Flightpan
This past Friday my brother-in-law and I went to the movies, as we pretty much do every Friday after work. He had already expressed his interest to see Flightplan, but as we approached the marquee of the theater, I was disheartened to note that I would pretty much rather see anything other than Flightplan. Corpse Bride. Lord of War. The Constant Gardener. It was not to be, however, and so I comforted myself with thoughts of how this movie might be so bad, it'd be entertaining. This also, was not to be, as it was pretty much the turd I had forseen after catching the trailer. Speaking of which, when I saw the trailer I was like, waitaminute, the "bad guys" are actually successful in convincing Jodie's character that her daughter's dead? I mean, I know grief does crazy things to people, and the character had just lost her husband, but I don't think anyone could convince me that I had lost a daughter when I had just spent the past several days with her. I thought this must have been a lame attempt to "up the drama" in the trailer, but no, it was actually in the movie - they convince her that her daughter has been dead for a while and that Jodie's a crazy person. Also, only two people on the entire plane are in on the conspiracy which makes the whole idea even more ludicrous. Actually, ludicrous-level is reached when Jodie's character realizes that she, in fact, does have a living daughter when she sees the heart her daughter drew on the window with her finger, a few hours earlier. Whatever. Even the poster for the movie is lame and uninspired. And what drew Jodie to this part in the first place? Especially after the superior Panic Room. Is there really a huge demographic for Jodie Foster-with-daughter-in-jeopardy movies? Apparently so, as the movie took the #1 spot at the box office with $24 million in ticket sales in its first week. Good thing I'm not a studio exec 'cuz I would've grounded production of this movie before takeoff.
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I, too, also wondered if Jodie is now relegated to this terrible watch her freak out about her kid genre. I was sad to see the talented Peter Saarsgard also sleepwalk his way through this movie. Boohoo. When will there be another good movie to flock to?
Yep, even the normally solid Sarsgaard sucks in this movie.
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