One of the things Linda Greenlaw, portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, said about the movie, “My one gripe about [the] movie was how Warner Brothers depicted Billy Tyne and his crew as making a very conscious decision to steam into a storm that they knew was dangerous," said Greenlaw. "That is not what happened. Andrea Gail was three days into their steam home when the storm hit. Whatever happened to Andrea Gail happened very quickly."
I had a friend who did a season on the ship that she was captaining in this movie... it was a few years after, and the book had been published. He was saying how she gave him a copy as "it would be interesting", and he read it while out there. He said at the time, it had been shifted into a lobster boat. But, he'd read some of "A Perfect Storm" when he had time in his bunk... but these guys moved between boats, and in the wood over his head, some of the guys lost had etched or written their names, which made the book too real for him... not sure he ever saw the movie.
About a week later, the Andrea Gail's emergency beaconing device was found washed up on Sable Island a hundred or so miles off Nova Scotia by the Canadian Coast Guard. The ship herself has never been found; perhaps one day, but the search area is so large and she presents such a small target.
On a “somewhat” funny note when I was younger I was fishing and got a hook through my hand! 😩😂. Though wasn’t nearly that big or serious. I did have to go to the ER but was fine…. BTW if you research this storm it did what very few storms do. It strengthened and kinda went the opposite direction they usually go. It strengthened VERY quickly. Sad story but I do like the movie! Thanks Christina! 🎣😉
If I remember correctly, Sebastian Junger, who wrote the book, did some very serious research so that he could accurately represent the fishing community and refused to sell the rights for a movie until he was assured that the ending would not be Hollywood-ized by having them be rescued. The man overboard, shark attack, rogue wave, lost antenna etc., were all mishaps that happen on fishing boats so he suggested some of them in the story. Wolfgang Peters was also very conscious of the community, as was the cast. Wahlberg stayed for a time in a room above the Shatford bar (and worked the door checking IDs) in order to get to know the family, for example. The actor who played the boat owner resembled the real guy so much that a local kept hounding him to get a debt paid! Well done on the reaction, this isn’t a movie that gets much love from reactors so it was nice to see. Peace from Ohio …
Just wanted to give credit to the guys who helped rescue that yacht. They were Air Force pararescue jumpers operating out of New York's national guard unit. Para rescue jumpers are part of the Air Force's special operations command and routinely work with SEALs and other special operations units. They are considered the elite of the elite when it comes to rescues in and out of combat zones. In fact they are the only special operations unit that does domestic rescues because of their capabilities. They were working with the Coast guard but they weren't Coast guard swimmers.
The National Guard para-rescue jumpers were not present for the rescue of the sailboat - the movie is taking two different heli crews and storm rescue stories and combining them into one to save runtime.
For me this film is worth watching for the last 10 minutes alone. I also loved The Abyss, a great movie and Mary-Elizabeth Mastrantonio was excellent in that film, I just love her intensity and depth of emotion. That scene where Mark Wahlberg is in those massive seas knowing that he will die and he thinks in his mind: "there is only love Christina", calling out to his love in his mind is just amazing and it was meant literally. It is one of those things that are said that seem small but are great, another is when Yoda tells Luke as he is about to enter the tree with the dark side in it: Luke: what's in there?, Yoda: only what you take with you.
The best part of the whole movie is the end when it shows them in eye of the storm. First time seeing it I was like oh shit rewind it again they're in the eye they do know they're gonna die right? My mom was like how do you know? because in the eye of the storm there's bigger waves they can't get out even if they get passed the first one there's bigger ones coming.
