This movie, based on a true story, is one of the best movies I've seen this year. Tom Hanks is a great actor, and the U.S seals are some badass motherfuckers.

I have heard nothing bad about this movie, only praise.

and more than that, I've read that Tom Hanks gives the performance of his life in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

Now don't spoil it and explain that.

I was in VietNam in 66-67..We were patrolling the delta in the vicinity of a Navy Seal Station on the Nha Be River, about 15 miles south of Saigon..If I'm not mistaken they were airborne trained, frogmen, primarily, but it seems they have now evolved into a landborne strike force... This base was across the river from the Rung Sat Special Zone...A place we patrolled several times...Scary place....I love Tom Hanks..He is what I would call a "real American"...

I imagine this is a great movie Thanks guys..Jackie

A friend told me that she saw an interview with Tom Hanks in which he related that the director of the movie did some awesome things to enhance reality. One of those things was that the Tom and the ship's crew were not allowed to meet the pirates ahead of the shoot when they attack the ship. So, when they come aboard, the surprise and what took place wasn't rehearsed ahead of time, and the first take of that scene was used in the film. Tom said that you can see his lower lip quivering in fear in that attack scene and that the emotion was real at the time. The implication was that if everybody on "both sides" knew each other ahead of time and had rehearsed the scene together, the dramatic effect of surprise and fear in the scene would not have been nearly the same.

I have not had an opportunity to view the movie yet, but I know many people who have, and as was posted previously, nobody had anything but praise for this flick (and Tom Hanks). I can't wait to see it!

It seems that the film's director deserves a nod, though, too.

PA

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THIS MOVIE.

Y'all can research this yourselves, but I've read a long thread on Reddit and related articles elsewhere that indicate this movie is a load of shit.

Well filmed, excellently acted, even well written, but it's a giant load of shit, and Captain Phillips is a royal asshole in real life.

Captain Phillips is responsible for that ship being taken.

He had NUMEROUS chances to avoid being "kidnapped" and endangering his crew.

He ignored IMPORTANT information re. location of the pirates. He IGNORED explicit rules about how close to the coast to travel; he CHOSE to get close enough to shore (less than 300 miles) just to ensure his on-time/early delivery bonus.

HE SAW the pirates on the horizon, so did his crew, during a security exercise, and he COMMANDED HIS CREW TO CONTINUE THE EXERCISE rather than go full-speed away.

It was foolish pride that got them caught.

Some of his crew MUTINEED and followed the official instructions of locking themselves in the engine room, while Captain Phillips ordered the rest of the crew to continue the exercise.

The majority of his crew are very, very vocal about the fact that Captain Fuckhead Phillips is taking credit that is NOT his due, and while his crew is now suffering the after-effects of this scary situation, Phillips is raking in cash and accolades.

Captain Phillips is a liar, a known bad ship captain (his record speaks for itself), and now, he is reaping glory because of this movie while he lies about and ignores his crewmen.

The movie may be great, but the man the movie is about is a low-down piece of shit.

Nothing like revisionist history is there? Most Americans under a certain age believe that when the Titanic sank, it took with it a fabulous jewel, token of a fatal love story. The film, like Captain Phillips, is riddled with not just inaccuracies but out and out falsehoods. Are they both entertaining? Well, yes but as one watches them it needs to be remembered we're seeing a event sliced and diced by Hollywood. There are in both of them some basic truths-there have to be or the films wouldn't have been made; The Titanic did sink and the Alabama Maersk was attacked by pirates. If one looks closely at the aftermath. Captain Phillips got deified if only because that justified the navy wasting time and endangering men in what was a small matter. It's clearly understood that the drill in those waters is to be attacked, perhaps even highjacked, ransom is paid and the voyage continues merrily along. Phillips, for whatever reason, got the Spirit of 76 (Trombones) up his ass and decided to vary the script. But not as much as Hollywood did. What it should be is a morality tale about the dangers that exist to this day from pirates and not just there. In the same way, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the Dallas Morning News, horse rustling is still a big problem in Texas. Captain Phillips, the person, got snapped in a publicity mill he probably never anticipated and was forced to "vary history" to coincide with what all the hoorah was about. He seems a modest man with much to be modest about. And quiet.

And there's the opposite and for my example I'll take the good Captain Sullenberger who landed a plane filled with passengers on the Hudson River, saved them all and has had the good sense to resist deification but now serves as a consultant to a news department. What he did is undeniable, no possible wiggle room for complaint and yet he has remained a gentlemen who only did what he was trained to do.

Who should we admire and venerate?

oh goodie.

BTW - from its inception this movie was not meant to be historical or even accurate to news accounts.

For some reason, I can't stand Tom Hanks and don't understand his appeal. I just don't relate to him at all. To me he isn't very manly so doesn't work as a male protagonist. He isn't the sort of person that would be a leader in the real world -- not the type of guy you'd follow into battle or in the boardroom. I don't think he really is a good actor either, I think that he gets by with a teary eyed pseudo-expression that people read expressions into: his concerned look, his loving look, his bewildered look, is pretty much the same look. I understand his appeal to woman as a "safe" leading man or romantic interest, but just am not interested at all in his movies and find that I prefer to avoid his movies where possible. For people that protest "what about Cast Away" or whatever, my retort would be that it would be an equally good movie with any decent Hollywood lead and I suggest that someone like a Viggo Mortensen or James Purefoy would pull it off better. I'll admit that he was perfect for Forestt Gump but that is because that role called someone who looked like a special needs individual with basic acting skills.

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:16 am For some reason, I can't stand Tom Hanks and don't understand his appeal. I just don't relate to him at all. To me he isn't very manly so doesn't work as a male protagonist. He isn't the sort of person that would be a leader in the real world -- not the type of guy you'd follow into battle or in the boardroom. I don't think he really is a good actor either, I think that he gets by with a teary eyed pseudo-expression that people read expressions into: his concerned look, his loving look, his bewildered look, is pretty much the same look. I understand his appeal to woman as a "safe" leading man or romantic interest, but just am not interested at all in his movies and find that I prefer to avoid his movies where possible. For people that protest "what about Cast Away" or whatever, my retort would be that it would be an equally good movie with any decent Hollywood lead and I suggest that someone like a Viggo Mortensen or James Purefoy would pull it off better. I'll admit that he was perfect for Forestt Gump but that is because that role called someone who looked like a special needs individual with basic acting skills.

I could not agree with you more, Tom Hanks is way over rated and inflated.

River

Well, there is (Useless) S. Grant and General George (Strongarm) Custer... Personally, I prefer John Dillinger... LOL!

Did ya hear about the new Bonnie and Clyde program coming out?

So?