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* SuperPersistentPredator: The sea monsters, who continue to relentlessly pursue the heroes despite suffering extreme gunfire trauma from doing so every time. One might also wonder why [[spoiler:the entire creature attacked the ship in the first place seemingly in pursuit of a bunch of microscopic humans, but this is justified if you apply a bit of logic. Something of its immense size would need to devour whales just to get by, and it probably mistook the ship for one]].
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* ICallItVera: Played with in that, while none of the mercenaries name their many, many weapons, the twin ''engines'' of Finnegan's charter boat are called "Jezebel" and "Hercules".
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Trillian gets out of her red dress and into some army clothes ''in front of the mercenaries, and Canton'', albeit she remains off-camera the whole time. None of the guys at any point glance at her while she's changing because they're too busy arguing.
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* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist ... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton.
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* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist ... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton. [[spoiler: So it is probably no great surprise that he turns out to be ''completely wrong'' in his assumptions. The "creatures" are actually the tentacles belonging to a gigantic cephalopod-type creature]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Canton wanted to sink the cruise liner so he could reap the insurance money. When Finnegan accuses him of trying to kill all the passengers Simon takes offense and claims that he planned for all of them to live, as they would be safely transported off the ship before anyone could drown.
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* HateSink: Simon Canton. The monsters are just predators that live to consume, and most of the mercenaries have some redeeming qualities such as determination and being badasses. Canton however is ''only'' selfish, cowardly, and greedy. [[spoiler:He's not so bad at first, but he eventually tries to leave the other survivors for dead, then tries to kill Trillian, shrugs off the all the passengers' deaths because he can still scam the insurance agency if the ship sinks, and tries to steal Finnegan's boat. He meets a deliciously KarmicDeath.]]
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* EmptyElevator: The mercenaries are searching through the abandoned cruise ship looking for any passengers or crew members, but none can be found. Then the elevator activates, and they can see it moving to their floor. They keep their weapons aimed at the door, but it's empty. Except for the blood-covered walls inside the elevator, that is.
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''Deep Rising'' is an underrated 1998 StephenSommers film, and arguably his best work. The basic plot is that our hero, boat pilot for hire John Finnegan (Treat Williams), is contracted by a group of mercenaries to transport them to a luxury cruise liner that they intend to rob. When they arrive on board, they realize that no one is there. It appears that someone, or something, has killed all the guests.
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* SevenDeadlySins: The villainous mercenary group seems to be made up of this: Vivo is always talking about food (Gluttony), T. Ray threatens with violence all the time (Wrath), Mamooli talks about his desire to have sex with women from every country (Lust), Jason Flemyng says that the group will "kick ass and take names" as well as taunts a monster and claims it is nothing (Pride), Hanover is paranoid, distrustful and later ends up shooting at someone who is going to live and not him (Envy), Mason is seen stuffing money into his pockets (Greed) and Billy complains about all the work he has to do (Sloth).
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Everwood}} Andy Brown]] has a pretty sweet boat, with [[Film/TheMummy1999 Beni as his mechanic.]] [[{{X-Men}} Jean Grey]] is a classy thief. [[StreetFighter Sagat]] leads a crew of mercenaries, of which include [[MortalKombat Kano]] and [[{{Amistad}} Joseph Cinque.]] [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Chilton]] is in cahoots with the mercs. Guess looking after Hannibal didn't pay well.
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->''Now what?''
-->-- '''John Finnegan'''
''Deep Rising'' is an underrated 1998 StephenSommers film, and arguably his best work. The basic plot is that our hero, boat pilot for hire John Finnegan (Treat Williams), is contracted by a group of mercenaries to transport them to a luxury cruise liner that they intend to rob. When they arrive on board, they realize that no one is there. It appears that someone, or something, has killed all the guests.
Sounds stupid? It is. But one of the things that makes this movie such an excellent and endearing GuiltyPleasure is that it knows exactly what it is, and doesn't take itself seriously for one moment. It also succeeds thanks to a surprisingly good cast, fast pacing and good humor throughout.
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!This movie contains examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Canton accidentally axes Vivo in the head when he believes that it was the creature on the other side of the door.]]
* [[spoiler: AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The monsters are actually the tentacles of a bigger beast.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Hanover. He loses it halfway through.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled:
** When [[spoiler:Mason]] is grabbed by a sea monster that will slowly and painfully digest him alive, he detonates one of his explosives before it can eat him.
** Also played with when [[spoiler:Hanover]] is grabbed by one of the monsters. [[spoiler:Joey]] hands him a weapon as an act of mercy, only for [[spoiler:Hanover]] to start shooting at him. While [[spoiler:Joey]] escapes, [[spoiler:Hanover]] tries to take his own life and discovers he doesn't have any bullets left.