I have the bluray of the film. There are two audio commentaries on it. The first is from the director, Wolfgang Peterson. The second is from the author of the book, Sebastian Junger. I also have the book. In the Junger audio commentary, he states not all of the things depicted in this film happened on the real Andrea Gail, but the incidents are from real life accidents on real life swordboats and the crews. In reality, when the memorial service happened, Linda Greenlaw (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) was still out at sea on the Hannah Boden. She said the storm was bad, really bad. The pleasure boat, Mistral, was not the real name of the boat. Ironically, the man played by Bob Gunton, was a former Navy man. Before the coast guard took them off, the man sealed up the boat. It was found later, beached and still in perfect shape. Those coast guard boats are made like warships. They can and do survive impossible weather conditions. Same with the helicopters. The problem here is the team got the call about the Andrea Gail and were running low on fuel, that was the reason for the ditching. They couldn't align with the refueling hose due to the storm. The refueling had to be aborted. Some of the box carriers that were out there during the storm noted 90 foot waves. There is no way of knowing what those guys faced out there that day. There was only alight debris found of the Gail. Some found on Sable Island and some at sea. The coast guardsman, Rick Smith, was never found. The film emphasizes the utter courage these men and women face when they go out to affect a rescue. This storm was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.
One of the things Linda Greenlaw, portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, said about the movie, My one gripe about [the] movie was how Warner Brothers depicted Billy Tyne and his crew as making a very conscious decision to steam into a storm that they knew was dangerous," said Greenlaw. "That is not what happened. Andrea Gail was three days into their steam home when the storm hit. Whatever happened to Andrea Gail happened very quickly."
You know, they've made these kind of movies that shine a light on the seldom seen sacrifice, often the ultimate sacrifice of many occupations.. fishermen, fire fighters, cops, military, miners, divers, pilots and more.. when is someone going to do justice to the long haul truck driver? We get nothing but disrespect and middle fingers from the public, harassed by the cops.. all while missing time with our family, driving through weather no sane person would, delivering and sleeping in the most dangerous areas in cities around the country. We deal with depression, killed or injured in wrecks, robbed or even murdered.. just trying to provide for the family we hardly get to see... all for an unappreciative nation of people who love their food and shopping but never give a thought for the driver who got it there.
Really enjoyed your reaction. When you said you didn't realize there were people who's job it was to make ocean rescues by helicopter it made me think of a great movie you should check out... I can't remember the name of it, but it stars Kevin Costner as the veteran hero air rescue coast guard turned trainer... And Ashton Kutcher as the young hotshot recruit.. check it out. 😎👍❤️
I was 11 when the storm hit. I remember it quite well. Oct 26 1991. I just celebrated my 11 birthday. At the old Bonner Bridge in Cape Hatteras. Where were you when the ship hit the span...i will never forget. To everyone that lived and died through the storm of the century. ❤ the Tamaroa was the coast guard vessel.
The movie is based on the book of the same name, a good read if you enjoy reading. The coast guard did rescue the personal sailboat in the storm that's why it was included. If I remember correctly the women sued the captain later as he behaved very cowardly and recklessly.
It took me awhile to see why the sailboat was included, but it makes sense now. I can see why they sued. Good grief. I will certainly have to check out this book!
the names of the six their location know only to god Frank William "Billy" Tyne Jr. (Captain), aged 37,Gloucester, Massachusetts Michael "Bugsy" Moran, aged 36,Bradenton Beach, Florida Dale R. "Murph" Murphy, aged 30,Bradenton Beach, Florida Alfred Pierre, aged 32, New York City Robert F. "Bobby" Shatford, aged 30,Gloucester, Massachusetts David "Sully" Sullivan, aged 29,New York City
The Abyss is one of my favorites, also. ESPECIALLY the soundtrack. And if you weren't aware, it FINALLY just came out on Blu-ray after years of fans begging James Cameron to put it out (like literally 15 or so years of begging). I had the soundtrack/score on cassette! Now who's dating themselves. 🤣
great reaction. the movie is based on the book The Perfect Storm (duh) and it's about multiple storylines associated with this storm, as we saw, so it's almost more of a biopic in that regard than a completely fictional narrative. but the postulations with the crew were guesses by the author of the book. i've never actually read the book, but now I want to, partly to see what of the depictions here were invented for the movie vs what's in the book
The book invents nothing and sticks totally to the facts. When the author gets to a point where he doesn't know what happened, he draws parallels to similar situations others have survived or witnessed and illustrates (very vividly) what their experiences were.
