BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Mike Miller I spent a good few hours the other day trying to remember this movie from my childhood. As far as I could remember, I watched it on TV around 1981 or so. I would have been 11 or 12 at the time. The movie at that time and it's concept intrigued me to no end. I was captivated by it.The most I could remember about it was that there were some people that had been trapped inside a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean for years. They had developed into a rather "cultist" society and even after being discovered by rescuers did not want anything to do with the real world on the surface. I remembered they shot one of the rescuers that surfaced inside the ship to explore it and then pretty much trapped any other rescuers there with them that entered their so called "world of utopia". Overall the movie was great back then. Subplots aside, I really enjoyed it so much, I am currently looking for a copy on VHS or DVD I can buy and own for myself and relive a little of my childhood memories thorough it.

adriangr Well I thought this was going to be really cheesy but I was pleasantly surprised. The initial idea is fun - a cruise liner sinks to the bottom of the sea and 40 years later a salvage crew discovers it - plus a whole community of people who have somehow managed to stay alive inside it! The beginning of the story is the best, when a diver catches a glimpse of a girl's face through a grimy porthole, followed by the first divers surfacing inside the shipwreck. The drawbacks are mainly the impossibility of the people actually surviving at all - the explanations for how they have been breathing, eating and so on for 40 years trapped underwater really fell flat for me, no spoilers here about that as I couldn't actually understand that part at all! The film sags a little after the surface people are inside the ship, but picks up quite well as we learn more about some quite sinister rules of the "society" down below, however there is a really, REALLY pointless sub-plot about a top secret document that could have been totally cut out of the whole plot with no ill-effects at all. The surface people even say that the document must be retrieved and then destroyed, which is ridiculous because it's already at the bottom of the sea! The movie comes to quite a dramatic close, with an almost ridiculously drawn out struggle for survival by the main characters right at the end. The acting is mostly good, well it's got Christopher Lee after all, and he's never let a film down that I have seen.Effects are fairly good, lots of real ship and diving hardware on view, and the sunken ship exterior looks reasonably ominous. So it's 3 hours of fun (I watched the full version), and I wonder why there has not been a DVD rediscovery of it, like there was with Salem's Lot, which also saw the light of day in a truncated version before being released in full. Sadly the only commercial release of Goliath Awaits was a feature length re-edit, which is a shame, as it's really not bad at all.

Tom I recently watched this movie again for the first time in 20 years! I purchased a VHS tape of the movie on Ebay for around 14 dollars.I first watched this movie when I was 11 years old. I remember my buddy and me were laughing all the way through it. Needless, not much has changed in 20 years! The movie quickly opens up with the Mark Harmon character investigating the wrecked ship when he sees a very beautiful woman peer though a small portal window. Some how he manages to convince the US Navy that he is not mad and that he actually saw a woman inside the ship! Thus, a full blown research dive unfolds! The Christopher Lee character is simply funny! I kept waiting for him to pull out a light saber and go mad! What really cracks me up is all the shooting of guns inside the hull? Did anyone think about a bullet piercing the weak frail hull under 1000 feet of water? I don't need to explain what would happens next if a round pierced the hull. Even more funny are all the sun tans the survivors have. None of em have pale skin and they look like they all got back from a vacation in the Florida Keys. The knock out blow for the movie revolves around the "Hitler" like society the survivors made for themselves.... all led by the Christopher Lee Character.... In addition, the Mark Harmon character is simply awful! He screams and hollers throughout the movie... and I just couldn't stand him! Never the less, this movie makes a nice addition to my collection. It's worth a good view, but I doubt I'll revisit this movie anytime soon. Ah yes.... "happy days are hear again... da da da blah blah blah"

eric91411 I am reaching way back into my memory for this one, for I saw it on T.V. in 1981 and haven't heard anything about it since, except in 1992 when a co-worker and I got on the subject of shipwrecks and somehow we both remembered this movie from our pasts. We were so vague on the details we had both thought it might have been a dream until we corroborated each other's memory!Brilliant how an "offshoot" society--a microcosm of our own, with all the various social strata--was represented. There was even a sub-sub-society, the "Bow People," who terrorized those in the main part of the ship.Also, chilling how the ship's brass were "relieved" to find out that Hitler had been defeated--not even realizing that they had established their own police state far below the surface of the ocean!