#Only the brave movie 2017 trailer series#

With the exception of Teller and Brolin every other firefighter was almost a copy and paste of one another and it reduces any character who isn't a Hotshot into a prop.

#Only the brave movie 2017 trailer series#

It moves from scene to scene in a series of mediocre acting and a badly paced story. Trying to make himself a better person he joins the team and the bromance continues. Now let's meet Miles Teller, the outsider, the one with the drug problem and has now just had a daughter. Just to further drive home the fact that they're such great friends with the best supervisor ever, enter Josh Brolin. Before they become certified Hotshots we get to meet them as best mates and after twenty minutes in I stopped counting how many times I was hearing the words dude and bro. And just in case you're not already crying by the end let's not forget the pictures of the real victims saved for the credits. So formulaic it hurts, squeezing in as many overly sentimental scenes of the main characters and their families as it possibly can. A tragic story and although the last ten minutes is perhaps the most intense scene in these based on true events movies I only wish I could say the same for the rest of the film. This particular true story biopic focuses on the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Only instead of an oil rig it's a wild fire. After a while they all start to morph into one so while watching Only The Brave I couldn't help but feel like I've seen this exact movie before. I'm getting real sick of all these horrific true story movies that tries its very hardest to reduce you to a blubbering mess by the end of it. After a while they all start to morph into one so while watching Here's another 'Based on the Incredible True Story' movie so get the tissues ready.

Here's another 'Based on the Incredible True Story' movie so get the tissues ready. How about a movie about the Yellowstone Park Fire of 1988? That cataclysm was beyond imagination, the damage astonishing, and the firefighters from all over the nation equally worthy of your attention in LaLa Land, which itself is surrounded by fires most of the late summer every year. Just spare us the 'heroic' commentary, and next time you Hollywood people want to 'recognize' bravery, avoid the soap opera feel you seem so inclined to throw in. However, because the movie will raise awareness of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and other heroes in firefighting, one shouldn't dismiss the movie's weaker points. In fact, the only mention of the water from aircraft were when they made mistakes. While I am not one who just wanted nothing but a fire holocaust for a movie, there remained a lack of their actual work in other places, details on how firefighters attack wildfires not just on the ground, but from the air, and other methods that should have presented a more whole picture that would have paid respects to the air crews, firefighters who paratroop behind the fire lines and other equally brave people that were ignored. And of course the bar scenes that rightfully cheer the men after saving their town, but cross the line into maudlin quickly. However, it's repeated over and over - the couples fight, make up, the big picnic and watching the crew harass each other good naturedly, as if to make us feel part of the 'gang', as it were. Not that such concerns are invalid- far from it. While I always enjoy Josh Brolin, a fine actor if there ever was one, and the rest of the cast are fine in their roles, this film spent more time being a social commentary about the lives of the firefighters and stresses on their families, which, after a while, became the cliche festival we have to put up with from writers taking the easy way out. We would indeed be very mean to criticize the intent of this film, but it also reeks of emotional exploitation, and that does the sacrifices of the Granite Mountain Hotshots injustice, all of whom except one who was sent out to scout and base camp at the Yarnell fire perished when ferocious winds switched directions and killed the crew, who were in fireproof bags, but the flames were too hot and their protection just couldn't last long enough for them to outlast the firestorm. Hollywood releases a 'gotcha' movie with a telling of the true story and tragedy of a group of Arizona firefighters out of Prescott who become certified as 'hotshots', the best of the best that risk their lives during fire seasons to put out forest fires all over the parched West and Hollywood releases a 'gotcha' movie with a telling of the true story and tragedy of a group of Arizona firefighters out of Prescott who become certified as 'hotshots', the best of the best that risk their lives during fire seasons to put out forest fires all over the parched West and Southwest.