The Reef - Film 4

Just watched it - again. Even knowing the ending it is still nail-biting stuff. And true in most respects. Great film, up there with Adrift and Dead Calm. There's another one about a pair diving (Red Sea area??) who get left behind by the dive-baot. Again, supposed to be largely true. Can't recall the title.
Nasty things, are sharks.

I always knew keels were stupid things to have under the boat!!
 
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I watched it - it was indeed a good adrenaline buzz of a movie and good justification to keep my sailing confined to Solent Pond.

By the end though I was dumbfounded that not one of them had tried the "punch the shark on the nose" trick.
 
ganter said:
...I was dumbfounded that not one of them had tried the "punch the shark on the nose" trick.
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Possibly it occurred to the victims that a punch on the shark's nose might turn into the donation of a hand...and that the shark might appreciate the entrée, and continue eating?
 
Robert Wilson said:
Just watched it - again. Even knowing the ending it is still nail-biting stuff. And true in most respects. Great film, up there with Adrift and Dead Calm. There's another one about a pair diving (Red Sea area??) who get left behind by the dive-baot. Again, supposed to be largely true. Can't recall the title.
Nasty things, are sharks.

I always knew keels were stupid things to have under the boat!!
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The other film is "Open Water." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Water_(film)
I thought it was brilliant, but don't know of anybody else that liked it!
 
Robert Wilson said:
There's another one about a pair diving (Red Sea area??) who get left behind by the dive-baot. Again, supposed to be largely true. Can't recall the title.
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It was the Caribbean and the film was "Open water" and loosely based on a true story at the Great Barrier Reef, and "Adrift" is actually "Open Water 2 - Adrift"
 
Roberto said:
I did!

I just saw it for the third or fourth time, it went on some cable TV last week.
It was the third time for my wife's comments too: "Noooo, you and your stupid movie, again!"
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My Wife was similarly unimpressed, but then she likes "Titanic," so her critique is invalid anyway :D
 
i quite enjoyed "All IS LOST"

found it quite tense and almost makes me think i should stop sailing

but yeah i also like adrift, open water, the reef and dead calm

erhm, i also love waterworld and enjoyed Titanic ... sorry
 
I would quite like to see "All is Lost" but I know it will only be playing on the small screens in the cinema should it ever come our way. Since I don't believe in paying cinema prices when the film is on a small screen I'll wait until it's on TV.
 
woozy-UK said:
I quite enjoyed "All IS LOST"...almost makes me think i should stop sailing...
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Surely not? After gashing my arm at home and being taken care of very quickly, it occurs to me that singlehanding in very remote places is probably not a good or healthy risk...

...but my only concern since the accident has been whether it'll affect my grasp of the mainsheet. Stop sailing? Only when I'm dead.

I wasn't in the UK when All Is Lost opened, so I missed it. On DVD soon, I hope.
 
here is some I have come across :) if you tap their nose they do shy away

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Talulah said:
I would quite like to see "All is Lost" but I know it will only be playing on the small screens in the cinema should it ever come our way. Since I don't believe in paying cinema prices when the film is on a small screen I'll wait until it's on TV.
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I saw "All Is Lost" the day it came out here. I took my girlfriend - who fancies Robert Redford - and sat there for an incredibly lively, sublime and at times difficult 90 minutes.
The effects are brilliant, there's no monologue and the photography is sumptuous. Watching, as I was, as a novice sailor I couldn't shift the uncomfortable position of thinking he made a number of mistakes early on in the film - real howlers in fact. Not to give anything away but in one instance he ends up with the boat flooded and then makes a new handle from a broom for the bilge pump. Surely, I quietly sneered, a new handle should have been made the instant the old one broke.
That incident and others including his alarming habit of leaving the washboards out in very heavy seas gave me the distinct feeling that as an aside to it being just another disaster movie - we seafarers of a little knowledge - are given the opportunity to contemplate his ineptitude. Couple that with his opening voice-over at the top of the movie and you have perhaps intentionally but never stated the story of a bloke who is having what the late great Ocean sailor Frank Mulville described as "A last throw of the dice". I loved it. I'm only leaving a suitably respectable amount of time before I go and see it again.
If you sail, feel bold sometimes, a little scared other times, you need to put in the log that you saw it.
 
theoldsalt said:
It was the Caribbean and the film was "Open water" and loosely based on a true story at the Great Barrier Reef, and "Adrift" is actually "Open Water 2 - Adrift"
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In that case, I may have the wrong title. The film I was thinking about is where a party of youngish Americans go out on a hired yacht and dive-off for a swim; then can't get back aboard. (Twits!!)
Is that Adrift, or some other film?

Open Water is a really sad film, but it makes one think about the integrity of some of the less-well set-up dive boats and their crews.
 
ganter said:
I saw "All Is Lost" the day it came out here. I took my girlfriend - who fancies Robert Redford - and sat there for an incredibly lively, sublime and at times difficult 90 minutes.
The effects are brilliant, there's no monologue and the photography is sumptuous. Watching, as I was, as a novice sailor I couldn't shift the uncomfortable position of thinking he made a number of mistakes early on in the film - real howlers in fact. Not to give anything away but in one instance he ends up with the boat flooded and then makes a new handle from a broom for the bilge pump. Surely, I quietly sneered, a new handle should have been made the instant the old one broke.
That incident and others including his alarming habit of leaving the washboards out in very heavy seas gave me the distinct feeling that as an aside to it being just another disaster movie - we seafarers of a little knowledge - are given the opportunity to contemplate his ineptitude. Couple that with his opening voice-over at the top of the movie and you have perhaps intentionally but never stated the story of a bloke who is having what the late great Ocean sailor Frank Mulville described as "A last throw of the dice". I loved it. I'm only leaving a suitably respectable amount of time before I go and see it again.
If you sail, feel bold sometimes, a little scared other times, you need to put in the log that you saw it.
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Saw All is Lost last night. Excellent film, and intriguing that the dialogue is "sparse" (understatement!!). I was particularly impressed with the sound effects, which almost told the story itself.
As to the bilge-pump handle, well perhaps it went AWOL? Note to myself "I MUST tie a lanyard from my handles to suitably placed fixing points (cockpit AND cabin pumps)". I can't understand why he didn't find/use a bucket.
I too got the feeling RR was having a "Last throw of the dice". Just his facial expressions and somewhat lack of urgency - I'd have been beavering away like a gorilla with a firecracker up my whatsit!
Not going to say any more which might spoil the plot for others - but it makes one think HARD !
 
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