Posted on 09/23/2005 5:10:01 AM PDT by Cool Chick
It's been four years of bad news for flight attendants.
First, 9/11 happened. Then, they were laid off. With airline bankruptcies like Northwest's, they are being laid off again.
Now, in another blow, the movie, "Flight Plan," is hitting theaters, tomorrow. Starring Jodie Foster, it's an outrageous piece of propaganda and incredible display of the irresponsible.
I'm embarrassed to say that a very distant cousin of mine--Charles J.D. Schlissel--is executive producer of this outrage. The J.D. must stand for "Just Despicable." If you're a freedom-loving American like me, the rotten tricks of this movie will disgust you.
If you want to sicken yourself and see "Flight Plan," stop reading here. But if you want to save ten bucks, keep going.
SPOILER ALERT
Throughout "Flight Plan," we are given hints--very strong hints--that four Muslim Arabs are the terrorists on the plane. But in the end--breaking a cardinal rule of thrillers--the hints have no pay-off.
Instead, the terrorists are the flight's air marshal and a flight attendant.
That is an outrage for a number of reasons. Two of those reasons are Betty Ong and Madeleine Amy Sweeney. Both were among the many flight attendants who gave their lives on 9/11.
They weren't terrorists. They were American heroes. Instead of calling their families to say good-bye, they contacted ground crews and identified the hijackers. It was because of them that authorities were able to identify Mohammad Atta and his 18 thugs as Al Qaeda.
Other flight attendants were brutally murdered by the hijackers, who slit their throats.
And now Jodie Foster and Charles J. D. Schlissel have the chutzpah to portray these low-paid workers as terrorists?!
Sickening. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell ya.
I expect an apology from CAIR within 24 hours!!
I'm offended d****t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It might have made a lot more sense (and been funnier) if the perpetrators had been that 94-year old blonde bue-eyed grandma from Sweden, the blonde blue-eyed 8-year-old girl scout from Nebraska, and the 90-year-old WW2 handicapped vet!
How can us stupid fish have any fun if you keep stealing the bait??
If you want proof, see #57.
Also, the movie itself has been getting mixed reviews from what are probably mostly liberal critics.
If you do, please leave Free Republic out of it. It's better that you make a fool of just yourself, than embarrass the entire board. This movie sounds like a waste of time anyway. The only people who are probably going to like it are die-hard Jodie Foster fans who would flock to see her even if she were in commercial for septic tanks.
Of course there are some fabulous middle-aged actresses doing amazing work. On HBO, and on Desperate Housewives, for instance...
You sound a tad star-struck, looking at your posts.
I know quite a few of those, having had the misfortune of close contact with a celebrity (however third-string, unravelling, or hasbeen). Celebrity in the US is a disease, a pathology.
At some point, Hollywood is at least going to have to hear that there's a huge audience that doesn't appreciate being insulted, condemned, cursed at by these fatuous twerps.
They promote Michael Moore. They put little unfunny Republican jokes everywhere like product placement of Pepsicola. They raise money for disaster relief, but it's just an opportunity for a self-adoring Bush-hating rant. You'd be surprised how much of their donated time is eaten up in all the expensive perks they expect just getting to the theatre...
Spoiler alerts are one of those traditional considerations that conservatives would give to fellow conservatives. You might call it a form of ethical absolutism. Liberals expect that courtesy while extending none of their own...they are relativists enjoying the comforts of an absolutist protection.
I don't know how to bring it about--but if a thriller's premise is based on yet another insult to blue-staters...spoil it.
That bit of kookery is being posted at all the KOOKsites. There are loonies out there...:)
And yet...a Conservative children's book is climbing the bestseller list. And for a giggle, pick up People Magazine this week. Renee Zellwegger's 10 second marriage is over, as is Tori Spelling's. Aaron was wise to spend a mere 1 million on that wedding. Looks like he'll be shelling out more bucks down the line...
71 posts and no pictures??? Are Jodi Foster and this Schussell goats? Aren't there rules about this?
Good God, no! I'm definitely not starstruck. In fact, I'm quite cynical about it. Now, I do admire entertainers for their talents but I couldn't care less about what they wear or who they are dating or when they had their appendix out.
Things are happening, in many ways because an audience doesn't mind blowing raspberries and throwing tomatoes.
I think the latest Foster will dwindle because it's a repeat of that movie where she had the chronically ill (the child has to always have diabetes or asthma, whatever to heighten suspense when the meds are unavailable) daughter in this closet with bad guys outside. I kept thinking, in that movie, that a simple pistol would have been mighty handy, but not politically correct. Foster as Uber Tigress Protecting Sick Cub was old the first time around.
Jodie Foster is a classic example of a Hollywood test tube baby, ie., Jodie was literally raised within the twisted warp liberal Hollywood studio system from her toddler days starting withe a twisted upbringing by her warped mother(on/off lesbian) all the way to being brain washed along the way by studio administrators and handlers.
Poor Jodie, she is so infatuated with all things French never realizing as a child she was passed around like a loaf of cheap French bread among the depraved immoral Hollywood adults who shaped and formed her mind.
One thing she learned, mastering manipulation.
"I don't think there is any other business in the country, with women present, in very public meetings, where people will be "F"ing this and "F"ing that and using the kind of language that of course that you could never ever use on the radio"
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First using foul language proves these type of people are truly incapable of using their native language intelligently. Secondly foul language is used mostly by the druggie clique' for obvious reason.
Jess Jackson is a prime example.
Jodie Foster is a great actress, or was anyway. But she's old news now...
Thanks for ruining the plot. I appreciate that.
"Jodie Foster is a great actress, or was anyway. But she's old news now."
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Foster may be academically intelligent and even Sunset Blvd. street smart BUT she is woefully out of touch with all things American, main stream every day American life.
Jetting from the left coast to the east coast to catch a flight to Euro-land keeps a person insulated from the American people and it's way of life. She was raised in the Hollywood incubator and lives in the Hollywood bubblesphere .
Very true.
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