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7/7/4

from cd1, looks bout the same as the rls from POT, almost the exact same silver, colors a little better and audio was cleaned up.

nothing that special, i didnt care for the movie too much, was ok, but expect to see the Blair Witch Project hype for this one.

Video = 5/6 ...pretty borderline, not best TS vid but ok

Audio = 5 ...not much change from POT rls

Movie = 5 ...mediocre real life thriller at best a tv movie


same honesty on every post no matter the grp, i hate when a poster says the audio sucks for a rls but then gives it a 5 or 6 ...we are working on a scale of 10 here.

Not a bad TS..will have to watch the movie again, maybe i'll enjoy it more this time

6/6.5/?

some of sws best work but not the best ts if u have pots release stick with that the movie sucks

7/7/3

not a bad release at all think ill watch it again prolly see whats happeing now. 7/8

Not worth grabbing if you have POT release. Probably not worth it anyway because the movie sucked.

6/5/4

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6/6
not interested in the movie

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6/8/4

Only thing better is the audio

Anyone who rates the video over 7 is just looking at the JPG. Those pics look good, but when you watch the sample the video gets more of like a 5. The audio on the other hand seems somewhat direct. Not dolby disc, but def not a cam. Anyways i heard this movie had its moments but is nothing special. 5/7/??

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7/7/7
i didnt think it was too bad at all.

7/6/?

video quality not the best ... very pixel ...

not much better then pot's cam. video is not half bad, more colors then pot's cam but thats about it. audio is good but could be better. i don't see me watching this rls.

6/7/?

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It's about time a TS of this came out, been waiting awhile. not great quality, but good for sWs

6/7

i dont get how audio can get better audio is perfect no hiss no fuss :P go sws lets see paddle

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Originally posted by Ibegoat
Anyone who rates the video over 7 is just looking at the JPG. Those pics look good, but when you watch the sample the video gets more of like a 5. The audio on the other hand seems somewhat direct. Not dolby disc, but def not a cam. Anyways i heard this movie had its moments but is nothing special. 5/7/??

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well let's see what maVen can do yo top this!...

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decent release no complaints..

6/6/-1 boring shit. should have threw the film roll in the ocean, right into open water and to the bottom of the ocean.

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Is better than the pot release, perfect sound, video is definitely blocky during the water scenes, but is still acceptable. glad i waited for a better release than the pot one, even tho it took some time.

6.5/8

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Ok, i don't want to sound like a moron here, or a stuckup person obsessed with 1 group. But let's look at it this way.

You guys rate maVen/Centropy/VideoCD 8's and 9's .. and you give this a 7 or 8? Well hell, once again not to sound like a dick, but that makes no sense at all. If this gets 8's .. then other TS's should get 16's. Just my opinion on it. Because personally .. i think half these ratings are b/s ;o)

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Originally posted by sportsfan99
Yea those jpegs really are misleading. Actually the video gets very blocky once they're in the water n everything, which most of this movie takes place.

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After a looong hiatus, the Freedster is back!

Anyhoo, I must say this is the first sWs release I would deem worthy of download. The audio is quite crisp and good, the video is not too bad, but it was a pretty static scene in the sample- it looks as if the lighting may get worse for different scenes. All in all, this release is watchable.

6/7/?


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always pixel on the ocean scenes.very bad
video=5
audio=7
movie=?

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Originally posted by richardgearhead
water is are always a bit blocky, unless you up the encode bitrate significantly. there's just too much movement over too large an area.

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Video - 5/10 - eh just about the same as the cam
Audio - 5/10 - low but better than the cam was
Movie - ?/10 - want to see it, so I will wait for DVD

This copy reminds me of a cam with slightly better audio. If only the video quality was a tad better it would be been a pretty decent release. Thanks anyway SWS

folks remember the original movie was filmed on Digital video ! So its never gonna be 35mm ever :O)

8/9/3

Video was great (cropped a little)
People who are seeing blocks need to upgrade their stuff.
(Pssst. HDTV)

Sound was near perfect (A-)

Movie sucked. Poorly written and had many flaws.
(Blair Witch this was not) I think the $160,000.00
was over spent.

So glad I didnt see this at the movies.
(sWs did a great job on release.)

Peace!

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This looks like a mislabeled CAM... Anyways, I give video a 5, Sound a 6, and movie a 7. A longer sample woulda been nice though (I saw the originial CAM 2 weeks ago).

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Not bad

Too bad this movie was so boring.....They should of made it one cd just put the cd2 of the whole thing....the first 40 minutes was so bad (movie wise that is) it gave me time to go to the bathroom and not come out until cd2 was ready...

The blockiness in the water scenes lets this release down. It could have been so much better if it was SVCD, but hey if the source was crap then the encode will be crap too.

