Offishul Boys in the Boat movie thread
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Thanks Pawz!pawz said: -
Saw the movie last night. It was good for what it is. It won't win any awards, and I agree with the criticisms others have posted. At the end, some guy shouted (it was me) "Go Dawgs, beat Texas!)
- Geography felt weird.
- Very little character development
- Whole family immediately after the movie, "Soooooooo...what did any of the guys do after the Olympics? Did Joe and Joyce get married? Did he stay pour?" -
Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer
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I liked it! I hope my nitpicking of details didn't imply otherwise. I'll go see it again.haie said:Damn, it feels like only me and PJ Fleck liked the movie.
My next door neighbor took her whole family to it (and knows I rowed + went to UW) and afterwards immediately texted my wife "That was a great movie but I have so many questions." So she's going to read the book now and has already watched the PBS show.houseofpain247 said:Saw the movie last night. It was good for what it is. It won't win any awards, and I agree with the criticisms others have posted. At the end, some guy shouted (it was me) "Go Dawgs, beat Texas!)
- Geography felt weird.
- Very little character development
- Whole family immediately after the movie, "Soooooooo...what did any of the guys do after the Olympics? Did Joe and Joyce get married? Did he stay pour?"
The suburban housewife demographic seems to really like it especially if they haven't read the book. -
2nd most famous person raised in Olympia
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So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.RaceBannon said:Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer
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Pics of Hume stroking the senior varsity eight?
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luckily for them most of the us population could not tell the difference between UK or seattleYellowSnow 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. -
If he never married then he's a (gay) uncle not the dadwhlinder said:
So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.RaceBannon said:Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer
You're welcome
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The OG row peter puffer...RaceBannon said:
If he never married then he's a (gay) uncle not the dadwhlinder said:
So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.RaceBannon said:Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer
You're welcome
