# Spoil "Flightplan" w/ Jodie Foster for me (OPEN SPOILERS) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536 "2005-09-20T14:48:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/41 "2005-09-27T00:44:24Z")
> [@chefjef](#): > > To see Jodie Foster run at a dude with a fire hydrant in her hand and bash his head??? Priceless!!! 😃 Ahem, Home Security forbids carrying fire _hydrants_ on board planes. They really mess with the bomb-sniffing dogs. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/42 "2005-09-27T08:03:04Z")
One of these days I’m going to write a review on the SDMB of a movie I _liked_. Alas, today is not that day. “Flightplan” started off fairly good. Jodie Foster is a good actress and very watchable. I mean that in a “screen presence” way, not in a “she’s 20 years my senior but I’d still bang her” way. Although I would. The little girl was rather poorly acted, but it wasn’t terrible by child actor standards. The plot moves along briskly enough to keep the viewer intrigued. But it all comes unhinged when you realize how ludicrous the plan of the bad guys is. It just doesn’t make sense. At all. While it’s likely that the majority of the passengers wouldn’t notice the little girl, it’s virtually impossible that _none_ of them would. And even if none of them did, surely they’d notice the little girl when someone who was not sitting next to her got up, took her things from the overhead bin, took her, and left. And then returned without her. I mean, c’mon! C’m-freakin’-on! If I had been forced to create the third act of this film, I’d have little hints dropped about how the Air Marshall _may_ be behind it all, somehow, and how the bug-eyed flight attendant _may_ be helping him. But it might all be a delusion. Foster’s character starts putting possibly illusory puzzle pieces together. The movie ends with a scene of her confronting or confronted by the Air Marshall and the flight attendant. The cuter flight attendant can be there too, for her, um, “screen presence”. Anyway, there’s yelling, a gun being brandished, more yelling and stuff, and then the casket is opened - - and it’s the little girl. Foster gets 10 seconds or less to respond emotionally, then roll credits. It would still suck, mind you, but it would suck less. ---
**Author:** ![chefjef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@chefjef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefjef)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/43 "2005-09-27T15:45:11Z")
> [@](#): > > “Flightplan” started off fairly good. Jodie Foster is a good actress and very watchable. I mean that in a “screen presence” way, not in a “she’s 20 years my senior but I’d still bang her” way. Although I would. The little girl was rather poorly acted, but it wasn’t terrible by child actor standards. The plot moves along briskly enough to keep the viewer intrigued. > > But it all comes unhinged when you realize how ludicrous the plan of the bad guys is. It just doesn’t make sense. At all. While it’s likely that the majority of the passengers wouldn’t notice the little girl, it’s virtually impossible that none of them would. And even if none of them did, surely they’d notice the little girl when someone who was not sitting next to her got up, took her things from the overhead bin, took her, and left. And then returned without her. I mean, c’mon! C’m-freakin’-on! I see your points - I do. But the fact that someone would have potentially seen the kid doesn’t bother me - I thought it was still a nice, briskly-moving suspense film and the plane was killer - I really liked all the various shots of the “behind the scenes” on the plane. (Granted I know nothing about planes which might be why I liked that aspect). Anyway - fun flick IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/44 "2005-09-27T17:53:19Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Ahem, Home Security forbids carrying fire _hydrants_ on board planes. They really mess with the bomb-sniffing dogs. Chiefjef meant “fire extinguisher,” I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![chefjef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@chefjef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefjef)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/45 "2005-09-27T18:18:45Z")
If you’re talking about Chefjef instead of Chiefjef - you’re right - I meant extinguisher. :smack: My typing gets a little fast sometimes and I make some funny typos - sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/46 "2005-09-27T18:22:21Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > Foster gets 10 seconds or less to respond emotionally, then roll credits. And that’s all the time she would need. She can do more with a single facial nuance than most actors can do with lines and lines of dialog. I very much agree with you about her screen presence. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/47 "2005-09-29T13:29:33Z")
Okay, I’ve been avoiding this thread because I didn’t want to have Flightplan spoiled for me. I was going to go see it, if only to watch Sean Bean. Too bad that I read the news. The articles today about the flight attendants who are outraged over this movie - they give away the plot completely. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/48 "2005-09-29T13:40:35Z")
> [@Eleanor of Aquitaine](#): > > Okay, I’ve been avoiding this thread because I didn’t want to have Flightplan spoiled for me. I was going to go see it, if only to watch Sean Bean. > > Too bad that I read the news. The articles today about the flight attendants who are outraged over this movie - they give away the plot completely. Go see it anyway. I went for Jodie Foster, but had I known what a wonderful performance Sean was goingto give, he would have been jsut as much of a reason. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/49 "2005-09-29T15:07:59Z")
Why are they outraged? ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/50 "2005-09-29T17:22:02Z")
> [@Sam Hell](#): > > Why are they outraged? Because: [spoiler]The movie casts cabin crew members as villains, and they say this is irresponsible in light of heightened security concerns since the September 11 attacks. It turns out that the air marshall and one of the flight attendents is involved in a terrorist plot. They also complained that other flight attendants in the film are shown as being rude, unhelpful and uncaring.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/51 "2005-09-29T23:38:11Z")
great typo, chef. good catch, ftg. imagining bomb sniffing dogs in doggie heaven sniffing a hydrant. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/52 "2005-10-06T10:09:23Z")
Note to self: Avoid flying on the Airbus 380, as it apparently has an easily accessible hatch in a lockable bathroom through which all and sundry can get at vital and vulnerable electronic systems. Yes, this movie was pretty silly, but it was good fun. And for me, Jodie Foster is a lot easier to look at for an hour and a half than Wesley Snipes was in _Passenger 57_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536/53 "2005-10-09T08:19:32Z")
I finally saw it. Not as smart as Panic Room, but smarter than most thrillers. Jodie was great, as usual. I thought there was something wrong about Sarsgard–his character seemed to be trying too hard to be patient with her at times. I din’t recognize Greta Scacchi as the therapist. I give it a 7.5. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoil-flightplan-w-jodie-foster-for-me-open-spoilers/322536.md?page=2)