"The Boat", Amazon Prime

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Don't think I've seen this mentioned on here but one to add to the list of boaty films for lockdown. From 2018 and shot in Malta it's sort of "All is lost" meets "Duel", with the truck played by a beneteau first 45f5. It's probably not destined to be a mainstream classic but it's a reasonable waste of an hour and a half even for my picky tastes. The protagonist's radio protocol is definitely better than Robert Redford's but not by all that much.

Included with your Amazon Prime subscription if you have one (not Netflix as I erroneously posted before this edit)

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There’s quite a bit of sailing stuff included free with Amazon Prime. We watched (I think it was called) Following Seas the other night, that was good. The Mercy is on there too, I don’t think it’s a great platform to search, I usually look at the ‘other people also watched this..’ section.
 
"Other people also watched..." for "The Boat" unfortunately lists a bunch of unboaty horror movies. I found another horror movie featuring a yacht on Prime which was going to be tonight's viewing: "Mary" which on the plus side has Gary Oldman but on the minus side got panned by critics and I don't like horror movies. Note for "The Boat": it may be listed under "horror" but it isn't slasher horror: I stand by my "all is lost meets duel" description.

Shame that most yacht-based movies seem to be horrors, disaster movies or documentaries ("Saucy Sue: The Cringles McGee story" and such like). Maybe if there were more yacht-based romcoms yachting would have a wider following.
 
We watched Sea Fever last night. It will be on Amazon Prime around 24th April. Crew of a fishing boat get infected. Relevant at this time.
The Boat had some interesting problems. How to get out of a heads when the door won’t open. Particularly apt for a Beneteau.
 
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laika said:
Don't think I've seen this mentioned on here but one to add to the list of boaty films for lockdown. From 2018 and shot in Malta it's sort of "All is lost" meets "Duel", with the truck played by a beneteau first 45f5. It's probably not destined to be a mainstream classic but it's a reasonable waste of an hour and a half even for my picky tastes. The protagonist's radio protocol is definitely better than Robert Redford's but not by all that much.

Included with your Amazon Prime subscription if you have one (not Netflix as I erroneously posted before this edit)

Trailer:
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Great .... we'll watch it tonight. Thanks (y)

Richard
 
Talulah said:
We watched Sea Fever last night. It will be on Amazon Prime around 24th April. Crew of a fishing boat get infected. Relevant at this time.
The Boat had some interesting problems. How to get out of a heads when the door won’t open. Particularly apt for a Beneteau.
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Oh bugger, our Bavaria is called Sea Fever.....is that a bad omen in these times!
 
One to avoid:

"True as a Turtle"

"In this comedy, John Gregson and June Thorburn fall out over the juvenile jealousies and petty pomposities of the seafaring fraternity while honeymooning on board Cecil Parker's yacht. Their bliss is further blighted by the discovery that they have become involved with a counterfeit gaming chip racket run from a French casino and by the tensions that arise during a return voyage in a pea-soup fog. Director Wendy Toye was all at sea with this tiresome cross-Channel version of Genevieve.

Summary:
A honeymoon couple get involved with a gang of smugglers while accompanying a group of friends on a yachting trip across the Channel. Action comedy, starring John Gregson, June Thorburn, Cecil Parker and Keith Michell."


Awarded 1 star by the Radio Times reviewer. Who must have had a kind heart.

True as a Turtle – review | cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online
 
Kukri said:
Makes the whole film worth while.
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Good point.

Not a romcom but talking of films which appeal to those seeking male eye candy....
LASSE - Boat for sale

Thought #1: OMG IS THAT REALLY FOR SALE AND COULD I REALLY BUY IT?
Thought #2: I do not have the skill to maintain such a thing of beauty to the standards it deserves
Thought #3: It wouldn't actually make me Alain Delon anyway
 
After 10 minutes of "Mary" I cited the "Life's too short for bad movies" clause and segued to Polanski's "Knife in the Water" (also included with Amazon Prime). OK maybe we should all be boycotting Polanski but the yachting x quality product here is better than anything I've seen so far. If you're more Mike Newell than Jean-Luc Godard then maybe ignore this post but otherwise if you haven't seen it and you have Prime, check it out
 
laika said:
Don't think I've seen this mentioned on here but one to add to the list of boaty films for lockdown. From 2018 and shot in Malta it's sort of "All is lost" meets "Duel", with the truck played by a beneteau first 45f5. It's probably not destined to be a mainstream classic but it's a reasonable waste of an hour and a half even for my picky tastes. The protagonist's radio protocol is definitely better than Robert Redford's but not by all that much.

Included with your Amazon Prime subscription if you have one (not Netflix as I erroneously posted before this edit)

Trailer:
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Thanks for posting that, it was a reasonably entertaining watch. And, as a moboer, pretty much what I assume sailing is actually like ?
 
laika said:
After 10 minutes of "Mary" I cited the "Life's too short for bad movies" clause and segued to Polanski's "Knife in the Water" (also included with Amazon Prime). OK maybe we should all be boycotting Polanski but the yachting x quality product here is better than anything I've seen so far. If you're more Mike Newell than Jean-Luc Godard then maybe ignore this post but otherwise if you haven't seen it and you have Prime, check it out
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That’s a top movie
 
Watched "the boat" after seeing it mentioned here.
Was OK . Seen a lot worse.

laika said:
Shame that most yacht-based movies seem to be horrors, disaster movies or documentaries
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If you don't mind national lampoon type comedy then "captain ron" can be entertaining ?
A family and a hired skipper moving a boat across the caribe an ?
 
We watched "The Boat" last night. I enjoyed it but SWMBO & Son, who are not natural sailors, thought it was rather silly.

However, it did make me research the island of Gozo where I found the "Inland Lake" which was used in the film as the fisherman's home berth. I'm surprised that I've never heard of it before.

I wonder how many other open salt water lakes there are in the world which are so far from the sea yet have a direct link through a natural rock tunnel through which a small boat can pass, wave height permitting? :unsure:

Richard
 
Also watched it as brought back many memories of racing a 45f5 in 1990 and 1992 - Crocodile Dundee it was called.

It was a twin forward bunk cabin version so had two doors in the main bulkhead which twisted and popped out of the moulding when under spinnaker in heavy weather - the mast slewed aft as the mast foot moved fwd and that was the end of the race and the boat. The owner had a right old wrangling with Beneteau who in the end gave him a new Oceanis in exchange and the French came over to sail Crocodile back to France to repair - took one look at it and they went back to the nearest ferry terminal. The boat was shipped back.

Also reminded me of when I worked for Northshore and we loaned a film crew a Vancouver 36 with Annabel Croft "helming" for some program that escapes me. In reality I was lying out of shot on the cockpit sole steering - probably like the boat was in much of the film.
 
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