I’ve seen a couple of commercials for “Flight Plan” - it looks like it could go either way. It could be a really creepy movie, or a complete waste of time.
Recommendations? Thanks alot!
It wasn’t bad, but I’d rent/netflix it.
It’s not out on dvd yet, is it?
It’ll be released next Tuesday.
Time flies…and dvd release schedules get shorter and shorter. Seems like we just saw it a few weeks ago.
I will qualify my previous statement with a disclaimer: I’d enjoy watching Jodie Foster pop the zits on Fat Bastard’s ass. So…ymmv.
That’ll be in Flightplan II.
See The Lady Vanishes rather than Flight Plan.
I wasn’t sure how I felt about that movie when I left the theater, and several months later I like it even less.
One of the most disapointing movies I saw last year. The first half is a pretty good setup, but the second half will have your eyes rolling so much they’ll end up in your ears. Don’t waste your time.
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I recommend it. It has a good cast, and it is somewhat suspenseful. Just don’t expect too much from it or you will be thoroughly dissapointed.
Flight Plan is a loose remake of the Hitchcock film.
I havent seem the movie, but after seeing the trailer for it I turned to my SO and said, “Didn’t we just see this movie, and wasn’t it called The Forgotten?”. Which may be a totally unfair assessment, but there ya have it.
Russell
I’m not sure it’s so much a remake as a common theme that preys on society’s tendency to dismiss women as hysterical (or women’s fear that that’s what will happen). As mentioned, **The Forgotten ** plays with the same theme, as does Bunny Lake is Missing (which seems to be getting a remake care of Reese Witherspoon).
Yes, but Lady is set on a train. A woman disappears and only one woman says so. Everyone else seems to think she is crazy and the woman wasn’t there in the first place. Being that it is on a moving train, she has to be there somewhere, unless they threw her off.
Flight Plan, set on an airliner, also has a person disappear with only one person who thinks the person was ever there to begin with. That is how it is more similar to Lady Vanishes, than those other films.
I haven’t seen Flight Plan, but here is what Snopes has to say about the legend upon which the two films that you mention are based.*
*To paraphrase David Foster Wallace: There is nothing to be done with that sentence except to apologize.