A blog visitor contacted me and asked for a movie title. Perhaps someone knows the movie title to this description?
“I’m looking for the name of a movie where a guy with no equipment in a large pool drowned some divers. The movie was from the 60’s or 70’s. I don’t think the women were there, but the action was fun. Do you know anything?”
Would be great if someone would know the title…
In case you do, leave a comment!
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Time for a special post in the middle of the week!
I wanna present a rather awesome picture story from a fine artist who posted this one on Deviant art.
In this story we have a naughty frogwoman and her rubber suit, a male freediver and a…..surprise guest!
Gallery:
(use the arrows to browse throught the story – click on the image to enlarge it)
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I also prepared a zip file with all 40 images for you to download:
A perfect day for scuba diving – all 40 images in ZIP file
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Here is the link to the artist who created this awesome storyline:
He has a lot of other great pictures, so check out his work 😉
Subscribe to his account, comment on pictures and add them to your favorites!
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My opinion (enjoy the complete story BEFORE you continue reading!):
Well…..what can I say?
WOW! Would describe it somehow….at least.
A stunning woman transforms into a sexy rubber frogwoman who really enjoys her rubber skin 🙂
Then she spots a freediver, drugs him, pulls him under and ………well…… starts “playing” with him 😉
Certainly something you won’t see every day!
She did’t fully succeed with her plan due to the croc alligator, but well, she had her fun and survived the croc attack.
Of course he poor freediver is now dead…which gives the story a rather ….evil…touch. But well, I do love it!
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This one took a looooong road to be posted here.
The movie was recommended several times to me by different users, I checked the scenes, wasn’t very thrilled by them, and pretty much forgot about it.
Thanks to the folks who recommended it!
But now, finally, I wanna post it as I do think now, that many folks may like it more than I do.
I am looking forward to the reactions!
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The clip is rather long as the female lead is running around in her wetsuit for quite a while, and I know that many like to see that as well.
I could write about the weird story of this one….but no, I won’t 😉
Preview:
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And here is the video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iA_Tvx1sbD8VQMFc8_VtZUOASCSJ4O0Q/view?usp=sharing
*EDIT1* Unfortunately it was blocked 16 hours after I uploaded it on Youtube.
I didn’t think this video would be problematic since the movie is so unknown and old, but well, I moved it to Goggle Drive so you folks can still enjoy the scenes.
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Yeah, I know the picture quality isn’t good….but that fits the actual quality of the movie. There is no Blu-ray or DVD release of this one 😉
The idea of the rubber frogman as a sea monster is interesting. I don’t know why she would faint, even he surfaces so suddenly. She should have noticed the bubbles he leaves before…and thereby knows that there is no monster chasing her but a diver.
He’s a pretty creepy guy and actually dies only moments later as the real “monster” gets him. That was done really bad, therefore I excluded that scene…and besides this is the frogWOman blog 😉
A shame that the creepy guy has the really great vintage scuba gear and the female lead and her guy have only rather lame neoprene suits (in my opinion).
Would have been great to see the woman in that rubber gear fighting the monster underwater! But no luck…
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This is the pretty rare movie:
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*EDIT2*
I am quite surprised how well the video was accepted by the viewers on Youtube (as long it was up).
It had over 96% likes (to dislike-ratio), which was better than for example the Breaking surface videos that are at 93/94% likes
But it seems that many are already very happy to see a woman in such a vintage wetsuit, even there is no “real” scuba action in it.
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(the picture is just a logo for the VIP Club)
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[1st post for today]
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Yesterday was a very sad day.
Legendary Sir Sean Connery passed away on the Bahamas, aged 90.
I have quite a lot of his movies in my collection and he played a part in many fantastic movies like the James Bond movies, A Bridge too far, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, the Untouchables and many more.
I could write a lot more about his other movies, but after all this blog is named Frogwoman, so why am I posting about him?
Well, the answer is quite simple:
(the french Thunderball poster – click to enlarge)
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The movie Thunderball influenced a LOT of people to get into scuba diving.
Sadly there was only one short scene were a woman actually scuba dives (Claudine Auger, who passed away in December last year).
