Today is Deep Blue Sea's 18th Anniversary. Here are 18 reasons why it is the Citizen Kane of genetically modified shark movies

I love Deep Blue Sea. I was working in a movie theater when it was released in 1999. The audiences went absolutely crazy and it's been one of my favorites ever since.

Warning: Lots of hyperbole.

1. Sam Jackson + Big Speech = Bad News
2. Roger Ebert Loved it
3. It is still being talked about today. Brian Raftery of Wired wrote a great piece about it
4. Stellan Skarsgard had a gnarly death. I posted about it on Reddit and it got me going on my weird data ways
5. Sharks swim backward
6. LL Cool J stabs a shark in the eye with a cross - Awesome!
7. It features the greatest song ever
8. Deep Blue Sea wasn't afraid to embrace stupidity. E.G. - the shark getting shocked
9. They made the shark one foot longer than Jaws. - Your shark is 25 feet. MY shark is 26 feet.
10. Renny Harlin is an action maestro. I love the Long Kiss Goodnight, Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2. The guy is a maniac and Deep Blue Sea is his best film.
11. Thomas Jane rode sharks
12. It features the greatest kitchen fight ever

13. Stephen King loves it. Thd dude knows what's up.

14. Deep Blue Sea inspired pretty much every film since (E.G. - Crash, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Jurassic World, Anchorman)

15. The animatronic sharks are actually pretty great - Forget about the CGI. The actual animatronic sharks were awesome.

16. The "bad guy" has a solid backstory - She wants to cure Alzheimer's and doesn't care if she kills her coworkers.

17. News of the sequel received international attention - Everybody went crazy about the sequel even though it will be terrible.

18. It is the Citizen Kane of B-Movies - I love Deep Blue Sea

Submitted July 28, 2017 at 08:46PM by LundgrensFrontKick http://ift.tt/2tJEVh6