Deep Blue Sea/Fridge

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  • Fridge Brilliance: During the opening scene, it is implied that the shark became more aggressive in attacking the boat of the teenagers because of the blood-like wine that spilled off the boat. But why would a shark mistake the smell of wine for blood? Until you realize that it's thanks to the shark's enhanced brain that it's ignoring its instincts of smell and is relying on things like assumptions, just like a human would!
    • Wasn't that one of the sharks that hadn't been made super-smart, though?
  • Fridge Logic: Aquatica was constructed by the Navy as a submarine yard. We're honestly supposed to believe that the military (which tends to be procedural to a fault and require safety protocols for everything) put an enormous window in the middle of their underwater complex and never even considered installing blast doors in case something happened? Granted, the glass was shatter-resistant and very thick, but if the sharks were able to crack it, a mishap with a submarine would've been able to as well.
    • Maybe the blast shield was there, but the very-not-military scientists were too horrified/dumbstruck by what was going on to activate it?
    • A bigger one was breeding sharks at all, Northern Bluefin Tuna reach a similar size to the Makos, and aren't nearly as dangerous to humans.
      • Maybe they would be if they had hugely enhanced brains!
      • They made a big deal out of sharks not dying from cancer. I think they're trying to imply that sharks have scary regenerative abilities. But, as for the Fridge Logic, the crew of this experiment show a surprising amount of Genre Savvy for being a bunch of people that signed on to make super-intelligent sharks in the first place...
    • Why didnt they breed thier super-sharks somewhere where escaping was impossible? if you shark in is a big tank in the middle of, say, Arizona, the most it can do is kill people near its little pool, who should be able to acount for that risk. the PR dissaster of random people getting killed could not occur.