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Thread: Adrift (Baltasar Kormákur)

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    Adrift (Baltasar Kormákur)

    ADRIFT

    Director: Baltasar Kormákur

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    This was seriously great. And why is Shailene Woodley not a bigger star yet? She's simply outstanding in this film. Probably the single best performance I've seen this year thus far. Fantastic work all around.

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    Is Baltasar Kormakur just the new Wolfgang Petersen?
    Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)

    The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
    Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
    Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
    M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
    Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
    Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5

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    Quote Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
    Is Baltasar Kormakur just the new Wolfgang Petersen?
    In what manner?

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    I was half-joking, but the sentiment comes from how they both make movies centered around the conflict of man versus nature on a massive scale. Certainly surface-level, but not a knock on either filmmaker in any way.
    Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)

    The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
    Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
    Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
    M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
    Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
    Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5

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    Meanwhile, the list of movies where I've had the theater entirely to myself for is such an odd assortment of films. o.O

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    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    Carol
    Good Time
    Hugo
    Ingrid Goes West
    Jane Got A Gun
    Laggies
    The Lego Ninjago Movie
    Lion
    The Masked Saint
    Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Race
    Risen
    Secret In Their Eyes
    We Are Your Friends

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    How does this compare to All Is Lost?

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    How does this compare to All Is Lost?
    It's a pretty different movie, though there are certainly similarities in some regards, which I was thinking of while watching. Personally, I liked this one better. You get a better feel for the characters here, which makes it easier to get more invested in. I'd say probably the biggest difference between the two though is how they're edited. All is Lost is pretty much a straightforward start to finish affair, IIRC, starting with the boat having crashed, and following just one guy in what's almost more of a silent film. This movie starts similarly, but we follow two characters here instead, and it's told in a non-linear fashion, so we jump between the events prior to the storm leading up to it, and the events after the storm all throughout. So it keeps things consistently interesting, and it's not done just for the sake of telling a story out of order either, as when you get to the end, there's a distinct reason you see why they told the story that way.

    Basically, they're both great movies in their own right, with similar aspects, but pretty different in execution.
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    Got it. I looooooove All Is Lost.

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    How does this compare to Dead Calm?
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    How does this compare to Dead Calm?
    I haven't seen that one.

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