The Perfect Storm





I don't remember it well, but I liked it.

B

Save for one or two scenes, this was one of the more mediocre blockbusters (The scenes being those with the other female captain and the music they play towards the end as the ship goes down - pretty moving).

C+

C+

Kind've lame, but there's some alright scenes.

A personal favorite of mine. I'll always have to fight back tears at the ending. Awesome film! A+

B-


This movie was really overhyped upon its initial release. It has some quite nice visual effects (especially the final wave!), but for the most part it is rather slow. The ending is well done, even though it doesn't really manage to push the right emotional buttons with me.

C - Lame!

Definite contender for most overrated film of all time in my book.

Stinkingly boring.

1 out of 5.

Who overrates it, though? Hehe. I don't think this has a generally excellent response.

This is the kind of film that's more powerful to a certain region but may not be as powerful to everyone else. The fight for survival is universal, but once you throw fisherman into the bunch, you've captavated much of the New England region, especially if it's based on a true story, and especially if it's one everyone knows about in my area of the country.

I don't remember anything about the storm, but I did live through it when it hit my area back in 91'. All I really know is that we were without power for about a week (Tame compared to other weather events). The thing I do know is that the story of the Andrea Gale became infamous in our area, thanks to the news back in 1991, a weatherman named Todd Gross (Who is briefly mentioned in the film and is played by Christopher McDonald) and the book released later on in the 90's. I actually watched filming of the movie back in 1999, the highlight being watching all of the actors play basketball.

The film does a pretty good job of capturing the story. All of the characters are interesting, the special effects are top notch, and the story is heartbreaking. I really only have one problem with the film. Diane Lane. If you are going to do a film that takes place in the Massachusetts region, and you cannot pull of a Boston accent, don't even try. It's true, some of us up here don't have the accent and can pronounce the word car. Diane Lane shouldn't have even tried. Her "impression" is awful and irratating to listen to.

So like I said, even though I think the film is powerful on it's own, it's especially powerful for those of us who live up in the New England area. Even though we didn't know these people personally, we all knew about them. Chances are we knew people like them (My great grandfather was a fisherman) and could relate to the decisions everyone makes. Then there's the storm itself.

A

The book is so good at capturing what commerical fishing, the movie was very meh for me. Since we don;t know what happened, the movie was a theory and it just didn't rope me in, even though I remember the incident from when I was a kid.

Well, there's jmart007 for one, not to mention the $182 million domestic BO, and the substantial buzz at the time of it's release - but, yeah - if you're talking about now, with the clarity of time - not many people overrate this sucker anymore...

The reason why I found the film interesting is because that storm hit my area. If I was from any place in the country, this film probably wouldn't have had much of an impact on me. Yeah, there was a big storm, fisherman died, who cares? But -- well I pretty much explained why I liked the film so much.

There's good storytelling and there's bad storytelling, and there's good moviemaking and there's bad moviemaking.

It's not the true story it's based on, it's the boring old movie they made out of it. The local news can be captivating if they happen to show some drama on your street, but that doesn't necessarily make for the screenplay of the decade.

Fair enough. We'll agree to disagree on this one.

D+

A movie that wasn't sure if it wanted to be a blockbuster or a character study and ended up half way and half assed. Pointless, repetitive scenes on the boat prolonged what could have been a punctual, interesting disaster movie but ended up being a slow, painful, aimless film which almost completely failed apart from in one unforgetable CGI sequence.

Such a boring, depressing flick.

The setup is so boring and overall tone is indeed very depressing. I had a better memory of this movie probably because of the visuals. This time I was waiting for the Storm to come and take away these characters. The visuals to this day are VERY good and that's about the best thing about this movie.