[Captain Peter Blood]

Here is another bad idea from Hollywood. There was no reason to remake this film. I remember seeing this movie as a kid and back then thought it was a great adventure movie.
As an adult I still catch the original once in a great while but having seen the promos for the new film I just have no desire to see it.
Some films lend themselves to remakes and a great many don't. In our advanced technological age this film doesn't warrant a remake as with GPS, etc. these people could be found without resorting to the main plot idea.
So I predict another big bomb in the making here.

[jaydubya2]

I just watched the promo. Yes they filled it with more actions, explosions, and they added a women to the cast probably so they could get some nudey shots in. I might go and see it just because I loved the original! I wonder how they'll portray the two who get murdered by the towel heads?
I'm sure I come out of it disappointed. Nobody can top Jimmy Stewart's performance!

[ihatemyalarmclock]

There was no reason to remake this film. I remember seeing this movie as a kid and back then thought it was a great adventure movie.

You and me both. Watching it again years later, it occurred to me that "Flight" is one of the few that succeeds without any "love interest" (unless you count a dying character's hallucination of a belly dancer.)

That movie changed forever the way I look at a glass of water.