# Flight Plan: Worth Seeing? (No spoilers, please!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450 "2006-01-18T01:26:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/1 "2006-01-18T01:26:02Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/2 "2006-01-18T02:11:59Z")
It wasn’t bad, but I’d rent/netflix it. It’s not out on dvd yet, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/3 "2006-01-18T02:29:39Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/4 "2006-01-18T02:42:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/5 "2006-01-18T02:44:32Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/6 "2006-01-18T03:43:47Z")
See The Lady Vanishes rather than Flight Plan. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/7 "2006-01-18T03:46:24Z")
I wasn’t sure how I felt about that movie when I left the theater, and several months later I like it even less. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/8 "2006-01-18T04:06:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/9 "2006-01-18T04:49:49Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > See The Lady Vanishes rather than Flight Plan. OK? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/10 "2006-01-18T13:57:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/11 "2006-01-18T15:57:17Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > OK? Flight Plan is a loose remake of the Hitchcock film. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/12 "2006-01-18T16:18:24Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/13 "2006-01-18T16:38:24Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Flight Plan is a loose remake of the Hitchcock film. 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](http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0489944/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cT1idW5ueSBsYWtlfGV2PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=3;ft=21;fm=1) care of Reese Witherspoon). ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/14 "2006-01-18T20:43:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-plan-worth-seeing-no-spoilers-please/340450/15 "2006-01-18T20:55:05Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > 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](http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0489944/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cT1idW5ueSBsYWtlfGV2PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=3;ft=21;fm=1) care of Reese Witherspoon). I haven’t seen Flight Plan, but [here](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/hotel.htm) 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.