| give me a call when it hits 20k, i'm out till then• The EVER GIVEN is one of the biggest container carriers in the world with a capacity of more than 20,000 TEU Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit | Captain Phillips captures the claustrophobia of being in the middle of the ocean, the close quarters of a ship — and later, an even smaller life boat — surrounded by a body of water that can and will kill a person |
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| The movie is a deconstructed thriller that allows people to act like people, with Hanks and newcomer Barkhad Abdi, as the Somali captain, delivering two riveting performances | As the film swells in its final act, the movie relies a bit too heavily on manic editing and a pounding soundtrack, which take away from Greengrass and Hanks' nuance |
Scarcely relying on CG, Greengrass jumps from wide shots of the entire fiasco to nose-touching close ups of the entire ensemble.
| The Royal Family are traditionally greeted by well wishers and members | It's an extraordinary performance by Hanks, his version of Phillips living and breathing in the moment |
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| Stay all the way through Captain Phillips' credits; your heart will need the cool down period | It's not so much a movie you watch as a movie you survive |
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23| He has to be charming, he has to be wry, he has to inflect with absolute precision, and we have to know that one wrong move means a bullet through his skull | One move will lay the entire scene to waste |
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| Scarcely relying on CG, Greengrass jumps from wide shots of the entire fiasco to nose-touching close ups of the entire ensemble | jpg","description":"We got Tees for Spider-Man, Star Wars, Anime and more! He takes his skiff and pushes own towards the freighter |
In a recreation of the 2009 Somali pirate siege of Captain Richard Phillips' ship, the MV Maersk Alabama, Bourne Ultimatum and United 93 director Paul Greengrass keeps one pointed at our foreheads too.