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Have a friend who went to see "The Perfect Storm"; he has spent much
time on the seas. His main gripe was that he said there was no way
Clooney and crew could have stayed aboard deck in those kind of
waves. In actuality, they would have been below hanging on for dear
life. Is this film still worth seeing?
...and a goopy score by James Horner that rose and fell with every wavecrest. God it was awful!Really, though, much of the blame for its cinematic incompetence must be laid at the feet of the editor (no ace from A.C.E.), who mercilessly cut among four different strains and never gave us an unrelieved, at least for a minute or two, view of the sea from the boat. I was hoping to feel good and seasick. Instead I grew sick and tired.
Highly unrecommended.
clark
I reviewed the film (see below) after seeing it before its theatrical release. I won't repeat those comments. However, your friend is right. There are some, IMHO, minor verisimilitude issues--> Guys that float in the water pretty easily with rubber boots and foul weather suits on and no apparent flotation devices.
> People handling large sheets of plywood on deck in what are supposed to be Force 10 or Force 11 winds without getting blown away, literally.
> People climbing outriggers and things in the middle of the storm without getting thrown off.
> There being more apparent visibility than would actually exist in winds of this strength, which would blow so much spray as to create "white out" conditions near the sea surface.
These didn't bother me that much, and I've seen the movie a second time (with my wife, who couldn't attend the preview showing I saw on June 28). As they say, YMMV.
RBB --
"Still getting the wax out of my ears."
I always wondered how come the water temerature leaking in on the sinking Titanic seemed to be comfortable. Didn't Kate and Leo spend an hour or two in it ? And the same water over the side killed in minutes with it's low temperature. Go figure, if you can't trust Hollywood then.... oh never mind.Steve
So true. :)
MiKe
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