[QUOTE=Lookout;109366]"Oh yeah, I don’t think the average American gives a rats-ass how the goods they consume got delivered or even actually know what the Merchant Marine is.
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Agree.
We can snicker and roll our eyes at some of the movies technical errors, you can take an dim view of Phillips actions & motivations BUT - I think this movie will be the best thing to happen to the Maritime industry in decades. The hightened awareness of what we do could be a huge PR boost. Perhaps MARAD will get some much needed respect in DC in the form of add’l funding. We’ll all benefit.
We can snicker and roll our eyes at some of the movies technical errors, you can take an dim view of Phillips actions & motivations BUT - I think this movie will be the best thing to happen to the Maritime industry in decades. The hightened awareness of what we do could be a huge PR boost. Perhaps MARAD will get some much needed respect in DC in the form of add’l funding. We’ll all benefit.[/QUOTE]
Point #1, oh yes, this will give us some visibility
Point #2, you said MarAd and respect in the same sentence, sorry man but I just spit my cheap merlot all over the keyboard
People will ( may ) go see it, but nothing will change the state of the US merchant marine, or Marad for that matter. Oh, for a few days the common man may think he knows something of the merchant marine, but in the end nothing will change. There is no lasting memory of topics seen at the cinema by the majority unless it’s something they live with day in and day out. Sadly our industry is not on the common man’s radar ( mind).
I wont pay $10 to see it. Hell I wont even shell out the $1 for Redbox. Like previously mentioned I may see if a shipmate hands it to me. I wouldn’t mind seeing if the show any of the real hero’s like the rest of the crew, particularly Chief Perry and his actions of taking engine control and blacking out the plant, then heading up to the EDG to secure em’cy power and capturing his own pirate.
Maybe you haters have a point. Maybe the movie should be viewed as nothing more than fictional entertainment loosely based on an actual event, I’m still gonna see it.
Maybe you haters have a point. Maybe the movie should be viewed as nothing more than fictional entertainment loosely based on an actual event, I’m still gonna see it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, me too; if only to have a reason to shout at the screen over inaccuracies. I imagine that I will be shouting less at this one than I did when I went to see “Contraband”. . . . . .(but I did enjoy the movie, but not for the reasons that the producers intended. I chuckled when getting a TWIC was mentioned, and just about rolled out of my chair when he was able to get one expedited. . . and then when the TWIC was used as a gate pass in Panama. . . . oh, man. Real comedy).
Just listening to his phony boston accent during the trailers makes me want to barf. I’m not sure what it was surposed to add to the movie or who told him people from Boston really sound like that. I wonder who got cast as the second mate that they were fishing on here for
That scene where he walks up to the ship was shot at the APM terminal in Portsmouth, VA. I was there later in the day for some reason and the security guards told me about Hanks and the second unit guys being there. He filmed that scene and a couple others, and left, very quickly.
[QUOTE=catherder;121796]That scene where he walks up to the ship was shot at the APM terminal in Portsmouth, VA. I was there later in the day for some reason and the security guards told me about Hanks and the second unit guys being there. He filmed that scene and a couple others, and left, very quickly.[/QUOTE]
See, there’s going to be certain scenes that every member of this forum will be able to relate too.
Forget about the real Phillips if that bothers you and just enjoy the movie.
I may have to reserve my midnight ticket on the 11th.
[QUOTE=catherder;121796]That scene where he walks up to the ship was shot at the APM terminal in Portsmouth, VA. I was there later in the day for some reason and the security guards told me about Hanks and the second unit guys being there. He filmed that scene and a couple others, and left, very quickly.[/QUOTE]
We were going past the Navy base one night when they were shooting the lifeboat scenes for the movie.
I want to see it but just like with Contraband I want commiewood to get as little of my money as possible these days.
