"All is lost"?

[scotty123]

Robert Redford film, watched it a few nights ago.
Anyone else seen it, if so, what if anything did you learn about what to do if holed by a container?

 

[sarabande]

The YBW critics panned it years ago.

Which Boat - All is Lost ?

And many other threads

 

[scotty123]

The YBW critics panned it years ago.

Which Boat - All is Lost ?

And many other threads

Says it all.

 

[elton]

I enjoyed it.

 

[E39mad]

Try and watch "Adrift" (the 2018 film about a couples delivery in the Pacific)- it's a much better movie imho

 

[RupertW]

I enjoyed it.

I agree and some of most criticised bits like “why did he spend time shaving with a hole in his boat and storm coming?” seemed very believeable to me. He’d done all the prep he could think of so needed to distract himself and wait.

 

[interloper]

The thing that bothered me most about the movie is that the boat didn't look like any offshore singlehander that I've ever seen. The deck and cabin were completely clean and uncluttered. On deck, there were no solar panels or wind generator, and there was no self steering gear on the transom. In the cabin, there was no evidence of lockers overflowing with cans of food and repair parts. The boat looked like it had just come from the yacht broker, which it probably had.

 

[maby]

Robert Redford film, watched it a few nights ago.
Anyone else seen it, if so, what if anything did you learn about what to do if holed by a container?

Spend a lot less time looking at the hole and a lot more time plugging it!

 

[scotty123]

Spend a lot less time looking at the hole and a lot more time plugging it!

Even his pillows would have helped.

 

[xyachtdave]

I agree and some of most criticised bits like “why did he spend time shaving with a hole in his boat and storm coming?” seemed very believeable to me....

Hey, that was me!

 

[RupertW]

Hey, that was me!

I guess I would recognise you in an emergency by the excessive stubble

 

[eddystone]

I also enjoyed it. Seems to me many of the criticisms were from people unable to distinguish between a training video and a fictional piece of entertainment. If the character played by Robert Redford had not made any mistakes I doubt the box office take would cover the cost of a single production meeting.

 

[fredrussell]

A lot of people mistake this piece of film making as fiction. It’s not. Robert Redford happened to have a go-pro aboard when this stuff was going on, and, brilliant film-maker that he is, managed to capture it all. It should be viewed as a documentary.

 

[eddystone]

A lot of people mistake this piece of film making as fiction. It’s not. Robert Redford happened to have a go-pro aboard when this stuff was going on, and, brilliant film-maker that he is, managed to capture it all. It should be viewed as a documentary.

Having read something the director wrote at the time I think you'll find it was a somewhat bigger production than that although given RR's talents I would not be surprised if a lot of it was improvised.

 

[newtothis]

It was "written" ( not a lot of dialogue work to do) by someone who had never been on a boat and who dreamed up the idea from driving past a marina each day. It's a story on film, and most films on specialist topics don't stand up to much scrutiny. See also westerns, war movies, spy movies etc.
I would recommend Styx as a good movie set on a yacht at sea, however. They managed to squeeze a film crew into a 40-ft cruising yacht on the Med, rather than a sound set.

 

[Cariadco]

Agreed.

 

[RupertW]

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I would recommend Styx as a good movie set on a yacht at sea, however. They managed to squeeze a film crew into a 40-ft cruising yacht on the Med, rather than a sound set.

I will look that one up. I found the film Donkey Punch to be the most realistic attempt at a typical Med cruise.

 

[UK-WOOZY]

hated Styx, hippie manipulative message and ridiculous scenarios