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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted September 25, 2016 09:34 PM

Tonight we went to see the new Tom Hanks movie: "Sully". It is really great, different than a lot of them you run into these days: quiet yet still very dramatic.

You would think it's about the forced landing on the Hudson and it is, yet even more. It's just as much about the aftermath, especially the investigation and hearings that followed. It's also about a very private professional man being suddenly made a celebrity when he'd just as soon go home to his family and have his life back.

On a personal note, took the Circle Line tour a few weeks back which included the site of the incident. I'm not sure if flying to New York is the kind of thing many of you would do to prepare for watching a movie, but it definitely enhanced the experience for me!

-So this was an excellent movie: I give it four tray tables fully upright and locked!

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Paul Adsett
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posted October 04, 2016 02:45 PM

We went to see it on Saturday. A really superb film, and very tense even though you know that everything turned out fine and nobody was killed. I found the scenes of the NTSB hearings, using the Airbus 320 simulator, to be very interesting. Hanks is the perfect actor to play Sully, just an amazing performance. And what an amazing guy and true hero Captain Sullenberger is.
Five stars

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Steve Klare
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posted October 04, 2016 03:38 PM

I loved the moment in the hearings when he said "Let's get real here." and showed them how their flight simulations were an utter crock.

It's easy not the get into trouble if you know it's coming! ("OK...the deer will run across the road in 30 seconds, try not to hit it this time." or "If you say that to her, you'll be sleeping on the couch for a month.")

My impression of the whole thing is even if we assume they really proved a glide to a runway was possible via the simulations (even though they really didn't): he didn't have access to the simulator at the moment and was stuck to choose the most likely landing to succeed with no second chances if he changed his mind.

-He still did the right thing in that case.

It's better to choose what should work over what might work.

(This is why we want a warm body at the controls!)

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Joe Caruso
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posted October 04, 2016 04:12 PM

My agent is forever trying to get me work

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Guy Taylor, Jr.
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.
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posted October 04, 2016 04:28 PM

I have watched around seventy or so movies in the cinema so far this year. Sully was one of the best. Tom Hanks was great. Clint Eastwood continues to prove himself a great director.

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John Hourigan
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posted October 05, 2016 03:43 PM

?? I'm sorry, Joe, but what does your response have to do with the topic thread??

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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted October 05, 2016 04:03 PM

-he's just kibitzing,

I can't get too upset over it, I've certainly done it to him a couple of times!

"I'm looking for shorts"
"It's February: it's too cold for shorts!"

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John Hourigan
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From: Colorado U.S.A.
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posted October 05, 2016 04:51 PM

Thanks, Steve -- I'm not referring to your posts or your "turn-of-phrase" posts. [Smile]

However, I've noticed over the years that this other type of extraneous "look-at-me" interjection into threads is used to continually call attention to one's self and/or fish for compliments.

Anyway, bringing it back to the topic of the thread -- Clint is one heckuva' director. For this reason, I highly recommend Sully.

[ October 05, 2016, 05:53 PM: Message edited by: John Hourigan ]

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Daniel Macarone
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From: Summit NJ, USA
Registered: Nov 2015

posted October 05, 2016 10:22 PM

I hope this is not an interjection- I worked as a background actor on Sully for one day. This was on a NY pier. We waited for two hours on a ferry at the pier to go onto the Hudson. The crew decided to let the background take turns going on breaks on the pier. I got off for a break- When I came back, the ferry had left and they were shooting without me. When they get the OK to go, they can't wait. So, I missed out on acting in a scene with Tom Hanks, but I walked past Clint Eastwood twice during lunch.
I haven't seen the movie yet.

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