Captain Harris

[dmh165638]

Anyone check it out over the weekend? Saw it in Plano Saturday and it was much better than expected. Great story and I would suspect Tom Hanks might get an Oscar nod for it.

[DeddRekoning]

who da fuck Captain Harris? lol

[71chevellejohn]

Is that the syfy version of captain philips?

[Vertnut]

Is that the syfy version of captain philips?

His crew from that ship have already debunked the entire movie, lol. They said it was nothing even close to what happened. He's an arrogant prick who ignored all the pirate alerts, then left them on their own when they got attacked. Pretty funny stuff, but typical Tom Hanks bullshit.

[dmh165638]

Well shit, that is what I get for posting an hour after taking an Ambien. I read quite a few stories about the highjacking and knew that Captain was the main reason the ship got highjacked in the first place. Didn't really expect Hollywood to stick to the real story as is the case with any other "based on a true story" movie. Still a great flick.

[Binky]

The funny story was the "No, take me!" part that "made" hima hero was actually just a botched prisoner exchange.

If the movie focused more on Seal Team Six and how they saved an imbecile captain and honored the crew that saved their own skins...that would have been a movie.

But now that its comeing out that they made the crew sign an NDA to never talk about the events of that day just proves that hollywood is trying to rewrite history.

Unfortuantely, they are likely to succeed. People think that Rose and Jack really were on the Titanic.

[Chili]

The funny story was the "No, take me!" part that "made" hima hero was actually just a botched prisoner exchange.

If the movie focused more on Seal Team Six and how they saved an imbecile captain and honored the crew that saved their own skins...that would have been a movie.

But now that its comeing out that they made the crew sign an NDA to never talk about the events of that day just proves that hollywood is trying to rewrite history.

Unfortuantely, they are likely to succeed. People think that Rose and Jack really were on the Titanic.

Of course they would "fictionalize" it to make it more entertaining and to give the audience a good "hero". That has what Hollywood has always done, short of some documentaries. I would expect no less.

Was it a complete NDA saying they couldn't talk about it at all? If so, reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer sold his stories to Elaine's boss. lol. They did get paid for it though, so they probably should have read the NDA and script a little better if that is the case if they're now second guessing their decision.

Here, found a story on it:

http://news.moviefone.com/2013/10/14/real-life-crew-members-captain-phillips-is-a-lie/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl9%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D391400

Real-Life Crew Members Say 'Captain Phillips' Is a Big Lie



Over the weekend, "Captain Phillips," a true-life adventure based on the hijacking of a freighter off the coast of Somalia, won rave reviews and a respectable box office. The film was buoyed largely by the praise of Tom Hanks' performance as the titular captain, who in the film is a bastion of heroic stoicism. But not so, say some of the crew members who actually worked with Captain Phillips.

"Phillips wasn't the big leader like he is in the movie," one crew member told the New York Post anonymously. According to him, Phillips had a horrible reputation for being "sullen and self-righteous," adding that, "No one wants to sail with him." After the hijacking, 11 crew members sued the freighter company; Phillips was a witness for the defense.

The crew member also points to what he considers to be recklessness on the part of Phillips, who was warned of increased piracy in the area and told to stay at least 600 miles off Somalia's coast (at the time of the hijacking, the boat was 240 miles of the coast). According to this anonymous source, there was not one but two pirate attacks on the ship over an 18 -hour period; only one was depicted in the movie. The first happened during a routine fire drill (in the film it's a security drill). "We said, 'You want us to knock it off and go to our pirate stations?' " the crew member recalled to the Post. "And he goes, 'Oh, no, no, no -- you've got to do the lifeboats drill.' This is how screwed up he is. These are drills we need to do once a year. Two boats with pirates and he doesn't give a s- -t. That's the kind of guy he is."

Sony paid most of the men, although some as little as $5,000, and forced them to sign nondisclosure agreements so that they couldn't speak out against the actual events once the movie had opened.

"They told us they would change some stuff," the anonymous crew member told the post, laughing. He had already seen the movie. "It's a good movie... Real entertaining."

[Ted]

I thought Captain Ron was both riveting, and captivating.

[talisman]

I wish Hollywood would stop all this "Based on a True Story" bullshit when 99.9% of the movie is made up. It's getting worse than the "Go Green!" nonsense of the last 8 years. It's starting to turn me away from movies that might actually be decent in their own right. That one about the Black guy in the White House for a few Presidential Generations was another perfect example of a butchered bullshit story that everyone was singing the praises of. It disgusts me.

[Chili]

I wish Hollywood would stop all this "Based on a True Story" bullshit when 99.9% of the movie is made up. It's getting worse than the "Go Green!" nonsense of the last 8 years. It's starting to turn me away from movies that might actually be decent in their own right. That one about the Black guy in the White House for a few Presidential Generations was another perfect example of a butchered bullshit story that everyone was singing the praises of. It disgusts me.

Unfortunately I only see BOTH of those issues getting worse.

My company is big on the green stuff, which is to be expected I guess, since corporate is based in Canada. Fortunately their policies about that have not yet rolled down to us in my office.

When I was up in their office in Toronto, they provide coffee and water, but do not provide cups. You have to bring your own mugs / water containers. They would shit if they saw how many Styrofoam cups we go through here. lol

[UserX]

I wanted to dismiss this movie entirely at the beginning. You mean with everyone on that ship, with all that cargo, in pirate waters, no one had a flippin' gun?

But once the military got involved it was pretty damn good.

[UserX]

Oh, and will a mod please fix this thread title?

[Country cracker]

Wonder when Hollywood is going to make a movie about Hitler and twist things around so that he is the hero. Unless Charlie Sheen was right about all the people in Hollywood being Jewish.

[kanetrain]

This was not a good movie and I'm a huge Tom Hanks fan. I even loved that stupid one where he lived in the airport forever. This one was just lame. Try to twist it around all you want about what it was supposed to be about, but the movie itself sucked.

[lowthreeohz]

watched it last night, and knowing that it was BS going into it, i still enjoyed the screenplay and acting.

i'll tell you one thing, it beats the fuck out of "gravity". what a horrible production!