Captain Phillips

Mikey081057
Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
edited February 2014 in The Clubhouse
Worth watching.

Tom Hanks is a National Treasure. He just never seems to over ham it up.
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  • zane77
    zane77 Posts: 1,696
    edited January 2014
    Watched this last night and he did an awesome job at the very end.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited January 2014
    Everybody at work been taking about this one!
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited February 2014
    Watched this over the weekend. What a phenomenal movie! Total must see!
    No excuses!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,014
    edited February 2014
    I didn't think it was all that great. Good movie in general, but nothing fantastic. One scene in particular when he was in the life boat and pulls out a pocket knife in front of his captors. Seriously ? One....they didn't pat you down for weapons. Two...you pull the knife out like it's no biggie in front of the captors ? Nah, they won't mind their prisoner has a knife...lol.

    Tom Hanks as usual though is a great actor and of course was excellent. The script however could have been better.
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  • Mystery
    Mystery Posts: 2,546
    edited February 2014
    Decent movie but the story line is not even two lines.
    Captain is captured by pirates and US army/seal releases him by killing the pirates.
    Done! That's it.
    The real talent is to extend that one line story to a full movie. :wink:
    Okay but nothing I want to watch again.

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited February 2014
    Mystery wrote: »
    Decent movie but the story line is not even two lines.
    Captain is captured by pirates and US army/seal releases him by killing the pirates.
    Done! That's it.
    The real talent is to extend that one line story to a full movie. :wink:
    Okay but nothing I want to watch again.

    Thanks for the spoiler alert. :smile:
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  • Mystery
    Mystery Posts: 2,546
    edited February 2014
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Thanks for the spoiler alert. :smile:
    Don't blame me. :wink:
    It is based on a real story so those who read news once in a while already know what happens.

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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    edited February 2014
    Sort of like that Titanic movie way back....
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited February 2014
    Msabot1 wrote: »
    Sort of like that Titanic movie way back....

    So what happens? More Somali pirates?
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  • Mystery
    Mystery Posts: 2,546
    edited February 2014
    BlueFox wrote: »
    So what happens? More Somali pirates?

    You have to watch the movie for that. :wink:

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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited February 2014
    Good Movie!
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  • Jhayman
    Jhayman Posts: 1,548
    edited February 2014
    Excellent movie and Tom Hanks was Awesome as he always is but so was his Somali co-star..
    It was his first movie role when auditioned and all he kept thinking is he's working with the Forest Gump guy, lol
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  • valkyrie00
    valkyrie00 Posts: 33
    edited February 2014
    I tend to agree with tonyb. It was a good movie, not great. The best acting occurred at the very end when Tom Hanks is being checked out by the naval doctor. I was impressed however, with the acting of the Somali pirates. Apparently, they were hand picked for the part but were not professional actors. Again, not great acting but good for a movie of this magnitude. This was based on a true story, but several actual crew members paint Captain Phillips in a very different light.
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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited February 2014
    I thought it was really well done. Just when I thought it was winding down comes the scene at the end with the Naval Dr., the most emotional scene in the movie. Tom Hanks for my money is always worth watching, and the main Somali Pirate did a great job as well.

    If I didn't know it was a true story I would have thought the shots the SEALS took were Hollywood BS. Probably the most difficult imaginable under those circumstances.
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  • shawn474
    shawn474 Posts: 3,052
    edited February 2014
    Watched it last night; it was a really good movie. But with all the controversy surrounding what was in the movie and what ACTUALLY happened it kind of took the "realness" out of the movie. I know its Hollywood and they need to embellish, but the fact that they claim this guy was such a hero just doesn't seem to be accurate with all the accounts that are coming out now.
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  • stretchl
    stretchl Posts: 1,334
    edited February 2014
    Thers a lot of fiction being sold as fact these days, so, ust to clarify, the movie is not a "true story" any more than "JFK" is the true story of the assassination or "The Social Network" is the true story of Facebook's founding.
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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited February 2014
    Re: true story, should have written the part of the story dealing with the shots made by Seal Team 6 was true. I've read accounts by the crew, which paint Phillips in a much less favorable light than the movie portrays him.
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  • shawn474
    shawn474 Posts: 3,052
    edited February 2014
    drumminman wrote: »
    Re: true story, should have written the part of the story dealing with the shots made by Seal Team 6 was true. I've read accounts by the crew, which paint Phillips in a much less favorable light than the movie portrays him.

    Agreed; that's what I was referring to; the SEAL team actions are true undeniably.
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