The Abyss - Caravan of Garbage 

I love the running gag of Maso being represented by Kermit and James being represented by Christian Bale.

The fact that James and Mason both forgot the name of Underwater while describing it as "That movie with Kristen Stewart and it was underwater"

My favourite bit of trivia in this film is that after shooting wrapped, James Cameron spent months and months editing and re-editing everything into something that matched his vision, to the point that a producer tracked him down, kicked in his door and told him that he could either release a finished cut in two weeks, or drive around to every theatre in America, stand on stage and explain the plot to the audience.

“Stop panicking and pooing, ya rat bitch” my new favourite CoG quote

James, I’m proud of you for evolving your content. I may have been drawn in back in the day with your list/Easter egg content, but I’ve stayed for the humor and amazing charisma of the Planet Broadcasting crew

I love how you can hear the excitement in James’s voice when he’s doing Blue Harvest trivia 😂😂

The Rodney Supercut has become my most anticipated weekly occurrence in my life. I’m always surprised at how hard it makes me laugh.

It's a freaking miracle that no one drowned while making this movie. Alot of brused faces though.

You can't trick me anymore, James. I knew from the moment you started talking about Ed Harris considering hair transplants exactly where it was going.

I am not ashamed to admit I cheered when James's Blue Harvest bit came together.

My dad built movie sets in LA for around 30 years, never worked on a James Cameron movie since all his friends who did would tell him how miserable it was, "He treats everyone on set like a pick of equipment" was the main line that has always stuck with me.

The Abyss is a movie about communication and I freaking love it. "Why don't you talk to me? I feel like I'm drowning. Why won't you talk to me? No, I'm REALLY drowning over here." "It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is keep swimming. Just keep swimming..."

Long time fan of you guys, probably one of my first times commenting. I was actually in a movie with Ed Harris right after I graduated High school, and while everyone else was telling him how badass The Rock, the movie was, I told him how much I always liked The Abyss. His face kind of told me the story that you guys just told, but I never knew most of it until now. Keep it up fellas!

The tsunami scene blew my mind when I was a tiny child, seeing it during an HBO trial. I was very confused when I rented it to show my friends and the scene was completely absent.

I'd never heard of this movie and the more I learn about James Cameron the more I'm starting to think he has a belief deep in his soul either that there ARE underwater blue people that he can find or that there should be underwater blue people that he must create. Either way I'm a little concerned and I'd love to know what he thought of Black Panther 2.

This was one of those movies that had a profound impact on me as a kid. The scene where Harris resuscitates his wife was just WOW to me. It’s a scene where acting becomes lost in the moment and I felt like I was watching something real. It put Ed Harris on the map of actors in my childhood mind.

I really enjoy that you retired the blue harvest bit for like one episode and then clearly enjoyed it enough to bring it back almost immediately.

I love how these videos and the podcast have just grown into an endlessly growing collection of "bits" and in-jokes that make it completely incomprehensible for new listeners

The use of the Mario 64 jolly Rodger bay music had me in stitches man, especially as the rat was nearly dying during it and casually floating past in a plastic bag. Absolute genius 😭

I work for a portapotty company, so I can tell you from experience, that the blue tablets we put in the tanks that make the water blue, stains like nothing else. You can wash your hands 50 times and still be blue. There’s been a few shifts where I’ve run out of gloves and even just grabbing the clean tablets from the bag can stain your hands but obviously sticking the whole hand in the toilet itself will do the same thing

The condition Michael Beans character suffers from is actually the wet willies, the deep down crazies, the screaming moist.

Great job, editor(s) for finding those two vintage commercials promoting Cameron movies on cable. Also the rest of the video too but mostly those two moments

The sequence of Ed Harris descending into the abyss was for me the by far most harrowing part of the movie, really hard to keep my eyes on lol

I'm afraid of being under water, it scares me. The lack of breath and vision, the vaccum around your ears, everything about it. This movie made me claustrophobic more than once. Most importantly when Ed is drowning slowly, I almost threw up. But this movie is phenomenal. One of the best I have ever seen.

I’ve grown to like Ed Harris more and more over the years. Now knowing he punched James Cameron in the face is just another plus.

The Abyss holds a huge spot in my child cinematic universe. I love it I think I’ll watch it now.

The random clip of "So I Married an Axe Murderer" made me laugh very, very hard, literally made my night, thank you guys 😅

Ok I just wanna say that this video has been in my “watch later” playlist for an entire year because I wanted to hear you guys talk about it but I’d never seen the thing and, like you mentioned, could not find it anywhere. Now, I’ve just finished the 4K remaster in theaters and, at long last, I could watch this video. And boy was I not disappointed! I can’t believe how quickly I’d forgotten about caravan of garbage staples like “guy who screams rodney” and “James puts blue harvest into every episode”. I love you guys.

The sub implosion....... whew.

Abyss is one of my favorite movies. Saw it in the theater as a 6 year old. Oddly enough one of my first memories is seeing Aliens in the theater as a 3 year old.

12:16 that was the most primal sort of brutality. The water didn't just cause his death, it erased him.

