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Sully, miracle on the Hudson

bandicoot (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 6th December 2016, 10:44

Directed by Clint Eastwood, main actor Tom Hanks.

A really well done film, really well acted, very realistic, though a bit back to front, as it starts half way through the accident investigation. I always prefer films to run in a linear time line as to me it is very distracting to keep jumping back and forth.

What makes this film great, is the fact that it shows how a hero can be questioned over whether he did the right thing, even down to causing the hero to express his own fears on how the events could have turned out for the worse, if he had made the wrong decision. 

This interrogation you expect after a crash, but in a world where money (loss of a multi-million dollar  plane) is just as important to some, as the peoples lives onboard, makes you glad when a hero is the pilot, and goes beyond the rule book to save them all.

Only yawn time was...

SPOILER:
Kept showing flight simulations, over and over again, to prove a point.


Other than that, its worth seeing.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 6th December 2016, 10:49

RE: Sully, miracle on the Hudson

mbilko (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 6th December 2016, 12:38

I saw it when i was in states months ago (still surprised it took so long to get here in this day and age?) and ok it was the states but local small cinema and at the end people applauded, which took me aback, guess the americans more than most love a hero and feel good story? I agree it was a cracking movie, i mean where can you go wrong with Eastwood and Hanks :)

RE: Sully, miracle on the Hudson

RJS (undefined) posted this on Tuesday, 17th January 2017, 20:55

Meanwhile, in the real world:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/14/new-york-birds-killed-airport-miracle-on-hudson-sully

How do you prevent birdstrikes that brought down a plane? You'd think the answer is kill all the birds...

Quote:
An Associated Press analysis of federal data shows that in the years after bird-killing programs at LaGuardia and Newark airports were ramped up in response to the so-called “miracle on the Hudson”, the number of recorded bird strikes involving those airports actually went up.

I suspect that the few birds that were left alive, got so lonely, they saw big jumbos in the distance and thought... friend!

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RE: Sully, miracle on the Hudson

bandicoot (Elite) posted this on Thursday, 19th January 2017, 18:15

Its not birds rhat worry me, but side winds when landing. One time I swear we were coming in to land with the plane at near right angles to the airstrip. Kissed the ground like the Pope does after a safe landing

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