I love documentaries like this and I grew up sailing so I'm really excited for Morning Light. I can't wait to take my dad (old salty sailor) to a movie that he might not grouse about.
I watched the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9TxerbH4Ek) and holy crap that's some tough sailing. Looks like a great story.
what makes me upset, is that it comes out in about 17 days, and i bet you 10 dollars that no one in my school has any clue what it is, but yet when it does come out everyones going to act like they know everything about it. i cant stand it when things like that happen. like i have been anticipating this movie ever since the spring when it was announced. and i've been learning more and more about it but yet theres the rest of the world who does nothing but somehow know a bunch of things about it because of commercials shown a week before it comes out. this same thing happened with night at the museum, except when i went to see it on opening night al lthe tickets were sold out to crappy teenagers, and i had 2 wait until 2 weeks later til i got to see it and by that time everyone except me had seen it.
it sucks to be you on avenue Q
well apparently i lied. it is now the 15th and no one has any clue what it's about nd have never heard what it is. I hope it plays somewhere near my house. The movie looks excellent, and i can't wait.
it sucks to be you on avenue Q
Comes out today! Who plans on seeing it this weekend? If you actually go to the official website, and type in your zip code, you can see the closest theaters that it's playing at.
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/morninglight/
BLOWING some of the fam ily stash on a project of al most surreal vanity, Roy Disney and his uncle's company bring us a docu mentary about his pet sport, sailing across the Pacific. "Morning Light" belongs, if anywhere, on channel 145 of your cable system.
Roy, long known within Disney as "the idiot nephew," sponsored a crew of 15 immensely spoiled collegians to be filmed sailing his 52-foot sloop from California to Hawaii for a "Roy E. Disney Production" that was, moreover, "Conceived and Produced by Roy E. Disney."
Cue the training sequence!
The aristo-brats are required to jump into a swimming pool and tread water for five minutes with their shoes on. Horrible! Still, one of them nearly drowns, proving that he shouldn't be allowed near a body of water larger than a bottle of Poland Spring.
"This has been extremely nerve-wracking for me," says a teen who, while he worries about making the cut, gives every indication that his nerves have never even been given a noogie, much less wracked. "I think the best way to overcome fear is to face it head on," says another youth. Astonishing: only 20 years old, and already a master of cliché.
Since you can't see the other boats in the competition most of the time, every scene looks alike: the waves, the boat bobbing. So all we've got is the personality dynamics, but no one ever argues - even when the gang throws the lone black guy overboard to test their lifesaving skills.
The sailors seem to have had their senses of irony amputated around the time their trust funds kicked in. "Disappointment. Frustration. Loneliness," says a girl (and perhaps amateur poet) who has just thrown away her chances because she broke her arm snowboarding. "It's almost impossible to explain how unhappy I was," says a benched sailor.
On the open seas, one kid says, "I started thinking, I'm already missing the small things - cheese pizza, HBO." Another chimes in, "No family and friends from back home. No Starbucks. No movies. No music. No surfing." Twelve days without HBO - has the UN Human Rights Commission been notified? The scene where food stores run low would be more convincing if it didn't end with the skipper throwing his oatmeal (or whatever it is) overboard because it tastes icky.
I wasn't just rooting against the Morning Light; I prayed for a U-boat ambush or a cannon attack from the broadside of the Black Pearl. Hey, daredevils, want to prove your worth in a non-useless adventure? The military is hiring.
MORNING LIGHT
Boat of fools.
The Gage: That is the NY Post review. You didn't copy my response to that review (the only response), which appears just below it. Here it is, in it's entirety:
proto57 wrote:
Wow, city slicker... a bit hostile here, aren't you? So when was the last time you crawled out of your filthy taxi and sailed a 52 foot boat on the ocean, yourself? My guess is you would be barfing your last Starbucks latte over the side before you left dock. Your class envy... assuming of course, these kids are wealthy and privileged, as you assume... is coloring any ability you might have to actually judge such a work as this. How horrible they are to do such a movie! How evil are those capitalist types, to actually achieve something as empty as make a boat as this, and race it across the oceans! We should get back to making REAL movies, right? The ones which show misery and despair, and how the evil West abuses the people of the world, and steals from everyone (I have to go see your reviews of Blood Diamond and that George Clooney anti-capitalist flick now), so they can play games like this on the high seas. Funny thing is, you would not see the sarcasm of that statement! But let's make you happy... how about a group of inner city kids, racing birch bark canoes down a polluted urban drainage ditch? Would that fulfill your view... or actually, hope, for the world? How dare anyone succeed like this, and worse yet, film it... You poor, socialist jerk. Just hunker down on your Underwood, and peck away, and don't worry about how good it can be, just imagine how awful you insist it all should be...
it's a documentary about 20 somethings sailing across the pacific!
what did you expect?
Most of the kids in the film seemed hard working and highly motivated about their futures. Nothing bratty about that.
shareI have to agree with "premont". As the final credits show, each of these kids went on to, or on their way to, very productive and socially positive careers. No Wall Street sled rides, but serious endeavors.
As far as the criticisms from others about a bunch of rich kids out having a little sailboat ride, I have to strongly disagree. Rich kids can fall overboard in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Pacific, just as easily as anyone else. People have died in offshore racing. It is a very dangerous sport, as anyone who has raced in a TransPac, or any other offshore event can tell you.
These kids did alright. Ample proof of that is the fact that they almost beat John Kilroy's "Samba Pa Ti". That may not mean much to non-racers, but it would be like finishing a stroke behind Tiger Woods after 18 holes. As mentioned briefly in the film, "Samba Pa Ti" had the best of everything; best sails, best equipment, best navigator and most importantly, the best crew money can buy. Check their race record online. They don't go out there to finish in anything lower than first place. Ever. Good job, "Morning Light".
I really was engrossed in this documentary. It's so cool that these kids got that chance to showcase their skills as sailors.
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That NY Post review is silly. Everything the guy said would be true except for one simple fact: The film's tone was fun and the crew was having fun. At no time does anything or anyone in the film pretend that this is serious, make-or-break, life or death stuff. The kids are priviledged, but they certainly never come off as spoiled.
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