Saw Deepwater Horizon tonight

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Congrats?

TDMobile jumped the gun on me

Was having offshore flashbacks the first half of the movie

My wife didn't handle the movie very well

What made it so hard to take in was the fact that these were all real people that died needlessly trying to safely do a very dangerous job

A real American tragedy

Malkovich overacted his arse off and making him the main villain was painful to watch.

I think in real life any guy giving a bladder effect as an answer to a failed negative pressure test is a problem. If the negative pressure test fails; you don't go any further. Ever. Shut in and recirculate the kick- WHICH WAS HUGE.

I don't know if he purposely said Schlumberger incorrectly or if the real character actually pronounced it that way.... There's just no explanation why he would butcher the name that badly when there had to have been dozens of people on the set that would've corrected him.

I mean there's even a joke in the movie about Yankee Democrats mispronouncing it as "Slum burger"

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There's just no explanation why he would butcher the name that badly when there had to have been dozens of people on the set that would've corrected him.

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I've always wondered about this.

Maybe people on set are afraid to interrupt? And I can see that, it is a major production, you're just some guy on set, and calling an "a" level actor out in front of a big group of people...

But Mobile, incongruous, and two-dozen other words that are constantly mispronounced. I'm always saying to myself- "there's got to be 200 people involved in this level of the production and not one of them knows how to say that word?!"

How much was gordon Jones portrayed in the movie?

Not very much

they showed the mud room with Jones and Manuel monitoring the shakers when the mud displacement process started

They showed Jones and Manuel's death

I laughed at the Rig Boss bringing an I&E Tech to a well meeting with the Company Man and the well engineer.

Was even funnier when the I&E Tech spoke up during the meeting. I can only imagine the real world "what the frick is he doing here and why is he speaking?" aspect to that

The well plan and the action items were dictated by the bp Houston office, vidrine and kaluza were in charge of the well onsite but not in charge overall. Which is why the charges were reduced and a plea for violating an environmental reg was accepted. There was no bad guy, just a bunch of cumulative bad decisions and bad luck (shear Rams hitting a drill pipe coupling)