Captain Phillips = AMAZING

[The chaser]

I hadn't heard of the film before now and looked it up on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Ph...troversies

Hahaha awesome.

That is actually pretty funny. I can imagine how they would be pissed at this movie in that case but honestly I don't really care how true it is.

That is actually quite hilarious

But anyways, I don't care who the true Phillips is, the movie was really good (although I didn't believe at some parts that the pirates didn't just blow Phillip's head)

Might want to wrap that in spoiler tags just to be courteous. Anyway:

Spoiler below!

They clearly could not do that at any point in the movie. Originally they only took him with them for the ransom money but later on it became a matter of necessity since they would have been utterly destroyed by the Navy if they executed Phillips, a point stressed several times in the movie. The big guy, I forget what his name was (Najee?) came awfully close to killing him a few times both because he was short-sighted and he was high on Khat the entire time which I've read is known to cause excitement. I don't think any of it was contrived, the other pirates step in each time to prevent Najee from making a stupid mistake. Near the end the only reason Najee wasn't successful in killing Capt. Phillips was because of a clever trick employed by the Navy.

Spoiler below!

Yeah, you're true, but let's take a look at the beggining: You assault a several million ship, and you search for a safe with (30.000?) dollars? If I were a pirate, I would think more of letting Phillips alive and doing the classical pirating act: I kidnap a ship with it's people, I drive it all the way to the coast, and I would ask for the rescue there. It has been a while since I haven't seen the film, but I don't remain now how does Phillip end in the "secondary" boat, so I might be wrong in one of my statements in this paragraph.