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Proudiddy's Sometimes Weekly, Semi-Monthly Recently Released to Home Media, Movie Review - "Flight"


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Yeah, I feel you man... On my dad's side of the family, they are all pretty much addicts, so I've seen my fair share... actually, way too much. Maybe I'm not being fair to the movie because I applied my own biases towards addiction onto it. And seeing the depths it has dropped people to in reality, I just didn't think the movie really brought that out.

And the way it was written, was the bigger theme his addiction/troubled life or how great of a pilot he was? If you wanted to feel bad for his addiction, it was hard to when they kept saying how he was the only pilot that could do what he did.

Another thing, I expected more initially because of the repeated references to God and him finding a relationship with him, but nothing really came of that either. It was like a big build up, but then at the end I just felt he did what he should've done and I wasn't surprised by it. I will say that the co-pilot's performance was both challenging and convincing and the other scene that sort of got to me was when DW went and saw his ex-wife and son while drunk. Other than that, after the crash, it was all very bland IMO.

I know I'm not going to convince anyone to see it from my perspective, just trying to explain why.

Again, I'm not saying it's horrible, I'd probably give it a 6 or 7 out of 10. I just expected more.

Yea i hear ya, the whole thing to me was about how addiction holds you that you become so ignorant of reality. The dude was flying planes that he had the lives of over what 50 people in his control?

And that last scene,

Spoiler Warning.

To me spoke volumes about what addiction is all about.

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Theres no accounting for taste... That said, i do think hes a great actor... And hed make more great films if given the opportunity. The faults of those films werent his.

Yea i like everything from Raging Bull to Trolls 2. Trainspotting to Battlefield Earth. Nil By Mouth to The Wickerman. I always find some sort of value in most films. Whether it be hilarious even though it's not suppose to be or just badass in its own right. I just love movies.

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Yea i like everything from Raging Bull to Trolls 2. Trainspotting to Battlefield Earth. Nil By Mouth to The Wickerman. I always find some sort of value in most films. Whether it be hilarious even though it's not suppose to be or just badass in it's own right. I just love movies.

Thats great... Really. I'm not trying to get down on your taste in movies. I'm a snob, its a personal problem and its my job to pick shiat apart... So thats what i do. Troll 2 is great though.

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Yea i like everything from Raging Bull to Trolls 2. Trainspotting to Battlefield Earth. Nil By Mouth to The Wickerman. I always find some sort of value in most films. Whether it be hilarious even though it's not suppose to be or just badass in its own right. I just love movies.

I will be making another thread after watching "End of Watch," most likely tonight...

That being said, one movie I recently saw that doesn't deserve a thread because it was absolutely horrible was "That's My Boy." Did you find any value in that, lol?

I thought it was the worst Adam Sandler's worst movie EVER aside from the little known "Going Overboard." But, at this point in his career and with the budget he has, there was no excuse for this poor effort. The actual filming was horrible, some questionable editing/sound work, and it never had any cohesion or flow like his classics. It also didn't help that the jokes were non-existent and Andy Samberg was basically a straight man to his non-funny main character.

Oh well...

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Thats great... Really. I'm not trying to get down on your taste in movies. I'm a snob, its a personal problem and its my job to pick shiat apart... So thats what i do. Troll 2 is great though.

That's kind of what I was getting at. I've always been into film and got deeper into editing in school, and ever since, I've become really critical in viewing movies.

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