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All is Lost 2013
By: Oscar Molotov Date: September 1, 2016, 10:35 pm
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"During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner
(Robert Redford) awakes to find his vessel taking on water after
a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and
navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a
violent storm."
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgakOh8og4U
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Oscar Molotov Date: September 1, 2016, 10:36 pm
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This on YT if the other link doesn't work out.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsP_hCMJLoI
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Thelma Florida Date: September 2, 2016, 1:02 am
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Ooh, this looks like a winner. I might watch this one before
the other two.
I hope he prepared a few dozen baggies of trail mix for this
trip.
If this doesn't take away the desire for a crossing, I don't
know what will.
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Oscar Molotov Date: September 2, 2016, 1:57 pm
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It's an easy slow paced film to watch. Few things I didn't like
about it but over all good film.
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Thelma Florida Date: September 2, 2016, 10:41 pm
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I came by to get the link. I shall report back on it after I
watch it. I hope I don't fall asleep. It looks engaging but
you did use the words "slow paced" so we shall see.
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Thelma Florida Date: September 4, 2016, 3:14 pm
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Good afternoon H
I watched this movie last night and overall, I did like it. I
think mostly because I could see all the series of unfortunate
events happening to me.
I read some of the reviews by both "professionals" and regular
people. Many of the pros have a blinded love affair with RR and
praised his acting skills. I went in with the same idea because
I admire his body of work. But there were some things I agree
with some of the regular reviews. For example, wouldn't you
show expressions of annoyance or mutter a dammit here or there?
Perhaps I, and the others who wrote this, are using ourselves as
a measuring stick though.
If there's one this I have learned in my older years is that you
cannot use yourself as a measuring stick. We all react
differently to the same situation. So where I would have
grimaced or uttered a few curse words, I suppose a stoic person
would not. - Cont'd
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Thelma Florida Date: September 4, 2016, 3:15 pm
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2 - The ending was surely left to interpretation and the
feel-good part of me wants to believe that he was, indeed,
rescued. But the realist part of me cannot deny that he had
been submerged for quite some time and was falling deeper and
deeper. I like the interpretation that it was the hand of God
reaching out to him, similar to Michelangelo's painting of God
reaching out to Adam, even if it was a part of a final
hallucination.
I cannot comment on all the mistakes he made as a sailor because
we don't know why he was in the middle of the Indian Ocean on a
sailboat. We don't even know his level of expertise. Just
because he had a fancy sailboat doesn't mean that he was a
seasoned sailor. Was he there to end his life or was he there
to experience the ultimate adventure?
Anyway, the film makes one realize how being ill-prepared and
inexperienced can cost one one's life. He did have a lot of
nautical gadgets but according to the couch sailors, he was
sorrowfully inept.
So thank you for sharing another good movie that I never would
have found on my own.
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Oscar Molotov Date: September 9, 2016, 12:17 am
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Hiya Thelma,
Glad you got a chance to watch it all. I agree fully with you
his acting skills have always being highly regarded and rightly
so he can act so I don't see the need to be praising that via it
wasn't his first film. He should know how to act out a part by
now.
I fully agree on the sentiment that an "ouch" would of been
something at least said. It was all his thoughts which gave the
impression that he kicked it and someone was reading his
thoughts in log book that was discovered washed up on a beach.
And in fact if they had his wife or one of his kids reading it
the film would of been much better I think.
In the beginning he mentions (which are actually thoughts) an
argument with I believe his wife, someone in his family for
sure. The young child's shoe washing into his cabin gave me the
impression his family was on board. He mentions a few suicidal
thoughts which makes me think he was on a mission to end it all
but his struggle to survive made him realize that ending it all
isn't that all that easy.
He knew how to use a Sextant. And he knew how to deploy a Sea
Anchor and none of those are easily done by a novice sailor. I
didn't find his skills to be all that questionable the equipment
he had I did find questionable. I would say just about every
sailor that does a single handed ocean passage will take at
least a EPIRS as standard equipment. It's technically a distress
beacon and I think the Europeans call it an EPIRB. But then that
is the writing not the sailing. On the other hand if he was
suicidal why would he bother with a rescue beacon...lol.
And the sailing errors was really the production not the sailor.
A sailboat would not of gotten stuck to the shipping container.
A boat that is taking on water would have anyone on it packing
the life raft with as many supplies as possible long before it
sinks. In fact I would of readied the life raft and a secondary
floating device. However the storm could take a psychological
toll.
Those armchair sailor Ritalin junkies can't help themselves
think its a documentary about Robert Redford's sailing adventure
telling them that it is actually a fictional story will most
probably cause the same foul mouthed incoherent Tourette
Syndrome engineered reply just like when anyone informs that
Gandolf and little Hobbit do not actually exist.
Anyways the errors were writing and production errors the writer
probably did go sailing but not on a boat that hit a container
and began taking on water.
No need to thank me. I was pretty sure you seen it when I posted
it up on FB...lol.
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Thelma Florida Date: September 11, 2016, 3:50 pm
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Very well thought-out analysis of this movie and the events
depicted in it, H. I must admit that I did not see the child's
shoe but then again, details have never been my forte.
I completely agree that having a voice-over of a family member
reading the message in a bottle would have added some depth to
the movie. Perhaps there wouldn't have been so many unanswered
questions at the end.
But then again, perhaps the writer intended to leave us with
unanswered questions like happens much too often in the real
world.
I don't know when you posted it in the movie group but I stopped
going to it after Carol barred me from the music group. But
since I never actually unjoined, I accidentally clicked on it a
couple of times. Doh!
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Re: All is Lost 2013
By: Oscar Molotov Date: September 14, 2016, 2:58 am
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Yeah I didn't think he made any sailing mistakes. The writing
could of been better plus actual dialog instead mental mumbling.
The shoe appears almost right away.
I posted in her group as well as my page. The thing is I had no
idea you left until Shaf asked me if I caused a problem that
made you leave. I just thought you say it on my page and
probably watched it there. I began posting films in her group as
well as my page cause I knew you weren't in that group and a
number of other friends also weren't in that group.
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