Sully (2016)

[Greg]

Plane survives water landing on the Hudson, investigation ensues.

How do you build drama in a film where everyone knows how it ends? I mean the poster did show the plane in the middle of the river with the passengers on the wing.

Well, you manufacture the drama. You make the NTSB people be the villains not trusting Sully. Then you show Sully has a lot of PTSD because of the crash. Then you give Aaron Eckhart (MVHS class of 1984) a sweet sweet porn mustache that is distracting in every scene he appears in. It should almost get it's own credit. I don't know how that supports my thesis but I can't stop thinking about the luxuriant 'stache.

It felt really forced. Nothing rang true. And I was bored. I'm amazed I made it to the end.

[Drunk Monk]

As usual, I didn't hate my life...I mean this film...as much as Greg. It's just another in a long string of Hanks playing true-life heroes. Predictable because we all read the news when it happened. Over dramatized. Why would you go in with greatest expectations than what it is? That's a surefire recipe for disappointment. Hanks still looks like Hanks no matter what he does. And no matter what he does, he'll always be BuffyKip to me (Bosom Buddies). As with so many of this 'based on a true story' films, the best part is the credits where they show some of the real people on whom the story is based. Maybe I should just watch documentaries. 

No sword fights. Not DOOM recommended.