Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: The Finest Hours 2D Version (2016)

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Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 02-08-2016, 01:21 PM:

AMC Rockaway Townsquare Mall, Rockaway NJ
Auditorium 9

PICTURE: Noticeably not bright enough, they did not remove the polarizer from in front of the lens. Other than that, it looked good.

SOUND: Not ATMOS, but it sounded very good.

STORY: Based upon the true story of an oil tanker that broke in half during a winter storm off Chatham MA in 1952. The film follows the efforts of the surviving crew to keep the rear section of the ship afloat long enough to be rescued, and the heroic effort that a single tiny coast guard ship and crew made to find them and bring them back to safety.

From the advertising, I was expecting Perfect Storm 2, but this is a very different story, and a very entertaining film.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-29-2016, 03:46 PM:

I liked the movie but it was kind of hard to understand some of the dialog, what with all the wind and rain effects. Maybe that was intentional. The sound mix was good otherwise though.

Some of the boat-related scenes were beyond ridiculous. You CANNOT drive a small boat right into the front of a huge wave, going completely underwater, and then just pop out the back side. This is shown at least twice in the movie. You also can't drive your boat up a similar wave vertically and then have it magically plop back into the water going forward. If it goes that vertical, it is probably tipping over backward. Further proof that just because you CAN do things with CGI doesn't mean you should.

I don't really know why they made this in 3-D. Any movie that takes place primarily at night should never be 3-D. The audience for this type of movie really has almost zero interest in 3-D anyway. I got the feeling this was greenlighted when 3-D was still a huge thing and they just stuck with it, or else maybe the director wanted it. Regardless, we showed it in 2-D only and as yet we haven't had one person asking about 3-D.

Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 02-29-2016, 07:39 PM:

I was bewildered when I found out it was 3D. I didn't even know it was until a customer asked for it while buying tickets. I almost turned them away, because it was on the second page and I just didn't think it was. My first thought was "Why the fuck is that movie 3D???"