Deepwater Horizon (September 30, 2016)

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by Michael11

$156 million dollar budget.

Tragic.

Surely it won't make that back.

That high?

I mean, Jurassic World was $150 million to make and this gets $156 mil? That can't be right.

[aiman04]

Here's how it spent $156 million:

Deepwater Horizon Featurette - First Look (2016) - Mark Wahlberg Movie - YouTube

[levcore]

Can't wait for this, I think Berg is awesome and Battleship is one of my favourite big budget movies.

[Adam_ME]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Yep - pretty useless looking. Plus being a Hollywood thing they'll assuredly blast the oil industry & shove some "climate change" garbage down our throats.

The entire thing is just so BLEH.

Nah, I don't know Peter Berg's politics, but he seems to make movies that are very respectful toward and appealing to people who lean right-of-center(Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Lone Survivor). Deepwater Horizon doesn't have any political agenda. The closest it gets is when Ethan Suplee's character playfully calls Mark Wahlberg's character a Democrat.

As for the movie itself, I had high hopes, but it just didn't do anything for me. As a disaster flick, it's a dud. It takes nearly half the running time for the sh-t to hit the fan and then the rescue part is honestly not that exciting. It mostly involves just getting off of a burning rig and onto lifeboats. As a drama, the characters are likeable, but not fleshed out enough to the point where I was all that invested.

In a lot of ways, this reminded me of Sully. The body count is higher here. No people died on the Hudson. 11 died in that explosion. But you have a pretty quick resolution to a crisis. You've got Laura Linney and Kate Hudson in thankless roles as concerned wives who are stuck back home. And both movies are technically well made but ultimately not that interesting.

Hopefully Patriots Day, the next Wahlberg-Berg(hey, similar names) collaboration is better. As for Deepwater Horizon, if you want a disaster movie set out at sea that stars Kurt Russell, you're better off watching Poseidon.

[Pieter V]

Studio: Lionsgate
Rating: PG-13
Feature Run Time: 01:47:22
First Frame of End Credits (FFEC): 01:38:19
First Frame of Moving Credits (FFMC): 01:40:14

[Spirit Zero]

Deep Water Horizon - Movie Review - YouTube

Deepwater Horizon - Movie Review - YouTube

[goeagles5039]

This looks good and has gotten good reviews. Looking forward to it.

[imsounoriginal]

Just got an email saying AMC Stubs members earn bonus points by seeing this in IMAX. See three IMAX movies by Dec. 29 and get 4,000 bonus points.

[principehomura]

Originally Posted by aiman04

Here's how it spent $156 million:

Deepwater Horizon Featurette - First Look (2016) - Mark Wahlberg Movie - YouTube

This is magnificent. Plus Peter Berg earned an endless credit with Friday Night Lights. I'm so in.

[MifuneFan]

Very excited for this one.

[Chaotic]

Poor Lionsgate. Their top grossing movie domestically this year is Allegiant ($66M). This will only make half its budget back domestically.

[Scorpion Soldier]

Saw it a few hours back and ended up loving it. It falls a little bit flat in a few little moments, but the intensity and the buildup are really excellent. Wahlberg was great, though I was glad to see a lot of the supporting cast got their time to shine.

I can see some of its faults, but easily 4.5/5 from me. Saw it in IMAX and will definitely try to go for another round before it leaves those screens

[aiman04]

Can't believe I still haven't seen this yet, the mall is attached to my office building. Suddenly so busy at work I don't even have time for lunch. Gonna first see it in the weekend with my wife then.

[tehill]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

I had multiple opportunities to see this via pre-screenings and passes.

I won't even seen this movie for free. It just looks so awful.

Ok

[Ant1010]

Unbelievable movie, Just became my #1 for the year. Wow great job Peter Berg and cast. What an emotional, intense, powerful, thrill ride of a movie.

4.5/5 for me

[JustAnEpicPerson]

Just got home from a late showing of this movie.

Let me start by saying it's been a while since I've been to the movies, but this movie hit some decent factors for me to finally come back to the cinema after an almost two month hiatus. For one, the original trailer, which I saw way back earlier in March behind Batman v Superman made me at least intrigued at this film. Second, my friends were interested in seeing it, and last, the reviews were decent. So, that was enough for me to drive down and pop some money for a ticket.

My review for this is going to be extremely short, because there just wasn't too much to talk about. The best way to talk about both the pros and cons about this is mentioning my largest con, which is that the film simply wasn't memorable. Yes, the acting was good, the movie looked good, and the movie's plot was good, but nothing was great or out of the ordinary. Mark Wahlberg delivers a solid performance but nothing I can see getting an Oscar or any rewards buzz. He did the movie justice, but never went above and beyond. Kurt Russell is also in this but feels fairly underused.

Another point is the visuals. I did have another thing going through my head in this which was the fact the movie's budget was $156m. And it does go to fairly good use. But the thing is, the movie starts feeling like a Michael Bay firework show after the second act kicks in. It feels explosion after explosion without much actual tension or suspense.

So that basically covers most of it already in that short little paragraph. My other con was the tone of the film. The first 30 minutes and change are rather comedic. Which isn't a bad thing at all, it definitely made the movie amusing and had the audience laughing. But what did hurt it was that after these first 30 minutes it dives straight into the action and suspense of the film. Now one could argue this was simply the way the movie was mean't to be, given there wasn't much time for slow and steady tone switch in the actual tragedy, but my point still stands.

Other than those two points, I can't say too much about [I]Deepwater Horizon[i/]. I'll leave you with this. Should you see Deepwater Horizon? Sure. Do you need to see it right away? Not in the slightest. I'd say unless your friends or family are going, you can probably wait until you can rent it to see it.

My Rating: 6/10

[toddly6666]

Just saw the film. Entertaining and great sound design but nothing special.

7.5/10

It would have been a better film had it followed the same format as the superior film Sully: Half disaster/half investigation.

[Jett Rink]

Can the OP put up a poll please?

[y2jman]

i saw it this afternoon and enjoy it

[dommie]

Saw it today. Liked it enough to say that while it was not a memorable film, it was a decent 2 hours at the theater. Film moves along with the standard set up showing us how the off shore drill facility works before it kicks into disaster film mode. Visuals are done well enough and the cast is serviceable.