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Summary: A Decent Film, Exciting, DVD Picture Quality A Real Plus
Review: The basic summary of the reviews (here at Amazon and in the press) is that this movie had great special effects, but was weak on characters and dialogue. I really beg to differ. Having grown up in a fishing village, I instantly felt at home with many of the characters (except Clooney, more later). The bit parts are played with real craftsmanship; for example, Billy's mother, Bugsy's incipient girlfriend, the old man. They had small parts here, but the biggest part belongs to the storm as it should be. Clooney, as usual, is too weak to carry anything resembling a real character. His speech about the joys of being a sword fish boat captain falls flat, both in terms of the the hackneyed writing and the lame delivery. He's just not much of an actor. (He was by far the least convincing character in "Oh, Brother" as well.) Best just ignore him and look to the rest of the movie. So the characters are mainly good. The special effects are good, although perhaps not great. What makes the movie work is the tension it generates. The perfect storm is ulitmately about a real storm that killed a number of people. It should be judge on how well it recreates the drama of that event and gives you a feel for the incredible fury which mother nature dished out in that storm. I thought it did that rather well, both in terms of the struggle of the men to save the Andrea Gail (the boat of which Clooney is captain), and the rescue of some foolish sailboaters by the Coast Guard. Like the book, the movie is flawed, but entertaining and for the most part realisitic. Recommended.
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Summary: Home is the sailor, home from the sea - or not!
Review: I may be partial to A Perfect Storm because I have always had an affinity with the sea. I have lived by or near an ocean on three occasions, and these may have been the happiest times of my life. This attraction is shared by many. It is hard to explain because, in truth, the seaside is about the most dangerous place on earth. Yet the love affair never dims. I say all this by way of explaining why the characters in The Perfect Storm don't seriously consider finding a safer and more predictable way of making a living than being deep sea fishermen. It really is in their blood to live this way. The movie is based on a marvelous nonfiction book by Sebastian Junger. While the film adaptation does not live up to the book, a valiant attempt has been made. Sometimes I do not think the movies are always capable of conjuring up images as fertile as those we can make inside our heads. In the fall of 1991, a terrible storm occurred along the New England coast. It was the improbable meeting of a fierce cold front out of Canada and a hurricane blowing in from the Atlantic. In the town of Glouster, MA, Captain Billy Tyne [George Clooney] has decided to go out on one more fishing expedition just two days after coming back from his last one. He is determined to break a streak of bad luck. His crew reluctantly agrees to go, though they would much prefer more shore leave. Especially distraught is Christina [Diane Lane], the girlfriend of crew member Bobby Shatford [Mark Wahlberg]. The voyage starts out well enough, marred only by fights between Murph and Sully [John C. Reilly and William Fitchner]. After a couple of weeks, the boat is full of swordfish. It's time to head back. The route back lies directly in the path of the storm. Director Wolfgang Petersen, best know for Air Force One and In the Line of Fire, does a great job, managing to let the story of these men and the people who love them survive a ton of CGI effects. These effects are awesome. Some of them are ominously beautiful, looking like masterful portraits of the sea come to life. Others seem surreal, but then there is something other worldly about eighty foot waves, which did, in fact, occur in this storm. The Perfect Storm is a first-rate disaster epic. INSIDE SHOTS: As in so many movies we see today, The Perfect Storm is at least fifty percent computer generated image [CGI] effects. Many of them are obvious. The storm is not real, nor are the boats rolling around in it. But here, even the sky is often not real. My favorite trick is in the scene in which George Clooney is dangling from a pole at the height of the storm. That's not George you see. It's not even a stuntman. It's a computer generated image of Mr. Clooney. Yet with all this computer cleverness, I am still most impressed by the fish. You could never tell by looking, but none of them are real. They are all rubber models. Even the good folk of Glouster were impressed.
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Summary: MY GUYS RISKING HIS LIFE FOR A BUNCH OF STUPID FISH
Review: Who knew hell was wet?
The ocean creates 30ft.waves and the wind screams at 90-100mhp.
To those out at sea-it was the storm of the century. The Perfect Storm is based on the true story about the fishing
vessel The Andrea Gail and how it vansihed without a trace. After not such a success after swordfishing-capt.Billy Tyne and
his crew of five decide to head out further into the ocean to the
Grand Banks-in years gone by thousands of fishermen are said to
have drowned in its deadly shallows.
