Lol.
Honestly I read a few of those synopsi and they don’t do any of those films justice really. I mean, made me want to see none - and I can say that I did like Flightplan. To see Jodie Foster run at a dude with a fire hydrant in her hand and bash his head??? Priceless!!! 
Jodie, Jodie, Jodie…
Why not just go to work directly for the Lifetime network? I never thought you were the great actress some said you were, but you USED to make more than “Damsel-in-distress” movies.
Why are there so many posters who come to a thead titled " Spoil “Flightplan” w/ Jodie Foster for me (OPEN SPOILERS)" and then refuse to give the spoiler?
How hard was it to just say “She was drugged and hidden by hijackers”?
And you hadn’t seen it, and just had to get that bad guess off your mind, why not state “That was a guess/joke. I didn’t see the movie.”
P.S.
Thanks cher3 for the link to http://www.themoviespoiler.com/
Next time I’ll go there instead of here to look for straight up spoilers to movies I’d never want to see.
Hey, if I can’t make a Shatner-related joke without having to explain it, this board has lost all charm for me whatsoever.
Ditto. I used to be such a big Jodie Foster fan…
Thanks for themoviespoiler.com link.
My WAG before reading any further in this thread (I read maybe the first 2 posts) is that Jodie’s daughter was a figment of her imagination…she never existed in the first place so that’s why in the previews the flight crew can be seen saying “we don’t have any record of your daughter on board”. Jodie has some sort of mental disorder.
OR
WAG #2 that the plan somehow flies into an “alternate universe” where said daughter really never did exist.
Do you think I watch too much Sci Fi???’
OK, now I will read the thread and see if I am anywhere near the actual conclusion…
I literally did this :rolleyes: after reading the actual synopsis of the movie.
Admit it, my WAG’s would have made a much better movie!
C’mon Jodie, you can do better!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this. I’m so happy right now
You know, you might want to consider actually watching the movie rather than merely judging it from the previews. I don’t say that to be snarky: I too use previews to decide which movies to skip, and I was a little worried about how this would play out–but I went to see it because it has Jodie Foster in it.
I liked it, even though
the villain’s plan seems unworkably complicated: there were too many things he cold not possibly have controlled that could have gone wrong so easily. Her daughter, Julia, was kidnapped by a crooked air marshal, who planned to blackmail the airline and frame Kyle (Jodie Foster’s character) for it. But for his plan to work, NO ONE could remember seeing the little girl, and that was just too improbable. There were another family sitting in front of Kyle and her daughter; it would have been far too easy for the other children to strike up a conversation with Julia and the other parents to notice. Had anyone else known for certain that the girl was there, the whole thing would have fallen apart.
Even though I found the plan unbelievable, I liked it. Jodie Foster’s performance was as strong as ever: as always she inhabited her character totally, seeming by odds determined, terrified, brave, crazy, and so forth, all in organic and credible ways.
Plus she’s ridiculously hot.
I wouldn’t call this a damsel-in-distress flick. To me that would mean Kyle (Jodie Foster’s character) or Julia (the daughter) was in peril (largely due to their own stupidity, folly, et cetera) in a way that specifically had to do with being female.; and they’d be rescued by a big strong Tarzan type. here
Yes, Julia was in danger, but it was neither of their faults; Jodie solved the problem and rescued her all by her lonesome, without help even from Sean Bean’s captain, and managed to be a tigress and a wounded widow and hot all at once.
acsenray – pity you decided to get a spoiler. I just saw Flightplan, and was pleasantly surprised (not by the solution to the initial mystery, but by how watchable the movie was). Sure, the plot was far-fetched (although an exercise in realism compared to “24”), but the direction and editing were precise and well-paced, and Jodie Foster’s usual solid, adept performance, and the rest of a good cast, carried it through.
It’s amusing how many people jump to ridiculous conclusions based on a movie trailer. (My complaint with the trailer was that it gave away an essential plot-point – when the mother sees the heart her daughter drew on the window.)
I saw it today too, and I’m not sure that’s an essential plot point.
Yes, I know Julia was the one who drew the heart on the window. But to me, Kyle’s seeing it made Julia’s current existence no less ambiguous. If she were delusional enough to imagine carrying her daughter onboard, she was delusional enough to hallucinate a heart drawn on the window.
To me, the turning point–when it was clear that Kyle was not hallucinating–was when she made her way into the hold, found just one casket, and opened it to find her husband, not her daughter, nside. That was what clinched it: as she said to Carson a few moments later, if hte captain’s version of events was current, then there should be two coffins.
Now, if they’d shown Julia’s body in Avionics, that would have been a true case of the trailer spoiling the movie.
Gee, writing on the window, exposed by breathing on it.
That’s the same clue as in Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes” which also featured a baggage car.
Of course he himself used it again in North by Northwest.
I’m with you completely. I just saw it and thought Foster was wonderful. I was also glad the filmmakers didn’t try to pull off some crap like The Forgotten.
:dubious: Excuse me, what’s with the spoiler boxes here? This is a thread for people who want to be spoiled.
Even if some of you did like the movie, I’m pretty sure I’m never going to see it, and if by chance I do end up with people who are watching it, I feel no sadness. I was perfectly satisfied with the synopsis that the Movie Spoiler site provided. Damn nifty, that.
I just am not into this kind of thriller-diller, no matter how well done it is. But I am sometimes curious about plots. So that’s why I started the thread.
Best thing about the whole thread, AFAIAC.
Friday night I went to the drive-in. We inflated the mattress, laid out the sleeping bags and pillows, and got snacks and hunkered down to watch the triple feature:
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Flightplan
Dark Water
What happened was, we made it through “Herbie:Fully Loaded” which was beyond predictible and all about a car that winks and has its own mind. Now, “Flightplan”? We left half way through because it had gotten way too far fetched. Crazy car that can ride the rails? Not so far fetched. Kidnapping and a bomb on a plane with tons of crawlspaces? Far fetched. I would never have guessed that the lines could go so askew.
I was really hoping the bug-eyed flight attendant (for some reason, the bigger star, Erika Christensen- got stuck in an utter non-part as a random stewardess) would get shot. Or that she (or maybe even those terrorist stereotypes- BTW, am I misremembering or did Kyle see them in the window at the beginning of the film?) would get away with the money in the end.
The movie was ridiculous but watchable, most due to Peter Sarsgaard, though I could have used a make-out and/or clothes-changing scene. Of course, I wasn’t too surprised by the ending…
Spoiler regarding The Skeleton Key :
after all, it isn’t the first time Sarsgaard has turned from bedroom-eyed hero to smarmy evil bastard.