You know, this may have been the greatest trivia segment yet.

love how Mr. Plinkett's house set is the example shown as flammable

James and Maso absolutely dialed in on this one. Had me bursting out laughing, great stuff!

My biggest excitement from this video is right at the top realising Maso is finally gonna watch Titanic (and probably hate it)

Had an honest-to-god spittake when James Cameron called a drowning rat a "rat-bitch"

I worked as a projectionist in a small theater when I was a teen. I saw the beginning and the ending of this movie dozens of times. #GoodTimes

The Abyss is unironically my favorite movie of all time. Seriously.

I love James’s summary of the ending to Mission to Mars: “where the aliens are like ‘hello’”

I love all JC’s movies but this is my constant ‘go to’ every year. The extended cut is great but either version works. The ‘resuscitation’ scene between Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is insanely tense and some of the best acting ever! And yes it’s 100% the most JC movie.

My recommendation for Caravan of Garbage is Kangaroo Jack (2003)! It’s in Australia, you two are Australian, it just makes sense

The Abyss really borrowed a lot from Peter Hyams' 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the exact same Cold War tension while isolated characters are having an alien encounter

When you know the Ed Harris' blue hand references are going to be used for the Blue Harvest joke.

I've gotta be honest, the thing I look forward to the most in every new caravan of carbage is how james is gonna make the blue harvest joke

The fact that The Abyss is still not available on Blu-Ray or 4K is a crime! I've been eagerly waiting for its release. Just do it, James Cameron!

LMAO at Maso not understanding The AABYSS.. the name of the movie they’ve been discussing! 23:00

Ben, Laurence..As always, fantastic editing. You guys really make these episode's amazing.

Surely there's the 4th most influential films when it comes to Avatar, Ferngully!

Maybe it was growing up watching it again and again, but for me The Abyss is easily Cameron’s best movie. Truly underrated. You guys might want to give it another watch. Or five.

I saw the Abyss on it's release - having recently returned from living in Japan for 2 years. I had heard nothing about the movie, so the "water face" scene really, really blew me away. I was able to experience genuine wonder, and I'm glad I saw the movie cold.

That blue toilet water or blue juice as it’s called in my job, is unbelievably difficult to remove. Ed Harris having to wear it the rest of the movie is hilarious because I still have a blue juice stain from 2 years ago on one of my shirts

I've never seen this movie but yes, it seems like the most James Cameron movie ever. I think Bad Boys 2 is the most Michael Bay mover ever. That would be a great video or podcast if you haven't. Director's most quintessential/style defining movie(s)

If James is Mr Sunday Movies does that mean that Claire is Mrs Unday Movies

"Visual effects" /cut to clips from Captain Alex I am loving that

It's crazy that a bomb threat was the least shocking thing that happened during filming.

Someone made an amazing fan edit using the open matte for The Abyss, it's called "The Special Hybrid Edition." It's in really high quality and is like 30GB.

I've just been suggested this video. Say what you will but the RU-vid algorithm has a dark sense of humour...

This sounds like 2 separate movies, like the tense underwater insane man thing. And then aliens

So glad you have the special edition... the standard cut is missing a ton of super important plot/theme content.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Ed Harris are both really great in this. Their acting and presence onscreen make the movie work. Plus, it's an underwater alien movie.

I unequivocally love this film. Must have been awful to shoot, but when watching this for the first time, you'd never know.

The condition Lt. Coffey (Biehn) was suffering from is real. High Pressure Nervous Syndrome. My understanding of this illness is limited, but from what I've read, it manifests as soon as a susceptible person is submerged at extreme water depth, and begins to wreak havok on the central nervous system, causing nausea, vomiting, severe headache, the shaking/tremors, behavioral issues such as agitation, anxiety, and even paranoia. I was amazed at how Biehn portrayed this. Even though he was already a prick for real, I also felt that the illness wasn't understood by the audience because a lot of people don't know about it. He was cutting himself because his brain was literally being crushed by high water pressure and the physical pain coupled with the stress that the "Russians might have a secret installation at the bottom of the Cayman Trench" (when you're already afflicted with HPNS, and you've been ordered by a superior to retrieve a warhead from the sub because the world thinks WWIII is imminent, it's like pouring gas on to a burning outback). Coffee and Lindsay were at each other's throats because she, as much as she claimed to know about HPNS, epic failed to recognise those signs and symptoms. Coffey's own team didn't grab him and say, "You've got the shakes, yo! Lay down and we'll call Topside to get you out of here." I also realise Coffee was doing his best to hide what was happening to him, perhaps as not to disappoint his superior, the real villain IMHO, safe up on the Benthic. He was ordered to retrieve the nuke, and soldiers obey. Coffee's brain was being crushed long before that last sad glimpse of him being destroyed. TCFox asked the Academy here in the States to nominate Biehn for an Oscar, but they didn't. It's alright though. It's still definitely a hell of an acting example.

I can somehow believe James Cameron yelling direction at a rat

I feel like James Cameron just makes movies to fund his hobbies. 4:15 is outstandingly funny

Great Video, would've been better if you had covered BMX Bandits (1983) though.

I enjoy that James has already forgotten what the name of the swamp creature that killed the guy yelling Rodney is.

