YMMV / Deepwater Horizon

• Anvilicious: The little girl saying oil is a monster and the whole erupting Coke thing at the beginning? Yeah, real subtle.
• Funny Moments: During Jimmy's confrontation with Vidrine and Kaluza, he brings up the fact that the Horizon has been 43 days off schedule. Kaluza acknowledges this, leading to this exchange...
  Kaluza: 43 days? 44 days...
  Mr. Jimmy: (just watching him) Keep countin', Bob.
  Kaluza: 45 days...46 days...
  Mr. Jimmy: (casually picks up a plate of cookies) Have a cookie, Bob. (throws it near him)
  • It's made even better later on; Bob does eat one of the cookies.
  • Before that, Jimmy gets Mike to fire off a laundry list of faulty critical equipment, ending with this exchange:
  Kaluza: Everything but the toilets, huh?
  Mike Williams: Oh no, you’ve got problems there too, but I don’t do shitters. That’s Engineering.
• Glurge: As one of the BP companymen boards the life raft after the rig explodes, he pauses to regard the inferno consuming an American flag. There are already larger tragedies playing out with the senseless loss of life, a rig tearing itself apart, and hundreds of millions of gallons of oil gushing into Gulf of Mexico. Setting an American icon on fire doesn't add anything to the scene.
• Love to Hate: Vidrine and Kaluza would've been utterly insufferable if not for the hilarious performances by John Malkovich and Brad Leland, Malkovich especially due to the Evil Is Hammy trademark that would expectedly come with him. They're just such massive dickheads who care so minimally that it's almost fun seeing their scenes.
• Moment of Awesome: Dale Burkeen securing his crane. He's about to board a lifeboat when he notices his crane is about to knock the derrick on top of everyone. Even if it's an exaggerated account of what actually happened (Dale didn't climb back into the crane; he was already in it when disaster stuck), it's still heroism at its finest. Many people freely admit they cried their hearts out when he was struck by debris. And of course, Steve Jablonsky captures the moment with his score "Stop the Crane", which brings to life the intensity, the awe at the calamity unfolding around everyone. And the subsequent sacrifice that goes with it.
• Narm: The term "Bladder Effect" may get a giggle or two. But when John Malkovich says it with a thick Cajun accent, it borders on downright silly.
  "Bladdah Eeffek!"
• Nausea Fuel: Characters have their bodies painted in shards of broken glass as well as doused with layers of noxious drilling mud and wellbore fluids. How viscerally horrifying it is gets magnified by the fact that the audience knows ahead of time that several of them are about to die.
  • Mr. Jimmy has it the worst in that the rig blew up while he was showering. He wakes up nude (though of course you don't see much) covered in dust and numerous shards of glass stabbed into him, an especially big one jammed deep into his goddamn foot! To Kurt Russell's credit, his performance sells it in that it really does look like he's in agony.
  • Wyman has it even worse; his leg is caught in a hunk of metal. Said leg is broken like a twig. As in the bone has completely severed, while all the flesh and muscle keeps it from falling off his body. The broken bones in his leg are exposed, to the point where the metal was stuck on one said fractured bone because it was sticking out so badly. Mike has to push the bone back in place with his fingers to get Wyman out.
• Nightmare Fuel: The rig explosion. The crew are able to block the initial mud burst with a seafloor annular - until it comes back, unstoppable this time, having forced through and destroyed the annular with sheer fluid pressure. The ship is flooded with high velocity blasts of mud, one annular exploding after the other. It's enough to smash floors to the roof, and the mud to explode up and above the entire rig and block off the air reserves, which pops multiple lights and electronics and eventually causing an intense explosion that rocks the entire thing. The scene can easily compare to the reactor meltdown scene at the end of Chernobyl in just how macabre and chaotic it is. The aftermath is something to behold - by the time the lifeboats are being sent out and everybody's outside on the deck, it genuinely looks like they're all in Hell.
• One-Scene Wonder: The irate father trying to find out what happened to his son. Bonus points for him being played by country musician Trace Adkins, who had worked on an oil rig before hitting it big. His passionate performance clearly shows it was very personal to him. Also a case of Beware the Nice Ones; Adkins was uneasy to act as a rashly angry character, so the director had to intentionally pester and push at his buttons to get a sufficiently enraged performance.

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