Deepwater Horizon first watch….

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John Malkovich’s character supposed to be foreign or was that him doing a La accent

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Maybe he was had just been hanging out with them Slum-baaar-jhay guys too long.

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Seemed like a disaster waiting to happen based on the movie. A lot of red flags ignored.

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Energy and chemical plants typically are filled with red flags, as a manner of normal operation. You realize how many people that post here are "responsible" for shite at plants? These are the guys in a double wide in Geismar with 2 Jetskis and a $70k truck out front.

Kind of sad it took you this long to watch a movie that was about an event that wrecked the economy of an entire metro area in your state for an extended period of time.

BP was criminally negligent…

Yes BP was totally at fault, but a huge blame has to go to Obama's offshore oil ban, which forced BP to drill so far out, in much more dangerous and unstable conditions.

Story time.

I worked for FMC Technologies for 16 years, including when Horizon went down. BP was out biggest customer, but we did not supply the BOP or other equipment for that job. We did do a lot of work with BP to try to shut the well down after the accident.

When it happened the engineers started coming up with all kinds of solutions to plug the well and reroute the flow and such. We had two large gate valves that were part of the plan about to be ready to ship. The problem was, they were for a Shell job. Our CEO called the Shell CEO and explained the situation and asked if we could send the GVs to BP and then the next two up would go to Shell. This would impact the Shell delivery schedule. Shell knew that the longer that well spewed oil the worse it was for all of us. He agreed and we sent the valves to BP.

When the movie came out I was managing a team of project coordinators. I thought it would be a good team building to take them to see the movie. So we took an afternoon off and all went to see it.

Of course, it's a tragic story and I did not anticipate how hard it would hit them. When it ended they were all emotionally moved, and the women were all crying. I told my team lead "well, I bet that's the first team building event that made people cry."

I cried when the only opportunity we had to see Marky Mark in LSU gear, and he picked a tounces sweatshirt.

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Yes BP was totally at fault

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pretty much negates

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but a huge blame has to go to Obama's offshore oil ban

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Movie failed to show the woman not sounding the alarm.

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Transocean who survived the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and was portrayed by Gina Rodriguez in the film Deepwater Horizon. In the film, she is depicted as a heroic figure who calls a "Mayday," though in reality, she was overwhelmed by alarms and initially failed to sound the general alarm,

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a huge blame has to go to Obama's offshore oil ban, which forced BP to drill so far out, in much more dangerous and unstable conditions.

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Which ban are you talking about?

Surely you aren’t referencing the moratorium that was declared in response to Deepwater Horizon?

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If you work in the industry, it's pretty hard to watch the movie. I wasn't even hired on yet when that all happened. But watched it after having industry experience. I can't speak to the details of that event itself, but when you see how much of a stretch everything else is, you basically can't take anything in the movie seriously as far as historical accuracy. For entertainment purposes, watch away. For a true understanding of anything, do not reference it as a documentary.

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I enjoyed the movie, but I’m with you on accuracy. I’m sure cops, doctors/nurses, and anyone else commonly portrayed in movies feel the same way all the time. It’s kind of the nature of the beast with Hollywood portrayals.

It’s always struck me as kind of funny though.. the one scene that really broke my immersion in Deepwater Horizon was when Wahlberg goes through the heliport, and he’s laughing and cracking jokes with the super friendly heliport workers. Having flown out of the BP heliport in Houma many times, I got a kick out of that part.

Out of all of the likely inaccuracies in that movie, that’s the one that really stuck with me.