The Abyss (1989) is a James Cameron film, he also directed Titanic and Avatar among many other famous films. the technical effects were the most advanced at the time. Industrial Light and Magic created the special effects. The water alien was a ground breaking special effect and was the same program used for the T-1000 in Terminator 2. The movie relied heavily on special effects, and it was heavily edited to shorten the running time because it was feared audiences would not like a movie nearly 3 hours long with lots of special effects. I never liked the movie because I am a bit claustrophobic and the submarines in the movie felt cramped. I do remember the special effects were down right beautiful at the time and the scenes with the aliens were fascinating and made suffering with the closed in feeling worth watching the movie. By today's standards many of the effects appear dated and rough in comparison to what is being produced today. The Abyss was the first movie to use a version of Adobe Photoshop.
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