Orca - The Killer Whale

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ORCA: THE KILLER WHALE stars Richard Harris and Bo Derek in her screen debut in an epic struggle between a strong and determined fisherman and an equally determined whale. When the whale's pregnant mate is killed, it goes on a rampage, seeking revenge on the man by smashing boats, collapsing buildings and causing extreme destruction by fire.

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Never Slight An Orca!.......2007-08-13

Richard Harris intends to merely capture and sell a male Orca, but accidentally kills a female of the species that happens to be pregnant. The mate of the pregnant Orca seeks revenge. Harris, ashamed at his mistake, has no intention of confronting the male Orca despite the fact that Harris is now being stalked by the aquatic monster! To force Harris' hand into combat, the outraged Orca sinks several fishing ships and graphically bites off one of Bo Derek's (a mate of Harris) legs. Harris now has no choice; he must confront his enemy in its environment.

This movie not only has well-executed action sequences, but a heart-breaking sequence of the dying Orca and her mate that will leave a lump in the throats of even the most hard-boiled male viewers.

Orcas, as we're reminded in the movie, have larger brains than humans, and their embryos resemble human embryos with hands! While Orcas can be gentle, they will defend themselves. The movie's theme: Never slight an Orca!

sncks as much now as it did then.......2007-07-11

whoever considered this a straight ahead horror movie should be ashamed of themselves or thinks linda blair should have won the oscar for exorcist 2;the heretic.

lemme get this straight.....
male whale loves female whale....female whale gets caught and killed.....
male whale goes on rampage......this premiss was a ripoff of that SNL skit,land shark at large.how gullible must an audience be ????????

anyway,this is the best time to do an abbreviated all time,most horrible list;
WORST SEQUALS/PREQUALS(and some spinoffs)~
1)exorcist 2;the heretic(....hhhhmmmm,getting kicked in the nads 90000000000000 times or seeing this again.....hhhhmmmmm)
2)speed 2;snooze control
3)jaws 3-d(''this time its personal''...no,this time its hysterical)
4)godfather 3(the unwanted,retarded stepchild of its brilliant parents,pts 1 & 2.best part was sofia getting shot and her uttering ''daddy....'')
5)friday 13th 8;jason takes manhattan(did jason actually turn back into a fat kid or was i dreaming ????)
6)jaws 4 (even jaws didnt want to be in this)
7)A vs P vs zzzzzzzzz's
8)orca(smart enough to not make a sequal)
9)starship troopers 2 (p tippett and co can be found restocking a k-mart near you)
10)TCM;the beginning (and the end at the same time)
11-tied)superman 3 & 4(all that was missing was the laugh tracks)
12-tied)evil dead 2 & 3(ok,they were terrific comedies)
13)halloween 3 (how to kill a golden goose 101)
14)jeepers creepers 2(this outsuct part 1)
15)halloween h20(1 rapper,bad acting,horrible script and voila)
16)halloween resurrection(1 rapper AND a model and the rest, voila)
17-tie)star wars 1 & 2(raise your hand if you think these made the inital star wars any better)
18)blair witch 2;book of nonsense
19-tie)friday 13 jason X & pt 7(i still dont see how almost drowning gave jason superhuman powers)
20)are we done yet(again,a sequal outsucking the original)
21)alien resurrection(s weaver must have been broke)
22)henry;portrait of.....2(the makers of this were the best victims)
23)blues brothers 2000(theres at least 2000 reasons why this suct)
24-tie)star trek 4 & 5(i finally had enough sense to stop here.pts 6-175 could just as well be worse.i wouldnt know)
25)alien 3 (i love when someone types ''not the best of the series but not the worst''....in other words,squeezing every last penny out of a dead franchise as possible)
26)TCM 2
27)MI;2
28)charlies angels 2
29)tcm:the return(if talking to someone could kill,this would have had a higher body count)
30)clerks 2(why bother?were the slackers of 90's that interesting?)
31)caddyshack 2 (i wasnt a fan of pt 1 either)
32)batman & robin (one can only laugh at those who went out of their way to see this)
33-tied)rocky 3-6.(this series was ktfo midway through pt 2)
34)rambo 3,the war against incontinence
35)predator 2(damn,danny looked worse than the monster)
36)beyond poseidon adventure(a ''g'' rating would have been harsh)
37)lawnmower man 2......part 1 was 1 part too many
38tied)NL vacation 2-3 (they went 23 skidoo fast)
39)leprechaun 2-? (whatever came after pt 1 has to be just as bad,right?)
40-tied)all revenge of the nerds after pt 1(some movies just had to embarrass themselves into thinking they were franchises.)
41)swampthing
42)escape from L.A.(fortunately,kurt escaped with some dignity.barely)
43-tied)urban legend 2-?(i can blame curiousity for seeing pt 1 and 15 minutes of pt 2.....ill take the producers word for it that this series would only get worse)

