Flightplan - New Jodie F movie
09-23-05, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by digitalfreaknyc
I guess I just wasn't being as critical as some people were going into this. If you go in just expecting to be entertained for 90 minutes, you will be. If you go in over-analyzing every piece of that 90 minutes, apparently you won't.
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09-23-05, 06:21 PM
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It was just OK... at 90minutes the movie still felt long, which was surprising. All the "twists" are telegraphed and the trailers really reveal far too much for anything to really be a surprise. Foster's performance is decent enough, but it's nothing new for her and certainly not as compelling as her performance in Panic Room. I liked some of it, but not enough to really recommend seeing it in the theatre... wait for disc...save you cash for Serenity next week.
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09-23-05, 06:25 PM
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Dude, you don't have to be overanalytical to know that this movie had huge plotholes all over the place. While I had reservations about seeing this movie at first, I tend to find that Jodie Foster has a pretty good record of taking any movie with any material to star in (SotL, Contact, Panic Room) and make something out of it. Boy did she screw up with this one! I was entertained alright, but only at the movie's pretentiousness and blatant disregard for reality (even movie realities don't allow for the kind of ineptness in this one).
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09-24-05, 01:45 AM
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Well, that was disappointing. The vitriolic word of mouth I've heard about this film had me expecting a truly spectacular suckfest, but it was far short of that. It's just a moderately entertaining thriller requiring some suspension of disbelief that works well in some ways and telegraphs itself in others. Interestingly, the audience at my showing applauded. 
While I didn't have much of a problem with the film,
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While I didn't have much of a problem with the film,
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09-24-05, 05:25 PM
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While Jodie Foster puts in a good performance, almost to the point where it really does feel like everyone else on the plane was watching her give an acting clinic at times, the 3rd act does make you scratch your head and it just becomes more and more implausible due to far too many plotholes.
See it at a matinee if you're a Jodie fan, but know that it's not as good it could have been, and relies on too many cliches to elevate it out of the thriller genre.
I give it a 2 stars, or a grade of C.
See it at a matinee if you're a Jodie fan, but know that it's not as good it could have been, and relies on too many cliches to elevate it out of the thriller genre.
I give it a 2 stars, or a grade of C.
09-24-05, 07:35 PM
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You guys are being WAY too hard on this film, which beats anything we've seen in the theater for several months now. The plot does have some problems, but Jodie's performance is top-notch. For that reason alone it's worth seeing.
09-24-05, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by scott shelton
They always do.
09-25-05, 03:12 PM
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I liked this movie alot. As did the audience of 100 people in the theatre with me. Most of which spontaneously applauded after the movie was over. So all these people who hate this movie, you are in a definte minority. it was fun. there are plot holes of course. but not so obvious that it spoiled the enjoyment of the movie. war of the worlds much worse. you guys are way tough on this movie. if you liked panic room you will like this movie. very similar movies in a lot of ways. not perfect but very fun. alot better than 80 percent of the crap that comes out. also i liked the script of this movie it kept moving and kept you guessing. but arab part was obvious.
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09-25-05, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by sabre
but arab part was obvious.
09-25-05, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by dolphinboy
Two Thumbs Up from Ebert and Roeper...both seemed to like the movie a lot.
I didn't see it...just came into the thread to get some closure on the trailer...wanted to know if she was crazy or if the kid was kidnapped.
09-26-05, 05:05 AM
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the reason the arab part is obvious, is that no one in liberal hollywood has the guts to show arabs doing that right now. the fact that they show heads being chopped off on the internet is only a political statement not pure evil of a select number of arabs, not all arabs by any means. we all have been pre conditioned against racial profiling, you know liberal hollywood and jodie foster do not have the balls to play into those stereotypes. the movie is meant to show are parnoia with arabs when we should be afraid of other things. can't get spoilers to work.
09-26-05, 08:12 AM
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I thought the beginning was great but the 3rd act and the ending was so bad and laughable. I would give the film a C+.
09-26-05, 08:21 AM
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I saw this Saturday night and was entertained. I didn't feel like nitpicking at every small detail, but rather enjoyed the movie for what it was - mindless entertainment fodder.
09-26-05, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Geofferson
I saw this Saturday night and was entertained. I didn't feel like nitpicking at every small detail, but rather enjoyed the movie for what it was - mindless entertainment fodder.
09-26-05, 09:48 AM
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, I was good to go. Hard for me to imagine what some of you guys want out of a thriller. 
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09-26-05, 12:00 PM
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Fair enough, but it seemed clear to me that the director was subverted reality to a point to convey the message that nobody matters to anybody else. The whole "what makes you so important" motif. Yes, perhaps it suspends belief a bit tighter than can be comfortably swallowed, but sice it was at the behest of a moral/philosophical message and/or quandry, I forgive it, because it still leaves a thinking cineaste with something to mull over after the credits have rolled...
09-26-05, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Geofferson
I saw this Saturday night and was entertained. I didn't feel like nitpicking at every small detail, but rather enjoyed the movie for what it was - mindless entertainment fodder.
Stuff like Van Helsing, The Mummy Movies, and Sahara are what I call mindless entertainment fodder, this was just stupidity. While I don't think you are one of them, there are those around here that will not nitpick a movie like this (that takes place in the "real" world) and call it mindless entertainment only, but tear other stuff a new one if it's on the same level in terms of stupidity but takes place in a more generic fantasy realm. Stupid double standards!
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09-26-05, 01:09 PM
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The part that none of the crew remembered her daughter didn't bother me as much. I mean, come on, there were 400 passangers in the plane, would YOU remember all of them? Also, the girl was really quiet, so she didn't really stand out. Also, IF she didn't really have a kid, like the crew said, then WHY did she get on the plane first?
