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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan & Matthew Sand (screenplay)
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, John Malkovich
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Remind me to never watch another Peter Berg directed movie!
Damned if this wasn't the exact same structure as Patriots Day: I laughed when once again I seen Mark Wahlberg waking up with the wife in the 'quiet family life before the big event' opening scene. Same happy-dappy family stuff with mindless fluff talk. Filler material.
Then when we finally get to the big oil rig there's more filler...with on the job, derp dialogue, that was spoken so fast and with such fast edits and crappy hand held camera work that I got nothing out of it, other than the oil well wasn't right. The only interesting part was the story of noodling for giant catfish.
Then after 47 minutes into the film we finally get to the action....I thought this is where the film gets good! Ha, the most boring action scenes I've seen, sure the fireballs were big, but true action comes from narrative, not CG...and thanks to the director's ADD style of video game editing, we don't have time to care about the workers on the oil platform.
Then ugh, the director does the same thing in Patriots Day, he ends his film with clips of the real people telling their heart warming stories, talk about manipulating the audience, oh and it's more filler material.
What a crappy, crappy style of film making.
Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan & Matthew Sand (screenplay)
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, John Malkovich
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
'A dramatization of the disaster back in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon created a giant explosion, which created the worst oil spill in American history.'
Remind me to never watch another Peter Berg directed movie!
Damned if this wasn't the exact same structure as Patriots Day: I laughed when once again I seen Mark Wahlberg waking up with the wife in the 'quiet family life before the big event' opening scene. Same happy-dappy family stuff with mindless fluff talk. Filler material.
Then when we finally get to the big oil rig there's more filler...with on the job, derp dialogue, that was spoken so fast and with such fast edits and crappy hand held camera work that I got nothing out of it, other than the oil well wasn't right. The only interesting part was the story of noodling for giant catfish.
Then after 47 minutes into the film we finally get to the action....I thought this is where the film gets good! Ha, the most boring action scenes I've seen, sure the fireballs were big, but true action comes from narrative, not CG...and thanks to the director's ADD style of video game editing, we don't have time to care about the workers on the oil platform.
Then ugh, the director does the same thing in Patriots Day, he ends his film with clips of the real people telling their heart warming stories, talk about manipulating the audience, oh and it's more filler material.
What a crappy, crappy style of film making.