The Perfect Storm
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Movie Reviews of The Perfect Storm
Movie Review: Shows how people will die for their income, literally!
Summary: 5 Stars
I worked on a salmon seiner in Valdez, Alaska for a summer. This movie definitley shows how people will take the risk of life to catch fish. This type of industry is not like you coming in, milking the clock from 8-5, and getting a paycheck on a regular schedule. There are specific times you can fish and specific times you cannot. On those specific times you can, it's a crapshoot. Your pay is usually a percentage of what the boats gross proceeds from the fish are. So if you go out for 4 days and catch nothing, then YOU GET NOTHING! That is to give you an idea of what commercial fisherman go through to make a living. But if you hit the jackpot, your set. It's surviving the sea, and hitting the jackpot at the same time, that is tricky. This kind of work is not for the weak. It is a brotherhood shared by many because it's been a way of life and a way to make a living for the longshoremen previewed in this movie, for over 250 years!
Movie Review: The first hour is fine, but the second is thrilling.
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was very good, and very true to what actually happened in 1991. George Clooney, and Mark Whalberg gave really good performances of the two fisherman that were together at the beginning, and stayed til the end. You really feel the friendship between them. The script is good, except most of the dialogue from the movie's first hour is flat, with only a few memorable lines. But the second hour is the whole reason for this movie's existence. It is absolutely thrilling, and I was at the edge of my seat from beginning to end. This is much better than Open Water, and it has plenty of special effects, and good performances to win you over.Movie Review: Hollywood Storm
Summary: 2 Stars
I'd read the book and then saw the poster for the movie, so I was excited about seeing THE PERFECT STORM.
But I did wonder how the filmmakers were going to translate the story to the screen.
Studio pictures have to have "star parts" to attract names like George Clooney--but the problem with THE PERFECT STORM was that, by choosing to tell the story through the fishermen on the Andrea Gale, the script would have to create their story: no one knows what happened to them.
The book describes them as they head out to sea...and they literally disappear into the storm. No one survived. No one will ever know what happened. (And you learn this in the very first paragraph of the book).
So, basically, you're seeing made-up scenes of in-fighting and struggles culled from other fishing stories. That bothered me when I first saw the film, because the bickering and scuffling between the Andrea Gale crew felt forced and unreal.
Read the book. It's filled with fascinating facts and true stories of danger and heroism.
The movie is...well, a movie.
Movie Review: This movie was great movie in many meanings.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie, Perfect Storm was great movie in many meanings. The opportunity that I was interested to this movie at first was for that the main theme was weather phenomenon. I have known that incredible storms, their three storms touched each other, broke a few years ago, but I have not known about the detail things. I have the knowledge about weather to some extent because I am interested to weather phenomenon daily. For that, the movie that showed the rare phenomenon that theree storms including hurricane and cold front line etc contacted each other gave shock to me.
In addition to that, the movie expressed such unbelievable theme very well. I think that it is natural that the makers use the artficial technique like computer graphics and so on. But because the movie theme was nature, using the technique must have needed many care. But in such rimitation, the great expression was made, for instance wave is so. The makers made high wave that we can never see in our life. The wave was very natural. The thirilling case even that a fishing ship dived into wave wall was expressed with incredible excitment very well.
And except of their weather, there was climaxs in the movie. That was human drama. The main vhicle in the movie was a fishing ship. And the crew were wild and impoliteness in my first glance. But as the story went, my emotion for their changed little and little, that is to say, though they were a little crazy men who did the actions like diving to such storms, when I say in other view, they had bravery that they dared to go the storms without turning back, that was pure benefit that they derired to get back fishes to the hometown. Such bravery can be said to my daily life. As I am adult, tend to lose bravery and be timid, I felt that I should go to dangerouse scene even for achiving my goal in the movie.
Finally, they had been drunk by wave. I expected that the last would be happy end even if whether the movie was on non-fiction or not. But I felt in the other side that their bravery was testified by such ending again, before we think about the uneasy, anyway move to the goal.
Thank you for reading poor English.
Movie Review: Well told story
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all others on this sight don't know what they are talking about to say it is such a bad movie. Someone said they were fishermen from Maine. They are from Massachussets. Also for people who didn't understand the idea of the job youu would have to love fishing to understand it. I thought the movie was portayed very well with awesome effects. The cast was well chosen. I would recommend this movie to anyone.