Archive for November 24th, 2007

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

The design is perfect. The only flaw is that we have to rely on you to fly it.

Another worthless remake.

I didn’t think it was possible to do a bad imitation of Michael Bay without making it a deliberate parody, but this remake of the 1965 Jimmy Stewart classic manages to ape parts of Bay’s signature look while actually making Armageddon look like Citizen Kane in comparison.

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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

That is precisely the reaction I would have expected from a man of your obvious limitations.

The Flight of the Phoenix

Back when I was a kid, this movie used to play on the Saturday afternoon movie about every third week and, being a boy with a jones for all things aviation, I ate it up. Of course, back then I simply got off on the idea of turning a crashed airplane into a new smaller airplane. As I got older, I came to appreciate the movie for what it was: a deeply insightful drama about men under crisis, couched in the format of an action adventure.

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