those composer score clone soundtracks unless it is original? there are other versions of The Abyss on youtube that I could vouch as original.
IntermittentSprocket 2 years ago
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IntermittentSprocket 2 years ago
Hold on this isnt the original score its a different composer and its lacking what the original is. Good god who strangled in the cat with this one! I have the original on compact cassette and this isnt the original!
IntermittentSprocket 2 years ago
interesting. could you post the cassette version?
NorskTorsk 2 years ago 11
@NorskTorsk I think he's right, it sounds different, although I'd say this is still a good recording
icouch 1 year ago
@NorskTorsk
IntermittentSprocket is right. This is not the original version (original is much more amazing). You can compare the sample on amazon.com, track 11. Bud On The Ledge. Or ask Google: abyss soundtrack chomikuj eangel
RMN007 1 year ago
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tetsuo669 1 year ago
@NorskTorsk Look in my video upload. I believe this is what you are looking for.
taipoxin 11 months ago
This guy is in the film credits. Wot have you heard?
theredstarritual 2 years ago
@IntermittentSprocket Yeah, I think this was specially made for the Special Edition. It wasn't Alan Silvestri who did this one.
chikmgnt638 1 year ago
@IntermittentSprocket It has to be the original score because it was in the movie. I just watched it the other night.
42ndAirsoftLegion 1 year ago
@IntermittentSprocket this is the original, douchebag. Knock a hole in your head and let some brains in. Yeah, I'm sure some random dude made this post on ProTools in his parents basement.
djwithnoname 1 year ago
@djwithnoname - Yeah, if this was redo on the original score, I can't tell.
CmdrGendoIkari 1 year ago
@IntermittentSprocket I have this track. It appears on a CD called "The Disasters! Movie Music Album", released in 1998 on Silva Screen Records Ltd. The City of Prague Philharmonic. Conducted by Nic Raine and Paul Bateman.
I'll give them credit for a good job overall, but whoever decided to slow the tempo should have had their knuckles rapped. ;-)
AmurG2 1 year ago
@IntermittentSprocket you're right!
KnuxBrent07 1 year ago
@IntermittentSprocket and @RMN007 I'm not saying you guys are wrong but I can't find any info on this phantom score you speak of. Not on wikipedia, not on IMDB, not on Google....perhaps you would like to elaborate on this? I just watch the Abyss a couple of weeks ago and this music was definitely in the film.
tetsuo669 1 year ago
@IntermittentSprocket
Relax :-)
Same composer, maybe even same orchestra... but different recordings.
The soundtrack in the movie is slightly faster, all accents are definitely more passionate, has a wider range of low frequencies compared to the album version... and I agree, I like the movie version much better...
Nevertheless, the theme is wonderfull to me, even when performed in this way...
alienlabs 9 months ago
Thats BS! This IS the original version, composed by Alan Silvestri! I know there is a another (longer) version out there, its in a double-dvd version.
Niitroshark 8 months ago
Its so beautiful. It haunts my soul.
theredstarritual 2 years ago
For Andreware: That tidal wave is in the DVD. It must be like a deleted scene. Wasn't the music in this beautiful?
StephenB58 2 years ago 2
Music is beautiful:) Actually the tidal wave wasn't included in the original movie because the company that did the special effects wasn't able to pull it off realistically. Also it was a controversial scene - some people said it was their favourite, others said it was their least favourite. Obviously I thought it was my favourite:)
If you haven't seen the special edition, do. It changes the whole movie.
Andreware 2 years ago
to be honest, i haven't seen the original cut in years. in fact my only copy is a recording off of hbo so the tidal wave thing doesn't phase me.
picard154 2 years ago
Well the guy saved them. If it wasn't 4 him sacrificing himself 4 them. Descending in2 the freezing, crushing, dark depths of the Abyss, Alone. He went through Hell saving those Aliens that not only did he not know, they also were not even his kind. So when the Aliens show how bad we can b & were gonna wipe us out, YET HE MORE THEN PROVED WHAT GREAT GOOD WE WERE ALSO CAPABLE OF. So the Aliens looked like utter assholes who prove ther r n fact no better from that very obvious contradiction.
shaneryanbenton 2 years ago
A very good post, however, I don't think he went down there for the aliens. You remember Monk saying the shock wave of the bomb would "crush this rig like a beer can." Bud went down there for the people in the submersible. The aliens saw how he sacrificed himself for them, so they let him live:)
Andreware 2 years ago
Either way how you look at it he still Sacrificed himself and they saw first hand what he did. Those things aren't stupid they know what he went through. Seeing him lying their suffering dying having cut the wires of the bomb. HE SAVED ALL OF THEM. So the Aliens contradicted them selfs. That could have been something James Cameron could have implemented into the story. Bud bring up what he did and making the Aliens realize they are not perfect even with all the advances.
shaneryanbenton 2 years ago
I think this is one of the very best movies ever made. I cannot understand why it did not do well at the box office. I have the movie and have watched it so many times, I know half the dialogue by heart. When I watch the movie, I can recite half the dialogue.
StephenB58 2 years ago 7
I think you and I have a similar interest in this film:) You know in the original release though it didn't have the bit with the tidal wave? All that end bit was left out. So maybe that's why it didn't do so well.
Andreware 2 years ago
Terrific movie.
nds2 2 years ago
Could you e-mail me this piece of music?
PleasantvilleMusic 2 years ago
A: Ye think there are others up there, among the stars, things like us?
B: I'd be strange, if we would be alone in something as big as the universe.
A: Perhaps that's why we're a lonely breed, being alone in the universe.
B: Space is a lonely place, if there's no reason why it's there.
A: So, what's the reason, you think?
B: I dunno, Wondering why it's there? wondering if others on a planet much alike ours galaxies away, wonder the same thing.
MeneerTiki 2 years ago
It is likely that we are alone here, but if we are, then we are the FIRST race.
When we colonise the stars, new life will evolve from US, and seed into the universe, true?
That's a wonderful thought...
Greeblimus 2 years ago
Theres something pure about this soundtrack that defies description. Brilliance.
Sabbon 2 years ago 7
LOOKING for Jesus, sorry.
Nightshift10000 2 years ago
If I woke up to this song playing I would instantly jump up and start liking for Jesus, honestly.
Nightshift10000 2 years ago
Such a great theme
aalataur 3 years ago 5
the human race is not ready for contact with aliens. We must save oure planet first, than we will raise to the stars.
Jokhalli 3 years ago 37
Indeed; we have alot to do here before we can go out there.
nds2 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
You must jack off to pictures of Al Gore lol.
shaneryanbenton 2 years ago
@Jokhalli - Agreed. What intelligent being would want to get in the middle of a domestic dispute? Humans will never be contacted peacefully until we stop killing ourselves.
unitypunk79 1 year ago 2
@unitypunk79 - What pisses me off is that every time I see this movie on TV, they cut out the most important part where the aliens almost decide to take us all out with the massive global tsunami wave.
CmdrGendoIkari 1 year ago
@Jokhalli I for one completelly agree with you on this one. However we are much closer than one might think.
OH and about this soundtrack it`s very very beautiful!
tyraela115 1 year ago
@Jokhalli Shut it, hippie. Give war a chance.
Toadman005 1 year ago