movies

[cardinalkarp]

"Sully" kinda sucked.

[lukethedrifter]

"Sully" kinda sucked.

I haven't seen it yet but one of the complaints I read or heard was that it was Hero Pilot Guy versus Bad Big Government Bureaucrats aka FAA and pretty two dimensional. Still like to check it out.

[JoeMcKim]

I wouldn't say that Sully is a bad movie but not really a movie that requires seeing it in the theater. You don't lose that much from the viewing experience watching at home instead of the movie theater.

[ghostrunner]

I can't for the life of me find a good reason why I'd want to see Sully. Seems like something that 20 years ago would have been a made for TV movie.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

"Sully" kinda sucked.

I haven't seen it yet but one of the complaints I read or heard was that it was Hero Pilot Guy versus Bad Big Government Bureaucrats aka FAA and pretty two dimensional. Still like to check it out.

My wife and I saw this last week via Amazon. I rolled my eyes at that. No way the FAA would have been that confrontational. So I looked it up and, of course, libertarian Eastwood was making his point even though Sullenberger and FAA officials said it wasn't like that. It pissed me off.

But hey - the left has Michael Moore, the right has The Pale Rider.

[Famous Mortimer]

I can't for the life of me find a good reason why I'd want to see Sully. Seems like something that 20 years ago would have been a made for TV movie.

As an outsider to the events (I remember the story, but I didn't really know the guy's name until the movie publicity started rolling out) I couldn't agree more.

[haltz]

Sully is better than I thought it would be. Basically because like everyone else I find Tom Hanks to be eminently watchable and it held my attention for 2 hours, more than I can say for most movies at this point.

[haltz]

My stepdad, a slim commercial airline captain in his sixties with white hair and a mustache, on the other hand, refuses to watch it and despises the name Sully.

[go birds]

lol

[pioneer98]

Throwback: I went back and watched Escape From New York and Escape From L.A. over the holidays. I think I had only seen parts of Escape From New York in the past, and if so, it was a LOOOONG time ago. They both work great as parodies of action movies. They also work as kind of a satire of our country & politics of the last few decades. In that respect they arguably cut pretty close to the bone in some ways. Escape From New York is probably the better movie overall, but I thought Escape From L.A. was funnier and therefore more entertaining. The trailer for Escape From L.A. is just great:

Escape From L.A. is free to stream if you have Amazon Prime.