I think I figured out the key to my success in Hollywood tonight. It hit me like a flock of ****ing birds over the Hudson. Basically, when it comes to these real-life stories, which are currently our bread and butter, we do the opposite of what Sully does and we'll be golden.
It's honestly not a terrible movie, but man, it is the very definition of pointless. Just goes to show how desperate studios are for real life stories/IP. I can't fathom any other reason this movie made it through the ringer, and somehow got made.
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I sh*t you not, the "climax" is a room full people at a hearing silently watching a live feed of various pilots monotonously attempting to recreate the flight in a simulator FOUR different times back-to-back-to-back-to-back. It's unbelievably excruciating. And then we have to watch the real flight - in full detail - a SECOND time after that (the first time, admittedly, was very well executed). The entire movie could have been told in half an hour, if that.
Also, I seriously could not stop giggling at some of the choices made:
- Laura Linney as Sully's wife has like six scenes and they're ALL of her in their kitchen and/or living room, on the phone with Sully. And they just have the same basic conversation over and over and over. The first time, she's in the house, behind a closed front door/walls, and there are reporters like 30 feet away, in the street. And they look like they're being loud if, you know, the door was open or we were out there with him. But it's close to silent and she starts going "I CAN'T HEAR YOU, SULLY! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! IT'S TOO LOUD! WE'LL HAVE TO TALK LATER" just so the convo/scene can end and they don't say everything that needs to be said in that one scene. And it's not like a pretend-she-can't-hear-him kind of thing, either. It's so dumb/funny, and emblematic of nearly every choice made in this movie.
- The way the pilots in the flight simulators at the end kept monotonously saying "birds" is what really cracked me up, and is somehow even more distracting than the blatantly fake baby used in American Sniper.[/sp]
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The obvious lesson: make sure we have a full, two-hour story to tell. Otherwise, we'll be banking solely on it crossing the desk of senile, old Clint Eastwood, and for Warner Bros. to somehow keep inexplicably funding his efforts.
Seriously, unless you're over the age of 60, avoid this movie in theaters. I was easily the youngest person by at least 10 years in theater, and wish I would have waited to watch it at home, where I could fast forward through the vast majority of it and not miss a thing.
It's honestly not a terrible movie, but man, it is the very definition of pointless. Just goes to show how desperate studios are for real life stories/IP. I can't fathom any other reason this movie made it through the ringer, and somehow got made.
*** SPOILERS ***
I sh*t you not, the "climax" is a room full people at a hearing silently watching a live feed of various pilots monotonously attempting to recreate the flight in a simulator FOUR different times back-to-back-to-back-to-back. It's unbelievably excruciating. And then we have to watch the real flight - in full detail - a SECOND time after that (the first time, admittedly, was very well executed). The entire movie could have been told in half an hour, if that.
Also, I seriously could not stop giggling at some of the choices made:
- Laura Linney as Sully's wife has like six scenes and they're ALL of her in their kitchen and/or living room, on the phone with Sully. And they just have the same basic conversation over and over and over. The first time, she's in the house, behind a closed front door/walls, and there are reporters like 30 feet away, in the street. And they look like they're being loud if, you know, the door was open or we were out there with him. But it's close to silent and she starts going "I CAN'T HEAR YOU, SULLY! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! IT'S TOO LOUD! WE'LL HAVE TO TALK LATER" just so the convo/scene can end and they don't say everything that needs to be said in that one scene. And it's not like a pretend-she-can't-hear-him kind of thing, either. It's so dumb/funny, and emblematic of nearly every choice made in this movie.
- The way the pilots in the flight simulators at the end kept monotonously saying "birds" is what really cracked me up, and is somehow even more distracting than the blatantly fake baby used in American Sniper.[/sp]
*** END SPOILERS ***
The obvious lesson: make sure we have a full, two-hour story to tell. Otherwise, we'll be banking solely on it crossing the desk of senile, old Clint Eastwood, and for Warner Bros. to somehow keep inexplicably funding his efforts.
Seriously, unless you're over the age of 60, avoid this movie in theaters. I was easily the youngest person by at least 10 years in theater, and wish I would have waited to watch it at home, where I could fast forward through the vast majority of it and not miss a thing.
