Talulah
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It's a great film for showing whilst at anchor or better still whilst crossing the Channel.
Which Boat - All is Lost ?
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30boat
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It's agreat film not to show a potential girlfriend if you ever want her to came sailing.
zzyyxx
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It's a good film, the reason everything seems a bit daft is because it's a hodge podge of boating disasters. From hitting a container (has anyone actually done that?) to failing to maintain his VHF aerial to leaving the vent cap open in his water supply. The ending is as it is because they were trying to convey desperation with adding 2 hours of floating in a liferaft to the film.
You lot are just curmudgeonly old duffers that would complain equally loudly about there not being any sailing films!
I found the most annoying thing was his half-baked mayday, which no-one seems to have mentioned. I'm not sure I'd have bothered responding to what he came out with either.
You lot are just curmudgeonly old duffers that would complain equally loudly about there not being any sailing films!
I found the most annoying thing was his half-baked mayday, which no-one seems to have mentioned. I'm not sure I'd have bothered responding to what he came out with either.
30boat
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I know of three cases of boats hitting containers off the coast of Portugal,two of them sank.That makes me a bit nervous.
I actually mentioned his terrible radio technique on another ,earlier thread,it's like there were no sailing advisors to the director.
Simondjuk
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Nevermind the sailing, I found the lax continuity alone distracting. I think his main lowered, flaked and sail tied itself, then re-hoisted itself on more than one occasion.
xyachtdave
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I've not noticed the lack of a life jacket mentioned yet!
zzyyxx
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There's a lot of cuts to show the passage of time in it, are you sure you didn't mistake some of the cuts for continuity errors?
Spyro
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You wont! The fire in the liferaft had me shouting at the screen......come to think of it I was shouting at the screen long before that. One of the worst films I've wasted my time on.
30boat
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Can't argue with that.And I had such great hopes...
Simondjuk
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Yep, absolutely sure about one of the mainsail errors, and not about to watch it again to confirm the second. There it is up, then change of camera angle and it's down and flaked. Back to previous angle and its back up again. All this during a real time scene.
I may have made some mistakes as you mention. I wasn't watching that closely, the ice flows out of the window, the cute hostie and even watching the whirring fan blades of two of Mr Rolls and Mr Royce's finest kept drawing more of my interest than the film could attract.
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Austerby
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Maybe there were sailing advisors to the director and that they were saying "of course, any normal sailor would do x, y, or z in this situation but for this sailor, he gets it wrong by doing this instead, which causes problems for him later on, which will make for a more entertaining drama"
I still don't get why people are so cross about this film - it was never setting out to be an instructional video on what you should do when certain things happen.
Wandering Star
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Well, I just watched it from beginning to end and in my opinion it was garbage both for entertainment value and for technical correctness. I think "all was lost" long before Robert Redford stepped aboard. With the ineptitude and lack of tenacity displayed by the skipper, the poor boat stood no chance of surviving a long passage even before it hit a container. I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry when the liferaft went up in flames!
Buck Turgidson
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I breathed a sigh of relief!
30boat
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Talking of boaty films,Master and Commander is the one,not this piece or krap.
Flyboy01
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I watched the first 15 minutes before I couldn't bear to watch any more. Like some other posters, I was dumbfounded by his decision to sail back to the container, on port tack thus filling the boat up some more, before ramming it with the bow all to recover the sea anchor (which he pulled back onto his boat too easily for it to be effective as an anchor!). What finally did it for me was seeing him saw a broom handle in two, whittle the end, and use it as the handle in his manual bilge pump! He didn't even have a handle on board!! And with that amount of water in the cabin, even the most incompetent of human beings, let alone sailors, would realise that he'd be quicker using a bucket to get rid of the vast amount of water into the cockpit and allow it to drain out through the cockpit drain holes.
I gave up principally because I didn't think I could stand watching the incompetence for another however long the movie was, but also because I couldn't stand watching someone with seemingly no reaction to the situation he found himself in. Maybe he became more emotional later but his initial reaction was truly lacking in urgency.
I gave up principally because I didn't think I could stand watching the incompetence for another however long the movie was, but also because I couldn't stand watching someone with seemingly no reaction to the situation he found himself in. Maybe he became more emotional later but his initial reaction was truly lacking in urgency.
xyachtdave
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Let's just say he found the time to have an emergency shave.
Nothing will block that hole in the boat quicker than some stubble mixed in with a bit of toothpaste!
Wandering Star
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Another gem for my survival notes.
NickRobinson
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I enjoyed it as fiction in a familiar setting (a boat). Like Memphis Belle, it's a montage of incidents back to back.
Not quite as documentary as 'A Night to Remember' but better than 'Titanic' or 'Despicable Me 2'.. for that matter.
Good to point out the weak bits, considering the specialist nature of this forum, but you wouldn't criticise Scarlett O'Hara for not abolishing slavery or failing to win the Civil War as well?
Not quite as documentary as 'A Night to Remember' but better than 'Titanic' or 'Despicable Me 2'.. for that matter.
Good to point out the weak bits, considering the specialist nature of this forum, but you wouldn't criticise Scarlett O'Hara for not abolishing slavery or failing to win the Civil War as well?
mickywillis
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2 hours of my life wasted that I will NEVER get back!!
Trash film, poor acting, sh*t ending.
Don't bother, go and do something more productive with your time.
Trash film, poor acting, sh*t ending.
Don't bother, go and do something more productive with your time.
Flyboy01
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Get off that fence Micky.....stop beating about the bush and tell it like it is!! :biggrin-new::biggrin-new:
