We’ll never see Chandor’s version of this movie, of course. Although he’s also said enough about his intentions in previous interviews to suggest that it would have been a forensic look at the disaster, its
In “The Burning Sea,” which is your basic, everyday Norwegian oil-rig disaster thriller, Stian (Henrik Bjelland), a rig worker stationed on a drilling platform that’s about to collapse, must descend into the bowels of the rig to shut down a well that can’t be reached remotely. As...
This 2016 Mark Wahlberg movie dramatizes the oil-rig disaster that killed 11, and caused what Smithsonian said is "recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history." Despite the high stakes, the film underperformed at the box office, though it did go on to earn two Oscar nominations. ...
“The Burning Sea” starts and finishes with a preachy but studiously inoffensive bookend sequence featuring chilly oil rig rep William Lie (Bjørn Floberg), who tells viewers—on-camera, as if he were the subject of a talking head documentary—about Norway’s complicated history with offshore...
The 2010 BP spill was the worst oil disaster in history. The Deepwater Horizon rig blew up, sending 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days, killing 11 men and innumerable numbers of animals. We all know what happened. We watched it on television. However,...
that the crew be as motley as possible. In common with disaster films, there’s a large number of characters, but in this film, it’s possible to get them muddled up. For example, I couldn’t distinguish between two of the three marines, and when some of the oil workers disappeared,...
There’s the scene on the oil rig, which has its own bit of action, when we learn about Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) and his crew, and A.J. (Affleck) and his relationship with Grace (Liv Tyler), Harry’s daughter. There is a one or two minute scene where Stamper gathers his ...
70 Deepwater Horizon Action,Drama,Thriller A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster, when the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Peter Berg Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont 2016 107 7.2 89849 61.28...
If Yellowstone were to erupt, the sun’s rays could not penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere for many years. However, the sky is crystal clear two decades after the disaster. An ark of enormous size moving at breakneck speed makes a complete stop in a few seconds. And this happens despite ...
This one performance makes this entire railway disaster of a movie absolutely worth every minute of every hour I spent repeatedly watching it to write this review—and that is a mighty bold statement, people because outside of the three-and-a-half minutes Hy Pyke is on-screen this movie ...