Flight the movie

Does Denzel Washington, in the move Flight, remind you of Doug Taylor?

  • Yes

    Votes: 38 58.5%

  • No

    Votes: 25 38.5%
  • Total voters
    65
Boris Badenov said:
Yeah, you ort of imagine it's responsible for more than one passenger invading one's personal space to get a breath sample, too. And if it was meant to be a Simulation, aside from all of the technical hilarity, my number one complaint is that that F/A was TOTALLY overmodelled.
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I worked for an airline back in the day, who hired a certain percentage of FA's as "Models" thus could discriminate on looks, then trained them to be FA's.

So it IS possible... all were from Montreal and could make a ramp rat feel like pure dirt with just a quick toss of the neck scarf, or their skin tight leather dress, but we didn't care.

It does matter to say however, said airline went tits up within a short period of time, after having a MD-83 run out of fuel taxiing back to the gate, followed by one taking out 20-30 runway lights, exploding APU's and trying to continue to destination.

500 Hour wonders being charged $40K for a check-out on a F100 or MD83.... But those FA's....it was worth the risk.
 
With the new smart passenger jets that have the monitor that can display all sorts of cool cameras and metrics and moving maps during flight, maybe they could add a data point that actively monitors the Captain and FO's blood alcohol content live. Maybe a bar graph.... watch the little ticker rising 1.5 hours into a NY-Vegas flight.... "uh oh, Captain's breaking out the vodka injected oranges to get a head start on the evening again! Someone get in there!"
 
On a serious note, I finally saw this movie this past weekend. I thought it was really good. Denzel played the part of an addict really well. I've known too many in my life and it was almost haunting.
 
I was pleasantly surprised with the movie and actually think it was pretty good minus the unrealistic airplane crash scene.
 
I dunno, maybe it wasn't that ridiculous. Next time I'm in convection at low altitude on a departure, I'm a gonna level off, give it radar power, and "power through that stuff!" It worked for him!

PS. I'm gonna need to start a drug habit, though. It might only work if you're tripping balls.
 
Boris Badenov said:
I dunno, maybe it wasn't that ridiculous. Next time I'm in convection at low altitude on a departure, I'm a gonna level off, give it radar power, and "power through that stuff!" It worked for him!

PS. I'm gonna need to start a drug habit, though. It might only work if you're tripping balls.
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"Start"???
 
Dude start with Stoli, which is respectable. But then he's hoovering Russovka from a handle and drinking Bud. I'd call that an alcohol problem!
 
LoadMasterC141 said:
Dumbest movie I have seen in a long time. Even the flight sequences were poor for quality CGI animation.
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The flight stuff was sort of what you'd expect from a guy who has no aviation background but wants to "get it right". Seems like they pretty much "borrowed" the Alaska Air crash (McDonnell Douglas not being around to sue their lights out) and added in some hilarity (panic-stricken MD-80 F/O??? He must have been REALLY scary in an RJ). But the rest of the movie? Not bad, imho. Have you ever spent some serious time around some serious addicts? Honest question, dunno. But from my perspective, it hit that angle pretty darn well.
 
"The Horizontal Stabilizer, also known as the Elevator" - Political NTSB Apointee. Well, if they weren't accurate about the crash, at least they were accurate regarding the knowledge level of the average political flunkie. That's five star Realism, right there!
 
Boris Badenov said:
The flight stuff was sort of what you'd expect from a guy who has no aviation background but wants to "get it right". Seems like they pretty much "borrowed" the Alaska Air crash (McDonnell Douglas not being around to sue their lights out) and added in some hilarity (panic-stricken MD-80 F/O??? He must have been REALLY scary in an RJ). But the rest of the movie? Not bad, imho. Have you ever spent some serious time around some serious addicts? Honest question, dunno. But from my perspective, it hit that angle pretty darn well.
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I agree with the Alaska Crash part. NOT COOL DUDE.
 
The crash scene was the only good part of the movie for me! It was almost exactly like the Alaska Airlines crash, the only thing they changed is that rolling the plane upside down actually worked. Really everything was as accurate as you will ever see in a movie, I'm not going to pan it just because an NTSB investigator said stabilizer when she meant elevator. The movie went downhill from there. I guess I'm just not a fan of watching addicts being addicted. It also got kind of predictable toward the end.

That crash isn't as absurd as people think. Crazier things have happened in airliners (FedEx 705)
 
Eh. Ok, so the stab is stuck trimmed full nose down. You roll inverted. You go back towards God and your dead relatives. Then you stall and crash back to earth. What's accurate about the crash sequence?
 
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