ok i know nobody asked but here’s my review/random thoughts after watching the new movie Pressure, coming from a ww2 yaoi enjoyer who has 2 degrees in meteorology so pls allow me to ramble for a moment!!! i guess this counts as spoilers for the movie sooo i’ll put my thoughts under the cut 🙂↕️
andrew scott!!! i love u andrew scott…. even though your character is being a cunt, he’s a cunt for a REASON. and he’s a CORRECT cunt. and i love that. and support that. and respect that.
hello kerry condon. HELLO!!!!! LITERALLY!!!!!
stagg (andrew scott) and monty (damian lewis) had very interesting mustaches LMAO
if anyone was gay, then stagg & krick (chris messina) were ABSOLUTELY enemies to lovers. genius 4 idiot chemistry. that was where the most gay subtext was found in this movie. from my professional standpoint
stagg & monty’s gay subtext was not as strong as i hoped it’d be, they were enemies to lovers as well but on a much lower scale
ok now onto the science presented in the movie: yay weather balloons! yay weather maps! yay talk of fronts and jet stream and high/low pressure! geostrophic wind mentioned! that is certainly some weather
also thought it was interesting that they sent the soldiers in on d-day just before a cold front moved in because that’s when a small break in storm was gonna happen. so they basically sent the soldiers INTO the storm. i didnt know that, and maybe i have memory loss but i dont think that was represented in band of brothers?? did it storm/rain after they dropped in?!? i zont remember. it’s been a minute since ive done a rewatch!
ok here is my gripe with the movie now…. i felt the explanations as to WHY the meteorologists in the movie predicted that the pressure systems were moving in a certain direction were a little lacking. because 2 of the guys were disagreeing while using the same maps and while yes, they talk about the jet stream and geostrophic wind briefly, we never get a closeup for longer than a few seconds of what theyre actually talking about!! we as an audience just have to take their word for it!!
yeah basically i really wanted to see the weather maps lmfao 😭 they were only in the background, too far away to read, or shown really quickly close up but not enough time to decipher what’s happening. just show me them isobars goddammit!!!!
i also felt like the 2 main meteorologists were making conclusions and no one was ever like “why?” they were just like “yeah sounds good 👍”. DOES SEEING THE EVIDENCE NOT MATTER IN SCIENCE???? IN WARRR?!?!?
there was a point when brendan fraser was like “i dont CARE abt the maps!!!!!” and i was like “bro i DO!!! SHOW THEM!!!! ZOOM IN!!!!”
but ofc i need to remember that this movie is for the masses, not just for ppl who are interested in meteorology… SIGH ok just bear with me yall hahaha. i suppose once the movie comes out on streaming, i can pause it and zoom in and do my own analysis 😂
i should also remember that it’s 1940s and their reasonings for forecasting were different than now i guess. sometimes, a guy would just say something and everyone believed him and no one cared abt evidence. sometimes that’s how it is!
but i still rly enjoyed the movie and had a good time even tho it was mostly just dudes talking & looking concerned & kerry condon holding all the communication together tbh
oh and also dont be fooled by the preview!! there is barely any warfare action at all
review from the couple next to me when the movie ended: lady: “aww that was really good i loved it :)”, man: “i thought there’d be more shooting and explosions :/”
disclaimer: i took an edible before the movie and smoked afterwards so. take my thots with a grain of salt 🙂↕️ maybe i had memory loss during a zoom in scene of a weather map
wow that’s a lot of thots, thanks for reading if u did, and here’s a lil extra thot for anyone who is interested in the historical meteorology of d-day: the american meteorological society hosted a webinar earlier this week where they interviewed the director of the movie, along with the consulting meteorologists for the movie, and you can watch it on youtube here! just some old dudes yappin but. interesting science & history. to me. lol
quote i really liked in the movie that they also mention in the webinar: “the weatherman may be boring, but the weather certainly isn’t”. SO TRUE BESTIE. ok the end. cheers your dab pen with me now. ok thanks<3
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