Which Boat - All is Lost ?

Also enjoyed it, good to see a film about sailing which does not have a big expensive yacht in it. Thought he was quite enterprising in trying to deal with the problems, okay some of his own making, but came across as an average man trying to work through the problems. Did not miss talking, added to it for me
 
The acting was fine but the level of unpreparedness and incompetence was such that I would have preferred the film to end about a minute earlier than it did. I had no sympathy for "our man" due to his incompetance which meant after the first few events I no longer cared about his outcome and so lost interest. 5/10
 
yes it's strange, I also had no sympathy for 'our man' and no pity or even real interest in whether he survived or not. But I was interested in the story and how it all unfolds and that's what gave it the tension. I thought it was refreshing to get no back-story about him, his character or his family or anyhthing about what he was risking or why he was doing it. It was a movie about being in the moment.
 
I've been somewhat put off by the poster I saw. Obviously blowing a hooley and monstrous seas; and there is RR in the cockpit, no jacket over his salopettes, no lifejacket, not clipped on, no washboards, and companionway hatch open. Fair enough, a real-life sailor might make a mistake under duress, but 5 at the same time!?
 
Been to see it this afternoon, waste of a couple of hours. So many mistakes and odd reactions couldn't feel anything for the character.
For example, how many people on being woken below by water pouring in through a hole wouldn't immediately try to block the hole and start the bilge pump? Not our 'hero', he wanders around and lets water get to waist level before even starting to do much about it!
If this film is anything to go by, next time I see a storm approaching I'll get the razor out, have a shave and do the washing up and not bother with the storm tri sail until conditions are so bad it's impossible to hoist!
 
Whiskey Bravo said:
Been to see it this afternoon, waste of a couple of hours. So many mistakes and odd reactions couldn't feel anything for the character.
For example, how many people on being woken below by water pouring in through a hole wouldn't immediately try to block the hole and start the bilge pump? Not our 'hero', he wanders around and lets water get to waist level before even starting to do much about it!
If this film is anything to go by, next time I see a storm approaching I'll get the razor out, have a shave and do the washing up and not bother with the storm tri sail until conditions are so bad it's impossible to hoist!
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I found the lack of bilge pump use and not bothering to sort the sails out ready for the storm, that he new was coming, the two most irritating things in the film.
I do not push the hatch fully back in a rain shower let alone a full blown gale!
 
After having to hunt around to find somewhere that still had it on show on 30 December, then finding that we were the only people in the cinema, I now know why.

What a load of ****.

Only good think that came out of it is the advert for West Systems epoxy. A repair made up of a single layer of GRP and duck tape managed to survive all sorts of abuse. I must stock up on that stuff.

If you have not been to see it, save you money till it come out on free TV.

I am astounded to see how many awards it has been nominated for.
 
Howling wind, horizontal rain and spray, but he manages to carry a storm jib up to the foredeck without it even flapping. nice one
 
Went to see this earlier today with my Long Haired Chief of Staff, on the top floor of the tallest cinema in the world!

There is no doubt that it is a movie and not a training film or documentary. That said, it was entertaining and thought provoking, as I found myself wondering what I would do in the circumstances, I am pretty sure my priorities would have been different. The reaction of sailors will be similar to Medics viewing Holby City or Police and The Bill, and to a lesser extent, the Army and Gary the Tank Commander, the visual media take liberties in the form of artistic license.

It's 90 minutes of entertainment for the price of a couple of pints. I would recommend it to others.
 
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I'd recommend it too.

Certainly there were irritating bits like the way he left things around where they could spill/leak/get squashed but in general I thought it worked by presenting a lot of practical sailing problems solved in interesting ways, and was pretty good on the awfulness and instability of liferafts. This forum makes it clear that we would all tackle problems in very different ways and hold some things to be stupid that others consider the only safe way (e.g. I prefer a pair of boxer shorts in a gale, not oilskins, or I think it's unsafe and amateur to wear shoes on board unless cold enough for seaboots, and both flares and chartplotters are purchases for the hard of thinking).

In other words if we saw a film of any of us dealing with all those situations we would say that that person has never sailed before. So I think well worth a visit to the cinema for this one - probably the only semi-realistic fictional sailing film I've ever seen, and has set me thinking too.
 
jbweston said:
It was the shaving that got me. Allowing for the fact that it is fiction and entertainment, what dramatic purpose did the shaving serve?
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that's interesting: quite a few people criticised the fact that he shaved before jumping into the raft.
Personally, in those conditions -that is he is not in a total hurry to leave the boat, he has plenty of time to gather things, go back and forth boat<->raft a few times etc-, well under those conditions I think shaving would be one thing I'd seriously consider. It's maybe the remnants of silly education, shave before the univ exams, shave before a job meeting, shave before talking in public, etc etc

The shaving is possibly the only one sensible real-life thing I found in the movie :D
 
well as a woman i cannot comment on what a man wo uld do...
... but i thought it looked very soothing and comforting and routine and perhaps something person under stress might like to do to help calm hims elf
 
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