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
I have two close relatives who are 35 and 32 years sober and both heavily involved in AA applauded the movie for its realism towards alcohol addiction, let's not forget this movie isn't really much about flying, but a plane crash puts buts in the theatre seats.
 
Agreed, Cannuckistanian_ATC. It paints an excellent picture of addcition and all of the manifold pitfalls that come with it. AND the F/O says "sir" a lot. I'd say that's grounds for five stars.
 
Boris Badenov said:
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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That if your timing is precise you will level the aircraft close enough to the ground to roll it right side up and crash before you stall inverted. If you are too high when you roll it upright the nose will pitch down too far and you will auger it in. If you are too low the aircraft will not have time to recover from its inverted dive and you will impact the ground nose low and inverted. There was nothing technically impossible about the scene, it was just highly improbable. It looks like the only thing they messed up there was that when the plane rolled back upright it glided level for a few seconds. In real life the nose would pitch back down immediately, hence the need to roll upright very close to the ground.
 
I imagine the extended family of Jar-Jar Binks wasn't pleased with the depiction of Naboo, either - what with the inaccuracies and all.

Don't documentaries go on You Tube or The History Channel or something?

To remain slightly on topic, I found "Flight" to be worth the price of admission simply as entertainment; although it DID teach me where I could hide my liquor if need be.
 
Boris Badenov said:
No, no, see. If you go fast enough the controls will reverse and you'll break the soundbarrier! And you'll be British! (mad props for the reference).
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Basic relativity also tells us that if we go faster, time will slow down around us, so if there are two converging storm cells it only makes sense to go as fast as possible to slow their relative convergence rate and ensure we make it through safely!

No wait, that's backwards... we should fly in reverse as fast as possible...

No... wait...
 
rframe said:
Basic relativity also tells us that if we go faster, time will slow down around us, so if there are two converging storm cells it only makes sense to go as fast as possible to slow their relative convergence rate and ensure we make it through safely!

No wait, that's backwards... we should fly in reverse as fast as possible...

No... wait...
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I have a friend who's dad had a corvette years ago. He was a bad driver and knew it so he always drove as fast as he could to/from work. His theory was the shorter amount of time on the road the less likely to have an accident. He said it wasn't uncommon to be going over 100.

He is now a retired OB/GYN.

He never had an accident.
 
i thought the NTSB investigation was pretty well done, putting the plane in the hangar and labeling everything. ive seen the real version of that and this movie reminded me of it.
 
They filmed the scenes of the reconstructed "accident airplane" in the state hangar at FTY here in the Atl. My co-pilot flew for the state of Georgia at the time it was filmed and thought it was a real investigation.

Bp244
 
Saw it again today. Even better the second time. Lots of pilot's be hatin', but I loved it.

You know, the only people I've talked to who complained about the addiction story line have been pilots. Wonder what that is all about? But for now, does anyone have a razor blade and a $20? My hands are full with these 2 bottles of Everclear.
 
ChasenSFO said:
Saw it again today. Even better the second time. Lots of pilot's be hatin', but I loved it.

You know, the only people I've talked to who complained about the addiction story line have been pilots. Wonder what that is all about? But for now, does anyone have a razor blade and a $20? My hands are full with these 2 bottles of Everclear.
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Category: Best of JetCareers ;)
 
ChasenSFO said:
Lots of pilot's be hatin', but I loved it.

You know, the only people I've talked to who complained about the addiction story line have been pilots. Wonder what that is all about?
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I think anyone who has an education of formal skill set and sees a HOLLYWOOD movie using said degree or skill is going to get their knickers in a bunch, because Hollywood got it wrong or super exaggerated something. Shocker.

One of my best friends mother is an PH.D anthropologist, specializing in primates. Watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes was hellish with her, because she kept pointing out how this ape wouldn't do that. That ape wouldn't act like that. My sister is a Social Worker, and dear God you can't watch a Hollywood or Lifetime or Hallmark movie (why would you) involving bad parents acting badly and social services having to intervene.

She get up in arms about how Hollywood portrays Social Workers as evil and dastardly and being on a power trip to break up families. She will finish her Master in Social Work this May and I've come to just start asking her how she's doing in her graduate level class called "Power trip for social workers" course. And if she's also passing her, "How to break up a family" graduate studies class.

Much to her ire. But it's funny, calm down, get over yourself... it's Hollywood, They don't have to always get it right.
 
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