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This looks like a mislabeled CAM... Anyways, I give video a 5, Sound a 6, and movie a 7. A longer sample woulda been nice though (I saw the originial CAM 2 weeks ago). -protekt0r

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Well after reading all your posts i expected the movie to be crap. I recoded this at a higher res and bitrate to kill all the squares and watched it.

As for the movie.... I thought it was good, though the final ending is in the credits (like dawn of the dead) and most of the credits were chopped off.

*Don't Read Below, SPOILER*

WTF, did she kill herself to avoid being eaten by sharks?

I know if I were stranded, my ass would have swam to a shipping lane. I know your not suppose to swim, to avoid exhaustion. But damn, a shipping lane wasnt that far if they saw the ships.

For 2 educated people, they made some pretty poor life decisions.

my .02

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Originally posted by inc2k1968
People who are seeing blocks need to upgrade their stuff.
(Pssst. HDTV)

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i remember once i watched a movie just like this....and it was even scarier.............

...........Ariel the Mermaid i think it was

7/7/2

i could of done better with a jacuzzi and a goldfish
dissapointed after all the hype about this movie *tut tut* lol

this should have gotten the SVCD TS treatment..I mean yeah the Movie does pretty much suck..But in VCD the Pic and audio while still cropped and a bit more direct...Leaves something to be desired...I agree with vip3r on this one...Way too blocky..Cmon Maven...U did Yu-Gi-Oh the movie ffs!!!


6.5/6/5

Open Water

its not bad ............i,ll stick with this rls

7/7/?

7 (because of the bad cropping)

8

3 (wish i didn't watch it)

Picture is nice! No Problems as stated in the posts above.

I do find it a little blocky on the PC but no problems on the stand alone.

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mislabeled cam?? audio seems direct

6/7/7

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6/6/5

video was very pixelated

sound was pretty good

as for the movie I found it very tedius and boring

sharks are more likely to attack during late afternoon than in the morning

they would of also killed them both within hours after he started bleeding, sharks do feed during the night so both of them should of dissapeared long before sun rise

and to make the movie even more flawed I very much doubt they would of been left behind, they being racist by making out the black bloke couldnt count and was blind ?

also pissing in the ocean attracts sharks

Cuts off just a bit early

Video is decent. It should have been SVCD to cope with all the water movement. It gets extremely pixilated when showing water (which happens a lot duh) Sound is good. Movie however gets a thumbs down. It has its scenes of suspense, but cuts off early, and you don't see the ending! I had to google what the actual ending was.
*SPOILER ALERT*
I hated the abrupt and unsatisfying ending. In the morning when the man has bled out from his shark bite, the woman more or less sends him off without so much as a tearful mini-Titanic Rose Loves Jack 4Eva farewell. And then she takes her own final dive.
And what is the point of saying this is based on a true story, when it's clear that the filmmakers have no idea what could have happened between two real divers that were stranded by their charter and died at sea? The ending that was cut off from this release was some fisherman pulling their camera from a slain sharks stomach. What is the point of seeing their camera emerge from the shark's stomach, when they clearly didn't document their distress?

bit pixilated, but meh, not interested.

6/6/?

Watched whole release a few nights ago.

Video is pixelated, evident in blockiness of water at opening and closing scenes. Audio was audiable.

This is an OK release for a shit movie. The ending is very cut-off, but then again the story is completely assumed as well.

I don't even see how this fuckin' movie got produced, the wife was such a whiny little bitch with a husband that was definatly missing his a major piece of his anatomy.

I hate these kinds of movies, annoying, pointless, and a complete waste of a group's effort.

6/7/0

probably the worst movie ever made absolute rubbish nonetheless video was ok but pixelated in places, sound was ok
7/7

7/7/7

Nice movie

Shit film

What a load of crap. Cheap and nasty. Shit story and to say it was based on true events - what true events? Two divers got left behind and SOMETHING (yes something as it was cut off!) was found in a sharks gut. Very disappointed.

6/6/3

As for the release - well, what's the point if you're going cut off the end? Waste of time.

Got this release for my mom

I watched 5 mins of it, so heres my rating

7/8/?

During the movie she called me saying the screen kept going black, i was like wtf then looked and it was just because it was really dark only showing the water, then it would flicker during lightening lol

im not going to watch it.

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Well what Can i say for a film that involves a lot of water I think I might just be able to go near a tap again :-).

7/8/5

Great version I have but like many others say quiet boring think the drop of paint in me corner is nearly dry now can leave the room again ha ha ha

I did not get into this movie at all. And these off beat movies are usually right up my alley. The film is fairly washed out. And not from the water. hehehehe. Sound was soft, and hard to understand in a couple places. Oh well. Get it if ya have to, or just watch Jaws, it's more fun.