Offishul Boys in the Boat movie thread

Saw the movie last night. It was good for what it is. It won't win any awards, and I agree with the criticisms others have posted. At the end, some guy shouted (it was me) "Go Dawgs, beat Texas!)

- Geography felt weird.
- Very little character development
- Whole family immediately after the movie, "Soooooooo...what did any of the guys do after the Olympics? Did Joe and Joyce get married? Did he stay pour?"
 
Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer

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Damn, it feels like only me and PJ Fleck liked the movie.
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I liked it! I hope my nitpicking of details didn't imply otherwise. I'll go see it again.

Saw the movie last night. It was good for what it is. It won't win any awards, and I agree with the criticisms others have posted. At the end, some guy shouted (it was me) "Go Dawgs, beat Texas!)

- Geography felt weird.
- Very little character development
- Whole family immediately after the movie, "Soooooooo...what did any of the guys do after the Olympics? Did Joe and Joyce get married? Did he stay pour?"
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My next door neighbor took her whole family to it (and knows I rowed + went to UW) and afterwards immediately texted my wife "That was a great movie but I have so many questions." So she's going to read the book now and has already watched the PBS show.

The suburban housewife demographic seems to really like it especially if they haven't read the book.
 
2nd most famous person raised in Olympia

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Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer

You're welcome
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So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.
 
It was good but not great.

Wouldn't have killed Clooney to get some shots on campus. Most of the quad, Denny hall, Suzzallo, parrington and drumheller were all on campus at that time. Thought it was a bit funny that Poughkeepsie was lined by evergreens and the very narrow Lake Washington was lined by deciduous trees. Granted a lot of the evergreen trees throughout the area would have been mowed down, especially in Seattle proper. Maybe a shot at the 7Eleven on Aurora in the U District would have been good as well. I know the movies were set in the time period they were filmed but shit, War Games and the Changling, not completely filmed in WA at least got some campus shots. Again, quite honestly, Suzzalo, Denny, sylvan grove and Rainier Vista feel like the biggest omissions.

No, its the classic "not true to the book" hollywood version. I still enjoyed it.

Some other glaring omissions. Rain. Jimmy Kimmel razzed clooney about it and yeah, there was no rain at all in the movie. Rain, mist, early morning workouts before the wind picks up.

Lastly I don't think it really stuck out that this was based on a true story. No epilogue really of the guys. Would have been easy to get some footage of the boys rowing years later to commemorate. Just some pictures along with the credits. I say this because one friend caught it early at a mystery movie night and wanted me to know there was no end of credits scene like you'd find in a Marvel movie. She clearly had not read the book.
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I’m gonna have to fight hard through the geographic inaccuracy of the settings. I hate that lazy shit.
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luckily for them most of the us population could not tell the difference between UK or seattle
 
Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer

You're welcome
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So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.
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If he never married then he's a (gay) uncle not the dad

 
Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer

You're welcome
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So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.
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If he never married then he's a (gay) uncle not the dad
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The OG row peter puffer...
 
To be clear @haie I still enjoyed the movie, it just didn't live up to my ultra-doog expectations, and I feel like Clooney kind of 'mailed it in.' I'm sure King 5 would have sold some of their footage of the 50th anniversary row.
 
To be clear @haie I still enjoyed the movie, it just didn't live up to my ultra-doog expectations, and I feel like Clooney kind of 'mailed it in.' I'm sure King 5 would have sold some of their footage of the 50th anniversary row.
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They had aged a lot by the time we all met them 10 years later.

Cool footage of former coach Dick Ericksen who I knew well. ‘86 was his last year before they sent him to pasture.
 
Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer

You're welcome
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So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.
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If he never married then he's a (gay) uncle not the dad
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Why do you hate knocking chicks up but not committing?

But likely he was the uncle or the other dad. From his 2001 Obit:
https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/don-hume-member-of-uw-s-legendary-36-crew-team-1065992.php

The surviving members of the crew -- with the death of Hume, four are still living -- have continued to meet on a regular basis. The wild card was always Hume, who spent much of his time on the road, due to business.

"Ninety percent of the time you'd never know if Don would be there," Moch said. "But each time he'd show up, with a bottle of champagne in each hand."

Hume is survived by a brother, Dale, of Olympia.
 
Don Hume moved to Olympia and had a son I went to school with. He was a member of the Olympia Country and Golf Club and ran the Husky Coaches caravan when they came by every summer

You're welcome
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So the Wikipedia entry is almost directly copy-pasta from the Boys in the Boat. It didn't mention him having a kid, but does mention him never marrying.
Click to expand...

If he never married then he's a (gay) uncle not the dad
Click to expand...

Why do you hate knocking chicks up but not committing?

But likely he was the uncle or the other dad. From his 2001 Obit:
https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/don-hume-member-of-uw-s-legendary-36-crew-team-1065992.php

The surviving members of the crew -- with the death of Hume, four are still living -- have continued to meet on a regular basis. The wild card was always Hume, who spent much of his time on the road, due to business.

"Ninety percent of the time you'd never know if Don would be there," Moch said. "But each time he'd show up, with a bottle of champagne in each hand."

Hume is survived by a brother, Dale, of Olympia.
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Hume showed up to watch us at Henley once.

He was a baller old dude as I recall.
 
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“Boys in the boat”..

what I think about them boys:

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I'm not even going to try to explain the story to you podnah. Rowboat has to be the least SEC sport of all time.
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Rowboat is a thinking man's game. SEC bros needn't apply.

PS: watch. SEC SEC will ask what part requires thinking.
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Where’s the footage of a young, swarthy, law dawg in Moch’s office @creepycoug ?
 
“Boys in the boat”..

what I think about them boys:

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I'm not even going to try to explain the story to you podnah. Rowboat has to be the least SEC sport of all time.
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Rowboat is a thinking man's game. SEC bros needn't apply.

PS: watch. SEC SEC will ask what part requires thinking.
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Where’s the footage of a young, swarthy, law dawg in Moch’s office @creepycoug ?
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Only my resume and his. Otherwise, it's just another creepycoug tall tale.
 
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