But the movie offers over 30 minutes of underwater scenes and still -after over 50 years- the best scuba fight scenes in history!
I can’t possible tell how often I watched the movie and certain scenes of it.
Again I could write here endlessly about certain scenes…..but as a matter of fact…I already did.
You are welcome to check out my detailed Thunderball section here on the blog!
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R.I.P. Sir Sean Connery!
Thank you for everything!
You will be missed, but you will live on in all of these great movies 🙂
(click to enlarge to full size)
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P.S.: As I wrote he died on his house on the Bahamas.
And that is were they filmed most of the scenes of Thunderball.
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After a really long time of waiting for this movie, I was finally able to see it last Thursday.
I could have seen it already but I wanted a full HD picture and a language I can actually understand.
The german blu-ray has the original language on it (Swedish) and a german language option of course. You can switch on german subtitles as well.
I watched the movie in german once and watched the underwater scenes again a day later with original Swedish audio and German subtitles.
The movie has a runtime of 82 minutes. At least 40(!) minutes of that is placed underwater! You won’t find many movies that can offer that….especially with female divers.
And it’s pretty unique because there are actually no sharks or other creatures in it like in the horror flicks (examples: “47 meters down” and “47 meters down – Uncaged”).
It’s a survival movie. Two sisters fight to survive a really bad situation underwater.
Also, after 9 minutes in….you won’t find a single man in the whole rest of the movie! As far I can remember that happens only in one other movie I have in my movie collection: “The Descent”, where 6 women explore a cave system and encounter some monsters there. I know quite a lot of movies with no women in them (mostly war movies) but the other way around is a rare thing.
The fact that there are over 40 minutes of underwater scenes in the movie is awesome but turns out to be kind of problematic for this post. I won’t show all of them of course. But which scenes should I present here?
Also I don’t wanna show scenes with major spoilers to the story here.
Today in this post I wanna present two scenes to motivate you to buy and watch this movie. More on that….later.
For now, let’s start with….
Preview:
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And here is the video:
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A nice peril scene for starters! Even it was pretty predictable….and hard to understand what the idiots on the bridge were doing as it was known that she was working down there.
A good idea of her to get rid of her tank to jam the propeller, as it was pretty much her only option besides waiting for those idiots to turn it off. But then it might have been too late….
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Tuva, the younger sister is trapped behind a rock at 32 meters depth! Her oxygen is gone and Ida hastily returns to her with a full tank…
Preview:
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And here is the video:
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Great scenes! It’s no secret that I really like scuba peril scenes. And seeing both of them here in desperate need of air….is quite …well….sexy 😉
Also, the swapping with their full-face dive masks and their “normal” scuba masks is also interesting! I normally like full-face dive masks, but I must say this Ocean Reef mask with the fully transparent faceplate isn’t so attractive in comparison to other masks like the Interspiro mask that Tania Raymonde is using in Deep Blue Sea 3.
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Now back to the movie in general.
It has some flaws, no doubt. The scene above with Ida looking for that oxygen tank for example.
She is without air for around 130 seconds! She is not a professional diver like her little sister and isn’t a really good athlete or in great shape. I hardly doubt that she could hold her breath that long while being in such a stressful situation. Her sister is trapped, she is without air, searching for that oxygen tank in the darkness. She gets lost for a while and yet is pretty calm as she finally reaches Tuva again…
I would have shortened that scene. Let her dive without air for 60 seconds and then swim back on the brick of total panic. That would be more dramatic and more realistic in that case. Yes, there are apnoe divers that can go on much longer without air….but Ida isn’t one, she is highly stressed and not in a condition to stay without air that long.
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Another thing is that tank she is searching for. I checked the scenes several times and can’t explain where it is coming from. It appeared out of nowhere! Where did Ida get that from?
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Also, a big rock falls on Tuva. She is trapped under it but isn’t hurt at all!? I guess that is ….possible…but damn, a “little” hard to buy. But in the end, it has to be like that so that the story could develop like it does.
There are one or two other aspects but I don’t wanna sound too negative.