* BottomlessMagazines: Lampshaded. The writers, aware that the plot will require BottomlessMagazines, introduce the primary weapon of Hanover's pirates as an exotic "Chinese" minigun assault rifle that is auto-cooling, water-tight and has a thousand round magazine. The small size is still preposterous.
* CatchPhrase[=/=]ItGotWorse: "Now what?"
* ChekhovsGun: Or in this case, Chekhov's torpedoes.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: There's a GambitPileup involving a thief, mercenaries, a captured cruise ship and a pack of sea monsters.
* CoolBoat: The Argonautica.
* [[spoiler:CombatTentacles: Near the end it turns out that the protagonists have been facing nothing ''but'' these until they encountered the head.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Joey.
* DerelictGraveyard: In the opening scene of the film, before we switch to the main plot the creatures are seen travelling through a deep sea ship graveyard, some of them hundreds of years old, ''all of which they presumably attacked, ate all the people on it, and sank the ships afterwards''. There are even the remains of whale skeletons besides the derelict ships.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:Finnegan destroying one of the monster's eyes with his shotgun, allowing him and Trillian time to escape.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Finnegan comes back to the boat to see that Joey's gone, and he assumes that he was eaten by the creature. Later, when he's on the island with Trillian, Joey comes paddling onto shore on Finnegan's surfboard.]]
* DroolHello: As the remaining group of survivors discuss what to do next, one of the monsters drips slime/drool onto Joey's shoulder. He proceeds to spaz out and opens fire on the monster, causing it to split and spill out the partially digested (but still alive) remains of [[spoiler:Billy.]]
* DuelingMovies: With [[{{Alien}} Alien: Resurrection]].
* DwindlingParty
* TheElevatorFromIpanema: Lampshaded.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Finnegan pokes out one of the creature's eyes on the boat.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: What the creatures do to their "food." Their victims are swallowed up, have their liquids effectively drained and whatever's left of the body being spit back out. Oh, and did we mention that you're still alive when you get spit out? Dying afterwards is a mercy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several allusions to the revelation that the creatures [[spoiler:are actually the tentacles of a humongous octopoid monster, most notably Finnegan's anecdote about the octopus and the bottle]].
* GhostShip: Somewhat subverted in that the main characters are seeking out the cruise liner intentionally.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Everwood}} Andy Brown]] has a pretty sweet boat, with [[Film/TheMummy1999 Beni as his mechanic.]] [[{{X-Men}} Jean Grey]] is a classy thief. [[StreetFighter Sagat]] leads a crew of mercenaries, of which include [[MortalKombat Kano]] and [[{{Amistad}} Joseph Cinque.]] [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Chilton]] is in cahoots with the mercs. Guess looking after Hannibal didn't pay well.
* HiredGuns: Hanover's team.
* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist ... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton.
* ItCanThink: At one point late in the film the monsters start herding the remaining humans towards their feeding area.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Joey and Finnegan (especially Joey) after Leila's death.]]
* KarmicDeath:
** [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Simon Canton attempts to get away on Finnegan's boat without the others after trying to kill them. When he jumps onto the boat from the cruise ship, he breaks a leg. Unbeknownst to him, the torpedo filled boat has been rigged to run into the cruise ship in order to explode and kill the creature. When Canton realizes this, it's too late and the last thing he sees before dying is Finnegan's computer screen which reads "Game Over".]]
** [[spoiler: Hanover's death mentioned above. He could've spared himself the horrific fate of being a sea monster's meal, but rather than accept Joey's gun as an offer of mercy, he tries to shoot him out of spite. Of course, it was the last bullet, so cue the scream.]]
* [[spoiler:KrakenAndLeviathan: The monster.]]
* LadyInRed: This is Trillian's outfit for the first half of the film.
* LargeHam: Anthony Heald, especially towards the end.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The creatures have to open wide for this to be really noticeable, but when they do [[http://www.dwmdesigns.com/DeepRisingPg1.html it's quite scary]]. [[spoiler:The primary mouth is also [[http://stephensommers.com/site/?p=198 completely littered with teeth]].]]
* OhCrap:
** [[spoiler:Canton, when he realizes the boat he's on is about to self-destruct.]]
** A more understated one happens when Simon Canton explains to the others what the creatures are capable of.
* OneLiner: "What are you looking at?"
* OutrunTheFireball: On a jet ski actually.
* {{Phlegmings}}
* RuthlessModernPirates: The mercenaries.
* SmartBall: Canton's theory of the creatures' origins is completely out of left field.
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: The ending [[spoiler: with the heroes now stranded on an island that seems to have more monstrous creatures they have to deal with. The page quote is the last line as they find this out.]]