Good reaction! About movies of this style based on real events, I recommend Society of The Snow, a movie that was very successful in these months that passed on the known platform, based on the famous true story of the plane that falls into a glacier in the snowy mountains of the Andes, at 3500 meters high, they are isolated from all civilization, there is nothing around, only rock and snow and the survivors must survive with what they have at hand which is very little.
The book was amazing, the technical details giving extraordinary and harsh details how one drowns when a boat capsizes(writer Sebastian Junger did an amazing job). The fishing boat was just one story in the perfect storm, the sail boat and coast guard were other stories. after the last transmission the writers had to come up with what may have happened. I think they found a buoy from the Andrea Gail, but that was it. I live on west coast but remember the news from this event as it made national coverage.
IIRC the Andrea Gail has never been found. A lot of the movie has to be as regards to the crew of the Andrea Gail has to be made up since nobody survived.
The movie wasn't "made up" but took stories from other boats and ran with that. The ending of the movie is what happened to a different boat called the Fairwind, which left one survivor.
15:40 "What do they say? Something in the sky at night sailor's delight? Sailors something. Beware. I don't know." Red sky at night: sailors' delight. Red sky by morning: sailors take warning. Jesus said a version of this in Matthew 16:2-3, so it's an oldy! There's a good reason. The sky is red when the rising or setting sun shines through a storm. Storms mostly follow the jetstream from west to east. So if you see a red sky at night, the storm is east of you and moving farther east. If you see a red sky in the morning, the storm is west of you moving east toward you. This works anywhere, not just for sailors. Of course, if you see a red sky in the morning, you might just stay indoors and ignore the storm. Sailors don't have that lusury.
8:40 "Can the two not exist?" (pretty and smart). They obviously exist together because she has them both. He wasn't insulting women. He was giving her two compliments at the same time.
“This is gonna be hard on my little boy” has got to be one of the most soul crushing lines that I’ve ever heard in any movie imo🥺😣😖😨 it gives me chills every freaking time my dude! I even knew what their fates would be going into the movie ffs! I can remember that when I was watching this in the theater all I kept thinking was…for once, I’d rather they didn’t stick to the real story’s ending because HOLY SHIT it’s just such a horrifying and extremely heartbreaking ending… I mean like seriously tho…I cannot, off the top of my head remember ever leaving the theater feeling that damn depressed ffs!
Also, idk whether most people are aware or not but there’s actually a “I shouldn’t be alive” episode about the real life rescue helicopter crew’s whole.ordeal that the movie drew from…it’s an awesome episode and I highly recommend it my dudes 😉👍
Disaster movie, underrated, few at this time know this movie, because it has not been very reacted, and it is very good, are one of those cases of movies that pass without pain or glory, although it has a great cast. and came out a few years after Titanic, in 2000, in fact the composer of the music of The Perfect Storm is James Horner, the same musician of Titanic.
I'm sorry. I usually like your reaction videos. I still liked seeing you react to this. But for the whol esecond half I never knew really what you were reacting to. Between the chaotic movie scenes, and your cuts, and having your imagc cover so much of the movie (I know you have to), the brief glimpses of waves and storm and darkness all came in such sporadic glimpse and cut and cut again and glimpse, and cut, etc., so much that I had no way to know anything that was going on. I could never get my bearings and figure out what I was looking at before the next cut to something else I couldn't figure out. Maybe movies this chaotic aren't meant for reaction videos. Thanks for trying though. I'll be back for the next one!
Yeah, I couldn't get my bearings either! lol I guess editing a movie that made to make you lose your bearings will result in even more of it. I suggest rewatching the entire film before watching a reaction! You just have to be familiar with it I think. Thanks for trying!!
You fell into a trap.Don't mean to be mean, I like your work but you have to understand it's written from a book and it's an interpretation of what may have happened so the author took liberties about what probably went on on the boat.Nobody knows what happened on the boat.Because no one was on the boat except for the victims and they all die get it.That's all i'm trying to say man
Yep -- totally fell for it!!!! (dare I say hook line and sinker) I just wasn't willing to give up on them. Probably made me feel a lot like all of them did in real life!