All in all it is a really good, thrilling movie! The desperate atmosphere is suspenseful and I tried to come up with solutions myself as Ida is trying to free her sister from down below! And as I said, more than 40 minutes of underwater scenes with women in one movie is pretty unique, especially without CGI sharks or other monsters.
Both actresses did a really good job and did most of the underwater scenes themselves after they both learned to scuba dive for the movie as I heard from an interview with the director (on the Blu-ray).
Ok, the drysuits aren’t exactly attractive, but well it’s Norway and not the Caribbean. Also, the darkness below at over 30 meters adds to the grim survival-fight-atmosphere. It wouldn’t work that well in a bright, beautiful setting like in the Bahamas for example.
Folks, I can only recommend this movie to you! This movie belongs in every collection of someone who likes survival movies OR scuba movies OR movies with female divers OR movies with scuba peril scenes.
So folks, ORDER this movie. BUY this movie!
Such movies must be supported, so other producers would make movies with scuba scenes too!
Scuba scenes are expensive, many producers are afraid of doing them.
This year there were two new movies with great scuba scenes…I hope that is a new trend!
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The German Blu-ray has some extras:
I had hoped for a “Behind the scenes” feature as well…but no luck.
Oddly enough I am sure I saw such a video floating around the web some months ago. It was rather short but interesting and showed the filming in a water tank.
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….so, this post is long enough now…
I will post more about this movie another time.
I have some story ideas of my own on this one. 😉
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Just got this Bluray in the mail today 😀
A little teaser of what my next post on Sunday will be about…….
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Will watch it this evening!
I waited for this one patiently since I saw the trailer for the first time in February.
I hope it can live up to the hype I build up for myself 😉
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In these videos, you will see something that you won’t see that often….a female astronaut that dives! And also a female safety diver as a bonus!
I watched this new movie with french audio and English subtitles.
They speak French, English, German and Russian in that movie. 4 languages in one movie…that was new to me.
I do understand English, German, and a little french, but unfortunately, the scenes where they speak Russian were only translated in hardcoded french subtitles like in the videos below.
Looking forward to seeing a version in one language without any subtitles 😆
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Let’s start with the first underwater scene of the movie!
Preview:
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And here is the video:
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Well, her task is obviously to get her male buddy in that capsule in a short time, while he is (playing) unconscious.
Quite a good scene! In her spacesuit, she is very much restricted and can’t move around like a scuba diver. But she gets the job done just in time!
And this was just the first scene….there is another one with some….peril!
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Preview:
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And here is the video:
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Quite a nice peril scene!
Eva Green is a great actress and looks great as an astronaut!
Actually, I’m not sure why she passed out. Was something wrong with the oxygen supply? Was it part of the training? Or was she just overworked and tired?
Of course with all the safety divers, she wasn’t in real danger here.
However an effective training for astronauts to simulate some situations that could happen in space.
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This video gave me an idea for a perilous scenario for an underwater fight:
Imagine that there would be only one safety diver (female). That diver wants to drown the astronaut for some reason! They fight underwater!
The diver looks for a way to sabotage the oxygen supply or to cut her suit open….while the astronaut tries to fight back with some training gear.
Another scenario that needs to be filmed!!!
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Quite a nice scene.
Always nice to see a woman using an oxygen mask (or gas mask)!
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This is the movie (by the way…Eva Green presents her “twins” several times during the movie…):
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In 4 days I will get the german Blu-ray of Breaking surface!
Looking forward to it BIG time! 🙂
Will post about it next week….
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This time a scuba couple gets trapped in a wreck as they are on a treasure hunt.
But rescue isn’t far away in form of 2 divers (one female). So we have 2 frogwomen in this one!
Preview:
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And here is the video:
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Yeah, a solid “trapped underwater with a 99% depleted tank” scenario 😉
I wonder why everyone is so reckless before they get trapped underwater? Both should have been out of the wreck long before they did.
They were very lucky that help was already on the way.
But it is a good scene and having 2 frogwomen in it doesn’t hurt either 😉
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Wanna know from which episode this is?
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