The Impossible

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Naomi Watts and Ewan MacGregor arrive in Thailand just in time for the 2006 Tsunami to hit their hotel.

It started off like Jaws, that sense of terror that some was lurking just out of frame and there was nothing you could do to stop it. The scenes of the devastation caused by the Tsunami were almost too hard to watch. Watts gets the crap beaten out of her as she is tossed about the foaming waters. Once the waters recede, it is a story about the family reconnecting after being separated. I guess that is part of the Impossible refers.

The best part of the DVD was the making of featurette. because the destruction was so vivid and real I wanted to see how it was done. It was a great mix of miniatures and CGI. Really well done.

To Recap, great destruction and tension building early on. It slows down later on as the family struggles to reconnect. The one thing that got my socialist heart in an uproar is at the end when the family is lifted out of the chaos in a private jet while the scenes of the thousands still left abandoned can be seen through the jet window.

[cranefly]

I've been reflecting on your final comment, and yes, that does seem surprisingly callous.

***SERMON ALERT! SERMON ALERT! SERMON ALERT!
Even more troubling is the possibility that those making this movie (screenwriter, director, producer, etc.) didn't recognize this as a sour note.

For them, it was just a matter of getting those "thousands abandoned" properly framed through the plane window.

I'm not quite ready to shout, "The end is near!" But still, one has to wonder about the future of our society.

***SERMON ALERT OFF***

[Drunk Monk]

I never saw it but there was a lot of complaints that the film doesn't feature any lead Thai actors.

[cranefly]

So I picked this up at the library today because I seemed to recall someone really hyping a tsunami movie.

But after I got home, I began to recall Greg mentioning a tsunami movie that had some problems.

Son of a gun. This is it. Not that Greg said it was bad, only that it was squirmingly US-centric for a movie about a Thai disaster. Now I'm thinking of returning it to the library unwatched and asking for my money back.

So. Was there a really good tsunami movie that someone on here recommended? Or am I just imagining it?

[Drunk Monk]

...but when I think tsunami flicks, I think Last Wave. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave">http://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave</a><!-- m -->