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“Sully” breathtakingly depicts what may be the most remarkable half-hour in NYC history.
New York Post ^ | September 7 2016 | Lou Lumenick

Posted on 09/07/2016 7:51:39 AM PDT by Mr_Moonlight

Tom Hanks is perfect in the thrilling ‘Sully’

“Sully” breathtakingly depicts what may be the most remarkable half-hour in NYC history.

Six minutes after taking off from LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 15, 2009, Capt. Chesley “Sully”

Sullenberger (a terrific Tom Hanks) safely glided his disabled passenger jet onto the

Hudson River. In 24 minutes, all 155 passengers and crew members were safely evacuated.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: movies; sully
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To: Mr_Moonlight

Yeah... noooooo...Hanks can kiss my behind before I ever watch another of his whatevers. Even reruns are verboten.

If I need to relive Sully’s landing there’s Youtube and other assorted news and history venues. I sure as hell don’t need to put coin in Tom’s socialist pockets.


41 posted on 09/07/2016 10:54:06 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (islam is the worship of Satan)
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To: rarestia

The picture needs a panel showing Tom’s run-in with a Chinese drug lord in “Volunteers” after he inadvertently joins the Peace Corps and goes to Thailand.


42 posted on 09/07/2016 10:59:11 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: ml/nj

“How can this be made into an hour and a half movie?”

I think most of the movie covers the crash investigation and showing investigators second-guessing Sully’s decision to land in the river rather than return to the airport with his good engine.


43 posted on 09/07/2016 11:03:29 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Mr_Moonlight
I can't stand the thought of watching thru another golden boy Howood type depicting a great American....

bad enough that he portrayed an astronaut..

44 posted on 09/07/2016 11:03:34 AM PDT by cherry
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To: gattaca

well if its directed by Clint then “maybe” its worth watching....


45 posted on 09/07/2016 11:04:20 AM PDT by cherry
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To: CaptainK
Howood is just like the clintoon family.....its pay to play...

why do so many movies go to so few "stars"....like Damon, who has no acting ability other than to stand starring straight ahead...

could others have played Sully?...you betcha...could others been Gump?...yes....

like Tom Cruz...just don't see him as much of an actor...he's just a pretty boy who probably slept his way "in"....

wonder why we don't see more of Andy Garcia?..too conservative...

46 posted on 09/07/2016 11:08:41 AM PDT by cherry
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To: longtermmemmory

I only saw the first one. Looks like I lucked out.


47 posted on 09/07/2016 11:11:20 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Cecily

He had no good engine.
They were both flamed out.
He wasn’t going anywhere.


48 posted on 09/07/2016 11:13:54 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: wardaddy

“See what they did at the WWII museum in New Orleans and infecting it with ad nauseum racism self reflection”

Yup, there was a lot of that crap there. Aside from that, it is a great musueum IMO.


49 posted on 09/07/2016 11:16:14 AM PDT by Batman11 ( All Muslims are not terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslim!)
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To: Jane Long

Lots of lefties are willing to put their politics aside to work with Eastward: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon, Jeff Daniels, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner and now Hanks, because he will always be the bigger movie legend.


50 posted on 09/07/2016 11:35:41 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Fester Chugabrew said: "Saw a brief trailer with a split-second scene showing the plane threading through skyscrapers. "

I think I read that the movie contains a depiction of a dream that Sully had of crashing into a populated area. One great attraction of landing in the river would be the fact that the number of casualties might well be limited to the number of passengers and crew on the plane.

We saw on 9/11 how much higher the number of fatalities could be. Ten times higher.

51 posted on 09/07/2016 11:47:32 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: uncbob
Couldn't resist

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52 posted on 09/07/2016 11:48:42 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: oldbill

Then they are second-guessing why he did not turn and go back to the airport because they thought he could have in the circumstances. I thought that this should never be done after takeoff - not enough altitude and options should the airplane not make it to the runway.


53 posted on 09/07/2016 12:11:16 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: longtermmemmory

that was a truly awful movie


54 posted on 09/07/2016 1:09:50 PM PDT by mom4melody
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To: miss marmelstein

Wow. GWTW is one of the best movies ever made, imho.


55 posted on 09/07/2016 1:14:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

True, though.


56 posted on 09/07/2016 1:15:01 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Mr_Moonlight
Tom Hanks....in the role of Tom-Hanks-playing-(fill-in-the blank.) He's been cast from everyone and everything from a college co-ed to R2D2's father.

Sully's story is compelling, but no thanks. For me Tom Hanks is a too familiar a virus that ruins every movie he's in.

57 posted on 09/07/2016 1:17:52 PM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: miss marmelstein

Absolutely:

http://nypost.com/2015/06/24/gone-with-the-wind-should-go-the-way-of-the-confederate-flag/


58 posted on 09/07/2016 1:21:19 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Bridge of Spy’s was good.


59 posted on 09/07/2016 1:25:13 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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