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Could BP look any worse?
Our good ole boys catch their choppers to the Deepwater Horizon to put in their 21-day shift. Wahlberg and Russel (Mr Jimmy, rig boss) arrive to be greeted by BP company men who are ready to start production after being 43-days behind schedule. The "Slum-burger" crew heads out not even finishing their last tests of the concrete. The semi-evil Malkovich plays the BP company man pushing for production right then and there. Russell insists on some last minute pressure testing and that's when this nearly compelling film shifts from semi-technical to experiencing the Bismarck's final moments.
The script does give one a small undergrad education of what drilling and life aboard an exploration rig are like. Just as on the Titanic, some of the crew were not readily aware of beginning fireworks. The rig seems real and the cast portrayed earnest, hard-working men. Wahlberg is the most fully developed character with scenes from his marriage to Kate Hudson. He is also the POV in the beginning of the story.
There was a uniformity of character among the cast. The only standout was Malkovich with his near Cajun accent which was hard to understand at times (for me). In fact, in the beginning of the story, I had trouble following a lot of the dialog against the fully operational rig.
Otherwise, this was a finely crafted film even though it appeared to be shot in HD.
I learned something and felt the tension of a rig blowing out. About 120 crew members were on board and 11 died which was quite remarkable for such a disaster. (The film ends at rescue.)
Worth a walk in.
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I'm sure we all remember this horror continuing for almost three months.
Or this idiot.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
Sounds like many Mark Wahlberg films. He has become the new Bronson.
...from the reviews it sounds more like an action/disaster film.
pronounced: Shlum ber jay
A real company, listed on the NYSE as SLB
Known for their services to the oil drilling industry. They supply parts and machinery for the purpose.
re: the movie. I haven't yet seen it, so I'll be interested in seeing what ties in that company to the "incident" on the DeepWater Horizon.
2010. I recall that cable news TV would just not let up on that continuing story for what seemed like a solid year of highly detailed reporting. A very big deal. I hope it serves to motivate all other big oil companies to clean up their methods and attitudes on the hazzards associated with deep water oil rigs. Never again would be a good motto.
-Steve
Marky pronounced it correctly and was corrected by a good, olde boyz.
Haven't seen it, but I think "democrat" would be a slag on Marky's character for pronouncing Schlumberger correctly, which one would expect any good Cajun would be able to do.
Schlumberger provided wireline logging services for the rig. I doubt they interpreted any of the logs, but rather turned the data over to BP or Haliburton and went home.
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand
who BP cut loose before final testing due to money.
I just did a little investigatin'...
[snip]
BP contracted Schlumberger to run the Cement Bond Log (CBL) test that was the final test on the well plug that was skipped before the April 20 explosion. The oil industry website, www.oildrum.com quoted Gregory McCormack, director of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas, as saying the CBL is the "gold standard" of cement tests. The website reported the CBL "records detailed, 360-degree representations of the well and can show where the cement isn't adhering fully to the casing and where there may be paths for gas or oil to get into the hole."
Schlumberger's contractors ordered BP's Deepwater Horizon operational manager to dump kill fluid down the well to plug up the well. The BP manager refused and. Schlumberger's team asks for a helicopter to evacuate all Schlumberger's personnel to shore. BP's manager replied that there were not more scheduled helicopters that week but the Schlumberger crew interceded with Schlumberger's front office, which sent a helicopter to evacuate their personnel at Schlumberger's expense.
[end snip]
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand
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(nt)
It never quits. I was involved with the Exxon Valdez mess in Prince William Sound. As horrible as that was, and as much stupidity was involved in it happening, the Big Awl Boys were almost immediately at work spinning the event into something overblown by the media. They were being picked on.
Priorities were PR and CYA first; everything else second. Emergency actions were Coast Guard initiated; not by company. To date, Exxon has paid about a penny on a dollar for damages and recovery.
My point of view? If a movie casts an oil company in bad light, then I call it truth, not spin.
Only in America would they fabricate hero worship out of this sad event. Wouldn't a more interesting and honest film have told the story of the aftermath, destruction, and mountains of litigation? We truly are dumbing down as a nation. Rant over...
not a feature film.
Nt
documentary (still waiting on the definitive one). There were real heroes that day, their story deserves telling. Don't mean to slag on you. Of course, the aftermath is THE tragedy, 11 lives lost on the rig not withstanding.
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"E Burres Stigano?"
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to help fix all the wrongs they ended up doing.
Really though, those were hard working folk on that rig and I would imagine THEIR story
(if properly told) has nothing to do with dumbing down. Fabricate? Heros don't all wear capes and masks.
People died.
I doubt the film is any sort of diversion from the horrible aftermath either.
It may in fact inspire young(er) folk to keep in mind what transpired, follow
the ensuring process' and possibly get involved in some aspect of helping to
keep similar situations from happening again.
But then I'm an optimist.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I read a review after I made that post and wondered if I was being too harsh. Maybe, but somehow it just doesn't sit right with me. Kind of a cognitive dissonance...
are disturbing for myriad reasons, the exploitative aspects high on the list.
Seems they used to be the Movie of the Week.
At least now they feature quality actors and top production values.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Excellent points- MaxwellP
the story needed to be told in one fashion or another. Those of us here on the Gulf were not happy over the things BP did to cause that disaster.
A damn shame overall.
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