I am going to suspend my favorable opinions of the movie...of which there were many. But even though I kind of knew the story and how it ends it was still a solid film IMO. I will pose these 2 questions however: Why is Brolin such a stud in every movie? That dude is cool. And am I the only one who thinks J Conn is attractive? Man she flies under the radar. Moving on...
I saw the other post about the gripe with the firefighters since 9/11 thing and while that doesn't really bother me you know what does, the fact we can't get our GD firefighters some fire sacks that actually work. Don't know if those are just meant to just be placebos for a doomed situation to keep hope alive, or the economics of making something that actually works is too cost prohibitive, or something else, but its been a few days since my wife and I watched it and I am still affected by the fact of how those boys went down. Can you even imagine. Then I read up on the story and saw where it got even uglier as the widows were denied benefits and other townspeople started calling them opportunists looking for money but come on, whether that is true or not I want to live in a world where those brave people get the protection they deserve.
I suspect some will say there will always be this fire or those perfect conditions where nothing would work, or how that story is an outlier and fire sacks works 98% of the time (but what about the other 2!), or whatever, but then again I have a hard time even believing that. That feels like BS spin to me. Maybe I am too idealistic, but we can send man made satellites wrapped and protected in tin foil to interstellar space (cold not hot I get it) and can perform many other SPECTACULAR feats of human achievement, so lets' just up the ante on advanced aluminum foil and protect all of them. Is that too much to ask?
Hopefully no one on here has ever had a family member or friend in that situation.
Lastly, not to be a total downer, but
Granite Mountain Hotshots
Killed
Crew member not at deployment site
Bless those souls.
I'm done. Thanks for listening. And see the movie. Its heavy, but solid.
I saw the other post about the gripe with the firefighters since 9/11 thing and while that doesn't really bother me you know what does, the fact we can't get our GD firefighters some fire sacks that actually work. Don't know if those are just meant to just be placebos for a doomed situation to keep hope alive, or the economics of making something that actually works is too cost prohibitive, or something else, but its been a few days since my wife and I watched it and I am still affected by the fact of how those boys went down. Can you even imagine. Then I read up on the story and saw where it got even uglier as the widows were denied benefits and other townspeople started calling them opportunists looking for money but come on, whether that is true or not I want to live in a world where those brave people get the protection they deserve.
I suspect some will say there will always be this fire or those perfect conditions where nothing would work, or how that story is an outlier and fire sacks works 98% of the time (but what about the other 2!), or whatever, but then again I have a hard time even believing that. That feels like BS spin to me. Maybe I am too idealistic, but we can send man made satellites wrapped and protected in tin foil to interstellar space (cold not hot I get it) and can perform many other SPECTACULAR feats of human achievement, so lets' just up the ante on advanced aluminum foil and protect all of them. Is that too much to ask?
Hopefully no one on here has ever had a family member or friend in that situation.
Lastly, not to be a total downer, but
Granite Mountain Hotshots
Killed
- Andrew Ashcraft, 29
- Robert Caldwell, 23
- Travis Carter, 31
- Dustin Deford, 24
- Christopher MacKenzie, 30
- Eric Marsh, 43
- Grant McKee, 21
- Sean Misner, 26
- Scott Norris, 28
- Wade Parker, 22
- John Percin, 24
- Anthony Rose, 23
- Jesse Steed, 36
- Joe Thurston, 32
- Travis Turbyfill, 27
- William Warneke, 25
- Clayton Whitted, 28
- Kevin Woyjeck, 21
- Garret Zuppiger, 27
Crew member not at deployment site
- Brendan McDonough, 21
Bless those souls.
I'm done. Thanks for listening. And see the movie. Its heavy, but solid.