The Big Picture: Schlocktober 2012: Orca

[Mortamus]

Well, here's to more awesome monster movies with insane ideas.

Didn't that ice berg bit also happen in futurama?

Why yes, it did. It ate all the penguins.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Well, here's to more awesome monster movies with insane ideas.

Didn't that ice berg bit also happen in futurama?

Why yes, it did. It ate all the penguins.

I knew I recognized that scene in Orca from somewhere.

As for the movie itself, the thought of the orca knowing enough to blow up that building blew my mind, I know there's the whole suspension of disbelief but seriously after that it could've used a gun and I wouldn't have been surprised.

 

[Swarmcrow]

well this explains the dead orca in Jaws 2...

 

[Steve the Pocket]

That is the killer-whale equivalent to a dude in sunglasses casually walking away from an explosion. That is incredible.

 

[varmintx]

My dad loved this movie; thanks to this reminder of the film's existence, I'm going to get a copy of it for him now.

I'm fairly certain the miscarriage scene scarred me as a child.

 

[malestrithe]

It does not surprise me that Richard Harris was in one of these movies. I've seen his collaborations with Godfrey Ho. It was probably an easy time for both. Harris worked for a month, got paid for 6 and had a nice vacation in the Asian world. Godfrey for enough material out of Harris for about 2 dozen movies.

 

[Draconalis]

I used to call them killer whales, but now I call them Orcas, because killer whales, regardless of how true that name is in the wild, seems to condescending to me.

For more justification, Orcas aren't whales. They are dolphins.

 

[Mega_Manic]

I used to call them killer whales, but now I call them Orcas, because killer whales, regardless of how true that name is in the wild, seems to condescending to me.

For more justification, Orcas aren't whales. They are dolphins.

My mind has just been blown.

 

[Marcu5]

There are few things from my childhood that I remember as vividly as _that_ scene...

 

[Scarim Coral]

How did I miss this? I mean I look up Dino De Laurentiis on Wiki and this film doesn't show up on his filmography. It look like someone need to update his info!
That ending scene when the orca slam the ice that guy was on remind me of that Futurama with the penguin. Oh and the joke with Free Willy at the end made me laugh!

 

[Rad Party God]

I remember my dad talking about this movie when I was little and thanks to the wonderful days of Canal 5's movie trilogy weekends (I miss those), I remember watching this and thinking "meh, this kinda sucks" and mind you, I already watched many 80's horror flicks by then (I seriously miss those weekends).

That was a while ago, I'll definitely need to watch this again.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

So it´s Moby Dick with an Orca?

I was WAITING for someone to make a Moby Dick reference! BOB! You're slipping!

Though, honestly, if the guy actually quoted Moby Dick, it probably would have crappified the movie a bit...

Except it's the whale that wants revenge.

If only Melville have managed to pen Moby Dick 2!

Lord help us all when the greats of literature act like the movie biz and start penning unnecessary sequels...

CAPTCHA: no-brainer

True that, Captcha...in more ways than one!

 

[Trishbot]

Funny enough, there are almost ZERO human fatalities by wild orcas... though the CAPTIVE orcas have attacked a few people.

Still, it's very true that, yes, orcas have been known to beat the living tar out of, and then eat, giant great white sharks. Which is awesome.

 

[ExtraDebit]

Obviously that dude never heard dynamite fishing or electric fishing.

 

[RTR]

What happened to the jack-o-lanterns?

 

[Vie]

I'd actually heard of this film before, but had dismissed it based on it's poster as a cheep rip off with no imagination or talent.

Proves that old adage about judging book's by their covers I suppose.

 

[LordLundar]

And the entire time Orca was going on it's rampage, I was rooting for it.

 

[NortherWolf]

I'd actually heard of this film before, but had dismissed it based on it's poster as a cheep rip off with no imagination or talent.

Proves that old adage about judging book's by their covers I suppose.

If I may chime in, it is pretty much a cheap rip off with no imagination or talent.

Monster movies are sort of my major interest, and I've watched a bunchload of them. And Orca is one of the ones I've never enjoyed, before or after growing up. It's pretentious and usually quite boring. It's somewhat of a cult classic though, but in my opinion deserves none of the praise it gets.

 

[MonkeyPunch]

Wow, that looks like a surprisingly good watch.
Going to have to find me a copy.

I'm surprised I've never heard of this flick... specially as it features Richard Harris.
Oh well, now I've got a movie to catch up on.