The blue stuff is a cleaning and sanitizing agent used in most commercial bathrooms, it's in the bowl constantly so you aren't stuck at the bottom of the ocean and smelling shit all the time and yeah it'll definitely dye your skin on contact

I loved this movie so much when I was in high school that I went to see the director's cut at a special midnight showing. MIDNIGHT. SHOWING.

No better way to prepare for Avatar 2: Wet Avatar, than a wetapalooza

Aliens imo also slots into the James Cameron water canon. Everything in that movie, especially the xenomorphs, is SHOCKINGLY wet. Those things are drenched in liquid, dripping everywhere at all times

‘They built a big set which could catch fire.’ “I think that’s true of all sets.”

I find it so interesting that the working title of every movie ever made was "Blie Harvest"

Holy crap. I forgot about that water face thing. I have a vague memory of being upset by that thing and trying to hide in a kitchen corner. I also have a strong fear of the open ocean. Not even drowning but simply being surrounded by that much empty water is unsettling. I think I'll rewatch this one.

The Abyss is one of my favorite scifi films and the best James Cameron I think.

There was this period of time in the summer of 1996 where my family was moving houses and my brother and I would watch movies late at night while packing up the house. We for some reason watched The Abyss and Iron Eagle something like 4 times each.

Even telegraphed, the Blue Harvest jokes are hilarious

Please never stop doin the Rodney montage. I wake up to that as if it were a blackbird singing in the dead of RODNEY! CHEFS KISS, bravo Roberto! 💪🙏😘✌️🤌

The surprising part of filming The Abyss wasn't that there was a bomb threat, it's that there was *only* one bomb threat, amirite?

A wild RLM set appeared!

Oh man, I envy him. He's never seen Titanic. He's going to friggin love it. Hopefully he gets filled with emotion at the end and cries. It's definitely one of those movies, and of man, the Score!

Ed Harris should have won an oscar for his performance in this movie.

I love this movie. I think it is underrated.

16:20 that cut with both of them in the same shirt hurt my brain.

I was thinking that the Blue Harvest was just one of the very clever secret hidden running jokes, however the connection this week makes to much sense that now I figure that all the Blue Harvest trivia must be true and I should probably go update a bunch of IMDb trivia sections with this important information.

ABYSSMAL? Once seen NEVER missed again. The Abyss is a good movie with incredibly gripping scenes. One, sees the two leads confined as freezing water pours in. The only way out - one of them has to die. However, the enclosed space and dramatic dialogue must have led to the camera lense steaming up. So the cameraman takes matters into his own hands- literally. Watch the RU-vid clip titled "The Abyss- Most dramatic scene" and spot the moment about 1.05 (just after Ed Harris says, "put this on") he wipes the camera lense with a cloth! And this was USED but i didn't spot it when I saw the film in the cinema!

Oh man. I love all the exterior shots in this. Sets the mood.

I’ve been meaning to buy and watch The Abyss for years. I saw it once years ago on TV and I only remember the face-to-face moment with the water and the deep-diving suit and them putting in the contacts.

I love this film. The original cut. Never seen the extended version. The drowning scene is one of the best scenes in cinema.

I've always loved this movie, it's one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time. I've held on to the special edition for over twenty years. You can't find this movie anywhere.

I live near Abyss was partially filmed in the remnants of a never completed nuclear reactor that was taken over by a nearby movie studio. Earl Owensby Studio, outside of Shelby, NC, mostly made movies straight to HBO to fill in late night hours. Owensby was also rented out to other movie productions. Parts of the film were shot on location. Other parts were in a giant water tank.

This movie was one of the first bonding experiences I had with my stepfather. He let me borrow it to watch, and I loved it!

Growing up in England I never understood why you weren't allowed to see Michaelangelo or Bruce Lee using nunchucks when it was so much easier to get hold of a kitchen knife and pretend you were Raphael. I mean who the hell had nunchucks?

To elaborate on Mason’s final point there: don’t do it like that, don’t do it like that, someday I might need you baby, don’t do it like that.

This movie is SO underrated. A shame that it has almost been forgotten. I had a chance to talk to Michael Biehn at a Comicon and he didn’t have too bad of an experience on this movie, but yes, he wasn’t on set as long as the other cast. We both discussed that the movie was a fantastic thriller…until Biehn’s character died. 😆

"Avatar 2: We're in the water, everyone" is such a fucking banger of a title.

A ‘trunk’ is called a Boot in the UK and not whatever James said it was called… a BOOT! 👍

On the topic of "some people are too dumb to realize that this isn't what it's going to look like in the final version", I think you just described my entire career in web design. Frequently the only way to get people to see what you're going for is to actually FINISH it and THEN see how they like it (or more likely, see how they can ruin it). The idea of being able to rely on a "mockup" is a cruel, time-wasting lie.

The water creature freaked me out as a kid, I remember wondering how they made water do that and look like a face lol

I love the quick and dirty (probably not that quick) stock and animations throughout all your videos

Imma little drunk, so not sure if this counts, but this might just be a perfect episode of Caravan of Garbage. Bravo