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Seven Spades

Seven Spades

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I can't help it I am watching it again... It is such a good film, obviously there are technical gaffs but the story is incredible because it poses so many ... what would you do type questions.

The main one being would you he'll a fellow yachtsman in distress if he come rowing towards you at a huge pace? You know as soon as you see him that he is going to be trouble but in real life it would be different.
 
If only the producers could have predicted the continuing popularity of this film.

They could have devised six different endings and keep us all in suspense.

One could be Billy Zane morphing (as a transgender) into Jenny Agutter and sailing off with Sam Neil to the Ostfriesian Islands. Leaving behind Nicole Kidman who had been exposed as a UKIP mole.
 
Seajet said:
If I have a pretty wife and he's younger and fitter than me, he gets the flare treatment straight away.
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Watched another film, "Donkey Punch", a couple of weeks ago where one of the baddie boat crew got a flare in the guts at night. It appeared to go into his stomach and light him up from the inside like a Chinese lantern!

There was one scene where the skipper used the same Raymarine plotter as we have to (C80) mark where a body is dumped over the side. Unfortuntely, this scene must have been filmed in port so the skipper had to pretend the boat was offshore and drop a mark even though the boat was not on the screen.

The film itself was rather stupid and definitely not suitable for family viewing!

Richard
 
RichardS said:
Watched another film, "Donkey Punch", a couple of weeks ago where one of the baddie boat crew got a flare in the guts at night. It appeared to go into his stomach and light him up from the inside like a Chinese lantern!

Richard
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I always wondered if Billy Zane was the inspiration for the Go'ald in Stargate, anyway they're the baddies and deserve getting their eyes lit up !

No disrespect to decent folks who've had accidents with flares happen in real life, I can't imagine much worse...
 
Seven Spades said:
I can't help it I am watching it again... It is such a good film, obviously there are technical gaffs but the story is incredible because it poses so many ... what would you do type questions.

The main one being would you he'll a fellow yachtsman in distress if he come rowing towards you at a huge pace? You know as soon as you see him that he is going to be trouble but in real life it would be different.
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One of the worst movies I ever had the misfortune to rent.
 
I remember when I first saw this movie in America and I will still stay up for it every time. Interestingly enough I read the book a couple of years ago dating from about 1950 sometime. Fortunately it doesn't start with the car accident and the son being killed which I have always thought was an irrelevance to the story.
 
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