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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Rescue
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This week's theme is Rescue. Hard week for picks today, so I'm just gonna do a quick one.
San Andreas (2015)
After an earthquake, a rescue helicopter pilot, played by Dwayne Johnson, makes a journey to search and rescue his daughter. This movie was just a super dumb disaster movie. Skip it.
Captain Phillips (2013)
It's about a cargo ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates, with Tom Hanks in the title role. If I remember correctly, most of the movie it was mostly of the captain and crew trying to survive the hijacking...the rescue bits came only near the end. Overall an interesting, although not really a memorable movie for me.
The Perfect Storm (2000)
San Andreas (2015)
After an earthquake, a rescue helicopter pilot, played by Dwayne Johnson, makes a journey to search and rescue his daughter. This movie was just a super dumb disaster movie. Skip it.
Captain Phillips (2013)
It's about a cargo ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates, with Tom Hanks in the title role. If I remember correctly, most of the movie it was mostly of the captain and crew trying to survive the hijacking...the rescue bits came only near the end. Overall an interesting, although not really a memorable movie for me.
The Perfect Storm (2000)
I saw this again recently. I think it's a decent disaster movie and the storm was scary. I pretty much had forgotten that this came out way before the Deadliest Catch series, so the typical fisherman's day at sea haven't really been seen by most; how dangerous it can be even without a storm. Anyway, I was fascinated that rescue helicopters actually go out in such volatile storms, I would have thought helicopters were worst off at weathering it than the stranded ships.
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The most unbelievable thing about San Andreas was the fact that the woman left The Rock for a douchey businessman. lol
ReplyDeleteHaha...I thought the most unbelievable thing was the rescue pilot didn't do a lot of rescuing other than his own wife and daughter.
DeleteI've only seen Captain Phillips and it really liked it.
ReplyDeleteI'm a disaster movie junkie and will give just about anything in the genre a try but San Andreas was one of the stupider movies I've seen in that category. Frustrating because you really have a built in audience for that type of film and I'm willing to suspend my belief up to a point but I don't want it to be so unbelievable that it takes me out of the movie and this did. At least it wasn't as bad as 2012 which was just the most awful piece of dreck.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have thought of Captain Phillips as a rescue film though that is a piece of the story. I didn't love it even though the performances were aces.
The Perfect Storm is an interesting choice. I had read the book which was fascinating but heavy and the film while taking necessary liberties with it stay close to the tale. It was grim and I'll never watch it again but it was well made.
I decided to look at rescues that were presented from three different viewpoints-a serious fact based story, comically and cynically.
Apollo 13 (1995)-Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) has been bumped up to command the Apollo 13 mission to the moon along with Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise). Days away from launch Mattingly is pulled due to the risk of an infection and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) takes his place and the launch proceeds. Everything seems to be going according to schedule until there is a sudden explosion and the three astronauts are suddenly facing a life and death situation in deep space with the only hope of rescue Mission Control back at NASA. The bulk of the film is taken up with those efforts lead by Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) while Lovell’s wife (Kathleen Quinlan), the other’s family members and the world watch anxiously. Despite the known outcome incredibly gripping film was justly nominated for a slew of Oscars.
Outrageous Fortune (1987)-Two struggling actresses-the hoity toity Lauren (Shelley Long) and brassy Sandy (Bette Midler) receive scholarships to a prestigious acting class conducted by a legendary Russian teacher Stanislav Korzenowski (Robert Prosky) and despise each other on sight. At the same time they both become involved with a handsome laconic teacher Michael Santers (Peter Coyote) unbeknownst to each other. When it appears that Michael has been killed the pair realize that’s not so and surmise he’s in trouble and needs rescuing. They reluctantly team up to save him, sniping at each other all the way. It does NOT go as expected but they are off on a merry chase across the country aided at times by the stoned out Frank (a hilarious George Carlin). Boisterous comedy with sensational silk and sandpaper chemistry between odd couple Long and Midler.
Ace in the Hole (1951)-Once successful reporter Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) has landed at a small Albuquerque newspaper due both to his drinking and bad abrasive attitude. Sent on a nothing assignment he stumbles across what he senses is a headline story that could return him to the big leagues, a man has become trapped in a cave-in. Opportunistically manipulating the situation, with the collusion of the sheriff and the man’s greedy wife Lorraine (Jan Sterling) for their advantage more than the safety of the trapped man they find ways to delay the rescue without appearing to do just that. As the news spreads the quiet remote area begins to resemble a carnival atmosphere (the reissue title of the film was The Big Carnival) and the delaying tactics start to endanger the trapped man’s life. Awesome performances but this terribly cynical film is a disturbingly prescient example of the news reporting ethos “If it bleeds, it leads” culture. May be Wilder’s darkest film, that’s saying something for someone who directed Double Indemnity and Sunset Blvd.
Not a great fan of disaster movies, but I have enjoyed some in the past. I don't know what it is about San Andreas; it's soo dumb and not in a soo bad it's good.
DeleteNot seen any of these. Captain Philips is something I am interested in seeing. My Dad went on and on about a Perfect Storm then critised the boat or something they were using.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen San Andreas but I will even though I know it will be beyond stupid. I actually really liked Capt. Phillips and feel this was an accurate movie of the true events that happened just from what I read and watched. I really liked the performances. Perfect Storm was a good movie and so very sad even though everything that went on on the boat, was made up.
ReplyDeleteThe Perfect Storm - I read somewhere they lost all communication with the boat that day, so yeah it was sort of made up-in that apparently they used accounts of things that had happened to the crew in their other fishing trips to fill up what the days on their last trip could have looked like.
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