Anyone saw this movie? Is it good? The trailer on youtube looks good to me, but the number of views is really not high.
Hunger Gams 2: Catching Fire’s trailer has over 1 million views after posting on youtube for less than 24 hours…
Sometimes I think my movie taste is a bit different from the general public… 
Is Captain Phillips kinda like Wilson Phillips?
“Hold On” was a killer song!
It was pretty good I thought.
Haven’t seen it, but saw the leader of the SEAL team speak a couple of weeks ago, so will try to catch it.
Sounds kind of boring. Read No Easy Day, they give a brief synopsis.
I heard there is a Britney Spears dance scene.
Really? Never heard of ‘Hold On’. Gonna try it out.
‘Captain Phillips’ is a movie based on a true strong. Captain Phillips refers to Captain Richard Phillips, a merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009.
I will not be seeing this movie. The crew has said that the captain was wreckless and went into dangerous waters to save time even after they suggested taking a longer safer route. Once captured they said he was not as heroic as the film makes him out to be. I am not going to support a film that idolizes an arrogant captain to the danger and negative portrayal of the crew.
I made the decision to watch Gravity a second time (IMAX 3d) instead of Captain Phillips. I think it was the right call. If you don’t want to see Tom Hanks on a big boat dealing with pirates, you could catch All is Lost, which is basically Robert Redford on a small boat for an hour and 45 minutes dealing with nature. Ender’s Game comes out this weekend, and I’ll probably catch that.
Yeah I saw a documentation on Youtube regarding this debate. There are actually arguments on both sides. I think Capitain Phillips’s argument was that being away from the dangerous waters (forgot about the exact distance) wouldn’t keep the ship much safer; and meanwhile he wanted to be efficient by taking the shortest distance and the least amount of time.
Kinda like Titanic. The capitain ignored the iceberg warnings and chose to let me ship go as fast as possible…and…accident happened…
I cannot stand Hanks.
He could have just played Britney Spears. That will get them Somali pirates off your back!
I watched an interview with him on CNN and he was clearly looking to cover his ass the way he responded to questions. He knows he made the wrong decision for the wrong reason and doesn’t want his 15 minutes of fame to be tarnished. That being said, no way in the world does he have the clout to get a percentage of the box office, so he’s been paid his 30 pieces of silver regardless of how much the movie makes. It looks like an entertaining film, so I’ll catch it on HBO in 6 months.
The reason of why I don’t watch Gravity is that…I went to Wikipedia and read the whole plot. Therefore I know exactly what would happen in the movie. MOHAHA!
^That’s like saying what’s the point of seeing Titanic when we know the ship is going to get destroyed (or any adaptation of a book you’ve read, e.g. Ender’s Game). For that matter, why see any movie twice? I knew what was going to happen in every scene of Gravity the second time I caught it and it still blew my mind.
In Titanic II: Inception the ship actually doesn’t sink because Leo is really inside a deep dream level. The rest of the movie is the same though, but the twist really throws you!
I made the mistake of seeing Gravity with a physics PhD guy. He was all “that cannot happen because blah blah blaa…”. I was like shut uuuuupp…
^Neil de Grass Tyson basically trolled on twitter for the same reason. I still get angry thinking about it (he also told James Cameron that the stars in Titanic aren’t right, it’s fiction, assholes). But to troll while the movie is taking place…well, at least he wasn’t also using an iphone.
And you don’t know what happens in Captain Phillips?
Captain Phillips is abandoned on a deserted island, where he develops the skills to survive for four years. He is overwhelmed by loneliness and hallucinates that a volleyball is his friend. Eventually, he escapes the island by making rope from his back hair to harness sea turtles as rafts.