2012 Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
Denzel Washington Don Cheadle Kelly Reilly John Goodman Bruce Greenwood Brian Geraghty Tamara Tunie Nadine Velazquez Peter Gerety Garcelle Beauvais Melissa Leo Carter Cabassa Adam C. Edwards Conor O'Neill Charlie E. Schmidt Will Sherrod Boni Yanagisawa Adam Tomei Dane Davenport John Crow E. Roger Mitchell Ravi Kapoor Jill Jane Clements Tommy Kane James Badge Dale Susie Spear Purcell Philip Pavel Piers Morgan Jim Tilmon Show All…
Patrice Coleman Nikoletta Skarlatos Stephanie Barnes Carl Fullerton Tracey L. Miller-Smith Quintessence Patterson Susan Ransom
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this should’ve ended with a post-credit stinger where sully (tom hanks) steps out of the shadows to tell denzel that he’s putting a team together
I really relate to the lawyer played by Don Cheadle who spends the whole movie frustrated by everything happening
49/100
Frustrating, because it floats a genuinely challenging idea—that you'd rather be in a plane flown by a drunk, coked-up pilot who knows what he's doing and can react quickly and calmly under pressure than one flown by a sober stickler who'll panic and crash—but ultimately just wants to punish Whip for his trangressions, like every other addiction movie ever made. Long, slow, denial-fueled slide to rock bottom is, well, long and slow. Spasms of interest mostly involve Cheadle's lawyer and his prim disgust with the client he's working so hard to exonerate. Also the flight itself, of course, which I was surprised to find is more gripping in its procedural details than as pure spectacle. That moment where Whip placidly instructs the flight attendant to tell her son that she loves him, then simply says "black box" when she expresses confusion, was like a pure hit of concentrated pathos.
Consider a drinking game:
Down a shot every time Zemeckis cues a classic song in an unbelievably unsubtle way.
Whoa. Dramatic, emotional, terse, and sad. A terrific movie that reaches a stunning climax that makes me both root for Denzel and curse him as loud as I possibly can. Kelly Reilly and Denzel Washington both deserve Oscar nominations at the very least for their roles.
In Flight, Robert Zemeckis continues his tradition of mixing live action and cartoon characters.
Flight is an interesting movie. Most, if not all, of the scenes with Denzel are actually really engaging and well made. His performance is obviously amazing and shows that he can do no wrong, he is the best. The editing and directing felt really strong, and the screenplay was surprisingly great. I wish the scenes without him felt necessary or interesting because they really weren’t. While not horrible, they just felt kinda weird and out of place and a lot of them could’ve been removed. I wish that some of those scenes were cut because this movie is a little too long considering it has those scenes. Also the first act is kinda better than the other two. But I…
Action!: The Rise and Fall (?) Of Robert Zemeckis
Written by the guy who brought us Basketball movie underrated masterpiece Coach Carter, and the first live action film by Zemeckis in a decade, this film confirms that the director is not only as good as the scripts he's handled, but also when he stops focusing on the visual effects and concentrates on the story, essentially the drama.
Denzel Washington rarely manages to disappoint, and he's on fire this time around. The same year he was nominated for the Oscars, Daniel Day-Lewis won his so far last statuette for "Lincoln", and although I love that actor and think his portrayal in that film was truly transformative, I would honestly probably have…
This very fictional movie is, actually, very true. Let me tell you a story.
For a short period of time, several years ago, my dad drove a city bus here in town. It was his way of finally trying to settle down and get sober. Except he couldn’t get sober, nor could he settle down. And one early dark morning, at around 5AM, on one of his more unsavory city routes filled with an unsavory clientele, a massive argument broke out toward the back of his bus. He was just trying to round out the night’s route, get home and sleep, as he had been up for two nights straight, drinking, smoking, partying. But some folks wanted to prolong it…
