Offishul Boys in the Boat movie thread
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It was good but not great.
Wouldn't have killed Clooney to get some shots on campus. Most of the quad, Denny hall, Suzzallo, parrington and drumheller were all on campus at that time. Thought it was a bit funny that Poughkeepsie was lined by evergreens and the very narrow Lake Washington was lined by deciduous trees. Granted a lot of the evergreen trees throughout the area would have been mowed down, especially in Seattle proper. Maybe a shot at the 7Eleven on Aurora in the U District would have been good as well. I know the movies were set in the time period they were filmed but shit, War Games and the Changling, not completely filmed in WA at least got some campus shots. Again, quite honestly, Suzzalo, Denny, sylvan grove and Rainier Vista feel like the biggest omissions.
No, its the classic "not true to the book" hollywood version. I still enjoyed it.
Some other glaring omissions. Rain. Jimmy Kimmel razzed clooney about it and yeah, there was no rain at all in the movie. Rain, mist, early morning workouts before the wind picks up.
Lastly I don't think it really stuck out that this was based on a true story. No epilogue really of the guys. Would have been easy to get some footage of the boys rowing years later to commemorate. Just some pictures along with the credits. I say this because one friend caught it early at a mystery movie night and wanted me to know there was no end of credits scene like you'd find in a Marvel movie. She clearly had not read the book. -
I’m gonna have to fight hard through the geographic inaccuracy of the settings. I hate that lazy shit.huskyhooligan said:It was good but not great.
Wouldn't have killed Clooney to get some shots on campus. Most of the quad, Denny hall, Suzzallo, parrington and drumheller were all on campus at that time. Thought it was a bit funny that Poughkeepsie was lined by evergreens and the very narrow Lake Washington was lined by deciduous trees. Granted a lot of the evergreen trees throughout the area would have been mowed down, especially in Seattle proper. Maybe a shot at the 7Eleven on Aurora in the U District would have been good as well. I know the movies were set in the time period they were filmed but shit, War Games and the Changling, not completely filmed in WA at least got some campus shots. Again, quite honestly, Suzzalo, Denny, sylvan grove and Rainier Vista feel like the biggest omissions.
No, its the classic "not true to the book" hollywood version. I still enjoyed it.
Some other glaring omissions. Rain. Jimmy Kimmel razzed clooney about it and yeah, there was no rain at all in the movie. Rain, mist, early morning workouts before the wind picks up.
Lastly I don't think it really stuck out that this was based on a true story. No epilogue really of the guys. Would have been easy to get some footage of the boys rowing years later to commemorate. Just some pictures along with the credits. I say this because one friend caught it early at a mystery movie night and wanted me to know there was no end of credits scene like you'd find in a Marvel movie. She clearly had not read the book. -
Not having a rolling credit with a blurb of what the "boys" did post race was a big miss.
It wouldn't have added much time and tied it up. Though, there was so little character development, it could have come off like introducing strangers in the final scene, so I can see why they might have scrapped it.
Still would have been nice to see what became of them. Once you remove the purple shades, you'll realize it wasn't a good movie. -
(I predict that) You are going to have a tough time with the whole damn thing. It was made for people not familiar with row boat or the boys in the boat. NTTIATWWTYellowSnow said:
I’m gonna have to fight hard through the geographic inaccuracy of the settings. I hate that lazy shit.huskyhooligan said:It was good but not great.
Wouldn't have killed Clooney to get some shots on campus. Most of the quad, Denny hall, Suzzallo, parrington and drumheller were all on campus at that time. Thought it was a bit funny that Poughkeepsie was lined by evergreens and the very narrow Lake Washington was lined by deciduous trees. Granted a lot of the evergreen trees throughout the area would have been mowed down, especially in Seattle proper. Maybe a shot at the 7Eleven on Aurora in the U District would have been good as well. I know the movies were set in the time period they were filmed but shit, War Games and the Changling, not completely filmed in WA at least got some campus shots. Again, quite honestly, Suzzalo, Denny, sylvan grove and Rainier Vista feel like the biggest omissions.
No, its the classic "not true to the book" hollywood version. I still enjoyed it.
Some other glaring omissions. Rain. Jimmy Kimmel razzed clooney about it and yeah, there was no rain at all in the movie. Rain, mist, early morning workouts before the wind picks up.
Lastly I don't think it really stuck out that this was based on a true story. No epilogue really of the guys. Would have been easy to get some footage of the boys rowing years later to commemorate. Just some pictures along with the credits. I say this because one friend caught it early at a mystery movie night and wanted me to know there was no end of credits scene like you'd find in a Marvel movie. She clearly had not read the book. -
I saw the movie and it didn’t come close to my expectations. I get that you were going Hollywood up the story… I was halfway thinking they would make one of the boys a black tranz or some shit… But I’m not gonna take that to the tug. my problem with it is that it was a total miss as far as conveying what the sport is about. They acted like the coach just took a chance and picked those guys to go. Anybody that knows jack shit about that sport knows that one of the greatest parts about it is that everybody earns their way. it would’ve been pretty easy to have a scene where they say pull the boats together and switch Rantz and then show the boat going faster.
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Why the angst? Everyone knows George Clooney is a part of the WEF globalist elite cabal (hi, OBK) and can’t be bothered with presenting the true story. Watered down or revisionist history is their specialty
TITTT, I know.
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Did the Junkers Ju 52s spray chem trails over the ‘36 games @PurpleThrobber ?PurpleThrobber said:Why the angst? Everyone knows George Clooney is a part of the WEF globalist elite cabal (hi, OBK) and can’t be bothered with presenting the true story. Watered down or revisionist history is their specialty
TITTT, I know. -
Damn, it feels like only me and PJ Fleck liked the movie.
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