Once there they find tons of fish-and they get their fish-hold
full to the top almost-but once they get word that there is a
firece storm brewing-and there ice machine breaks down-they have
no choice but to head back home before their fish gets rotten and
gross. Another bunch of people find themselves in danger in the storm-
a sailboat the Satori and the rescue crew who try to save them and the Andrea Gail-but once their helicopter crashes into the sea because of low fuel they find themselves in the ocean with only the Coast Guard to save them-but they end up losing a member
to the ocean. Meanwhile the Andrea Gail struggled to survive for as long as it
could-but not before a giant 100.ft wave takes them down to the
bottom of the Altlantic ocean.
The Andrea Gails crew was never heard from or seen again. I thought that it was very nice and kind that the people of
Gloucester still held a funeral for them-even though they were
not going to bury any of the fishermen-it still goes to show
that their loved ones and friends still loved them and wanted to
say goodbye one last time. THIS FILM IS DEDICATED TO ALL GLOUCESTER FISHERMEN WHO HAVE
DIED AT SEA SINCE 1623.
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Summary: the worst movie ever made
Review: this movie is by far the worst movie ever made.....
everything about it is poor. i can't believe this was directed by the same guy that directed das boot. go figure that out. i guess we have to blame him since he is in charge. poor performances by all actors involved and the all time worst fit for a music score. james horner should be sent to his room without his synth, orchestral baton and no dinner. talk about purple syrup.......
there is a bright side though, if you watch this flick (and i do mean flick ) you should turn the sound down and play some music you like. otherwise you have to witness these hard, tough , monster fishermen acting like they have just been to a new age seminar on male sensitivity.... forget the seminar guys and just drink some more beer and celebrate your scar tissue. WHATEVER.....
avoid this one like no other.
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Summary: The Good and The Bad
Review: The Good:
Not much is good here. Two words sums it up just right, "Special Effects." Thats all for the good. The Bad:
Why is it that no directer can successfully turn a book into a movie. Yes, I realize you cant include everything from the book, but come on. This movie is a absolute mockery of an adaption and an insult to my intelligence. Everything that was good from the book was left out or changed in the movie. Just another example of Hollywood dumbing down the script so that people can be entertained. The irony is that the story the book tells is far more interesting and exiting then this discrace of a movie. Ok, if you want make a movie about this subject, fine, but dont call it "The Perfect Storm," and dont adapt the movie from a excellent book. Call it something else, call it "The Big Storm" or "The Perfect Disaster" because that is what this movie is, a disaster.
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Summary: Not the perfect movie.....
Review: This was among the dumbest movies I've ever seen. The plot lacks any point, and, aside from the special effects, has nothing remotely interesting about it. It is basically about a group of the stupidest fishermen in the whole eastern seaboard who realize they don't have any money, so, decide to go on a fishing expedition even though they get 1000's of hints that sailing their course would be suicide. But being truly idiotic, they go right to the place where the 4 largest hurricanes on record are about to collide in search of more fish. (Even the fish they seek would be more clever than these stooges and the twits who directed this film.) The only part of this movie that's truly sad is the fact that it takes itself perfectly seriously.
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Summary: MUCH better than expected....
Review: Marky Mark in a decent movie??? Yeah, this one is not too bad, albeit not my usual cup of tea. The movie is about some fishermen who get stuck out in the middle of the Atlantic during a Hurricaine. How they get stuck and what happens to them is very well laid out, the cinematography is very good.
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Summary: Not so perfect storm
Review: Love it or hate it The Perfect Storm is about the tragic loss of life aboard a Swordfish boat. The DVD is a good memorial to the men who lost there lives that day
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Summary: This film is a storm of its own.
Review: "The Perfect Storm" wants to be a blue-collar, modern day "Titanic" with its disaster-at-sea plot. Oh, if only it did. Clooney and Wahlberg are wasted talents in this film about a group of fishermen that get caught in a severely powerful storm. To be sure, the storm scenes sound great on DVD; this is a good movie with which to show off your sound system. But the effects, which get redundant after a few minutes, look and feel fake (almost as fake as Diane Lane's Boston accent!). It's as though you're watching not a catastrophe at sea but a video game at a local arcade. Sometimes, digital effects, when overdone as they are here, can strip a film of its realness. Director Wolfgang Peterson probably wanted to give us a reason to care about the story and its characters, but no such luck. "The Perfect Storm" is a near-washout.
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Summary: Reality check
Review: CGI has it's limitations when it comes to something non organic like the sea. European director makes masterpiece. Hollywood beckons. He arrives. Makes cack film about astronaut on pile of expensive rocks. Then highjack of airforce one by Gary Oldman on an acting break. Then this film with man getting foot stuck in shark's gob. This then, is reality. At the end of this film a man finds himself alone in a vast void of a Godless universe. As all hope fades he realises he will never again make love to a beautiful women. But enough about my life, you should see what happens to Mark Wahlberg.
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