White Squall | | Cast : | Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall | | Director : | Ridley Scott | | Studio : | Touchstone Video | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | February 02, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | December 09, 2003 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 05, 2005 | | Summary | An outstanding movie about personal accountability. | Content
 | This is one of my favorite movies and one that I think Jeff Bridges should be proud of. I am not sure that everyone can appreciate what it means to go to sea and what it means to young people to be accountable for their actions and for one to take personal responsibility for an outcome regardless whether they are at fault. These are foreign concepts to most folks in this day and age where personal entitlement counts over personal responsibility. This movie preserves that notion without resorting to a feel good ending where everybody wins in the end. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 23, 2004 | | Summary | Beauty and Reality | Content
| Director Ridley Scott is a cinematic artist, painting a very striking, strong, and beautiful visual experience. The locations, from seaside slums to life aboard ship to the storm, are all wonderfully displayed. The compelling visuals enhance the real-life based story. It is a multi-layered tale, part coming of age, part bonding friends, part action drama. No one theme overwhelms the others. As an extra on this film, it was a privilage to meet the real Chuck Geig and Tod Johnstone. Hearing them tell of their actuall experience and then seeing it displayed on the screen lead me to believe that they must be very proud of the results. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 30, 2004 | | Summary | not a bad movie at all | Content
| I personally saw this movie a few years ago. As with
everything some people will like it others will not.
I thought it was pretty good myself. I thought the
characters where great also the scenery was very beautiful.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 12, 2004 | | Summary | Wishy Washy | Content
| I, for one, don't understand the loyalty that the kids showed their Captain in the final scenes. Nothing at sea convinced me that there was *any* kind of bonding going on whatsoever between anyone. When bonding issues did arise, they appeared faked, phony, and I didn't buy them for a second.
This is an interesting film to watch if you want to see a bunch of young, attractive boys running around practically naked most of the film. I can't imagine that the *real* cast (as this was based on a true story) had nearly an entire crew of attractive boys, so I don't understand so many pretty faces were cast. What happened to average boys? Fat boys? There was one boy who wore thick glasses, but I ignored him, as he seemed to be the requisite.
It's also an interesting film to watch if you want to see the ocean. Ridley Scott may not be the greatest at evoking emotions within the characters he directs, but he shoots one heck of a scene.
About 2/3 of the way through this film I asked myself, "Why am I still watching this? There's no plot, nothing of interest is happening, so what am I doing?" I did stop watching it, in fact, but then finished the last third two days later. At the end of the movie something actually happens, and it's very moving. It has to do with what the film is named for: a white squall. A white squall is a violent tropical or subtropical storm that stirs up the surface of the sea into whitecaps, but is limited to a very localized area, often with no storm clouds present. This was pretty much the case here, although I thought I spotted a few storm clouds. I won't say what happens when the white squall hits the ship, because if I do this review won't be published, but I will say that the film's only moments of quality come during the storm, and on land shortly thereafter (although on land, it's still a tad hoaky). The handling of the two events I write of raised this from a 2 star review to a 3 star review.
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| Rating | | | Date | January 13, 2004 | | Summary | 1 of the most stupid films ever | Content
| First of all, the characters all look alike and the names aint mentioned often so u dunno which guy is which. Since i gotta do a report on dis movie it aint much help. Its unrealistic in sum parts- like y aint any1 wearin life jackets when da ship is sinking??!?!?! Also. it aint very original |
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