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 ...
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.
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.
“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.
bad enough that he portrayed an astronaut..
well if its directed by Clint then “maybe” its worth watching....
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...
I only saw the first one. Looks like I lucked out.
He had no good engine.
They were both flamed out.
He wasn’t going anywhere.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
that was a truly awful movie
Wow. GWTW is one of the best movies ever made, imho.
True, though.
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.
Absolutely:
http://nypost.com/2015/06/24/gone-with-the-wind-should-go-the-way-of-the-confederate-flag/
Bridge of Spy’s was good.
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