In the Heart of the Sea discussion

Not gonna watch it.

1. The book is thoroughly horrifying and depressing. Don't get me wrong, it's a *great* book, But,

2. Holeywood wouldn't *dare* make a movie of what really happened, and I don't want to see their carefully censored (And probably somehow biased) version.

3. If by some total accident they *did* make a movie of what really happened, I don't want to see it - I'm already horrified and depressed enough by the book.

Hollywood will never portray the grinding struggle of those people's lives, and the loneliness of the abandoned and often widowed women - as well portrayed by the book's author - any more than they'll portray the horror of what happened to the survivors of the Essex. Their gentrified modern audiences would run screaming.

But if you want a sanitized, prettified version of what your ancestors' lives were like, hey, go for it...

I can't wait for the movie...the previews look awesome. It won't be as good as the fabulous book but definitely worth seeing for the whale images alone.

the movie release has been delayed till xmas 2015. I have not read anything concerning what's in the script or what the focus of the film will be but there are certain events you can't leave out of this film, such as the drawing of the lots and the survival cannibalism. I doubt Ron Howard is going to be blatant and horror movie explicit about it, but it has to be in the film to be any kind of accurate accounting. As for post Essex lives, don't count on it, that's asking far too much.

After both reading the book and seeing the movie I prefer the book over the movie, the movie twisted the history of this epic tale of man vs nature and man doing what they considered forbidden to do to survive.

The movie could not do the story justice, and the concoction of the whale following the lifeboats so we could have our 'Greenpeace' moment on screen was ludicrous as well as grossly propagandist.

Just tell the story the way it happened! Filmmakers never tire of inventing moments in non fictional stories to spice things up or to realize their 'vision.' Blech, I say. Blech!

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