This film reminded Sean of why he loves films.

Lasse Vogt from 'Fans About Films' is back!

My Guest: Lasse Vogt- https://podcasts.apple.com/ye/podcast/fans-about-films-podcast/id1374618646

Discussion Points:

-The Review It Yourself audience are clearly loving Lasse's episodes.

-Lasse has pulled it out of the bag for this

-This film reminded Sean of his love for films.

-Sean hopes this film will be retroactively looked upon as the masterful piece of cinema that it is.

-CGI is an understandable choice sometimes.

-Sean and Lasse mix up the young actors who played Voldemort.

-Sean brings yet more British soap trivia-this time from EastEnders.

-The conversation takes on a much more serious tone to discuss the nature of survival at sea, and the lack of food.

-The similarities and differences between this film and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).

-Sean was reminded of how good films can be.

-Lasse and Sean decompress from the serious tone of the film with some whale puns.

Raised Questions:

-Do you remember this film coming out?

-Did Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) overshadow this film?

-Why did this film get mediocre reviews?

-Was this film advertised wrongly?

-Has Sean got a Ron Howard thing going on?

-Was this film Hemsworth and Holland showing their acting range?

-Why did James Cameron give us an analogy of whale-hunting in Avatar: The Way of Water?

-Why did many of the real-life crew who survived become recluses?

-Did this film just fail to find it's audience?

-What is it that Lasse feels is missing or lacking that special something that makes this special?

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