Orca Killer Whale.......2007-06-11

Brilliant. One of the best sea / ocean horror movies of that time. Richard Harris is brilliant and the special effects are great. A must have if you loved the Jaws movies. XXXX

It's no "Jaws", but it's wonderfully entertaining just the same.......2007-06-10

The success of Spielberg's 1975 first to crack the 100 million mark landmark film Jaws spawned a whole series of "us against it" genre films of which several were water-based like the dreadful Tentacles and the rest were equally poor only taking place on land such as the campy Day of the Animals. However, a few were standouts and "Orca" was one of them.

Wonderfully and sensitively acted by the late great Richard Harris (A Man Called Horse and Camelot), the always convincing Charlotte Rampling (The Verdict), and the ever noble Will Sampson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Poltergeist II: The Other Side). It is also memorable as the first film for Bo (10) Derek who manages to actually keep her clothes on in this film.

The storyline is intelligent and believable. There are no memorable cliches or unimportant scenes. The film is compact and to the point at a brief 92 minutes. The direction and editing is sturdy and skillful. The photography is absolutely brilliant. Every shot is beautifully filmed. The music is, unfortunately, forgettable and uninspiring.

Don't let the comparisons to "Jaws" scare you off. This film may not be in that ballpark, but its field is only a block or two away.

orca.......2007-03-20

i bought this film for my son as he saw it a long time ago and really loved it as it is to do with killer whales and he is addicted to them it is a really good film and it shows me that even mammels have feelings too

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ABC News 20/20 Freeing Keiko

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ABC News Nightline Keiko Comes Home (whale)

ASIN: B000QXCPKY
Release Date: 2007-05-17

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It was one of those magical movie moments, a homeless boy bonds with a 5-ton orca in the film "Free Willy" and helps the killer whale escape from unscrupulous keepers and return to the wild. But that ending was Hollywood fiction. When audiences, including millions of children, learned that the animal that played Willy was an orca named Keiko who was confined to a shallow pool in Mexico, they started a campaign to free him. And that, say some experts, was taking Hollywood too far. As the public began to campaign for Keiko's release, the movie studio hired Dave Phillips, a marine mammal activist, to monitor Keiko's rehabilitation and spearhead the effort to return the whale to the wild. No one had ever undertaken such a project, but Phillips said he knew he had to give it a shot. When Phillips saw Keiko in his pool in Mexico, the orca was underweight and suffering from papilloma virus. Keiko was moved to a specially built tank in Oregon where he swam in sea water for the first time since infancy. Within a year and a half, he'd gained 2,000 pounds and his skin virus had disappeared. Phillips and his colleagues knew how unprepared Keiko was for life in the wild. He didn't even know how to catch a live fish. Still, the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation carried on and hired an Air Force cargo plane to take the whale to yet another custom-made location in Iceland. It cost some $200,000 a month to maintain Keiko in his million-dollar pen and to reintroduce him to the waters where he was born. Keiko was outfitted with transmitters to track his movements, and then lured into the open ocean. Phillips and his team hoped Keiko would reconnect with his own species. He did, but after each encounter Keiko returned to the safety of his pen until July 2002. That's when Keiko swam away with a wild pod, leading Phillips to believe the project had finally succeeded.

ABC News Nightline Keiko Comes Home (whale)

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ABC News Nightline Keiko Comes Home (whale)

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ABC News 20/20 Freeing Keiko

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Release Date: 2007-05-17

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A former movie star, now one of the most beloved animals in the world. Keiko, the killer whale who starred in all of the "Free Willy" films, after much public protesting and campaigns, was released from the marine life park in Mexico he had called home for nearly 20 years, and finally returned to the waters off Iceland, where he was initially captured. ABC News follows Keiko's journey home.

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