10 Movie Crazes You Forgot Were A Thing

Sea life has long been explored in the art of film. Jaws has been mentioned enough for one article but the utter size of the open water and unmitigated potential for all manner of story have made for everything from animated capers (Finding Nemo, 2003) to the coastal comedy (Baywatch, 2017)

Titanic (1997) did for movies about large vessels at sea what Mick Jagger did for skinny jeans - it made them cool. James Cameron's epic went on to break all the global box office records and other studios smelt cash in the water. The late 90's and early 2000's saw a wave of films about people on boats having trouble in the big blue. Deep Rising (1998),The Perfect Storm (2000), The Lost Voyage (2001), Ghost Ship (2002) and Poseidon (2006) all trying to lure audiences back for sniff of what they enjoyed so much in Titanic, but they didn't quite succeed in giving their films characters you cared about like Rose and Jack.

There have been exceptions to the lull, like Captain Phillips (2013) and In The Heart of the Sea (2015), but Hollywood is definitely not as obsessed as it once was.