All is Lost...Robert Redford in a sinking yacht film. Where and when?

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Sounds to me like a very good movie, which will thrill forumites...but I just haven't heard where it's showing. I haven't heard anything about its release.

Looks like one which it'd be worth seeing on the big screen, so I don't want to miss it in the cinema. Film details here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/
 
Pete R said:
http://allislostfilm.com/
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I remember reading in a sailing mag about twenty years back, an account of a fairly shorthanded trip, not so far offshore as in Redford's film, but in dreadful weather, when the skipper's old dad had had to take the helm for a long period. The report finished in a tone of admiring awe with something like "...the 79 year-old had been at the helm for 36 hours".

How old is Robert Redford, now? :rolleyes:
 
In the clip I've looked at, the floating container looks curiously high in the water. I wonder what could be in it? :rolleyes:

As I understood it, the great danger of floating containers is that they're so low in the water, they're almost as unmovable as a rock or iceberg, plus they're very unlikely to be spotted, and with the container riding low, the colliding yacht is unlikely to strike a relatively soft, thin steel wall - more likely a sharp, reinforced edge.
 
RichardS said:
UK release is not until end of November.
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As per post #2 I think it has been bumped back to Boxing day as "Gravity" (similar story, different mode of transport) is now released in November and has done well in the US.

Could be wrong though:)
 
Seajet said:
" Do you think you used enough dynamite there, Butch ? " :)
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If I remember rightly, the Sundance Kid was reluctant to jump over the waterfall...because he couldn't swim...

...although surely as Gatsby, he learned in one of his own swimming pools? Let's hope he could afford a lifejacket anyway. :rolleyes:
 
dancrane said:
Looks like one which it'd be worth seeing on the big screen, so I don't want to miss it in the cinema. Film details here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/
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Downloaded a copy last week - waste of bandwidth - I will not spoil it for you as you seem so psyched up about it but I struggled to watch it through to the end which was a bit of an anticlimax anyway - Don't waste your beer tokens going to the cinema - buy some cheap wine and curl up with "The Great Escape" instead.
 
With respect Cliff, if you rip off access to a PC-screen-size version of a film which hasn't even been released here yet, I don't think you deserve to enjoy it much!

In any case, what the heck else is of interest in the cinema these days, now I've seen Captain Phillips? :rolleyes:
 
dancrane said:
With respect Cliff, if you rip off access to a PC-screen-size version of a film which hasn't even been released here yet, I don't think you deserve to enjoy it much!

In any case, what the heck else is of interest in the cinema these days, now I've seen Captain Phillips? :rolleyes:
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With respect to your noble sensitivities, Why wait when it is available else where? Just because rip off UK is holding it back. By the way, Blu-ray quality played quite well on the 72" screen.:D
 
dancrane said:
Reckon I'll enjoy it better on the 72ft Imax screen... :p
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Why?, just means the screen is further away and the "3d" effect does not work for me - happy with the wee 72", feet up in front of log fire, a glass or 2 of single malt and no noisy kids or their equally noisy parents or guardians to disturb my viewing
 
cliff said:
Why?, just means the screen is further away and the "3d" effect does not work for me - happy with the wee 72", feet up in front of log fire, a glass or 2 of single malt and no noisy kids or their equally noisy parents or guardians to disturb my viewing
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Only if the ambience is deleterious to enjoyment of the film, does it matter. For my taste, a good film on a cinema screen is a worthwhile evening out - an involving, memorable event. Sprawling in the sitting room, half-heartedly watching something I didn't pay to see, is never as rewarding.

There certainly weren't any noisy kids watching Captain Phillips at the weekend. And I doubt they'll be asking their parents to take them to watch Owd Bob mend GRP & climb a mast.
 
If you mean Captain Phillips, yes, I think it's very good. Never a dull moment and Hanks is excellent. SWMBO thought it was hard work, but she always seems to enjoy awful TV films with titles like "How he hurt me" or "One leg is enough" - tedious dramatised 'inspiring' crud about unfortunate people overcoming their lot. (I invented those titles, by the way.) So, her opinion doesn't count. :rolleyes:

Plenty about the film and its background, here: http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthrea...-about-Somali-pirates-and-commercial-shipping
 
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