ADRIFT, anyone going to see it when it comes out?

laika said:
I was going to say that if sailors reviewed movies "En Solitaire" would have got an oscar, but I just watched the trailer on youtube and it didn't look as bad as I remembered it so maybe I'll give it a re-watch this evening...
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I managed 25 minutes before giving up and switching to something with more zombies in but I persisted this morning and despite the rather "basic" plot which really isn't going to hold the attention of anyone not interested in open 60s going fast, it wasn't as bad as I remembered it. I do however wonder what doctors think of the accuracy of the part where sickle cell anaemia is diagnosed from blood pressure and a stethoscope.

I note that "Adrift" has twice the budget of "En Solitare" and presumably the props don't need to be quite as pricey
 
prv said:
I'll admit I could be wrong on this; a 27 hour coma followed by spontaneous recovery without major ongoing symptoms does sound a little unlikely medically (not that I'm a doctor).
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A very similar thing happened to my father. A pilot in the squadron buzzed the base in a Lancaster with full bomb load and clipped a flag pole. My father was asleep and most of the building he was in was destroyed. He just woke up about a day and a half later with no ill effects.
 
Saw it last night at the cinema. I thought it was good too - especially the storm scenes on the large screen. Suspect it would be nothing when viewed on the small screen. Glad I did not take my wife though - she is a nervous sailor at the best of times.

I wonder how such films make money though - there were only 9 people in the audience.
 
I doubt I'll watch it for the simple reason is that it's billed as:-
"By the same director as Everest".
That was also billed as "a true story"; but it could not have been further from the truth.
American director dramatising the American climbers' exploits, which did not happen.
I have read many books and accounts of those fateful attempts on Everest, and I reckon that film was a complete "dramatisation". Pity.
I hope those who go to see this new film enjoy it.

As to the original "Adrift", I still can't understand why five fit, young people could not have lifted up to the toe-rail the lightest girl. :confused:

Hey ho, that's cinema for you.
 
lpdsn said:
A very similar thing happened to my father. A pilot in the squadron buzzed the base in a Lancaster with full bomb load and clipped a flag pole. My father was asleep and most of the building he was in was destroyed. He just woke up about a day and a half later with no ill effects.
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Fair enough then, story as told in the family is slightly more plausible :)

My parents have been to see the film now; my mum's comment in an email was "very true to life". Since they sailed with my grandfather in Hazana on an earlier leg of the same cruise, and have talked about anxiously waiting for news as she got more and more overdue at San Diego, that seems a decent endorsement.

Pete
 
Robert Wilson said:
I doubt I'll watch it for the simple reason is that it's billed as:-
"By the same director as Everest".
That was also billed as "a true story"; but it could not have been further from the truth.
American director dramatising the American climbers' exploits, which did not happen.
I have read many books and accounts of those fateful attempts on Everest, and I reckon that film was a complete "dramatisation". Pity.
I hope those who go to see this new film enjoy it.

As to the original "Adrift", I still can't understand why five fit, young people could not have lifted up to the toe-rail the lightest girl. :confused:

Hey ho, that's cinema for you.
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Ok, a bit of a thread drift, but isn't 'Everest' based on the book 'Into Thin Air' which describes the multitude of deaths which occurred on Everest in May 1996. I imagine there has been some 'poetic licence' put into 'Everest', but to the best of my knowledge the film had a reasonable coverage of the main issues and deaths?
 
RobF said:
Ok, a bit of a thread drift, but isn't 'Everest' based on the book 'Into Thin Air' which describes the multitude of deaths which occurred on Everest in May 1996. I imagine there has been some 'poetic licence' put into 'Everest', but to the best of my knowledge the film had a reasonable coverage of the main issues and deaths?
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Quick thread-drift response.
OK, I hear what you say. But I don't recall (from the book) that the American was 'The Hero'.
I shall have to read it again.
After all the comments on here about "Adrift" I now feel encouraged to view it :encouragement:
 
I cannot watch waterborn calamities like this. I do not find them enjoyable and if my wife watched we probably would never sail again (together)
 
We saw the film this evening on the telly. (DVD version).

We enjoyed it but one thing struck me as strange in that when she went to try and start the engine with all the lines trailing in the water, I strongly suggested that she should clear all the lines away first. Sure enough, after that first failure, she did clear away all the lines and cut the mast free and clear the rudder and we could see that the prop was now free .... but she never tried the engine again.

Richard
 
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