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An insult to the viewers intelligence.

posted 8 years ago by ChronicCinephilia
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This movie treats the viewer like an idiot and feeds them like a little baby all along the way. The child who is doing a project is only meant to inform us, the audience, on what these oil rigs do. The awkwardness over the tie was only to inform us, the audience, about the colour and severity of warning lights. The list goes on, and on.

The biggest problem I have with this movie is the flag waving and refusal to lay blame at the Americans for their mistakes. BP is painted as the source of all evil when in fact they simply hired Deepwater Horizon to do a job. It was the Deepwater Horizon and the American's on board who failed to perform proper safety cheques and blew up the rig. This movie also criticises BP for trying to make money but that's the reason all those guys are on those rigs doing these dangerous jobs. Everyone on an oil rig is there to make money. Americans need to take responsibility every once in a while and stop blaming others for their mistakes.

I would also add tha the acting was poor. I normall like Mark Walberg but he doesn't so much as act as he does just play himself in every role he takes on. All in all, a very forgettable movie.

[–] starwolf 8 years ago

he biggest problem I have with this movie is the flag waving and refusal to lay blame at the Americans for their mistakes. BP is painted as the source of all evil when in fact they simply hired Deepwater Horizon to do a job.

BP was in charge of all the engineering decisions on the rig, hence their culpability. Their idiot chairman at the time, Tony Hayward, made things much worse with his stupid comments.

The Deepwater Horizon was a drilling rig. BP hired Transocean who owned the Deepwater Horizon.

[–] ChronicCinephilia 8 years ago

The Deepwater Horizon was paid to drill a hole and they screwed it up. The buck stops with them.

[–] starwolf 8 years ago

The Deepwater Horizon was paid to drill a hole and they screwed it up. The buck stops with them.

No.

Nevermind that the rig itself wasn't paid anything (Transocean was paid) Transocean supplied the drilling rig and some manpower. All the decisions - where and how to drill - were made by BP.

The tool pushers don't do a thing without guidance and oversight from the operating partner.

The ultimate responsibility is still BP's. The buck stops with them.

[–] ChronicCinephilia 8 years ago

Are you trying to tell me these mean on the Deepwater Horizon were working for free? These people were paid employees. As paid employees they were told to carry out a task safely and to the best of their ability. The crew of the Deep Horizon botched it. BP is an oil company who simply said they wanted a hole drilled. BP can't possible be held accountable for the incompetence on board the Deepwater Horizon.

[–] starwolf 8 years ago

Imagine you have a driver who is an independent trucker who owns his own rig driving under contract for, say, Sisco. But there is a Sisco employee in the cab with him telling what speed to drive, when to change lanes, when to put on his turn signals, what route to take, when to brake and when to accelerate.

When that truck hits and kills your mother who are you going to hold at fault?

I don't know how many different ways I can say the BP engineers on board were responsible for the entire operation. The tool pushers were just the hands. The brains and the eyes were the BP engineers.

BP has sued Halliburton and Transocean, Transocean has sued BP and Halliburton, and Halliburton is suing BP and Transocean. However, there is no evidence at all of gross negligence on Transocean's part. BP might have a case for damages against Halliburton, I don't know.

But BP held the right to drill there from the US MMS, they held the lease, and ultimately it's their responsibility to ensure the job is done right. They were rightly held accountable by the government and the general public.

The operating partner always bears the responsibility to make sure the job is done properly and safely.

[–] kumarihpx 8 years ago

Agree. American men, like the one who started the pumping without direct supervision, are easily goaded into stupid acts upon being called names like chicken, wus, wimp, girl, sissy, and pussy. They are astonishingly sensitive when their manhood's challenged. American men are wholly to blame for this tragedy.

Someone's at the door

[–] Siamois 8 years ago

I normall like Mark Walberg

Then your opinion is not worth much, is it ?

[–] ozjosh03 8 years ago

I couldn't agree more. The scene with the kid outlining her school project about dad's work gets my vote for the clumsiest piece of exposition in any film from the past decade. And it just gets worse from there. Shockingly bad writing.

[–] ezb8941 8 years ago

Dude, what are you complaining about? You clearly have no 'intelligence' for this film to insult. Your pathetic attempts to indict all "Americans" for what everyone has agreed was the fault of a British company are equal parts shallowness and ignorance. And to think that you are probably of adult age...I shudder at the prospect.

And I don't know if that's you in your user photo, but whoever it is they look like a mouth-breathing CHUD; so I have to imagine it's you.