weird

no_caps

I'm just going to agree with what everyone else here has said, must have been 9 or 10 when I saw this (based on the '78 air date), and it has stuck with me since. What is the deal with this movie? I was reminded of Bermuda Depths while watching Whale Rider last night, and the scene where the girl begins to ride the whale into the depths -- that scene in Whale Rider reminded me of the end of Bermuda Depths (of course Whale Rider had a happier ending), where the guy gets dragged down by the turtle, and the carvings on the turtle, ooh boy has that stuck with me. Did a Google search for "giant sea turtle movie," expecting to find a bunch of links about Gamera, but what do you know, I find this whole community of people on IMDb who were just as affected by that movie, all these years later -- weird. We're kind of like the people in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, inexplicably making mashed potato mountains of Devil's Tower, only to discover we're not the only ones.

score 8/10

no_caps 27 July 2005

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1136370/