2010: Moby Dick

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Robert H Absolutely lame. I racked my mind to think of a movie that was worse. Couldn't think of one. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/05/23 Full Review dustin d What if Moby-Dick was set in the modern day and stripped of its homoeroticism? The result is 2010: Moby Dick. I didn't realize this was an Asylum film when I sat down to watch it. I braced myself for a terrible schlock-fest. The movie they delivered wasn't that bad. If they spent more on the special effects and better developed the characters other than Ahab, it could have actually been pretty good. I enjoyed numerous aspects of the film, such as the flashback at the beginning showing how a young Ahab had lost his leg to Moby Dick, and subtle references to the novel (the little boat used at the beginning was called The Coffin, one of the torpedoes the Pequod shoots at Moby Dick is named Fedallah). The most disappointing element of the movie was the lack of character development in every character other than Ahab. Ishmael is missing entirely (his role has been transferred to a scientist named Michelle Herman). Queequeg, Pip, Starbuck are just veneers of the beloved characters from the novel. Overall, 2010 is a little bit of dumb fun for people who loved Herman Melville's novel and have the patience for a low-budget monster movie. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Only thing good about this movie was Renée O'Connor. (The book was no better. A huge waste of time in university.) Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member So bad, you'd think if was a Netflix production. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Very bad special effects, with a cardboard whale, and a ridiculous script Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Cheesy. Ridiculous. Unnecessary. Those are three adjectives that immediately spring to mind when I think of this adaptation of Moby Dick, but then again, those three words also apply to every film to ever come out of the Asylum. So I'm not overly surprised. The story is basically the familiar one. Captain Ahab manages to find the only whale in existence that can eat his leg, consequently lose his leg, and then drag a large force of unsuspecting whale bait on a journey to find and kill that darned whale. This time, however, the film is set in modern times, so Ahab has a Navy submarine, and the entire Navy ends up involved, as well as some young Marine Biologists who exist solely to identify whale song. The cast is basically B-movie ring-ins, led by, for some reason, Barry Bostwick of Rocky Horror Picture Show fame (wow, Susan Sarandon had a much better career trajectory from that film). They read their lines as a cast, and sometimes inject an emotion into the line - though not always the most appropriate one. The CGI is horrible, the whale looks like it escaped from the first render of the new Jurassic Park movie, and the film is just overall a ludicrous experiment in overindulgence. I'm feeling generous. I'll give it 1 star. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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