* SevenDeadlySins: The villainous mercenary group seems to be made up of this: Vivo is always talking about food (Gluttony), T. Ray threatens with violence all the time (Wrath), Mamooli talks about his desire to have sex with women from every country (Lust), Jason Flemyng says that the group will "kick ass and take names" as well as taunts a monster and claims it is nothing (Pride), Hanover is paranoid, distrustful and later ends up shooting at someone who is going to live and not him (Envy), Mason is seen stuffing money into his pockets (Greed) and Billy complains about all the work he has to do (Sloth).
* SuperPersistentPredator: The sea monsters, who continue to relentlessly pursue the heroes despite suffering extreme gunfire trauma from doing so every time. One might also wonder why [[spoiler:the entire creature attacked the ship in the first place seemingly in pursuit of a bunch of microscopic humans, but this is justified if you apply a bit of logic. Something of its immense size would need to devour whales just to get by, and it probably mistook the ship for one]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:At first, Canton's plan was to destroy the ship as an insurance scam, but to make it so all of the passengers live. Later though, he uses the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat. Fortunately, though, he meets his aforementioned Karmic Death in the end.]]
* TravelingPipeBulge: When the worm monsters pass through pipes.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Alas, poor Leila. What a horrific death you must have suffered]].
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:T. Ray, the biggest and most violent member of Hanover's mercenary crew is the second of our main characters to be killed by the monster after Leila above.]]
* YouJustHadToSayIt:
-->'''Joey:''' "I ask you, man, could it get any worse?"
-->''[[ItGotWorse Lights go out.]]''
-->'''Finnegan:''' [[LampshadeHanging "Thanks, Joey."]]
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-->-- '''John Finnegan'''
''Deep Rising'' is an underrated 1998 StephenSommers film, and arguably his best work. The basic plot is that our hero, boat pilot for hire John Finnegan (Treat Williams), is contracted by a group of mercenaries to transport them to a luxury cruise liner that they intend to rob. When they arrive on board, they realize that no one is there. It appears that someone, or something, has killed all the guests.
Sounds stupid? It is. But one of the things that makes this movie such an excellent and endearing GuiltyPleasure is that it knows exactly what it is, and doesn't take itself seriously for one moment. It also succeeds thanks to a surprisingly good cast, fast pacing and good humor throughout.
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!This movie contains examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Canton accidentally axes Vivo in the head when he believes that it was the creature on the other side of the door.]]
* [[spoiler: AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The monsters are actually the tentacles of a bigger beast.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Hanover. He loses it halfway through.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled:
** When [[spoiler:Mason]] is grabbed by a sea monster that will slowly and painfully digest him alive, he detonates one of his explosives before it can eat him.
** Also played with when [[spoiler:Hanover]] is grabbed by one of the monsters. [[spoiler:Joey]] hands him a weapon as an act of mercy, only for [[spoiler:Hanover]] to start shooting at him. While [[spoiler:Joey]] escapes, [[spoiler:Hanover]] tries to take his own life and discovers he doesn't have any bullets left.
* BottomlessMagazines: Lampshaded. The writers, aware that the plot will require BottomlessMagazines, introduce the primary weapon of Hanover's pirates as an exotic "Chinese" minigun assault rifle that is auto-cooling, water-tight and has a thousand round magazine. The small size is still preposterous.
* CatchPhrase[=/=]ItGotWorse: "Now what?"
* ChekhovsGun: Or in this case, Chekhov's torpedoes.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: There's a GambitPileup involving a thief, mercenaries, a captured cruise ship and a pack of sea monsters.
* CoolBoat: The Argonautica.
* [[spoiler:CombatTentacles: Near the end it turns out that the protagonists have been facing nothing ''but'' these until they encountered the head.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Joey.
* DerelictGraveyard: In the opening scene of the film, before we switch to the main plot the creatures are seen travelling through a deep sea ship graveyard, some of them hundreds of years old, ''all of which they presumably attacked, ate all the people on it, and sank the ships afterwards''. There are even the remains of whale skeletons besides the derelict ships.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:Finnegan destroying one of the monster's eyes with his shotgun, allowing him and Trillian time to escape.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Finnegan comes back to the boat to see that Joey's gone, and he assumes that he was eaten by the creature. Later, when he's on the island with Trillian, Joey comes paddling onto shore on Finnegan's surfboard.]]
* DroolHello: As the remaining group of survivors discuss what to do next, one of the monsters drips slime/drool onto Joey's shoulder. He proceeds to spaz out and opens fire on the monster, causing it to split and spill out the partially digested (but still alive) remains of [[spoiler:Billy.]]
* DuelingMovies: With [[{{Alien}} Alien: Resurrection]].
