Keel M. Posted September 28, 2016 #1 Share Posted September 28, 2016 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted September 28, 2016 #2 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Does anyone know if this one is any good? Opinions? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted September 28, 2016 Author #3 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Well yeah. I went and saw it last night. Lol I'm still debating on whether it can be classified as good or bad. What I will say is that it was intense and enlightening. I have lived here in Louisiana all my life and I only learned the extent of oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006 when I briefly worked for Murphy Oil. I was in their offices in downtown New Orleans and saw, for the first time, a map of the Gulf covered in marker-pins showing every single platform. I was astonished at the number. I've been down to Grand Isle, which is one of the farthest points south that you can go in Louisiana, aside from Boothville-Venice, Louisiana, where the oil workers depart from. In Grand Isle, you stand on the beach and you can see platforms dotting the horizon. So that gives a point of reference in how that much oil managed to get to our coastal waters. The movie itself shows the events of that fateful day 20 April 2010, and how everything went so horribly wrong. There's a lot I didn't know about Deepwater Horizon. It's not a production platform, as I once thought it was. It's floating in the water and basically moves around the Gulf - as needed - to explore what's below the Gulf's floor. I missed the first 2-3 minutes of the movie, but I think they touch on the government oversight trial-type events and then start the day as each person is preparing for their 3 weeks on the rig. It takes you throughout the day and then as the sun set, everything went down the toilet. It ends at the point where the survivors are being reunited with their families and again shows various people talking before Congress or the committee that oversees this stuff. It's important, I think, because the media didn't cover that part of the story. Of course, that's natural, because it was too fresh on everyone's minds. So the media focused on the equally important, but less emotional part of the oil and where it was going and how it was affecting others. I think 6 years is a good distance away from the event for us to now see exactly how everything unfolded. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted September 28, 2016 #4 Share Posted September 28, 2016 I hear its old school movie making ... yet to see it but its on my list ... ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted September 28, 2016 Author #5 Share Posted September 28, 2016 What do you mean old school movie making? They built a full size replica of the rig and blew it up. Is that what you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted September 28, 2016 #6 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Yeah something like that ... not the CGI digitally enhanced reality common today and the screen play and script is old school ... classic 70's if you don't want to go back to the early days of MGM Hollywood ... which means a lot of the younger audiences will not get it ... ~ Quote After mysterious creative differences forced him to split the project, Berg jumped in, and the result is a film that too often functions like a contractual obligation (and it’s telling that Berg jumped immediately to another project coming out in only a few months, “Patriots Day,” about the 2013 Boston bombing). “There had to eventually be a movie about this tragedy, so let’s just get this thing over with.” As is often the case with Berg’s films, it’s technically accomplished, but it’s lacking the depth of a project that comes from a creative spark. Everything here feels routine—more like an inevitability than a work of art or even a piece of entertainment. roger ebert link A friend in the US commented that it was almost documentary like ... that's up my alley ... I like documentaries ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted September 28, 2016 Author #7 Share Posted September 28, 2016 I suppose it is to an extent, but it still feels like a movie, but certainly not an action movie, despite the explosions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regi Posted September 28, 2016 #8 Share Posted September 28, 2016 I hadn't heard of the movie about it but I remember when it happened. I wonder...are the main characters based on actual people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essan Posted September 28, 2016 #9 Share Posted September 28, 2016 If this was directed by Roland Emmerich it would be the true story of how the disaster diverted the Gulf Stream and plunged Europe into a new Ice Age As some idiots claimed would happen at the time http://www.rense.com/MexicoAlreadyDead.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted September 29, 2016 Author #10 Share Posted September 29, 2016 (edited) 16 hours ago, regi said: I hadn't heard of the movie about it but I remember when it happened. I wonder...are the main characters based on actual people? Yes. And they show photographs of the real people portrayed in the film at the end which is followed up by a list (with photos) of the 11 men who died. Also, a handful of them were consultants for the filming. I saw a video about that yesterday. Edited September 29, 2016 by Child of Bast 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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