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| | The Cave |
 | | Not a good film, let's not go crazy, but not a terrible one, either--and if you can get into the idea that what the picture's really doing is rewriting the vampire mythos in biological/parasitical terms, you might even have a good time of the Reign of Fire variety. |
 | | Undaunted, they proceed to be buried alive until, thirty years later (in non-Cold War Romania), a group of scientists--looking for a giant cave, I guess--discovers the same giant cave and, noting that a lot of it is underwater, call in some super-divers to, um, swim. |
 | | It makes a problem of the lone hero "Duke" archetype who saves society without the skills to also be a part of that society; The Cave is a little like Batman Begins in that regard: a protector from fear using fear as his weapon. |
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