One of the better "B" grade movies these days.
Other than the dark topic of smoke jumpers, their risk of death or injury with each jump - and one answer during a lecture about shifting winds - "How does the fire view you?" "AS FUEL"...
It was a good movie. A nice way to pass time with a youngster. My children are preteens so it was a little dark for them with the theme of risking life for the benefit of others. Family relationships were the dramatic twist, possibly based on one of the smoke jumpers this movie commemorates***spoiler - movie is loosely based on one of the largest smoke jumper tragedies of our time***** - but I don't know if it was Hollywood license or biographical.
No heavy emotional drama, no amazing acting, just good on-screen chemistry and a predictable storyline. The family dynamic portrayed may have been the Hollywood storyline or real. Still, I think it was tastefully shot, reasonably well edited and an excellent way to teach my sons that hard work can be dangerous even if rewarding. I'm applying it to their chores (lawn mower, hedge clippers), but after the movie we discussed smoke jumpers working and knowing the terrain, the fire, the normal wind patterns; and yet, a group of experienced smoke- jumpers were caught and burned to death. None of the aftermath was shown, my sons wondered why Adam Baldwin didn't "just keep running?".
Maybe the concepts of nature being wonderful but dangerous were lost on them, but it will be a movie I return to when I think they are taking nature for granted.
Good family movie even if it ends with the dark commemoration of a tragedy.
Other than the dark topic of smoke jumpers, their risk of death or injury with each jump - and one answer during a lecture about shifting winds - "How does the fire view you?" "AS FUEL"...
It was a good movie. A nice way to pass time with a youngster. My children are preteens so it was a little dark for them with the theme of risking life for the benefit of others. Family relationships were the dramatic twist, possibly based on one of the smoke jumpers this movie commemorates***spoiler - movie is loosely based on one of the largest smoke jumper tragedies of our time***** - but I don't know if it was Hollywood license or biographical.
No heavy emotional drama, no amazing acting, just good on-screen chemistry and a predictable storyline. The family dynamic portrayed may have been the Hollywood storyline or real. Still, I think it was tastefully shot, reasonably well edited and an excellent way to teach my sons that hard work can be dangerous even if rewarding. I'm applying it to their chores (lawn mower, hedge clippers), but after the movie we discussed smoke jumpers working and knowing the terrain, the fire, the normal wind patterns; and yet, a group of experienced smoke- jumpers were caught and burned to death. None of the aftermath was shown, my sons wondered why Adam Baldwin didn't "just keep running?".
Maybe the concepts of nature being wonderful but dangerous were lost on them, but it will be a movie I return to when I think they are taking nature for granted.
Good family movie even if it ends with the dark commemoration of a tragedy.