Don't swim where you are a top snack on the menu. There is background for me in seeing this movie. It is based on a novel by a writer named Steve Alten. In 1995, we had the same agent in Los Angeles, Ken Atchity. Doubleday published a review copy of Steve's novel Meg. Ken Atchity asked me to look at the review copy from an editing point of view. The computer spelling correction program Doubleday used made a ton of mistakes, and I suggested other brevity changes. The book came out to limited success, and was not made into a movie until now. I'm glad it made it to the screen. The movie is nothing like the original book, but was based on its concept. If you had read the original Jaws, which was a lousy book that had to be rewritten a zillion times, you would realize the movie made everyone afraid of swimming in the ocean forever (except for crazy people). I no longer go out over my knees. I like my limbs too much. The Meg is like Jaws in that respect. Something 75
My fiction, life in general, and war, with some pics from my Marine days in Vietnam.