ugh...that film about the tsunami.....

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And lots and lots of other films an' all, mostly about Iraq/Afghanistan

What is it with turning hideousness into entertainment?

AIBU?

i would like to see most of profits going towards rebuilding communities that are still suffering

but those that are suffering still are only asians who we all know are used to suffering far better to concentrate on those that had their holiday spoilt

What film about the tsumani? On tv or in the cinema?

Cinema.

Its called The Impossible.

YANBU.

I said to DP it actually looks like a good film. If my it wasn't based on something that happened only eight years ago

Wrong

Opps - Agree its wrong , its come out at the wrong time and it has no respect - I will not be going to see it either.

I think it is a little too soon for a tusnami film but perhaps the familiy involved gave permission for it, not that I will go and see it ,

Hmm, I don't know, there was that film about the plane in 9/11 - sorry forgot name.
Movie makers will always incorporate what is going on in films. And it will be americans or europeans because this is the audience. Plenty of war films made during the war. Vietnam films mostly about Americans and not the Vietnamese...etc etc

The only first hand account I have heard was from a white, affluent tourist family, who were there. I am pretty sure they will not want to watch the film, as it was horrific for them (daughters in their 20s, staying in a different villa ... no way to contact them, etc). They were lucky to survive.

Presumably this person wrote the book as a form of release for themself and a film company picked up on it. I'm hoping it was not written for profit (but I don't know).

It is (as others have said) too soon.

Oh I wouldnt blame the writer at all. Her story is not representative of all the suffering but it is still valid.

I disagree that it's in bad taste. It is no different to Titanic, films about the WTC, the hundreds of films about WW1 and WW2 including war horse. It's no different to all the things on the TV about disasters on a daily and weekly basis. I'd imagine most of you here have seen War Horse and Titanic.

The only difference here is the timing, 8 years ago rather than decades. For those who mentioned it being about white people rather than Thais, Sri Lankans etc how do you know? The film isn't even out yet. Yes the adverts are predominently of the main characters but that isn't to say it's not representative of the reality in the main body of the film.

because the marketing has shown the film to be about a european family on holiday

if it was about how those living in these countries suffered and still are the film would be advertised in that way

that is how we know plus the slating reviews it has received

Goldensunnydays81 . Could never begin to imagine what you went through.

I saw the trailer for this a few weeks ago. I think the problem is it' s so visceral and explosive and unexpected it really catches you unawares.

Ds1 and his mates are going to see The Hobbit this week. One of the boys lost his mum in the tsunami and while I know he lives with that loss every day it breaks my heart that a lad who is just going out with his mates for a laugh will likely be faced with this trailer without warning almost to the anniversary.

The one about Osama Bin Laden strikes me as particularly pointless also (considering I'm not entirely convinced it even happened, like they said it did)

The 9/11 plane one has ground staff playing themselves. They pieced together what happened from CCTV/phone calls etc which does make it very interesting but I'm still uncomfy about it.

I saw the trailer in the cinema last week and cried . I'm the sort of person who projects themselves into the situations in films and thinks "what would I do if...?".

From the reviews I have seen they have all been critical about the lack of Asian representation in the film, and I understand that a lot of Spaniards are very unhappy that the family is suddenly English.

I won't be watching, hate films like this.

The trailer is incredibly and inappropriately graphic.

Making a film about the tsunami focus on a white Western family who survive is unbelievably boneheaded. It's not that their story isn't interesting but how totally tone-deaf and insensitive.

Why not make an ensemble film that tells many of the stories from those days? By all means show us this family but there were so many families who didn't get reunited and didn't have a beautiful comfortable home to go back to.

Meh, the film industry is Bone headed. I would expect nothing more of them.