Zemeckis air disaster flick.

[Abernathy]

Sorry,

Same way I felt when I learned details of the flick. I was hoping it was going to be great, and make us look good. Hopefully I'm wrong and it still turns out good.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[AceCrackshot]

Zemeckis owns a nice IFR C182 so I was hoping for a little more reality, previews look disappointing though. Best "pilot" movie ever, "The Pilot" with Cliff Robertson.

That's a flashback to sitting in a crashpad in Maryland, drinking heavily and watching "The Pilot" in a uniforms.

Ahhhh...the good old days.

 

[Whine Lover]

Work Hard
Play Hard

Blur the Line
Do The Time

 

[Patriot328]

A full length feature film about an air crash investigation. Sounds exciting.

 

[spitfire1500]

I learned a new trick......put approach plates under your glasses to catch some zzzzz's...

 

[Dash Power]

I saw the movie today. Totally sucked.

Its hard to imagine any pilot is going to like this movie. Especially the first 20 minutes. Actually its hard for me to believe anyone would like this film.

 

[propjob27]

The consensus among various "critics" is positive:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/flight_2012/

scroll down a bit to see a summary of the many reviews

 

[dollacrackho]

This movie has almost nothing to do with flying its about an alcoholic. Spoiler alert there is a smoking hot naked chick in the first scene. Full frontal and good hiney shots. The movie could have just as easily been about a doctor or a policeman but I guess they were going for the impact of an alcoholic airline pilot .

 

[The Drizzle]

For added realism, they should have had him voting Republican then complaining about why his union has no power.

 

[centralpilot]

This movie has almost nothing to do with flying its about an alcoholic.

Yeah, the title is a little misleading. The movie has much more to do with alcoholism and substance abuse than "flight".

 

[Whine Lover]

Yeah, the title is a little misleading. The movie has much more to do with alcoholism and substance abuse than "flight".

No...I suspect the title may be perfect.

> Flight - n. : The act or an instance of running away; an escape.


...as in alcoholism or substance abuse.


I haven't seen the film but, I would hazard a guess that flight/escape may be the central theme/metaphor.


??

Let me guess...does he have numerous problems that he seems to be running away from marital, family, financial or otherwise?

Problems he is trying to escape with the use of drugs and alcohol?

Does he consider running from the various government agencies and laws that are now threatening him?

Maybe he just disappears at the end of the film....flight to avoid prosecution?

Okay...DON'T ANSWER ANY OF THE ABOVE.

I'm seeing it on Monday.





YKW

 

[OldManPilot]

Movie was horrible.

 

[Whine Lover]

Movie was horrible.

For pilots I'm sure...not so much the rest of the planet.

We're lucky...we only have to sit through a movie every 5-6 years about airplanes and an occasional TV show.

Imagine how cops and nurses and doctors must have to sit for hours and hours watching all the totally impossible, procedurally incorrect stuff on TV and in Movies about their chosen professions?

Half the stuff on television is unwatchable for those poor folks!



YKW

 

[Abernathy]

Totally unrealistic movie. I have NEVER had a flight attendant who looked like Nadine Valezquez.

 

[C-150ETOPS]

Totally unrealistic movie. I have NEVER had a flight attendant who looked like Nadine Valezquez.

No sheet. Here's my world:

Had a FA in the cockpit in the early am on a transcon, one of those kinda cool multiple planet and moon line ups in the sky. She asks me and the FO, "isn't that neat, do you guys remember how exciting it was when Sputnik launched?"


Uhhhhhh, no.

 

[Blue Dude]

No sheet. Here's my world:

Had a FA in the cockpit in the early am on a transcon, one of those kinda cool multiple planet and moon line ups in the sky. She asks me and the FO, "isn't that neat, do you guys remember how exciting it was when Sputnik launched?"


Uhhhhhh, no.

Heh. It's either that or they think Sputnik is some kind of hipster vodka brand.

 

[Dash Power]

Imagine how cops and nurses and doctors must have to sit for hours and hours watching all the totally impossible, procedurally incorrect stuff on TV and in Movies about their chosen professions?

Half the stuff on television is unwatchable for those poor folks!

True dat.

Go see ARGO instead. Great movie.

 

[JudgeSmails218]

Once you get past the flying inaccuracies in the first
15 minutes, it becomes a compelling movie. I thought DW
did a great job. It's more about a man battling his inner
demons and lies than a movie about aviation. I give it
a "thumbs up".

 

[LearLove]

Inverted flight scene seems to be a Douglas BUT....with Winglets?



I'm sure they had to purposely muddy the waters and obfuscate the identification of the aircraft ....for legal reasons.

What say you....the intelligentsia of Flight Info?

Whine

NO NO NO, they put the winglets on to make it look a CRJ so they could pay the actors less money.

TMZ is reporting that they wanted to paint the jet canyon blue/red/orange or poopy brown but Denzel refused to pay for his type rating.

 

[Juniority]

It's more about a man battling his inner
demons and lies than a movie about aviation

My inner demon is having to watch/listen to/deal with other people's inner demons. The fewer 'inner demon' encounters the better. Life's more fun without them.