From Tom Hanks' safe biopic era comes a familiar story: the extraordinary moments in the lives of good problem do not warrant feature length films dramatizating those moments.
Sceeenplays need good conflict more than they need heroes. Sully features a few minutes of man vs. nature and then more than an hour of movie left, and next is a man vs. man/bureaucracy conflict.
The investigation and testimony were corny on first viewing. But as I recently learned from plane crash…
This movie almost makes me like society. People care. Maybe I'll just watch Dust Be My Destiny every day and never go outside again.
Takeaways:
1. Now I know where and when I'm going if I get access to a time machine.
2. Joan Leslie is so lovely. How am I just discovering her now?
3. Stanwyck manages to pack her usual 90 minute punch into some 90 seconds.
4. Had looked at the DVD case and watched the credits and I STILL got visibly excited when some 5 of them appeared.
5. If I could talk to my late grandpa for 10 minutes, whether he went to the Canteen while stationed in Califonia could be my #1 question.