* DwindlingParty
* TheElevatorFromIpanema: Lampshaded.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Finnegan pokes out one of the creature's eyes on the boat.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: What the creatures do to their "food." Their victims are swallowed up, have their liquids effectively drained and whatever's left of the body being spit back out. Oh, and did we mention that you're still alive when you get spit out? Dying afterwards is a mercy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several allusions to the revelation that the creatures [[spoiler:are actually the tentacles of a humongous octopoid monster, most notably Finnegan's anecdote about the octopus and the bottle]].
* GhostShip: Somewhat subverted in that the main characters are seeking out the cruise liner intentionally.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Everwood}} Andy Brown]] has a pretty sweet boat, with [[Film/TheMummy1999 Beni as his mechanic.]] [[{{X-Men}} Jean Grey]] is a classy thief. [[StreetFighter Sagat]] leads a crew of mercenaries, of which include [[MortalKombat Kano]] and [[{{Amistad}} Joseph Cinque.]] [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Chilton]] is in cahoots with the mercs. Guess looking after Hannibal didn't pay well.
* HiredGuns: Hanover's team.
* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist ... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton.
* ItCanThink: At one point late in the film the monsters start herding the remaining humans towards their feeding area.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Joey and Finnegan (especially Joey) after Leila's death.]]
* KarmicDeath:
** [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Simon Canton attempts to get away on Finnegan's boat without the others after trying to kill them. When he jumps onto the boat from the cruise ship, he breaks a leg. Unbeknownst to him, the torpedo filled boat has been rigged to run into the cruise ship in order to explode and kill the creature. When Canton realizes this, it's too late and the last thing he sees before dying is Finnegan's computer screen which reads "Game Over".]]
** [[spoiler: Hanover's death mentioned above. He could've spared himself the horrific fate of being a sea monster's meal, but rather than accept Joey's gun as an offer of mercy, he tries to shoot him out of spite. Of course, it was the last bullet, so cue the scream.]]
* [[spoiler:KrakenAndLeviathan: The monster.]]
* LadyInRed: This is Trillian's outfit for the first half of the film.
* LargeHam: Anthony Heald, especially towards the end.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The creatures have to open wide for this to be really noticeable, but when they do [[http://www.dwmdesigns.com/DeepRisingPg1.html it's quite scary]]. [[spoiler:The primary mouth is also [[http://stephensommers.com/site/?p=198 completely littered with teeth]].]]
* OhCrap:
** [[spoiler:Canton, when he realizes the boat he's on is about to self-destruct.]]
** A more understated one happens when Simon Canton explains to the others what the creatures are capable of.
* OneLiner: "What are you looking at?"
* OutrunTheFireball: On a jet ski actually.
* {{Phlegmings}}
* RuthlessModernPirates: The mercenaries.
* SmartBall: Canton's theory of the creatures' origins is completely out of left field.
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: The ending [[spoiler: with the heroes now stranded on an island that seems to have more monstrous creatures they have to deal with. The page quote is the last line as they find this out.]]
* SevenDeadlySins: The villainous mercenary group seems to be made up of this: Vivo is always talking about food (Gluttony), T. Ray threatens with violence all the time (Wrath), Mamooli talks about his desire to have sex with women from every country (Lust), Jason Flemyng says that the group will "kick ass and take names" as well as taunts a monster and claims it is nothing (Pride), Hanover is paranoid, distrustful and later ends up shooting at someone who is going to live and not him (Envy), Mason is seen stuffing money into his pockets (Greed) and Billy complains about all the work he has to do (Sloth).
* SuperPersistentPredator: The sea monsters, who continue to relentlessly pursue the heroes despite suffering extreme gunfire trauma from doing so every time. One might also wonder why [[spoiler:the entire creature attacked the ship in the first place seemingly in pursuit of a bunch of microscopic humans, but this is justified if you apply a bit of logic. Something of its immense size would need to devour whales just to get by, and it probably mistook the ship for one]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:At first, Canton's plan was to destroy the ship as an insurance scam, but to make it so all of the passengers live. Later though, he uses the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat. Fortunately, though, he meets his aforementioned Karmic Death in the end.]]
* TravelingPipeBulge: When the worm monsters pass through pipes.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Alas, poor Leila. What a horrific death you must have suffered]].
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:T. Ray, the biggest and most violent member of Hanover's mercenary crew is the second of our main characters to be killed by the monster after Leila above.]]
* YouJustHadToSayIt:
-->'''Joey:''' "I ask you, man, could it get any worse?"
-->''[[ItGotWorse Lights go out.]]''
-->'''Finnegan:''' [[LampshadeHanging "Thanks, Joey."]]
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