Trainwreck: Poop Cruise on Netflix is absolute cinema.
A real Carnival cruise in the Gulf of Mexico catches fire and loses all power. Food spoils. Toilets stop working. People start pooping in red biohazard bags. Then the cruise make the awful decision to give everyone free alcohol. It takes like three days for a tugboat to get to them, so it was a real Lord of the Flies situation.
Weâve been over this already. You hold space truckers to a higher standard of making intelligent decisions than earthâs best and brightest scientists.
I didnât realize he did the Martian. A little silly in spots but I was entertained.
Is this real or fiction?
Real. This is a documentary.
The people in the original Alien make bad decisions that wind up killing everyone, you canât say thatâs a critical flaw for a horror movie.
The space truckers in Alien make perfectly rational decisions which are actually amazing considering theyâre not trained for any of what happens. Again, when we did this the first time you had an example that showed you hadnât watched the movie in a long time and were misremembering something. IIRC it was why did they let the Alien on the ship in the first place, when it was Ashe who overrode Ripleyâs order to do so.
The scientists in Prometheus stick their faces in a cobra-looking Alien thing and mock it. The best and brightest the earth has to offer and your first response to seeing extraterrestrial life is to make fun of it. Itâs beyond ludicrous. And then another scientists gets drunk and sabotages everything to advance the plot because heâs mad at a girl.
People in horror movies do dumb stuff all the time, you almost wouldnât have the genre without it.
I actually know someone on that cruise and the stories were horrific. Guess I have my next watch.
There are levels of dumb. And the context matters. I expect the best and brightest scientists earth has to offer to not behave like toddlers.
Youâre telling me Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton are just dumb space truckers? Just because they happen to wear space trucker hats? Thereâs no way.
Oh shit we will need some more stories from the frontlines after you finish. Its one of the more fascinating stories of corporate incompetence out there. How they had no contingency for 4500 people stuck in the middle of the ocean for a company that regularly takes people to the middle of the ocean is beyond me
I loved when the other cruise ship passed by them and all of the passengers on the other ship were partying and taking pictures of the stranded people. Animals.
The fact that that industry survived the Concordia disaster, the poop cruise, and being the initial Covid superspreader event in the span of a decade and still exists makes me think it will never go away. Maybe Gen Z will eventually break its stranglehold on the weeklong vacation experience in 30 years, but I doubt it at this point.
Lol cruises
And yeah Prometheus was good
Iâm pretty sure my reaction to her back 12 years ago was man that sucks but what do you expect booking a 4 day carnival cruise out of galveston that only has one stop. Worst cruise line/itinerary/port combo possible lol
Whatâs crazy is the poop cruise boat is still sailing Carnival just renamed it.
Also I dont have a lot of stories you wont get from just watching it. People openly having sex in refuse riddled common areas hammered drunk and all the wonderful things that go along with that. My friend thankfully had a balcony room so could hide there. I cant imagine how putrid the interior rooms were. The one guy in the doc who spends tons of time finding the only working bathroom to avoid pooping in a hazmat bag is a true american legend.
The Martian is among the best hard sci-fi films ever made! Itâs elite cinema.
It was way better than the book, thatâs for sure.
Project Hail Mary is being made into a film too, I canât wait.
Trailer is expected quite soon. I love Lord/Miller but this is quite the departure from what they have done before.