My departed Father was US Navy in the Pacific circa 1944-45, and in the last year of his life, 2010, he got to see a preview of "The Pacific" in Washington DC, as well as visiting the WWII Memorial ... both Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were speakers at the event. It was sponsored (and paid for) by a wonderful organization called "Honor Flight" , who take VFW's to DC, all expenses paid, so that they can visit the memorials from which they gave the best years of their lives towards, as well as preserving our American freedoms.
Tom Hanks is a great actor. I love all his stuff and I’m sure I’ll like this one when I see it.
I watched the preview earlier today. It was very powerful.
It may be a good movie but this is not the critic to tell me to watch it. He wants Gone with the Wind banned because some thug got killed by a cop.
Great to hear. Eastwood is an inspiration. At age 86 he continues to work and make quality product.
He should thank the Director
When I see Hanks depict Vietnam or Korea or Grenada veterans as heroes — when we foght Commies then I may change my mind
Till then he is a blowhard left wing creep trying to Glaum on as a veteran lover
I’ve seen the full 3 minute trailor, it looks good and shows the scrutiny Sully underwent in the aftermath. I don’t go to the theater much but think I’ll go see this one.
Only hollyqierd can take a several minute affair and turn it into a several hour movie.
Tom Hanks may “seem” leftist.
Ain’t no seem to it.....he and BFF Speilberg are bona fide red diapers but they know what sells
But make no mistake they are not your friends
They believe in a fuzzy gauze sepia version of an American good works everyman no different than a Kremlin mural or those old WPA american muscled worker murals one finds in public buildings from that era
See what they did at the WWII museum in New Orleans and infecting it with ad nauseum racism self reflection
Speilbergs harvard speech last year....that was good insight into his social crusader brain and self loathing
The crap they both fund
Clint Eastwood made this movie and that’s why to see it....he’s too big to be bullied by lefty studios that see our country as one big history of social injustice and religious bigotry
Yes, Tom Hanks is Harrison Forde with talent and acting ability.
He achieved this by taking the book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, eliminated 85% of the book and concentrated the entire movie around Palin. All the information in the book that was less then glowing about Obama, Clinton and John Edwards was eliminated from the move in order to concentrate on the vilification of Palin.
I've never in my lifetime seen a more evil campaign to take down a politician then what was done to Palin, and I included Nixon in that thought. Don't let the Actor Hanks, who is just regurgitating words that are put in his mouth, blind you to the real Hanks who is liberal zealot of the highest order.
That was an amazing landing. The description by the co-pilot of how EVERYTHING had to go perfectly .. or else the whole thing could be a catastrophe by one of the wings dipping into the water and catapulting the plane upside down.
I loved that Sully actually walked us through the event; and I also liked the group of men who explained what they experienced on the actual flight .. I really was amazed at the true miracle at the whole event.
Btw why are you whining?
You got plenty Love Tom Hanks Fellow travelers on board
This is Free Republic you know
That same day I flew out of Newark in the AM. The day before my coworker and me had a business trip to NYC and we noted how many geese were hanging around and in the dead of winter to boot.
I wonder if they will have music by “Flock of Seagulls”.
We're all taught to be thinking ahead all the time; always looking for things that could be going wrong; and having some plan about what to do when something is going wrong. Every pilot's first check-ride includes a loss of power emergency. For me it was a descent to some grass field. (Without actually landing but enough to give the examiner some confidence that I could have landed. And, of course, there were many similar things practiced with my instructor before I got to taking that first check-ride.) No pilot intentionally makes a water landing without pontoons, but we've all read about how it should be done.
So Sullenberger made his decision, pretty much split second, and carried it out. Maybe he had simulator experience, that guys like me never have had. But whatever, I don't think landing the plane on the river could have been that difficult for him. And it was all over in a matter of minutes.
How can this be made into an hour and a half movie?
ML/NJ
Saw a brief trailer with a split-second scene showing the plane threading through skyscrapers. I hate it when movies over dramatize history, but I reckon that’s what they have to do to make money.
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.
bad enough that he portrayed an astronaut..