When the movie Greyhound hit Apple TV+ last week, a number of people experienced an audio glitch. Right around 58-minutes into the film, the sound and vision fell out of sync. For me, I exited the movie, went back in, and had no more problems. Curious whether you had the problem and really curious what you thought of the film, I asked for your input. Here’s some of what some of you had to say.
Ken - no relation - confirmed a suspicion of mine. “I worked for the Navy for 40 years,” he says:
…and spent a lot of time on submarines in the control room, and I found the jargon and procedures to be very realistic.
The Tom Hanks character, in some ways reminded me of his character in Saving Private Ryan. In both cases, he is the Captain, but we really don't know very much about him. In Greyhound we know he is religious and wanted to marry his girlfriend, but, really, that is all we know about him as a person. Also, we see that he struggles with Command and with interpersonal relationships as he tries to get to the know the crew and fumbles their names; but he does rely on his XO as sounding board as he needs to make the decision to call for help. As the Captain, we do see how dedicated and professional he is, but also how flawed and still somewhat inexperienced…
“…I thought it as a really great movie and look forward to seeing it again.”
“Two thumbs up from me…” So says Ken - again, no relation.
Eduardo says:
The detail that made an impression on my wife and I was how young most of the men in the crew were. It seemed like the boat was operated by a bunch of kids with a few adults in command. It was almost like the characters played by Tom Hanks and Stephen Graham were the only men in the boat that were older than 25 years.
Our 13 y/o was impressed by the Germans transmitting nasty stuff over the radio. He's reading Sun Tzu's Art of War and he brought up a quote about breaking the enemy by saying nasty things to them.
We didn't notice a lag between the image and the audio at any time. However, at one point my wife did say "What was that noise?" but I believe it was a just a deep horn in the music that sounded too close to a siren. This goes to say the movie succeeded in keeping us on the edge of our seats kind of in a similar situation as the characters in the boat: listening and watching intently to try to figure out what is going on.
Randy did have the sound problem, saying, “I tried everything to fix that glitch and couldn’t. Fortunately it only lasted 2 minutes or so…” As for the film, he says:
I loved the movie otherwise. My wife likes more dialog to explain the emotion going on and got lost in all the “right full rudder; to 92 degrees” lingo. I can just let those details go over my head and take in the fact that he’s brilliant at maneuvering while leading his young crew and getting them all to trust him while building his own confidence.
John wrote in to say:
I thought it was a extremely well done, suspenseful and engaging movie. Tom Hanks was great. It was relatively short, but did not feel like it was missing anything. It seemed very realistic and overall thought it was a great movie. No technical issues with watching it. Ended up watching it a few times and would likely watch it again. Two thumbs up!
My 16-year-old daughter saw it, but could not get into it. She was having trouble following it, and said that the war stuff was depressing.
And finally, Sheryl wrote to say:
I'm generally not a war movie buff. The violence tends to make me cringe too much. My spouse likes war movies, though, so I recommended "Greyhound" to him (he hadn't heard much about it).
He made me watch "Greyhound" the very next day, and I am so glad he did. The movie is absolutely gorgeous, and I definitely hope it gets released in theaters after the lockdowns end. I rarely watch war movies, I rarely watch movies in the theater, and I have every intention of watching "Greyhound" in the theater. I usually listen to podcasts (Hi, Mac OS Ken!) far more than I watch TV or movies because I need something I can do while drawing, yet I want to rewatch "Greyhound."
This movie rocks.
We did not experience the sound issue.
