Miracle on the Hudson movie?

[BUTCH1]

Considering what a pilot makes these day, and his financial hardship was brought up in the movie, I'd go for the celebrity thing too.
Pilot, $35.000. Celebrity, 1 mill +.
Pilot? Celebrity? Pilot? Celebrity?
$35,000? 1 mill? $35,000. 1 mill?
Hmmmm.

However, the film was very good.
And informative.
I have no doubt the airline and the cost of one plane was weighted against the risking of 155 lives. Most airlines would have opted for the risk. And let their lawyers handle whatever the human loss.

I think with him being a Captain and his years of excellent service he was doing better than $35K/year. He did go to a congressional meeting though and testify that those getting into the industry now make pitifully low wages. At that time I was getting paid $18/hr to pilot a forklift, $3/hr more than a pilot flying the connecting "puddle-jumpers" we're making. That's just wrong, the level of responsibility and training needed to fly passengers should make you a decent income but fuck, who need's unions, right?.

 

[cbrunny]

So a fireman saving lives is just doing their normal job. I guess at your job I hope you don't get any extra incentives on bonus for doing your job either because you're not doing anything special.

Why would I get a bonus for doing my job?

 

[Printer Bandit]

why don't bus drivers get the same level of respect as airline pilots?

 

[Linux23]

anyone seen this yet? i'm tempted.

 

[Ns1]

So uh has anyone seen this?


I was about to watch it in IMAX but AMC wants $23/ticket for it, so I'm not watching it in IMAX

 

[JulesMaximus]

I saw it Saturday afternoon and I thought it was pretty good. If you spend the money and aren't happy... Well, you can go fuck yourself.

 

[Ns1]

watched it last night, was surprisingly suspenseful. 90 minutes was the right length.

8/10

Would have liked to have seen some of those scenes in IMAX, but not worth the 110% price increase for me.

 

[ladyjd]

I saw it. Pretty good as it went into the investigation part.


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[John Connor]

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/sully.2483280/

:colbet:

 

[Blackjack200]

Clint Eastwood is a piece of shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/12/sully-clint-eastwood-hudson-river-plane-crash-ntsb

 

[Ns1]

Clint Eastwood is a piece of shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/12/sully-clint-eastwood-hudson-river-plane-crash-ntsb

the article writer seems to be mad that Eastwood made a movie, and not a documentary.

 

[deustroop]

Even if it is focused on the FAA investigation...who cares? I still can't quite put into words why I believe it does not make sense for this to be a movie, but I feel strongly about it nonetheless.

Same goes for 'Deepwater Horizon.' A documentary on the impact on the Gulf? Sure, no problem. A fucking Mark Wahlberg Lone Survivor remake in the ocean? Are you for real?

Its best not thinking about leading actors as individuals you can relate to. They are just part of a story.If you don't like story telling, well that is indeed something nobody cares about because most people do like stories. I saw this film and its a good story especially about our "hero" Sully.

DH as a documentary ? How many cameras caught the action ? There's nothing to show now , not even a hole in the water (lol).

We can never have 1924 again when Buster Keaton was working hard and no one cared who he was.

 

[Blackjack200]

the article writer seems to be mad that Eastwood made a movie, and not a documentary.

Actually the article writer recognized the dramatization is necessary when making a movie:

"But does Sully’s portrayal of NTSB investigators as bullying incompetents matter? After all, whenever a movie based on true events is released, there are always cries of “it didn’t happen that way!” This occurs because of the inevitable changes required when dramatizing real-life events. These include creating composite characters, eliding side issues and compressing chronologies.

In evaluating such storytelling decisions, what’s important is whether or not the top-line takeaway is fair. For example, despite considerable fictionalization in The Imitation Game, viewers come away with the correct impression that Alan Turing was a computing pioneer, who was persecuted for his homosexuality and made major cryptographic contributions to defeating the Nazis.

With Sully, the film-makers were faced with a problem: how to make a feature-length movie about a six-minute flight? They took the easy way out and invented an antagonist. As a result, the takeaway is that the NTSB – as I heard one person leaving a screening say – “tried to stitch Sully up”.

 

[Printer Bandit]

have there been any other successful water landings?

 

[tynopik]

have there been any other successful water landings?

nope

 

[Blackjack200]

Never

 

[freeskier93]

I saw it. Pretty good as it went into the investigation part.


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This is why I have zero interest in seeing this movie, if the ensuing investigation is the most interesting part then I can get the same entertainment value from a Youtube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuxCBYAaZ9M

 

[Ferzerp]

I feel like this is going to start becoming a thing. Do something heroic and you'll be memorialized by Tom Hanks. i.e. Captain Phillips, Sully, he directed Band of Brothers to honor "E" company of the 506th, etc. I'm all for memorializing acts of selflessness and heroism, but I'd hate to see it become a joke and just a ploy for Hollywood to make some scratch.

Is it "heroism" when you're saving your own ass too?

 

[Exterous]

Considering what a pilot makes these day, and his financial hardship was brought up in the movie, I'd go for the celebrity thing too.
Pilot, $35.000.

I can't find the US Airways pay scales anymore but since he was a Captain with a lot of senority flying an A320 he was almost certainly making over $215/hr. Airline pilots tend to get paid for around 850-950 hours a year and then theres profit sharing, international overtime etc. Its not $1M but if you make it to one of the legacy carriers the pay is decent

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/american_airlines